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STUDENTS SHAKESPEAEE. 



THIRTY-SEVEN PLAYS, 

ANALYZED AND TOPICALLY ARRANGED FOR THE USE OF CLERGYMEN, 
LAWYERS, STUDENTS, ETC- 



By HENRY J. FOX, D. D. 

LATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH LITERATURE STATE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Come and take thy choice of all my library, 

And -so beguile thy sorrows. — Titus AndronICUS. 



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1880. 



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WHO, MORE THAN ANY OTHER BODY OF MEN, 
EMPLOY IT FOR THE 

DEFENCE OF TRUTH, VIRTUE AND 
RELIGION. 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by 

HENRY J. FOX, 

in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 



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PREFACE 



In presenting this book to the public I feel impelled to state somewhat specific- 
ally the object I had in view in its compilation. I do not lay claim to superhuman 
disinterestedness. Iago's advice to Eoderigo, "put money in thy purse," is by no 
means in my opinion a soul-damning heresy; I should only be too glad if this vent- 
ure enabled me to act upon the wily Venetian's advice with unaccustomed frequency. 
But if the hope of pecuniary gain had been the controlling motive the book to which 
the labor of so many years has been devoted would never have been put in type. 

The book was begun as an aid in lecturing to a college class on English literature. 
Its growth, and its obviously increasing value as it grew, suggested that it might perhaps 
be as useful to others as I had found it to be to myself. 

I make no claim to being a critic of the great author whose words I have so often 
"rolled as a sweet morsel under my tongue;" nor do I make any pretension to be 
able to determine ex cathedra any questions of texts, or the value of various read- 
ings. In no sense do I aspire to belong to the illustrious guild of Shakespearean 
scholars. Antony's friend Ventidius never spoke more wisely than when he said, — 

" Better leave undone than by our deed acquire 
Too high a fame." — A. C, III: 1. 

Hence this disclaimer. I have simply endeavored, as a plain man in a plain way, to 
put the thoughts of Shakespeare at the command of every ordinary English reader. 

In determining what portions of our great author were unsuitable for my purpose I 
had, of course, to take my own judgment as my exclusive guide. My English origin 
and training may have made me less fastidious than I otherwise might have been. 
Others doubtless could have done much better, but I have done the best I could. If 
I am only the means of making the best of Shakespeare's sayings more generally 
"household words" I shall have achieved one of the great objects at which I aimed. 

I beg the indulgence of Shakespearean critics in the matter of my sub-headings. 
They are not intended as comments on the meaning of the poet, or as in any sense fixing 
the specific meaning of the passages to which they are attached ; they are only designed 
to be aids in finding any desired passage. • Of course a concordance would effect this 
with even greater certainty, but where there is one reader with a concordance there 
are thousands without. To sum up what I wish to say in this connection, I have not 
aspired to be regarded as an acute critic, nor an erudite commentator ; all my ambition 
has been to be recognized as a painstaking and reliable compiler. 

I commenced my work with Boydell's sumptuous folios before me. I soon found 
that this edition was too great a rarity for popular use ; I therefore laid my work 



VI PREFACE. 

aside, and began anew. In selecting the edition to which finally I have made refer- 
ence for the verification of the quotations given I was not influenced by the convic- 
tion that it was the best to be secured; I am convinced that there are many equally 
good, and some that are incomparably better. The editions of Richard Grant White, 
Hudson, Rolfe, and especially Furness's New Variorum, are an honor to American 
scholarship, and entitle these erudite men to high literary fame. These editions, how- 
ever, are either only published in part, or are confined to the libraries of scholarly 
men ; I selected therefore an edition more generally at the command of ordinary 
readers. 

I have taken the greatest possible precaution against errors ; some have, however, 
doubtless crept in. The last revision of the electrotyped plates revealed a few that had 
escaped the previous revisions. These have all been carefully corrected, and as new 
editions may be demanded the work of correction will still go on. In this I hope to 
be assisted by the suggestions of every lover of literature into whose hands the book 
may fall. 

To facilitate the finding of certain passages they have, in some cases, been repeated 
under synonymical headings ; in a very few instances they have been even re-repeated. 
This, however, instead of being a blemish may be regarded as making the book the 
more valuable. 

To secure typographical accuracy the proof has not only been repeatedly read by 
myself, but it has also been subjected to a careful revision by the Rev. Edward A. Man- 
ning, whose long practice as a proof reader entitles him to be regarded as a trustworthy 
expert. I gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness to this kind and painstaking 
gentleman. 

Inviting a manly criticism, and trusting implicitly to the generous treatment of all 
true litterateurs, I cast my Shakespearean bread upon the waters, convinced that, 
however imperfectly my work may have been done, the text of my great author will 
illume the pathway and quicken the intellectual life of all to whom its precious treas- 
ures may come. 

Ulyss. * * " No man is the lord of anything, 

(Though in and of him there be much consisting,) 

Till he communicate his parts to others : 

Nor doth he of himself know them for aught 

Till he behold them form'd in the applause 

Where they are extended; which, like an arch, reverberates 

The voice again ; or, like a gate of steel 

Fronting the sun, receives and renders back 

His figure and his heat." — T. a, III: 3. 



HENRY J. FOX. 



Boston, 1880. 



ABBREVIATIONS. 








As You Like It A. Y. 






403 


All 's Well That Ends Well A. W. 






493 


Antony and Cleopatra . . . . . . . . A. C. 






1537 


Comedy of Errors C. E. 






187 


Coriolanus .....= C. 






1147 


Cymbeline Cym. 






1587 


Hamlet H. 






1389 


Julius Caesar J. C. 






1319 


Kino Lear K. L. 






1441 


King John K. J. 






643 


King Richard II R. II. 






681 


King Henry IV., First Part . . . . . . . II. IV., 


1 


pt. 


723 


King Henry IV., Second Part . . . . . . . H. IV.. 


2 


pt. 


769 


King Henry V H. V, 






815 


King Henry VI., First Part H. VI, 


1 


pt, 


859 


King Henry VI., Second Part H. VI, 


o 


pt. 


903 


King Henry VI., Third Part H. VI, 


3 


pt 


951 


King Richard III . R. III. 






997 


King Henry VIII . H. VIII 




1052 


Love's Labour 's Lost . . . . . . . . L. L. 






267 


Macbeth ........... M. 






1355 


Measure tor Measure . . . . . . . M. M. 






137 


Merchant of Venice M. V. 






357 


Merry Wives of Windsor . . . . . . . M. W. 






81 


Midsummer -Night's Dream . . . . . . . M. iV. 






318 


Much Ado About Nothing M. A. 






221 


Othello * . 0. 






1487 


Pericles P. 






1637 


Romeo and Juliet . . . . . . . . . R. J. 






1237 


Taming of the Shrew . T. S. 






447 


Tempest T. 






1 


Timon of Athens T. A. 






1283 


Titus Andronicus Tit. And. 




1197 


Troilus and Cressida T. C. 






1097 


Twelfth Night T. N. 






537 


Two Gentlemen of Verona T. G. 






43 


Winter's Tale W. T. 






577 


Ind., Induction. C, Chorus. 








*** Acts, Roman numerals; Scenes, Arabic numerals. After Acts and Scenes the Arabic numerals 
refer to the page on which the passage can be found in Knight's Johnson, Fry & Company's Royal octavo, 
1861. 



THE 



STUDENT'S SHAKESPEARE, 



ABANDONMENT. — Acknowledged. 

Cal. * * To Jove 
I have abandon'd Troy, left my possession. 
T. C, III: 3. 1123. 

— By Friends. 

Eno. * * Sir, sir, thou'rt so leaky, 

That we must leave thee to thy sinking, for 

Thv dearest quit thee. 

A. C, III : 11. 1566. 

1 Lord. * * 
Left and abandon'd of his velvet friends. 

A. Y, II: 1. 414. 

— Counseled. 

Touch. * * Abandon the society of 

this female. 

A. Y, V : 1. 433. 

— Of the Unfortunate. 

Sal. * * 
Thy friends are fled, to wait upon thy foes ; 
And crossly to thy good all fortune goes. 

R. II., II : 4. 699. 

— Utter. 
Cleo. * * 

Lie graveless ; till the flies and gnats of Nile 
Have buried them for prey ! 

A. C, III : 11. 1567. 

ABDICATION. — Offered. 

York. Great duke of Lancaster I come 

to thee 
From plume-pluck'd Richard; who with 

willing soul 
Adopts thee heir, and his high sceptre yields 
To the possession of thy royal hand : 
Ascend his throne, descending now from 

him, — 

And long live Henry, of that name the 

fourth ! 

R. II., IV : 1. 708. 

ABHORRENCE. — Utter. 

Anne. Never hung poison on a fouler 
toad. 
Out of my sight ! thou dost infect mine eyes. 
R. III., 1 : 2. 1005. 



ABILITIES. — Disparaged. 

Men. * * Your abilities are too in- 
fant-like. 

C, II : 1. 1160. 

— Great, Aggravate Wrong. 

K. Hen. It grieves many : 

The gentleman is learn'd, and a most rare 

speaker, 
To nature none more bound; his training 

such, 
That he may furnish and instruct great 

teachers, 
And never seek for aid out of himself. 
Yet see 

When these so noble benefits shall prove 
Not well dispos'd, the mind growing once 

corrupt, 
They turn to vicious forms, ten times more 

ugly 
Than ever they were fair. This man so 

complete, 
Who was enroll'd 'mongst wonders, and 

when we, 
Almost with ravish'd list'ning, could not 

find 
His hour of speech a minute ; he, my lady, 
Hath into monstrous habits put the graces 
That once were his, and is become as black 
As if besmear'd in hell. 

//. VIII, 1:2. 1061. 

ABILITY. — Acknowledged. 

Iago. * * Sure, he fills it up with 
great ability. 

O., Ill : 3. 1512. 

— All, Promised. 

Des. Be thou assur'd, good Cassio, I will 
do 
All my abilities in thy behalf. 

O., Ill : 3. 1509. 

— Disparaged. 

Vio. * * My lean and low ability. 

T. N., Ill: 4. 561. 



ABILITY. 2 


ABSENCE. 


— Its Value. 


— Dangerous. 


Nor. * * 


Mar. * * My lady will hang thee for 


The force of his own merit makes his way ; 


thy absence. 


A gift that heaven gives for him, which buys 


T. &., 1 : 5. 543. 


A place next to the king. 




H. VIII., I: 1. 1057. 


— Deplored. 




Cleo. * * 


ABJECTNESS.— Enkindles Fury. 


Give me to drink mandragora, 


York. Scarce can I speak, my choler is 


That I might sleep out this great gap of time, 


so great. 


My Antony is away. 


0, I could hew up rocks, and fight with 


A. C I: 5. 1546. 


flint, 




I am so angry at these abject terms ; 


— Does not Change Character. 


And now, like Ajax Telamonious, 


Cor. Fare ye well : — 


On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury ! 


Thou hast years upon thee : and thou art 


I am far better born than is the king; 


too full 


More like a king, more kingly in my 


Of the wars' surfeits, to go rove with one 


thoughts : 


That 's yet unbruis'd ; bring me but out at 


But I must make fair weather yet a while, 


gate. — 


Till Henry be more weak, and I more strong. 


Come, my sweet wife, my dearest mother, 


H. VI, 2pt., V: 1. 942. 


and 




My friends of noble touch, when I am forth, 


— Of an Old Man. 


Bid me farewell, and smile. I pray you, 


Reg. 0, sir, you are old; 


come. 


Nature in you stands on the very verge 


While I remain above the ground, you shall 


Of her confine : you should be rul'd, and led 


Hear from me still : and never of me aught 


By some discretion, that discerns your state 


But what is like me formerly. 


Better than you yourself: Therefore, I pray 


C, IV : 1. 1178. 


That to our sister you do make return ; 


— Gives License. 


Say, you have wrong'd her, sir. 


K. Hen. * * As 't is ever common, 


Lear. Ask her forgiveness? 


That men are merriest when they are from 


Do you but mark how this becomes the 


home. 


house : 


H. V., I: 2. 823. 


"Dear daughter, I confess that I am old; 




Age is unnecessary : on my knees I beg, 


— Improved. 


That you '11 vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and 


Lucio. * * Lord Angelo dukes it well 


food." 


in his absence ; he puts transgression to 't. 


Reg. Good sir, no more ; these are un- 


M. jr., Ill: 2. 160. 


sightly tricks : 




Return you to my sister. 


— Injurious. 


K. L., II : 4. 1460. 


1 Gent. * * Our absence makes us 




unthrifty. 


ABOMINATIONS. — Distinguishing. 


W. T., V : 2. 615. 


Mec. * * Antony, most large 


— Of a Lover Mourned. 


In his abominations. 




A. C, III : 6. 1561. 


Val. * * 




O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, 


ABSENCE— A Debt. 


Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; 


Cas. * * 


Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall, 


Strike off this score of absence. 


And leave no memory of what it was ! 


0., Ill : 4. 1517. 


T. G., V : 4. 71. 



ABSENCE. 



ACCIDENTS. 



— Protracted, Deplored. 

Bian. * * 
What 3 keep a week away? seven days and 

nights? 
Eight score eight hours? and lovers' absent 

hours, 
More tedious than the dial eight score times? 

weary reckoning ! 

O., Ill : 4. 1517. 

— Sometimes Prudent. 

Fool. * * Let go thy hold, when a 
great wheel runs down a hill, lest it break 
thy neck with following it. 

K. L., II : 4. 1459. 

— Unimproved. 

Val. You would be another Penelope : 
yet, they say, all the yarn she spun, in 
Ulysses' absence, did but fill Ithaca full of 
moths. 

G.,l: 3. 1154. 

ABSENT.— The, Remembrance of. 

Pro. Wilt thou be gone? Sweet Valen- 
tine, adieu ! 
Think on thy Proteus, when thou, haply, 

seest 
Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel : 
Wish me partaker in thy happiness, 
When thou dost meet good hap : and in thy 

danger, 
If ever danger do environ thee, 
Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers, 
For I will be thy beadsman, Valentine. 

T.-0.,I: 1. 47. 

ABSTINENCE. — Pretended. (See 
Fasting.) 

Duke. * * 

1 have deliver'd to lord Angelo 

(A man of stricture and firm abstinence.) 
M.M.,I: 3. 146. 

ABSURDITY— In Dress. 

Pet. * * 
A sleeve? 't is like a demi-cannon, 
Carv'd like an apple-tart. 

T. S., IV : 3. 476. 

— Of Conduct, in Love. 

Biron. * * 
O, what a scene of fool'ry have I seen, 
Of sighs, of groans, of sorrow, and of teen ! 
O me, with what strict patience have I sat, 
To see a king transformed to a gnat ! 



To see great Hercules whipping a gig, 
And profound Solomon tuning a jig, 
And Nestor play at push-pin with the boys, 
And critic Timon laugh at idle toys ! 

L. L., IV: 3. 288. 

— Poor Proof of Love. 

Cleo. Nay, pray you, seek no colour for 

your going, 
But bid farewell, and go : when you sued 

staying, 
Then was the time for words : No going 

then ; — 
Eternity was in our lips, and eyes ; 
Bliss in our brows' bent ; none our parts so 

poor, 
But was a race of heaven : They are so still, 
Or thou, the greatest soldier of the world, 
Art turn'd the greatest liar. 

A. C 1 : 3. 1544. 

ACCIDENT — Determined by Heaven. 

Duke. O, 't is an accident that heaven 
provides ! 
Despatch it presently. 

M. M., IV : 3. 167. 

— Fortune by. 

Pro. * * 
By accident most strange. 

T., I: 2. 10. 

— Under our Control. 

Flo. * * 
As th' unthought-on accident is guilty 
To what we wildly do, so we profess 
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and 

flies 
Of every wind that blows. 

W. T.,IV: 3. 607. 

ACCIDENTS. — Boasting of. 

Oth. * * 
I spoke of most disastrous chances, 
Of moving accidents, by flood, and field. 

0., 1 : 3. 1496. 

— Desired. 
P. Hen. * * 

Nothing pleaseth but rare accidents. 

IT. IV., lpt., I: 2. 730. 
— Foreshadowed. 
Puc. * * 
Help, ye charming spells, and periapts ; 



ACCIDENTS. 



ACCOMPLICES. 



And ye choice spirits that admonish me, 
And give me signs of future accidents ! 

//. VI, lpt., V: 3. 892. 

— Made an Excuse. 

Iago. * * 
These bloody accidents must excuse my 
manners. 

0., V : 1. 1527. 

ABUSE. — Low, Language of. 

Fal. AAvay, you starveling, you elf-skin, 
you dried neats-tongue, * * * * you 
stock-fish, — 0, for breath to utter what is 
like thee! — you tailor's yard, you sheath, 
you bow-case, you vile standing tuck ; 

P. Hen. Well, breathe awhile, and then 
to it again : and when thou hast tired thy- 
self in base comparisons, hear me speak but 
this. 

H. IV., 1 pt., II : 4. 740. 

ACCESSARIES.— Cheated of their 
Reward. 

Buck. My lord, I claim the gift, my due 
by promise, 
For which your honour and your faith is 

pawn'd ; 
The earldom of Hereford, and the movables, 
Which you have promised I shall possess. 
K. Rich. Stanley, look to your wife ; if 
she convey 
Letters to Richmond, you shall answer it. 
Buck. What says your highness to my 

just request? 
K. Rich. I do remember me, — Henry 
the Sixth 
Did prophesy, that Richmond should be 

king, 
When Richmond was a little peevish boy. 

A king ! — perhaps 

Buck. My lord, 

K. Rich. How chance, the prophet could 
not at that time, 
Have told me, I being by, that I should kill 
him? 
Buck. My lord, your promise for the 

earldom. — 
K. Rich. Richmond ! — When last I was 
at Exeter, 
The mayor in courtesy show'd me the castle, 
And call'd it — Rouge-mont : at which name, 
I started ; 



Because a bard of Ireland told me once, 
I should not live long after I saw Richmond. 

Buck. My lord, 

K. Rich. Ay, what 's o'clock? 
Buck. I am thus bold 

To put your grace in mind of what you 
promis'd me. 
K. Rich. Well, but what is 't o'clock? 
Buck. Upon the stroke 

Often. 

K. Rich. Well, let it strike. 
Buck. Why let it strike? 

K. Rich. Because that, like a Jack, thou 
keep'st the stroke 
Betwixt thy begging* and my meditation. 
I am not in the giving vein to-day. 

Buck. Why, then resolve me whe'r you 

will, or no. 
K. Rich. Thou troublest me ; I am not 

in the vein. 
Buck. And is it thus ? repays he my deep 
service 
With such contempt? made I him king for 

this? 
O, let me think on Hastings ; and be gone 
To Brecknock, while my fearful head is on. 
R. III., IV: 2. 1032. 

ACCOMPLICE— To be put out of the 

way. 

Wor. And 't is no little reason bids us 
speed, 
To save our heads by raising of a head : 
For, bear ourselves as even as we can, 
The king will always think him in our debt ; 
And think we think ourselves unsatisfied, 
Till he hath found a time to pay us home. 
And see already, how he doth begin 
To make us strangers to his looks of love. 
H. IV., 1 pt., 1 : 3. 733. 

ACCOMPLICES. — Their Danger. 

Hot. Nay, then I cannot blame his cousin 

king, 
That wish'd him on the barren mountains 

starv'd. 
But shall it be, that you, — that set the 

crown 
Upon the head of this forgetful man ; 
And, for his sake, wear the detested blot 
Of murd'rous subordination, — shall it be, 
That you a world of curses undergo : 



ACCOMPLICES. 



ACCUSATION. 



Being the agents, or base second means, 
The cords, the ladder, or the hangman 

rather? — 
O, pardon me, that I descend so low, 
To show the line, and the predicament, 
Wherein you range under this subtle king. — 
Shall it, for shame, be spoken in these days, 
Or fill up chronicles in time to come, 
That men of your nobility and power, 
Did gage them both in an unjust behalf, — 
As both of ycu, God pardon it ! have done, — 
To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, 
And plant this thorn, this canker, Boling- 

broke? 
And shall it, in more shame, be further 

spoken, 
That you are fool'd, discarded, and shook 

off 
By him, for whom these shames ye under- 
went ? 
No ; yet time serves, wherein you may re- 
deem 
Your banish'd honours, and restore your- 
selves 
Into the good thoughts of the world again : 
Revenge the jeering, and disdain'd contempt, 
Of this proud king ; who studies, day and 

. night, 
To answer all the debt he owes to you, 
Even with the bloody payment of your 
deaths. 

H. IT., 1 pt., 1 : 3. 732. 

ACCOMPLISHMENTS. — Pretension 
to High. 

King. Aye, that there is : our court, you 

know, is haunted 
With a refined traveller of Spain ; 
A man in all the world's new fashion planted, 
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : 
One who the music of his own vain tongue 

Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony ; 
A man of complements, whom right and 
wrong 
Hath chose as umpire of their mutiny : 
This child of fancy, that Armado hight, 

For interim to our studies, shall relate, 
In high-born words, the worth of many a 
knight 
From tawny Spain, lost in the world's 
debate. 
How you delight, my lords, I know not, I ; 



But, I protest, I love to hear him lie, 
And I will use him for my minstrelsy. 

L.Z.,1: 1. 273. 

— Rare, Grouped. 

Agam. * * 
When rank Thersites opes his mastiff jaws, 
We shall hear music, wit, and oracle. 

T. C, I: 3. 1108. 

ACCUSATION. — Doubtful. 

Hor. Alas, my lord, hang me, if ever I 
spake the words. My accuser is my 'pren- 
tice ; and when I did correct him for his 
fault the other day, he did vow upon his 
knees he would be even with me : I have 
good witness of this ; therefore, I beseech 
your majesty, do not cast away an honest 
man for a villain's accusation. 

H. YL, 2 pt., 1 : 3. 913. 

— False, Its Effect. 

Claud. O Hero ! what a Hero hadst thou 
been, 
If half thy outward graces had been plac'd 
About thy thoughts, and counsels of thy 

heart : 
But, fare thee well ! most foul, most fair, 

farewell ! 
Thou pure impiety, and impious purity ; 
For thee I '11 lock up all the gates of love, 
And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang, 
To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm, 
And never shall it more be gracious. 

Leo. Hath no man's dagger here a point 

for me? 
Beat. Why, how now, cousin? where- 
fore sink you down? 
D. John. Come, let us go : these things, 
come thus to light, 
Smother her spirits up. 

M. A., IV : 1. 245. 

— Resented, as Though False. 

Aum. Princes, and noble lords, 

What answer shall I make to this base man? 
Shall I so much dishonour my fair stars, 
On equal terms to give him chastisement? 
Either I must, or have mine honour soil'd 
With the attainder of his sland'rous lips. — 
There is my gage, the manual seal of death, 
That marks thee out for hell : I say, thou 
liest, 



ACCUSATION. 



ACCUSED. 



And will maintain, what thou hast said, is 

false, 
In thy heart-blood, though being all too 

base 
To stain the temper of my knightly sword. 
B. II., TV : 1. 707. 

— Self, Intemperate. 

Mai. * * There 's no bottom, none, 
In my voluptuousness : your wives, your 

daughters, 
Your matrons, and your maids, could not 

fill up 
The cistern of my lust ; and my desire 
All continent impediments would o'er-bear, 
That did oppose my will : Better Macbeth, 
Than such a one to reign. 

31., IV : 3. 1378. 

ACCUSATIONS.— Against the Great 

Per. * * The blind mole casts 
Copp'd hills towards heaven, to tell, the 

earth is wrong'd 
By man's oppression ; and the poor worm 

doth die for 't. 
Kings are earth's gods : in vice their law 's 

their will ; 
And if Jove stray, who dares say, Jove doth 

ill? 

It is enough you know ; and it is fit, 

What being more known grows worse, to 

smother it. 

P., 1 : 1. 1643. 

— Answered by a Pun. 

Ch. Just. Well, the truth is, sir John, 
you live in great infamy. 

Fal. He that buckles him in my belt, 
cannot live in less. 

Ch. Just. Your means are very slender, 
and your waste is great. 

Fal. I would it were otherwise ; I would 
my means were greater, and my waist slen- 
derer. 

//. IV., 2 pt„ 1 : 2. 777. 

— Easily Made. 

1st Cit. If I must not, I need not be 
barren of accusations ; he hath faults, with 
surplus, to tire in repetition. 

C, 1 : 1. 1149. 

— False to Disarm a Creditor. 

Fal. * * 
How now, dame Partlet the hen? have you 
inquired yet, Avho picked my pocket? 



Host. Why, sir John ! what do you think, 
sir John? Do you think I keep thieves in 
my house? I have searched, I have inquir- 
ed, so has my husband, man by man, boy 
by boy, servant by servant : the tithe of a 
hair was never lost in my house before. 

Fal. You lie, hostess ; Bardolph was 
shaved, and lost many a hair : and I '11 be 
sworn, my pocket was picked : Go to, you 
are a woman, go. 

Host. Who I ? I defy thee : I was never 
called so in mine own house before. 

Fal. Go to, I know you well enough. 

Host. No, sir John ; you do not know 
me, sir John : I know you, sir John : you 
owe me money, sir John, and now you pick 
a quarrel to beguile me of it : I bought you 
a dozen of shirts to your back. 

Fal. Dowlas, filthy dowlas : I have given 
them away to bakers' wives, and they have 
made bolters of them. 

Host. Now, as I am a true woman, hol- 
land of eight shillings an ell You owe 
money here besides, sir John, for your diet, 
and by-drinkings, and money lent you, four- 
and-twenty pound. 

Fal. He had his part of it ; let him pay. 

Host. He? alas, he is poor; he hath no- 
thing. 

Fal. How! poor? look upon his face: 
What call you rich? let them coin his nose, 
let them coin his cheeks ; I '11 not pay a 
denier. What, will you make a younier of 
me? shall I not take mine ease in mine inn, 
but I shall have my pocket picked? I have 
lost a seal-ring of my grandfather's, worth 
forty mark. 

Host. O Jesu ! I have heard the prince 
tell him, I know not how oft, that that ring 
was copper. 

Fal. How ! the prince is a Jack, a sneak- 
cup; and. if he were here, I would cudgel 
him like a dog, if he would say' so. 

H. IV., lpt., Ill: 3. 750. 

ACCUSED.— His Right to be Heard. 

Car. Marry, God forbid ! — 
Worst in this royal presence may I speak, 
Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth. 
Would God, that any in this noble presence 
Were enough noble to be upright judge 
Of noble Richard ; then true nobless would 
Learn him forbearance from so foul a wrong. 
What subject can give sentence on his king? 
And who sits here, that is not Richard's 

subject? 
Thieves are not judg'd, but they are by to 

hear, 



ACCUSED. 7 


ACTION. 


Although apparent guilt be seen in them : 


All my reports go Avith the modest truth ; 


And shall the figure of God's majesty, 


Nor more, nor clipp'd, but so. 


His captain, steward, deputy elect, 


K. L., IV: 7. 1478. 


Anointed, crowned, planted many years, 




Be judg'd by subject and inferior breath, 


ACQUAINTANCE. — Honored. 


And he himself not present? 0, forbid it, 


Bass. * * 


God, 


Return in haste, for I do feast to-night 


That, in a Christian climate, souls refin'd 


My best-esteem'd acquaintance. 


Should show so heinous, black, obscene a 


31. Y., II : 2. 369. 


deed ! 




I speak to subjects, and a subject speaks, 


— Not Forgotten. 


Stirr'd up by heaven thus boldly for his 


Oth. * * 


king. 


How do our old acquaintance of this isle? 


R.I I., TV: 1. 708. 


0.,II: 1. 1502. 


ACCUSER.— Pleasure of being an. 


— Renewed. 


(See Justice.) 


Shal. * * As you return, visit my 


Laer. * * But let him come ; 


house ; let our old acquaintance be renewed. 


It warms the very sickness in my heart, 


H. IV., 2pt.,III: 2. 794. 


That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, 




"Thus diddest thou." 


ACTION. — Admired. 


II., IV: 7. 1427. 


Cleo. Celerity is never more admir'd, 




Than by the negligent. 


ACCUSERS.— To Face the Accused. 


A. O., HI : 7. 1562. 


Cran. * * Men, that make 


— Appropriate. 


Envy, and crooked malice, nourishment, 






Ham. Be not too tame neither, but let 


Dare bite the best. I do beseech your lord- 


your own discretion be your tutor : suit the 


ships, 


action to the word, the word to the action ; 


That, m this case of justice, my accusers, 


with this special observance, that you o'er- 


Be what they will, may stand forth face to 


step not the modesty of nature. 


face, 


H., Ill : 2. 1412. 


And freely urge against me. 


— Better than Resolves. 


H. YIIL, V : 2. 1090. 






Ulyss. * * 


ACHIEVEMENTS. — Mock us. 


How some men creep in skittish fortune's 


Tro. How my achievements mock me ! 


hall, 


I will go meet them. 


Whiles others play the idiots in her eyes ! 


T. C, IV : 2. 1129. 


How one man eats into another^ pride, 




"While pride is fasting in his wantonness ! 


— Only Present Worshiped. 


T. C, III: 3. 1124. 


Ulyss. * * 




The present eye praises the present object : 


— Eloquent. 


Then marvel not, thou great and complete 


Vol. * * 


man, 


Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the 


That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajax ; 


ignorant 


Since things in motion sooner catch the eye, 


More learned than the ears. 


Than what not stirs. 


C, III : 2. 1174. 


T. C, III : 3. 1125. 






— Inspiration of. 


ACKNOWLEDGMENT. — All that 


War. Why, therefore Warwick came to 


Modesty asks. 


seek you out : 


Kent. To be acknowledg'd, madam, is 


And therefore comes my brother Montague. 


o'erpaid. 


* * 



ACTION. 



ADMIRATION. 



Rich. Ay, now, methinks, I hear great 
"Warwick speak : 
Ne'er may he live to see a sunshine day, 
That cries — Retire, if Warwick bid him 

stay. 
* * 

War. No longer earl of March, but duke 
of York ; 
The next degree is, England's royal throne : 
For king of England shalt thou be pro- 

claim'd 
In every borough as we pass along ; 
And he that throws not up his cap for joy, 
Shall for the fault make forfeit of his head. 
King Edward, — valiant Richard, — Mon- 
tague, — 
Stay we no longer dreaming of renown, 
But sound the trumpets, and about our task. 
H. VI., 3pt., II: 1. 964. 

— Respected. 

Again. A stirring dwarf we do allowance 
give 
Before a sleeping giant. 

T. C., II : 3. 1117. 

— Should Equal Thought 

Bast. * * 
Be great in act, as you have been in thought. 
K.J.,\: l. 671. 

— Should Overtake Purpose. 

Macb. * * 
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, 
Unless the deed go with it. 

M., IV: 2. 1376. 

ACTIONS.— As Noble as Thoughts. 

Per. My actions are as noble as my 
thoughts, 
That never relished of a base descent. 

P., II : 5. 1654. 

— Correspond to Reasons. 

Lew. Strong reasons make strong ac- 
tions. 

K. J., Ill : 4. 663. 

ACTORS.— Bottom's Instructions to. 

Bot. * * Get your apparel together ; 
good strings to your beards, new ribbons to 
your pumps ; meet presently at the palace ; 
every man look o'er his part ; for, the short 
and the long is, our play is preferred. In 
any case, let Thisbe have clean linen ; and 



let not him that plays the lion pare his nails, 
for they shall hang out for the lion's claws. 
And, most dear actors, eat no onions, nor 
garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath ; and 
I do not doubt but to hear them say it is a 
sweet comedy. 

31. Jl., IV : 2. 341. 

— Ill Will of, Deprecated. 

Ham. * * Good my lord, will you see 
the players well bestowed? Do you hear, 
let them be well used ; for they are the ab- 
stract, and brief chronicles of the times : 
After your death you were better have a 
bad epitaph, than their ill report while you 
live. 

//., II : 2. 1409. 

— Reprove Heartlessness. 

Ham. * * 
Is it not monstrous, that this player here, 
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, 
Could force his soul so to his own conceit, 
That from her working, all his visage 

wann'd ; 
Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, 
A broken voice, and his whole function 

suiting 
With forms to his conceit? and all for no- 
thing ! 
For Hecuba ! 

What 's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, 
That he should weep for her? 
* * 

But I am pigeon-liver'd, and lack gall 
To make oppression bitter ; or, ere this, 
I should have fatted all the region kites 
With this slave's offal : bloody, bawdy vil- 
lain! 
Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kind- 
less villain ! 

H., II : 2. 1409. 

— Universal Genius of. 

Pol. The best actors in the world, either 
for tragedy, comedy, history, pastoral, pas- 
torical-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical- 
historical, tragical-comical-historical-pasto- 
ral, scene individable, or poem unlimited : 
Seneca cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too 
light. For the law of writ, and the liberty, 
these are the only men. 

H.,ll: 2. 1407. 

ADMIRATION. — Infatuated. 

Pan. * * Go thy way, Troilus, go thy 
way; had I a sister were a grace, or a 



ADMIRATION. 



ADVENTURERS. 



daughter a goddess, he should take his 
choice. admirable man! Paris? — Paris 
is dirt to him; and, I warrant, Helen, to 
change, would give an eye to boot. 
* * 

Cres. There is among the Greeks, Achil- 
les ; a better man than Troilus. 

Pan. Achilles? a drayman, a porter, a 
very camel. 

Ores. Well, well. 

Pan. Well, well? — Why, have you any 
discretion? have you any eyes? Do you 
know what a man is? Is not birth, beauty, 
good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, 
gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and 
such like, the spice and salt that season a 
man? 

T. -0., I:. 2. 1106. 

— Of a False Woman. 

Oth. Hang her ! I do but say what she 
is ! — So delicate with her needle ! — An ad- 
mirable musician! 0, she will sing the 
savageness out of a bear ! — Of so high and 
plenteous wit and invention ! 

0., IV: 1. 1520. 

— Of Women. 

Hel. * * 
Your eyes are load-stars ; and your tongues 
sweet air. 

M. N„ 1 : 1. 323. 

Dem. * * 

To what, my love, shall I compare thine 

eyne? 

Crystal is muddy. 

M. N., Ill : 2. 334. 

Eno. * * Antony, 
Enthron'd in the market-place, did sit alone, 
Whistling to the air : which, but for vacancy, 
Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, 
And made a gap in nature. 

A. C, II: 2. 1550. 

ADOPTION. — Strives with Nature. 

Count. * * 'T is often seen, 
Adoption strives with nature ; and choice 

breeds 
A native slip to us from foreign seeds. 

A. W., 1 : 3. 500. 

ADULTERY. — Described. 

Ham. Such an act, 

That blurs the grace and blush of modesty ; 
Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose 
From the fair forehead of an innocent love, 



And sets a blister there ; makes marriage 

vows 

As false as dicers' oaths : O, such a deed 

As from the body of contraction plucks 

The very soul ; and sweet religion makes 

A rhapsody of words. 

r., Ill : 4. 1418. 

— The Penalty of. 

Oth. * * If I do prove her haggard, 
Though that her jesses were my dear heart- 
strings, 
I 'd whistle her off, and let her down the 
wind, 

To prey at fortune. 

0., Ill: 2. 1512. 

ADVANTAGES. — False Ground of 
Trust 

K. Rich. Why, our battalia trebles that 
account : 
Besides, the king's name is a tower of 

strength, 
Which they upon the adverse faction want. 
Up with the tent. — Come, noble gentlemen, 
Let us survey the vantage of the ground ; — 
Call for some men of sound direction : — 
Let 's lack no discipline, make no delay ; 
For, lords, to-morrow is a busy day. 

R. ///., V: 3. 1042. 

ADVENTURE.— Scatters Young Men. 
Pet. Such wind as scatters young men 
through the world, 
To seek their fortunes farther than at home, 
Where small experience grows. 

T. S., 1 : 2. 458. 

ADVENTURER. — His Motto. 

Pist. Why, then the world 's mine oyster, 
Which I with sword will open. 

Jf. W., II : 2. 97. 

ADVENTURERS. — Described. 

Chat. * * 
Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, 
With ladies' faces, and fierce dragons' 

spleens, — 
Have sold their fortunes at their native 

homes, 
Bearing their birthrights proudly on their 

backs, 
To make a hazard of new fortnnes here. 

K.J.,II: 1. 650. 



ADVERSARIES. 



IO 



ADVERSITY. 



ADVERSARIES.— In Law. 

Tra. * * 
And quaff carouses to our mistress' health ; 
And do as adversaries do in law, — 
Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. 

T. S., 1 : 2. 461. 

ADVERSARY. — Unknown, Noble. 

Edg. Know, my name is lost ; 

By treason's tooth bare-gnawn, and canker- 
bit: 
Yet am I noble, as the adversary 
I come to cope withal. 

K. L., V : 3. 1483. 

ADVERSITY.— All Encompassing. 

Lucy. * * 
Who, ring'd about with bold adversity. 

H. VI, lpt., IV: 4. 888. 

— Desertion in. 

Tim. * * 
That numberless upon me stuck, as leaves 
Do on the oak, have with one winter's brush 
Fell from their boughs, and left me open, 

bare 
For every storm that blows. 

T. A., IV : 3. 1308. 

— Ever Present. 

Ros. * * 
O, how full of briars is this working-day 
world I 

A. Y., 1 : 3. 412. 

— Helpless. 

Apem.. * * What, think' st 
That the bleak air, thy boisterous chamber- 
lain, 
Will put thy shirt on warm? 

T. A., IV : 3. 1308. 

— Its Compensations. 

K. Rich. * * 
What ! we have many goodly days to see : 
The liquid drops of tears that you have shed, 
Shall come again, transform'd to orient 

pearl ; 
Advantaging their loan, with interest 
Of ten-times-double gain of happiness. 

R. III., IV: 4. 1038. 



— Its Uses. 

Duke S. Now, my co-mates, and broth- 
ers in exile, 
Hath not old custom made this life more 

sweet 
Than that of painted pomp? Are not these 

woods 
More free from peril than the envious court? 
Here feel we but the penalty of xVdam : 
The seasons' difference, — as, the icy fang, 
And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, 
(Which when it bites and blows upon my 
body, 

Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say 
This is no flattery,) — these are counsellors 
That feelingly persuade me what I am. 
Sweet are the uses of adversity, 
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, 
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; 
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, 
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running 

brooks, 
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 
A. F.,11: 1. 414. 

— Of Others Easily Borne. 

Adr. Patience unmov'd ! no , marvel 

though she pause ; 
They can be meek that have no other cause. 
A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, 
We bid be quiet when we hear it cry ; 
But were we burden'd with like weight of 

pain, 
As much, or more, we should ourselves 

complain : 
So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve 

thee, 
With urging helpless patience would relieve 

me : 
But, if thou live to see like right bereft, 
This fool-begg'd patience in thee will be left. 
C. E., II : 1. 195. 

— Separates Friends. 

2 Serv. * * 
So his familiars to his buried fortunes 
Slink all away ; leave their false vows with 

him, 
Like empty purses pick'd : and his poor self, 
A dedicated beggar to the air, 
With his disease of all-shunn'd poverty, 
Walks, like contempt, alone. 

T.A., IV: 2. 1304. 



ADVERSITY. 



II 



ADVICE. 



— Transforms Foes. 

Auf. Marcius, Marcius, 

Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded 

from my heart 
A root of ancient envy. If Jupiter 
Should from yon cloud speak divine things, 

and say, 
"'Tis true; "I'd not believe them more 

than thee, 
All noble Marcius. — O, let me twine 
Mine arms about that body, where against 
My grained ash an hundred times hath 

broke, 
And scar'd the moon with splinters ! Here 

I clip 
The anvil of my sword ; and do contest 
As hotly and as nobly with thy love, 
As ever in ambitious strength I did 
Contend against thy valour. Know thou 

first, 
I loved the maid I married ; never man 
Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee 

here, 
Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt 

heart, 
Than when I first my wedded mistress saw 
Bestride my threshold. 

C, IV: 5. 1181. 

— Unrelenting. 

Apem. * * Will these moss'd trees, 
That have outliv'd the eagle, page thy heels, 
And skip when thou point'st out? Will the 

cold brook, 
Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste, 
To cure thy o'er night's surfeit? 

T. A., IV : 3. 1308. 

— Welcomed. 

K. Hen. Let me embrace these four 
adversities, 
For wise men say it is the wisest course. 

H. VI, 3pt., Ill: 1. 971. 

— Wintry. 

Luc. Serv. * * 
'T is deepest winter in lord Timon's purse. 
T. A., Ill: 4. 1299. 

ADVERTISEMENT.— Not Needed. 

Ros. * * *' Good wine needs no bush;" 
A. Y., V : 4. 438. 



ADVICE.— Based on Probabilities. 

Wor. * * 
I speak not this in estimation, 
As what I think might be, but what I know 
Is ruminated, plotted, and set down ; 
And only stays but to behold the face 
Of that occasion that shall bring it on. 

//. IV, 1 pt., II : 3. 733. 

— Despised. 

Iago. Zounds, sir, you are one of those 
that will not serve God, if the devil bid you. 
Because we come to do you service, and 
you think we are ruffians. 

0., 1 : 1. 1492. 

— Easily Given. {See page 363.) 

Por. If to do were as easy as to know 
what were good to do, chapels had been 
churches, and poor men's cottages princes' 
palaces. It is a good divine that follows his 
own instructions. I can easier teach twenty 
what were good to be done, than be one of 
the twenty to follow mine own teaching. 

M. V., I: 2. 363. 

Hamlet's, to the Players. 

Ham. Speak the speech, I pray you, as 
I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the 
tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your 
players do, I had as lief the town-crier 
spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too 
much with your hand, thus ; but use all 
gently : for in the very torrent, tempest, and 
(as I may say) whirlwind of passion, you 
must acquire and beget a temperance, that 
may give it smoothness. O, it offends me 
to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig- 
pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very 
rags, to split the ears of the groundlings ; 
who, for the most part, are capable of noth- 
ing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise : 
I would have such a fellow whipped for o'er- 
doing Termagant ; it out-herods Herod : 
pray you, avoid it. 

1 Play. I warrant your honour. 

Ham. Be not too tame neither ; but let 
your own discretion be your tutor : suit 
the action to the word, the word to the 
action ; with this special observance, that 
you o'erstep not the modesty of nature : for 
anything so overdone is from the purpose of 
playing, whose end, both at the first, and 
now, was, and is, to hold, as 't were, the 
mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her 
own feature, scorn her own image, and the 
very age and body of the time, his form and 
pressure. Now, this overdone, or come 
tardy off, though it make the unskilful 
laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; 
the censure of which one, must in your 



ADVICE. 



12 



AFFECTION. 



allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of 
others. O, there be players, that I have 
seen play, — and heard others praise, and that 
highly, — not to speak it profanely, that, 
neither having the accent of christians, nor 
the gait of christians, pagan, nor man, have 
so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought 
some of nature's journeymen had made 
men, and not made them well, they imitated 
humanity so abominable. 

H., Ill : 2. 1412. 

— Polonius' to his Son. 

Pol. * * Give thy thoughts no tongue, 
Nor any unproportional thought his act. 
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 
The friends thou hast, and their adoption 

tried, 
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of 

steel : 
But do not dull thy palm with entertain- 
ment 
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade. 

Beware 
Of entrance to a quarrel : but, being in, 
Bear it that the opposed may beware of thee. 
Give every man thine ear, but few thy 

voice : 
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy 

judgment. 
Costly thy habit, as thy purse can buy, 
But not express'd in fancy ; rich, not gaudy : 
For the apparel oft proclaims the man ; 
And they in France, of the best rank and 

station, 
Are of a most select and generous choice in 

that. 
Neither a borrower, nor a lender be ; 
For a loan oft loses both itself and friend ; 
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 
This above all, — To thine ownself be true ; 
And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou canst not then be false to any man. 
Farewell ; my blessing season this in thee ! 

II., I: 3. 1397. 

ADVISERS.— Bad, Reproached. 

Boling. I will unfold some causes of 
your deaths. 

You have misled a prince, a royal king, 

A happy gentleman in blood and linea- 
ments, 

By you unhappied and disfigur'd clean. 

You have, in manner, with your sinful 
hours, 



Made a divorce betwixt his queen and him ; 

Broke the possession of a royal bed, 

And stain'd the beauty of a fair queen's 

cheeks 
With tears drawn from her eyes by your 

foul wrongs. 
Myself — a prince, by fortune of my birth ; 
Near to the king in blood ; and near in love, 
Till you did make him misinterpret me, — 
Have stoop'd my neck under your injuries, 
And sigh'd my English breath in foreign 

clouds, 
Eating the bitter bread of banishment : 
Whilst you have fed upon my signories, 
Dispark'd my parks, and fell'd my forest 

woods, 
From mine own windows torn my household 

coat, 
Baz'd out my impress, leaving me no sign, — 
Save men's opinions, and my living blood, — 
To show the world I am a gentleman. 
This, and much more, much more than 

twice all this, 
Condemns you to the death. 

R. II., Ill : 1. 700. 

AFFECTATION. — Forsworn. 

Biron. * * 
Taffata phrases, silken terms precise, 

Three-pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation, 
Figures pedantical ; these summer-flies 
Have blown me full of maggot ostenta- 
tion : 
I do forswear them : and I here protest, 
By this white glove (how white the hand, 
God knows !) 
Henceforth my wooing mind shall be ex- 
press'd 
In russet yeas, and honest kersey noes. 

L.L.,V: 2. 298. 

AFFECTION. — Ardent. 

Duke. O, she that hath a heart of that 

fine frame, 
To pay this debt of love but to a brother, 
How will she love, when the rich golden 

shaft 
Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else 
That live in her! when liver, brain, and 

heart, 
These sovereign thrones, are all supplied 

and fill'd, 



AFFECTION. 



13 



AFFECTION. 



(Her sweet perfections,) with one self-same 
king ! 



T.N.,I- 1. 540. 



— Bottomless. 



Ros. * * My affection hath an un- 
known bottom, like the bay of Portugal. 

A. Y., IV: 1. 430. 

— Degrading. 

Phi. Nay, but this dotage of our gen- 
eral's 
Overflows the measure : those his goodly 

eyes, 
That o'er the files and musters of the war 
Have glow'd, like plated Mars, now bend, 

now turn, 
The office and devotion of their view 
Upon a tawny front : his captain's heart, 
Which in the scuffles of great fights hath 

burst 
The buckles on his breast, reneges all tem- 
per ; 
And is become the bellows and the fan 

To cool a gipsy's lust. 

A. O n I: 1. 1540. 

— Its Decline Observed. 

Cas. Brutus, I do observe you now of 
late: 
I have not from your eyes that gentleness, 
And show of love, as I was wont to have : 
You bear too stubborn and too strange a 

hand 
Over your friend that loves you. 

J. C:, 1 : 2. 1323. 

— Its Object Should be Young. 

Duke. Then let thy love be younger than 
thyself, 
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. 

T. IT., II: 4. 551. 

—Its Signs Withheld. 

Bru. Cassius, 

Be not deceiv'd : if I have veil'd my look, 
I turn the trouble of my countenance 
Merely upon myself. Vexed I am, 
Of late, with passions of some difference, 
Conceptions only proper to myself, 
Which gitfe some soil, perhaps, to my be- 
haviours ; 
But let not therefore my good friends be 

griev'd ; 
(Among which number, Cassius, be you 
one ;) 



Nor construe any further my neglect, 
Than that poor Brutus, with himself at war, 
Forgets the shows of love to other men. 

J. C., 1 : 2. 1323. 

— Natural. 

L. Macb. * * For the poor wren, 
The most diminutive of birds, will fight, 
Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. 

M., IV: 2. 1376. 

— Natural, Its Power. 

Cor. O mother, mother ! 

What have you done? Behold, the heavens 

do ope, 
The gods look down, and this unnatural 

scene 
They laugh at. O my mother, mother ! O ! 
You have won a happy victory to Rome : 
But, for your son, — believe it, 0, believe it, 
Most dangerously you have with him pre- 

vail'd, 
If not most mortal to him. But, let it 

come : — 
Aufidius, though I cannot make true wars, 
I '11 frame convenient peace. Now, good 

Aufidius, 
Were you in my stead, would you have 

heard 
A mother less? or granted less, Aufidius? 

C, V: 3. 1190. 

— Popular. 

King. * * The other motive, 
Why to a public count I might not go, 
Is, the great love the general gender bear 

him : 
Who, dipping all his faults in their affection, 
Work like the spring that turneth wood to 

stone, 
Convert his gyves to graces ; so that my 

arrows, 
Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind, 
Would have reverted to my bow again, 
And not where I had aim'd them. 

7/..IV: 7. 1427. 

. — Shelters. 
Suf. * * 
So doth the swan her downy cygnets save, 
Keeping them prisoners underneath her 
wings. 

If. VI., 1 pt., V : 3. 893. 



AFFECTION. 



H 



AGE. 



— Strength of Misplaced. 

Cres. If you love an addle egg as well 
as you love an idle head, you would eat 
chickens i' the shell. 

T. a, I: 2. 1105. 

— Undying. 

Fath. * * 

My heart, sweet boy, shall be thy sepulchre ! 

For from my heart thine image ne'er shall 

go. 

H. VI., 3 pt., II : 5. 969. 

Hub. 'T is not an hour since I left him 

well : 

I honour'd him, I lov'd him ; and will weep 

My date of life out, for his sweet life's loss. 

K. J., IV : 3. 670. 

AFFLICTION.— Its Divine Source. 

Oth. This sorrow 's heavenly ; 

It strikes, where it doth love. 

0., V : 2. 1528. 

— Medicinal. 

Isab. * * For 't is a physic 
That 's bitter to sweet end. 

M. 31., IV : 6. 169. 

— Support in. 

K. Hen. Now, God be prais'd ! that to 
believing souls 
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair ! 
H. VI, 2 pt., II : 1. 916. 

— The Body its Grave. 

K. Phi. * * 
Look, who comes here ! a grave unto a soul ; 
Holding the eternal spirit, against her will, 
In the vile prison of afflicted breath : — 
I pr'ythee, lady, go away with me. 

K. J., Ill : 4. 662. 

AGE.— Abused. 

Gon. * * Idle old man, 
That still would manage those authorities, 
That he hath given away! — Now, by my 

life, 
Old fools are babes again ; and must be us'd 
With checks as flatteries, — when they are 

seen abus'd, 
Remember what I have said. 



K. L., I 



1449. 



— Commendatory. 

Met. O let us have him; for his silver 

hairs 
Will purchase us a good opinion, 
And buy men's voices to commend our 

deeds : 
It shall be said his judgment rul'd our hands ; 
Our youths, and wildness, shall no whit 

appear, 
But all be buried in his gravity. 

J. C, II : 1. 1330. 

— Garrulous. 

Dogb. A good old man, sir; he will be 
talking ; as they say, ' When the age is in, 
the wit is out.' 

M. A., Ill: 5. 243. 

— Haggish, Stealing on. 

King. * * He did look far 
Into the service of the time, and was 
Discipled of the bravest : he lasted long ; 
But on us both did haggish age steal on, 
And wore us out of act. 

A. W., 1 : 2. 498. 

— Honor Due to. 

Pro. First, noble friend, 

Let me embrace thine age, whose honour 

cannot 
Be measur'd, or confin'd. 

T., V: 1. 31. 

— Increases Some Charms. 

K. Hen. * * But, in faith, Kate, the 
elder I wax, the better I shall appear : my 
comfort is, that old age, that ill layer up of 
beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face : 
thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst ; 
and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, 
better and better : And therefore tell me, 
most fair Katharine, will you have me? 

H. V., V : 2. 855. 

— Infirmities of. 

Ulyss. * * To cough, and spit, 
And with a palsy-fumbling on his gorget, 
Shake in and out the rivet. 

T. (f., 1 : 3. 1109. 

Mor. * * These grey locks, the pur- 
suivants of death, 
Nestor-like aged, in an age of care, 
Argue the end of Edmund Mortimer. 



AGE. 



15 



AGE. 



These eyes, — like lamps whose wasting oil is 

spent, — 
Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent : 
Weak shoulders, overborne with burd'ning 

grief; 
And pithless arms, like to a wither'd vine 
That droops his sapless branches to the 

ground . — 
Yet are these feet, — whose strengthless stay 

is numb, 
Unable to support this lump of clay, — 
Swift-winged with desire to get a grave, 
As witting I no other comfort have. 

H. t VI., 1 pt., II : 5. 876. 

— Its Ameliorations. 

JEge. * * 
Though now this grained face of mine be 

hid 
In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, 
And all the conduits of my blood froze up, 
Yet hath my night of life some memory, 
My wasting lamps some fading glimmer left, 
My dull deaf ears a little use to hear. 

C. E., V : 1. 213. 

—Its Folly. 

Lear. When were you wont to be so full 
of songs, sirrah? 

Fool. I have used it, nuncle, ever since 
thou madest thy daughters thy mother. 

* * I had rather be any kind of thing 
than a fool : and yet I would not be thee, 
nuncle ; thou has pared thy wit o' both 
sides, and left nothing in the middle. Here 
comes one o' the parings. 

K. Z., 1 : 4. 1451. 

— Its Sear and Yellow Leaf. 

Macb. * * 
I have liv'd long enough : my way of life 
Is falPn into the sear, the yellow leaf; 
And that which should accompany old age, 
As honour, love, obedience, troops of 

friends, 
I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, 
Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, 

breath, 
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and 

dare not. 

M., V : 3. 1382. 



— Its Signs. 

Ch. Just. Do you set down your name 
in the scroll of youth, that are written down 
old with all the characters of age? Have 
you not a moist eye? a dry hand? a yellow 
cheek? a white beard? a decreasing leg? 
an increasing belly? Is not your voice 
broken? your wind short? your chin double? 
your wit single? and every part about you 
blasted with antiquity? and will you yet call 
yourself young? Fye, fye, fye, sir John! 

H. IV., 2pt, I: 2. 778. 

— Its Appeal. 

Lear. * * 
If you do love old men, if your sweet sway 
Allow obedience, if yourselves are old, 
Make it your cause ; send down, and take 

my part ! — 
Art not asham'd to look upon this beard? 

K.L., II: 4. 1460, 

— Its Chivalry. 

Nest. Tell him of Nestor, one that was a 

man 
When Hector's grandsire suck'd : he is old 

now, 
But, if there be not in our Grecian host 
One noble man, that hath one spark of fire, 
To answer for his love, Tell him from me, — 
I '11 hide my silver beard in a gold beaver, 
And in my vantbrace put this wither'd 

brawn ; 
And, meeting him, will tell him, That my 

lady 
Was fairer than his grandame, and as 

chaste 
As may be in the world : His youth in flood, 
I '11 prove this truth with my three drops of 

blood. 

T. C, 1 : 3. 1110. 

— Lusty. 

Adam. * * 
Though I look old, yet am I strong and 

lusty : 
For in my youth I never did apply 
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, 
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo 
The means of weakness and debility ; 
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, 
Frosty, but kindly. 

A. F.,11: 3. 415. 



AGE. 



16 



ARTS. 



— Old. 

Pet. * * 
As old as Sybil. 



T. S., 1 : 2. 458. 



Lear. * * 
You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, 
As full of grief as age ; wretched in both ! 

K. L., II. 4. 1462. 

Lear. Pray, do not mock me : 

I am a very foolish fond old man, 
Fourscore and upward. 

K. L., IV : 7. 1479. 

— Should be Discreet. 

Reg. O, sir, you are old ; 

Nature in you stands on the very verge 
Of her confine : you should be ruPd, and 

led 
By some discretion, that discerns your 

state 
Better than you yourself. 

K. L., II . 4. 1460. 

— Should be Wise. 

Fool. Thou should'st not have been old, 
before thou hadst been wise. 

A'. I., 1 : 5. 1454. 

— Sign of. 

Fal. * * Why, my skin hangs about 
me like an old lady's loose gown; I am 
wither'd like an old apple-John. 

H. IV., 1 pt., Ill : 3. 749. 

— Sorrowful. 
Duch. * * 

Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen, 
And each hour's joy wreck'd with a week of 
teen. 

R. III., IV : 1. 1031. 

— Steals on. 

King. * * 
But on us both did haggish age steal on, 
And wore us out of act. 

A. W., 1 : 2. 498. 

— Sweet. 

Leon. * * 
For this affliction has a taste as sweet 
As any cordial comfort. 

W. T., V: 3. 617. 

AID. — Uncertain, Poor Dependence. 

Lard. Ay, marry, there 's the point, 

But if without him we be thought too feeble, 



My judgment is, we should not step too far 
Till he had his assistance by the hand : 
For, in a theme so bloody-fac'd as this, 
Conjecture, expectation, and surmise 
Of aids uncertain, should not be admitted. 
II. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 3. 779. 

—Withheld Through Fear. 

Stan. Sir Christopher, tell Richmond 
this from me : — 
That, in the sty of this most bloody boar, 
My son George Stanley is frank'd up in 

hold : 
If I revolt, off goes young George's head ; 
The fear of that with -holds my present aid. 
R. III., IV : 5. 1041. 

ARTS.— Magic, Their Potency. 

Pro. Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing 
lakes, and groves ; 

And ye that, on the sands with printless foot, 

Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly 
him, 

When he comes back ; you demi-puppets, 
that 

By moonshine do the green sour ringlets 
make, 

Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose 
pastime 

Is to make midnight mushrooms ; that re- 
joice 

To hear the solemn curfew ; by whose aid 

(Weak masters though ye be) I have be- 
dimm'd 

The noontide sun, calPd forth the mutinous 
winds, 

And 'twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault 

Set roaring war : to the dread rattling 
thunder 

Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout 
oak 

With his own bolt : the strong-bas'd prom- 
ontory 

Have I made shake, and by the spurs 
pluck'd up 

The pine and cedar : graves, at my com- 
mand, 

Have wak'd their sleepers, — op'd, and let 
them forth 

By my so potent art. But this rough magic 

I here abjure : and, when I have requir'd 

Some heavenly music, (which even now 
I do) 



ARTS. 



17 



ALTERNATIVE. 



To work mine end upon their senses that 

This airy charm is for, I '11 break my staff, 

Bury it certain fadoms in the earth, 

And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, 

I '11 drown my book. 

T., V : 1. 30. 

ALACRITY. — A Bridegroom's. 

Dei. Let us make ready straight. 

yEne. Yea, with a bridegroom's fresh 

alacrity. 

T. G., IV : 4. 1131. 

ALARM. — Created by Sinister Hints. 

Nym. I cannot tell ; things must be as 
they may : men may sleep, and they may 
have their throats about them at that time ; 
and, some say, knives have edges. It must 
be as it may; though patience be a tired 
mare, yet she will plod. There must be 
conclusions. Well, I cannot tell. 

H. V., II: l. 825. 

— On Unexpected Departure. 

Her. * * 
What, out of hearing? gone? no sound, no 

word? 
Alack, where are you? speak, an if you 

hear ; 
Speak, of all loves ! I swound almost with 

fear. 
No? — then I well perceive you are not nigh : 
Either death, or you, I '11 find immediately. 
M. &., II: 2. 330. 

ALLEGIANCE— Due to Husband. 

Des. My noble father, 

I do perceive here a divided duty : 
To you, I am bound for life, and education ; 
My life, and education, both do learn me 
How to respect you ; you are the lord of 

duty, 
I am hitherto your daughter : But here 's 

my husband ; 
And so much duty as my mother show'd 
To you, prefeTring you before her father, 
So much I challenge that I may profess 
Due to the Moor, my lord. 

0., 1 : 3. 1497. 

— Transferred. 

Der. I am call'd Dercetas ; 

Mark Antony I serv'd, who best was worthy 
Best to be served : whilst he stood up and 
spoke, 



He was my master ; and I wore my life, 
To spend upon his haters. If thou please 
To take me to thee, as I was to him 
I '11 be to Caesar ; if thou pleasest not, 
I yield thee up my life. 

A. C.,V: 1. 1576. 

ALLIANCE. — Broken. 

War. * * 
Did I forget, that by the house of York 
My father came untimely to his death? 
Did I let pass the abuse done to my niece? 
Did I impale him with the regal crown? 
Did I put Henry from his native right ; 
And am I guerdon'd at the last with shame? 
Shame on himself! for my desert is honour. 
And, to repair my honour lost for him, 
I here renounce him, and return to Henry. 
H. VI, 3 pt., Ill : 3. 977 

ALLIANCES.— Motives in. 

Q. Mar. * * His demand 
Springs not from Edward's well-meant 

honest love, 
But from deceit, bred by necessity ; 
For how can tyrants safely govern home, 
Unless abroad they purchase great alliance? 
To prove him tyrant, this reason may suffice, 
That Henry liveth still : but were he dead, 
Yet here prince Edward stands, king Henry's 

son. 
Look therefore, Lewis, that by this league 

and marriage 
Thou draw not on thy danger and dis- 
honour : 
For though usurpers sway the rule awhile, 
Yet heavens are just, and time suppresseth 
wrongs. 

H. VI., 3 pt., Ill : 3. 975. 

ALLITERATION — Ridiculed. 

Prol. * * 

Whereat with blade, with bloody blameful 

blade, 

He bravely broach'd his boiling bloody 

breast. 

M. N., V : 1. 343. 

ALTERNATIVE.— A Desperate. 

Anne. Alas, I had rather be set quick i' 
the earth, 
And bowl'd to death with turnips. 

M. W., Ill : 4. 108. 



ALTERNATIVES. 



18 



AMBITION. 



ALTERNATIVES. — Desperate. 

Jul. O, bid me leap, rather than marry 

Paris, 
From off the battlements of yonder tower ; 
Or walk in thievish ways ; or bid me lurk 
Where serpents are ; chain me with roaring 

bears ; 
Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, 
O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling 

bones, 
With reeky shanks, and yellow chapless 

sculls ; 
Or bid me go into a new-made grave, 
And hide me with a dead man in his shroud ; 
Things that, to hear them told, have made 

me tremble ; 
And I will do it without fear or doubt, 
To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love. 
B. J., IV : 1. 1269. 

AMAZEMENT. — Depicted. 

1 Gent. * * But the changes I per- 
ceived in the king and Camillo were very 
notes of admiration : they seemed almost, 
with staring on one another, to tear the 
cases of their eyes ; there was speech in 
their dumbness, language in their very gest- 
ure ; they looked as they had heard of a 
world ransomed, or one destroyed. 

W. T.,V: 2. 614. 

— Extraordinary. 

K. Hen. * * 
But, like a comet, I was wonder'd at. 

* * 

My presence, like a robe pontifical, 
Ne'er seen, but wondered at. 

H. IV., lpt.,in: 2. 748. 

— Sudden. 

Hor. * * 
And there I stood amazed for a while, 
As on a pillory. 

T. 8., II : 1. 463. 

AMBIGUITY.— A Hero's. 

Nest. Go, bear Patroclus' body to Achil- 
les ; 
And bid the snail-pac'd Ajax arm for shame. 
There is a thousand Hectors in the field : 
Now here he fights on Galathe his horse, 
And there lacks work; anon, he 's there 

afoot, 
And there they fly, or die, like scaled sculls 



Before the belching whale ; then is he yon- 
der, 

And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his 
edge, 

Pall down before him like the mower's 
swath : 

Here, there, and everywhere, he leaves, and 
takes ; 

Dexterity so obeying appetite 

That what he will he does ; and does so 
much, 

That proof is call'd impossibility. 

T. C.,V: 5. 1141. 

AMBITION— A Disturber. (See An- 
tony's Speech, also Death of 
Caesar.) 
Eli. What now, my son? have I not 
ever said, 

How that ambitious Constance would not 
cease, 

Till she had kindled Prance, and all the 
world, 

Upon the right and party of her son? 

K. J., 1 : 1. 646. 
— A Murderer. 
Sur. Thy ambition, 

Thou scarlet sin, robb'd this bewailing land 

Of noble Buckingham, my father-in-law : 

The heads of all thy brother cardinals, 

(With thee, and all thy best parts bound 
together,) 

Weigh'd not a hair of his. Plague of your 
policy ! 

You sent me deputy for Ireland ; 

Far from his succour, from the king, from 
all 

That might have mercy on the fault thou 
gav'st him ; 

Whilst your great goodness, out of holy 

Absolv'd him with an axe. 

H. VIIL, Ill: 2. 1080. 

— Arrogance of Sensual. 

Aaron. * * Aaron, arm thy heart, and 

fit thy thoughts, 
To mount aloft with th}j imperial mistress, 
And mount her pitch ; whom thou in triumph 

long 
Hast prisoner held, fetter'd in amorous 

chains : 



AMBITION. 



*9 



AMBITION. 



And faster bound to Aaron's charming eyes, 
Than is Prometheus tied to Caucasus. 
Away with slavish weeds, and servile 

thoughts ! 
I will be bright, and shine in pearl and gold, 
To Avait upon this new-made empress. 
To wait, said I? to wanton with this queen, 
This goddess, this Semiramis ; — this nymph, 
This syren, that will charm Rome's Satur- 
nine, 
And see his shipwrack, and his common- 
weal's. 
Hollo ! what storm is this? 

Tit. And., II : 1. 1207. 

— Bewildered. 

Glo. * * 
And I, — like one lost in a thorny wood, 
That rents the thorns, and is rent with the 

thorns ; 
Seeking a way, and straying from the way ; 
Not knowing how to find the open air, 
But toiling desperately to find it out, — 
Torment myself to catch the English crown. 
H. VI, 3pt., Ill: 2. 974. 

— Boundless. 

Cleo. No, let me speak ; and let me rail 
so high, 
That the false housewife Fortune break her 

wheel, 
Provok'd by my offence. 

A. C, IV: 13. 1575. 

— Boastful. 
K. Rich. Down, down, I come ; like 
glistering Phaeton, 
Wanting the manage of unruly jades. 

R. IT., Ill : 3. 705. 

— Brave, Honorably Treated. 
P. Hen. For worms, brave Percy : Fare 

thee well, great heart ! — 
Ill-weav'd ambition, how much art thou 

shrunk ! 
When that this body did contain a spirit, 
A kingdom for it was too small a bound ; 
But now, two paces of the vilest earth 
Is room enough: — This earth, that bears 

thee dead, 
Bears not alive so stout a gentleman. 
If thou wert sensible of courtesy, 



I should not make so great a show of zeal : — 
But let my favours hide thy mangled face ; 
And, even in thy behalf, I '11 thank myself 
For doing these fair rites of tenderness. 
Adieu, and take thy praise with thee to 

heaven ! 
Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, 
But not remember'd in thy epitaph ! 

H. IV., 1 pt., V : 4. 761. 

— Chokes Virtue. 

Glo. * * 
Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition, 
And charity chas'd hence by rancour's 
hand. 

//. VI, 2 pt., Ill : 1. 923. 

— Cruel. 

Cap. * * 
And, like ambitious Sylla, overgorg'd 
With gobbets of thy mother's bleeding 
heart. 

H. VI.. 2 pt., IV : 1. 933. 

— Dangerous. 
Wol. * * 
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambi- 
tion ; 
By that sin' fell the angels ; how can man 

then, 
The image of his Maker, hope to win by 't? 
//. VIII, III : 2. 1082. 

— Defiant. 

Glo. * * 
Like one that stands upon a promontory, 
And spies a far-off shore where he would 

tread, 
AVishing his foot were equal with his eye ; 
And chides the sea that sunders him from 

thence, 
Saying — he '11 lade it dry to have his way : 
So do I wish the crown, being so far off; 
And so I chide the means that keep me from 

it; 
And so I say — I '11 cut the causes off, 
Flattering me with impossibilities. 

H. VI, 3 pt., Ill : 2. 974. 

— Deprecated. 

Glo. O Nell, sweet Nell, if thou dost 
love thy lord, 
Banish the canker of ambitious thoughts : 



AMBITION. 



20 



AMBITION. 



And may that thought, when I imagine ill 
Against my king and nephew, virtuous 

Henry, 
Be my last breathing in this mortal world ! 
My troublous dream this night doth make 

me sad. 

//. VI., 2 pt., 1 : 2. 910. 

— Efforts to Restrain. 

Flav. It is no matter ; let no images 
Be hung with Caesar's trophies. I '11 about, 
And drive away the vulgar from the streets : 
So do you too, where you perceive them 

thick. 
These growing feathers pluck'd from Caesar's 

wing, 
Will make him fly an ordinary pitch ; 
Who else would soar above the view of 

men, 
And keep us all in servile fearfulness. 

J. C, I: 1. 1323. 

—End Bitter. 

Wol. * * 
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambi- 
tion : 
By that sin fell the angels ; how can man, 

then, 
The image of his Maker, hope to win by 't? 
Love thyself last : cherish those hearts that 

hate thee : 
Corruption wins not more than honesty. 
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, 
To silence envious tongues. Be just, and 

fear not : 
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy 

country's, 
Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, 

O Cromwell, 
Thou fall'st a blessed martyr. Serve the 

king, 
And, — Pr'ythee, lead me in: 
There take an inventory of all I have, 
To the last penny ; 't is the king's : my robe, 
And my integrity to heaven, is all 
I dare now call mine own. O Cromwell, 

Cromwell, 
Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal 
I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age 
Have left me naked to mine enemies. 

//. VI II., Ill: 2. 1082, 



— Fostered by Conspirators. 
Dec. * * The senate have concluded 

To give, this day, a crown to mighty Caesar. 

If you shall send them word, you will not 
come, 

Their minds may change. Besides, it were 
a mock 

Apt to be render'd, for some one to say, 

" Break up the senate till another time, 

When Caesar's wife shall meet with better 
dreams." 

If Caesar hide himself, shall they not whis- 
per, 

"Lo, Caesar is afraid?" 

J. C, II : 2. 1333. 

— Gratified, of Short Duration. 

Ban. Thou hast it now, king, Cawdor, 

Glamis, all, 
As the weird women promis'd ; and, I fear, 
Thou play'dst most foully for 't : yet it was 

said, 
It should not stand in thy posterity ; 
But that myself should be the root, and 

father 

Of many kings. 

M-, III: 1. 1368. 

— Greedy. 

Buck. The devil speed him ! no man's 
pie is free'd 
From his ambitious finger. 

II. VIII., I: 1. 1057. 

— Insatiable. 

Ulyss. * * 
And appetite, an universal wolf, 
So doubly seconded with will and power, 
Must make perforce an universal prey, 
And, last, eat up himself. 

T. ft; I: 3. 1108. 

— Its Defeat Bewailed. 

Wol. So farewell to the little good you 
bear me. 

Farewell, a long farewell, to all my great- 
ness ! 

This is the state of man : To-day he puts 
forth 

The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blos- 
soms, 

And bears his blushing honours thick upon 
him : 



AMBITION. 



21 



AMBITION. 



The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; 

And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full 
surely 

His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, 

And then he falls, as I do. I have ven- 
tur'd. 

Like little wanton boys that swim on blad- 
ders, 

This many summers in a sea of glory ; 

But far beyond my depth : my high-blown 
pride 

At length broke under me ; and now has 
left me, 

Weary, and old with service, to the mercy 

Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide 
me. 

Vain pomp, and glory of this world, I hate 
ye ; 

I feel my heart new open'd : 0, how 
wretched 

Is that poor man that hangs on princes' 
favours : 

There is, betwixt that smile we would as- 
pire to, 

That sweet aspect of princes, and their 
ruin, 

More pangs and fears than wars or women 
have ; 

And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, 

Never to hope again. 

H. VIII., Ill : 2. 1081. 

— Its Ladder. 

Bru. * * But 't is a common proof, 
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, 
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face : 
But when he once attains the upmost round, 
He then unto the ladder turns his back, 
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base de- 
grees 
By which he did ascend. 

J. C.,.II: 1. 1329. 

—Must be Watchful. 

Ulyss. * * Take the instant way ; 
For honour travels in a strait so narrow, 
Where one but goes abreast ; keep then the 

path ; 
For emulation hath a thousand sons, 
That one by one pursue : If you give way, 
Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, 
Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, 
And leave you hindmost ; — 



Or, like a gallant horse fallen in first rank, 
Lie there for pavement to the abject rear, 
O'er-run and trampled on. 

T. a, III : 3. 1125. 

— Overreaching. 

Macb. * * I have no spur 
To prick the sides of my intent, but only 
Vaulting ambition, which o'er-leaps itself. 
And falls on the other. 

J/., I: 7. 1362. 

— Soars. 

Glo. My lord, 't is but a base ignoble 
mind 
That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. 
H. VI, 2 pt., II : 1. 915. 

— The Dream of a Shadow's 
Shadow. 

Ham. A dream itself is but a shadow. 

Ros. Truly, and I hold ambition of so 
light a quality, that it is but a shadow's 
shadow. 

7/.,II: 2. 1406. 

— Thriftless and Against Nature. 
Rosse. 'Gainst nature still : 

Thriftless ambition, that wilt raven up 
Thine own life's means ! 

J/., II: 4. 1368. 

— Unscrupulous, and Ready. 

Glo. * * 
And leave the world for me to bustle in ! 
For then I '11 marry Warwick's youngest 

daughter : 
What though I kill'd her husband, and her 

father? 
The readiest way to make the Avench 

amends, 
Is — to become her husband, and her father : 
The which will I ; not all so much for love, 
As for another secret close intent, 
By marrying her, which I must reach unto. 
But yet I run before my horse to market : 
Clarence still breathes ; Edward still lives, 

and reigns ; 

When they are gone, then must I count my 

gains. 

R. Ill, I: 1. 1003. 

—Wicked. 

Glo. * * Between my soul's desire, 
and me, 



AMBITION. 



22 



AMBITION. 



Is Clarence, Henry, and his son young 

Edward, 
And all the unlook'd-for issue of their 

bodies, 
To take their rooms, ere I can place myself: 
A cold premeditation for my purpose ! 
Why, then I do but dream on sovereignty ; 
Like one that stands upon a promontory, 
And spies a far-off shore where he would 

tread, 
Wishing his foot were equal with his eye ; 
And chides the sea that sunders him from 

thence, 
Saying — he '11 lade it dry to have his way : 
So do I wish the crown, being so far off; 
And so I chide the means that keep me from 

it; 
And so I say — I '11 cut the causes off, 
Flattering me with impossibilities. 

H. FY., 3 pt., Ill: 2. 974. 

— Wicked and Desperate. 
Glo. * * 
And yet I know not how to get the crown, 
For many lives stand between me and home : 
And I, — like one lost in a thorny wood, 
That rents the thorns, and is rent with the 

thorns ; 
Seeking a way, and straying from the way ; 
Not knowing how to find the open air, 
But toiling desperately to find it out, — 
Torment myself to catch the English crown : 
And from that torment I will free myself, 
Or hew my way out with a bloody axe. 
Why, I can smile, and murder while I smile ; 
And cry, content, to that which grieves my 

heart ; 
And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, 
And frame my face to all occasions. 
I '11 drown more sailors than the mermaid 

shall ; 
I '11 slay more gazers than the basilisk ; 
I '11 play the orator as well as Nestor, 
Deceive more slily than Ulysses could, 
And, like a Sinon, take another Troy : 
I can add colours to the chameleon ; 
Change shapes, with Proteus, for advan- 
tages, 
And set the murd'rous Machiavel to school. 
Can I do this, and cannot get a crown? 
Tut ! were it further off, I '11 pluck it down. 
H. VI, 3 pt., Ill : 2. 974. 



— "Woman's, Rebuked. 

Glo. Nay, Eleanor, then must I chide 
outright : 
Presumptuous dame, ill-nurtur'd Eleanor ! 
Art thou not second woman in the realm ; 
And the protector's wife, belov'd of him? 
Hast thou not worldly pleasure at command, 
Above the reach or compass of thy thought? 
And wilt thou still be hammering treachery, 
To tumble down thy husband and thyself, 
From top of honour to disgrace's feet? 
Away from me, and let me hear no more. 

H. F/.,2pt. t I: 2. 910. 

— Woman's, Resistless. 
Duch. Yes, good my lord, I '11 follow 
presently. 
Follow I must, I cannot go before, 
While Gloster bears this base and humble 

mind. 
Were I a man, a duke, and next of blood, 
I would remove these tedious stumbling- 
blocks, 
And smooth my way upon their headless 

necks : 
And, being a woman, I will not be slack 
To play my part in fortune's pageant. 

H. VI, 2 pt., 1 : 2. 910. 

— Woman's, Stronger than Man's. 

Duch. Why droops my lord, like over- 

ripen'd corn, 
Hanging the head at Ceres' plenteous load? 
Why doth the great duke Humphrey knit 

his brows, 
As frowning at the favours of the world? 
Why are thine eyes fix'd to the sullen earth, 
Gazing on that which seems to dim thy sight? 
What see'st thou there? king Henry's 

diadem, 
Enchas'd with all the honours of the world ? 
If so, gaze on, and grovel on thy face, 
Until thy head be circled with the same. 
Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious 

gold: — 
What, is 't too short? I '11 lengthen it with 

mine : 
And, having both together heav'd it up, 
We '11 both together lift our heads to heaven ; 
And never more abase our sight so low, 
As to vouchsafe one glance unto the ground. 
H. F/.,2pt., I: 2. 910. 



AMEN. 



23 



ANCESTORS. 



AMEN. — Prompt. 

Solan. Let me say amen betimes, lest 
the devil cross my prayer ; for here he 
comes in the likeness of a Jew. 

M. V., Ill : 1. 375. 

AMENITIES. — International. 

Cam. Sicilia cannot show himself over- 
kind to Bohemia. They were train'd to- 
gether in their childhoods ; and there rooted 
betwixt them then such an affection which 
cannot choose but branch now. Since their 
more mature dignities, and royal necessities, 
made separation of their society, their en- 
counters, though not personal, have been 
royally attorneyed, with interchange of 
gifts, letters, loving embassies ; that they 
have seem'd to be together, though absent ; 
shook hands, as over a vast; and embrac'd, 
as it were, from the ends of opposed winds. 
The Heavens continue their loves ! 

W. T., 1 : 1. 580. 

AMITY. — Hypocritical Assumption. 

Glo. * * 
If I unwittingly, or in my rage, 
Have aught committed that is hardly borne 
By any in this presence, I desire 
To reconcile me to his friendly peace : 
'T is death to me, to be at enmity ; 
I hate it, and desire all good men's love. — 
First, madam, I entreat true peace of you, 
Which I will purchase with my duteous 

service ; — 
Of you, my noble cousin Buckingham, 
If ever any grudge were lodg'd between us ; 
Of you, lord Rivers, — and, lord Grey, of 

you,— 
That all without desert have frown'd on 

me ; — 
Dukes, earls, lords, gentlemen; indeed, of 

all. 
I do not know that Englishman alive, 
With whom my soul is any jot at odds, 
More than the infant that is born to-night ; 
I thank my God for my humility. 

R. III., II : 1. 1015. 

AMOROUSNESS.— Indelicately Ear- 
nest. 

Tarn. My lovely Aaron, wherefore look'st 

thou sad, 
When every thing doth make a gleeful 

boast? 
The birds chaunt melody on every bush ; 
The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun : 



The green leaves quiver with the cooling 

wind, 
And make a chequer'd shadow on the 

ground ; 
Under their sweet shade, Aaron, let us sit, 
And — whilst the babbling echo mocks the 

hounds, 
Replying shrilly to the well-tun'd horns, 
As if a double hunt were heard at once, — 
Let us sit down, and mark their yelling 

noise : 
And — after conflict, such as was suppos'd 
The wandering prince of Dido once enjoy'd, 
When with a happy storm they were sur- 

priz'd, 
And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave, — 
We may, each wreathed in the other's arms, 
Our pastimes done, possess a golden slum- 
ber; 
While hounds, and horns, and sweet melo- 
dious birds, 
Be unto us, as is a nurse's song 
Of lullaby, to bring her babe asleep. 

Tit. And., II : 3. 1209. 

AMUSEMENT— Lengthens Life. 

Serv. Your honour's players, hearing 
your amendment, 
Are come to play a pleasant comedy, 
For so your doctors hold it very meet : 
Seeing too much sadness hath congeal'd 

your blood, 
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. 

T. S., Ind : 2. 454. 

— When Useful. 

Prin. There 's no such sport as sport by 
sport o'erthrown. 

L.L.,Y: 2. 295. 

ANARCHY. — Its Cause. 

Ulyss. * * 
This chaos, when degree is suffocate, 
Follows the choking. 

T. C, I: 3. 1108. 

ANCESTORS.— Spirit of Invoked. 

Cant. * * Gracious lord, 
Stand for your own ; unwind your bloody 

flag; 
Look back unto your mighty ancestors : 
Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's 

tomb, 



ANCESTORS. 



2 4 



ANGER. 



From whom. you claim; invoke his warlike 

spirit, 
And your great uncle's, Edward the Black 

Prince ; 
Who on the French ground play'd a tragedy, 
Making defeat on the full power of France ; 
Whiles his most mighty father on a hill 
Stood smiling, to behold his lion's whelp 
Forage in blood of French nobility. 

//. V. t I: 2: 822. 

ANCESTRY.— Pride of. 

Sly. Y' are a baggage ; the Slys are no 
rogues. Look in the chronicles, we came 
in with Richard Conqueror. 

T. &., Ind : 1. 451. 

Poins. "John Falstaff, knight," 

Every man must know that, as oft as he has 
occasion to name himself. Even like those 
that are kin to the king; for they never 
prick their finger, but they say, "There is 
some of the king's blood spilt : How comes 
that ?" says he, that takes upon him not to 
conceive : the answer is as ready as a bor- 
rower's cap ; "I am the king's poor cousin, 
sir." 

P. Hen. • Nay, they will be kin to us, or 
they will fetch it from Japhet. But the 
letter : — 

Poins. " Sir John Falstaff, knight, to 
the son of the king, nearest his father, 
Harry prince of Wales, greeting." — Why, 
this is a certificate. 

H. IV., 2pt., II: 2. 783. 

ANDIRONS. — Imogen's. 

lach. * * Her andirons 
(I had forgot them) were two winged Cupids 
Of silver, each on one foot standing, nicely 
Depending on their brands. 

Oyrn., II : 4. 1603. 

ANGELS.— Joy in Heaven. 

Hym. Then is there mirth in heaven, 
When earthly things made even 
Atone together. 

A. F.,V: 4. 437. 

— Still Bright. 
Mai. * * 
A good and virtuous nature may recoil, 
In an imperial charge. But ' crave your 

pardon ; 
That which you are, my thoughts cannot 
transpose : 



Angels are bright still, though the brightest 

fell: 
Though all things foul would wear the brows 

of grace, 
Yet grace must still look so. 

M., IV: 3. 1378. 

— Weeping. 

Isab. * * But man, proud man ! 
Dress'd in a little brief authority, — 
Most ignorant of what he 's most assur'd, 
His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, 
Plays such fantastic tricks before high 

heaven, 
As make the angels weep : 

M. 31., II : 2. 152. 

ANGER. — Alarming. 

Iago. Can he be angry? I have seen the 

cannon, 
When it hath blown his ranks into the air ; 
And, like the devil, from his very arm 
Puff'd his own brother: — And can he be 

angry? 
Something of moment, then : I will go meet 

him; 
There \s matter in 't indeed, if he be angry. 

0., Ill : 4. 1517. 

— All-Abs orbing. 

Vol. Anger 's my meat ; I sup upon my- 
self, 
And so shall starve with feeding. — Come, 

let 's go : 
Leave this faint puling, and lament as I do, 
In anger, Juno-like. 

C, IV : 2. 1179. 

— An Opportunity. 

Mec. Caesar must think, 

When one so great begins to rage, he 's 

hunted 
Even to falling. Give him no breath, but 

now 
Make boot of his distraction : Never anger 
Made good guard for itself. 

A. C, TV: 1. 1568. 

— Best Restrained. 

Nor. Stay, my lord, 

And let your reason with your choler ques- 
tion 



ANGER. 



25 



ANGER. 



What 't is you go about : To climb steep 

hills, 
Requires slow pace at first. 
* * 

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot 
That it do singe yourself: We may outrun, 
By violent swiftness, that which Ave run at, 
And lose by over-running. Know you not, 
The fire, that mounts the liquor till it run 

o'er, 
In seeming to augment it, wastes it? Be 

advis'd : 
I say again, there is no English soul 
More stronger to direct you than yourself; 
If with the sap of reason you would quench, 
Or but allay, the, fire of passion. 

//. VIII., 1:1. 1058. 

— Controlled by Intellect. 

Vol. Pray be counsel'd : 

I have a heart as little apt as yours, 
[To brook control without the use of 

anger,] 
But yet a brain, that leads my use of anger, 
To better vantage. 

C., III: 2. 1173. 

— Hasty. 

Bru. * * 
Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb 
That carries anger, as the flint bears fire ; 
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, 
And straight is cold again. 

J. G., IV: 3. 1345. 

— Its Food. 

Vol. Anger 's my meat ; I sup upon my- 
self, 
And so shall starve with feeding. 

C, IV : 2. 1179. 

— Natural. 

K. Hen. I was not angry since I came 

to France 
Until this instant. — Take a trumpet, herald ; 
Ride thou unto the horsemen on yon hill ; 
If they will fight with us, bid them come 

down, 
Or void the field ; they do offend our sight : 
If they '11 do neither, we will come to them ; 
And make them skirr away, as swift as 

stones 



Enforced from the old Assyrian slings : 
Besides, we '11 cut the throats of those we 

have ; 
And not a man of them, that we shall take, 
Shall taste our mercy : — Go, and tell them 

so. 

H. V., IV : 7. 848. 

—Noble. 

Lear. * * 
You see me here, you gods, a poor old 

man, 
As full of grief as age ; wretched in both ! 
If it be you that stir these daughters' hearts 
Against their father, fool me not so much 
To bear it tamely ; touch me with noble 

anger ! 
0, let not women's weapons, water-drops, 
Stain my man's cheeks ! — 
Or ere I '11 weep : — 0, fool, I shall go mad ! 
K. L., II : 4. 1462. 

— Short Lived. 

Bru. * * A lamb . 
That carries anger, as the flint bears fire ; 
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark. 
And straight is cold again. 

J. C, IV: 3. 1345. 

— Soft, but Powerful. 

Bel. * * They are as gentle 
As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, 
Not wagging his sweet head : and yet as 

rough, 
Their royal blood enchafd, as the rud'st 

wind, 
That by the top doth take the mountain 

pine, 
And make him stoop to the vale. 

Cym., IV., 2. 1616. 

— Softened. 

Vol. * * Lament as I do, . 
In anger, Juno-like. 

C, IV : 2. 1179. 

— Ungratified, Destroys. 

Nor. * * Anger is like 
A full-hot horse ; who being allow'd his 

way, 
Self-mettle tires him. 

H. VIII., I: 1. 1058. 



ANGER. 



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ANGUISH. 



— Unrestrained. 

Nest. * * 
But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage 
The gentle Thetis, and, anon, behold 
The strong ribb'd bark through liquid moun- 
tains cut, 
Bounding between the two moist elements, 
Like Perseus' horse : Where 's then the 

saucy boat, 
Whose weak untimber'd sides but even now 
Co-rival'd greatness? either to harbour fled, 
Or made a toast for Neptune. 

T. C., I: 3. 1107. 

ANGLING.— A Woman's, Skillful. 

Bev. * * 
She knew her distance, and did angle for 

me, 
Madding my eagerness with her restraint, 
As all impediments in fancy's course 
Are motives of more fancy ; and, in fine, 
Her infinite cunning with her modern grace, 
Subdu'd me to her rate. 

A. W.,Y: 3. 528. 

— The Pleasantest. 

Urs. The pleasantest angling is to see 
the fish 

Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, 

And greedily devour the treacherous bait. 

M. A., Ill: 1. 238. 

ANGUISH. — A Father's. 
Leon. * * Whyhadlone? 

Why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes? 

Why had I not, with charitable hand, 

Took up a beggar's issue at my gates ; 

Who, smirched thus, and mir'd with in- 
famy, 

I might have said, " No part of it is mine ; 

This shame derives itself from unknown 
loins " ! 

But mine, and mine I lov'd, and mine I 
prais'd, 

And mine that I was proud on; mine so 
much, 

That I myself was to myself not mine, 

Valuing of her ; why, she — O, she is fall'n 

Into a pit of ink ! that the wide sea 

Hath drops too few to wash her clean again ; 

And salt too little, which may season give 

To her foul tainted flesh ! 

M. A., IV: 1. 245. 



K. Hen. * * O foolish youth ! 

Thou seek'st the greatness that will over- 
whelm thee. 

Stay but a little ; for my cloud of dignity 

Is held from falling with so weak a wind, 

That it will quickly drop : my day is dim. 

Thou hast stol'n that, which, after some few 
hours, 

Were thine without offence ; and, at my 
death, 

Thou hast seal'd up my expectation : 

Thy life did manifest, thou lov'dst me not, 

And thou wilt have me die assured of it. 

Thou hid'st a thousand daggers in thy 
thoughts ; 

Which thou hast whetted on thy stony heart, 

To stab at half an hour of my life. 

What ! canst thou not forbear me half an 
hour? 

Then get thee gone ; and dig my grave thy- 
self; 

And bid the merry bells ring to thine ear, 

That thou art crowned, not that I am dead. 

Let all the tears that should bedew my 
hearse, 

Be drops of balm, to sanctify thy head : 

Only compound me with forgotten dust ; 

Give that, which gave thee life, unto the 
worms. 

Pluck down my officers, break my decrees ; 

* * 

For the fifth Harry from curb'd license 

plucks 
The muzzle of restraint, and the wild dog 
Shall flesh his tooth in every innocent. 

my poor kingdom, sick with civil blows ! 
When that my care could not withhold thy 

riots, 
What wilt thou do, when riot is thy care? 
0, thou wilt be a wilderness again, 
Peopled with wolves, thy old inhabitants ! 

H. IV., 2pt., IV: 4. 803. 

— At Infidelity. 

Oth. Had it pleas'd heaven 

To try me with affliction ; had it rain'd 
All kinds of sores, and shames, on my bare 

head; 
Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips ; 
Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes ; 

1 should have found in some part of my soul 
A drop of patience : but alas ! to make me 



ANGUISH. 



27 



APATHY. 



A fixed figure, for the time of scorn 

To point his slow unmoving finger at, — 

O! 0! 

Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : 

But there, where I have garner'd up my 

heart ; 
AVhere either I must live, or bear no life ; 
The fountain from the which my current 

runs, 
Or else dries up ; to be discarded thence ! 
Or keep it as a cistern, for foul toads 
To knot and gender in ! 

0., IV : 2. 1522. 

— Heavy. 

T. Clif. * * 
As did iEneas old Anchises bear, 
So bear I thee upon my manly shoulders ; 
But then iEneas bare a living load, 
Nothing so heavy as these woes of mine. 

H. VI, 2pt., V: 2. 945. 

— Its Language. 
Ham. 0, that this too too solid flesh 
would melt, 
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew? 

&.,!: 2. 1395. 

— Of Little Things. 

Glo. Yes, as an outlaw in a castle keeps, 
And useth it to patronage his theft. 

H. VI, lpt., Ill: 1. 878. 

ANSWER.— An Universal. 

Clo. * * But for me, I have an answer 

will serve all men. 
Count. Marry, that 's a bountiful answer 
that fits all questions. 

A.W., II : 2. 504. 

ANTAGONISTS. — Heroic. 

Mar. I '11 fight with none but thee ; for I 
do hate thee 
Worse than a promise-breaker. 

Auf. We hate alike ; 

Not Africk owns a serpent, I abhor 
More than thy fame I envy ; Fix thy foot. 
Mar. Let the first budger die the other's 
slave, 
And the gods doom him after ! 

Auf. If I fly, Marcius, 

Halloo me like a hare. 

C., 1 : 8. 1157. 



ANTICIPATION. — Disappointed. 

Hel. * * Oft expectation fails, and 
most oft there 
Where most it promises. 

A. IF., II: 1. 503. 

— Its Joy. 

Ores. * * Things won are done, joy's 
soul lies in the doing. 

T. C, 1 : 3. 1107. 
— Its Pleasures. 
Salar. His hour is almost 

past. 
Gra. And it is marvel he out-dwells his 
hour, 
For lovers ever run before the clock. 

Salar. O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons 

fly 

To seal love's bonds new made, than they 

are wont 
To keep obliged faith unforfeited ! 

Gra. That ever holds : who riseth from 

a feast, 
With that keen appetite that he sits down? 
Where is the horse that doth untread again 
His tedious measures, with the unabated 

fire 
That he did pace them first? All things 

that are, 
Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd. 

M. V., II : 6. 371. 

ANTIPATHIES.— Not to be Account- 
ed for. 

Shy. * * 
As there is no firm reason to be render'd, 
Why he cannot abide a gaping pig ; 
Why he, a harmless necessary cat ; 
Why he, a woollen bagpipe, — but of force 
Must yield to such inevitable shame, 
As to offend, himself being offended; 
So can I give no reason, nor I will not. 

M. V., TV: 1. 383. 

APATHY.— Protest Against. 

Con. * * O, for honour of our land, 
Let us not hang like roping icicles 
Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more 

frosty people 
Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich 
fields. 

H. V., Ill : 5. 835. 



APPAREL. 



28 



APPEAL. 



APPAREL.— Petrucio's Wonderful. 

Bion. Why, Petrucio is coming, in a new- 
hat and an old jerkin ; a pair of old breeches 
thrice turn'd ; a pair of boots that have been 
candle-cases, one buckled, another lac'd; 
an old rusty sword ta'en out of the town 
armou^, with a broken hilt, and chapeless ; 
with two broken points : his horse hipp'd 
with an old mothy saddle, and stirrups of no 
kindred : besides, possessed with the gland- 
ers, and like to mose in the chine ; troubled 
with the lampass, infected with the fashions, 
full of windgalls, sped with spavins, raied 
with the yellows, past cure of the fives, 
stark spoil'd with the staggers, begnawn 
with the bots ; sway'd in the back, and 
shoulder-shotten ; ne'er legged before ; and 
with a half-cheeked bit, and a head-stall of 
sheep's leather, w r hich, being restrain'd to 
keep him from stumbling, hath been often 
burst, and now repaired with knots ; one 
girth six times piec'd, and a woman's crup- 
per of velure, which hath two letters for her 
name, fairly set down in studs, and here 
and there piec'd with packthread. 

Bap. Who comes with him? 

Bion. O, sir, his lackey, for all the world 
caparisoh'd like the horse ; with a linen 
stock on one leg, and a kersey boot-hose on 
the other, gartered with a red and blue list ; 
an old hat, and "The humour of forty 
fancies " pricked in 't for a feather : a mon- 
ster, a very monster in apparel. 

T. S., Ill : 2. 468. 



APPEAL. — Queen Katharine's. 

Q. Kath. Sir, I desire you, do me right 
and justice ; 
And to bestow your pity on me : for 
I am a most poor woman, and a stranger, 
Born out of your dominions ; having here 
No judge indifferent, nor no more assurance 
Of equal friendship and proceeding. Alas, 

sir, 
In what have I offended you? what cause 
Hath my behaviour given to your displeas- 
ure, 
That thus you should proceed to put me off, 
A.nd take your good grace from me? Heav- 
en witness, 
I have been to you a true and humble wife, 
At all times to your will conformable : 
Ever in fear to kindle your dislike, 
Yea, subject to your countenance ; glad, or 

sorry 
As I saw it inclin'd. When was the hour, 
I ever contradicted your desire, 



Or made it not mine too? Or which of 

your friends 
Have I not strove to love, although I knew 
He were mine enemy? what friend of mine 
That had to him deriv'd your anger, did I 
Continue in my liking? nay, gave notice 
He was from thence discharg'd? Sir, call 

to mind 
That I have been your wife, in this obedi- 
ence, 
Upward of twenty years, and have been 

blest 
With many children by you : If, in the 

course 
And process of this time, you can report, 
And prove it too, against mine honour 

aught, 
My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty, 
Against your sacred person, in God's name, 
Turn me away; and let the foul'st contempt 
Shut door upon me, and so give me up 
To the sharpest kind of justice. 

H. V III., II: 4. 1071. 

APPEARANCE.— May Cover Valor- 

K. Hen. * * 

Good God ! why should they mock poor fel- 
lows thus? 

The man, that once did sell the lion's skin 

While the beast lived, was kill'd with hunt- 
ing him. 

A many of our bodies shall, no doubt, 

Find native graves ; upon the which, I trust, 

Shall witness live in brass of this day's 
work; 

And those that leave their valiant bones in 
France, 

Dying like men, though buried in your 
dunghills, 

They shall be fam'd ; for there the sun shall 
greet them, 

And draw their honours reeking up to 
heaven ; 

Leaving their earthly parts to choke your 
clime, 

The smell whereof shall breed a plague in 
France. 

Mark then a bounding valour in our En- 
glish ; 

That, being dead, like to the bullet's graz- 
ing, 

Break out into a second course of mischief, 



APPEARANCE. 



2 9 



APPETITE. 



Killing in relapse of mortality. 
Let me speak proudly : — Tell the Consta- 
ble, 
We are but warriors for the working day : 
Our gayness, and our gilt, are all be- 
smirched 
With rainy marching' in the painful field ; 
There 's not a piece of feather in our host, 
(Good argument, I hope, Ave shall not fly,) 
And time hath worn us into slovenry : 
But, by the mass, our hearts are in the trim : 
And my poor soldiers tell me — yet ere 

night 
They '11 be in fresher robes ; or they will 

pluck 
The gay new coats o'er the French soldiers' 

heads, 
And turn them out of service. 

U. Y., IV : 3. 845. 

— Admonish. 

Suf * * 

Smooth runs the water, where the brook is 

deep ; 

And in his simple show he harbours treason. 

The fox barks not, when he would steal the 

lamb. 

H. VI., 2 pt., Ill : 1. 922. 

— Deceitful. 

Cle. * * 

"Who makes the fairest show, means most 

deceit. 

P.,1: 4. 1647. 

— Deceive. 

P. John. But soft! whom have we here? 
Did you not tell me, this fat man was dead? 
P. Hen. I did ; I saw him dead, breath- 
less and bleeding 

Upon the ground. 

Art thou alive? or is it phantasy 

That plays upon our eyesight? I pr'ythee, 

speak : 
We will not trust our eyes, without our 

ears : — 
Thou art not what thou seem'st. 

//. IV., lpt., V: 4. 761. 
— Never to be Trusted. 
Bass. * * 
The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. 
In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, 
But, being season'd with a gracious voice, 
Obscures the show of evil? In religion, 



What damned error, but some sober brow 
Will bless it, and approve it with a text, 
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? 
There is no vice so simple, but assumes 
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. 
How many cowards, whose hearts are all as 

false 
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins 
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, 
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as 

milk ! 
And these assume but valour's excrement, 
To render them redoubted ! Look on beauty, 
And you shall see 't is purchas'd by the 

weight ; 
Which therein works a miracle in nature, 
Making them lightest that wear most of it : 
So are those crisped snaky golden locks, 
Which make such wanton gambols with the 

wind, 
Upon supposed fairness, often known 
To be the dowry of a second head, 
The skull that bred them in the sepulchre. 
Thus ornament is but the guiled shore 
To a most dangerous sea ; the beauteous 

scarf 
Veiling an Indian beauty ; in a word, 
The seeming truth which cunning times put 

on 
To entrap the Avisest. Therefore, thou gau- 
dy gold, 
Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee : 
Nor none of thee, thou pale and common 

drudge 
'Tweeii man and man. But thou, thou 

meagre lead, 
Which rather threat'nest than dost promise 

aught, 
Thy paleness moves me more than elo- 
quence. 

J/. F.,III: 2. 377. 

APPETITE. — A Wolf. 

Ulyss. * * Appetite, an universal Avolf, 

So doubly seconded with will and poAver, 

Must make perforce an universal prey, 

And, last, eat up himself. 

T. C, 1 : 3. 1108. 

— Variable. 

Bene. * * But doth not the appetite 
alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, 
that he cannot endure in his age. 

31. A., II: 2. 237. 



APPLAUSE. 



APPROPRIATION. 



APPLAUSE. 

1 Sen. These words become your lips as 

they pass through them. 

2 Sen. And enter in our ears like great 

triumphers 
In their applauding gates. 

T. A., V : 2. 1314. 

— Bewilders. 

Bass. Madani, you have bereft me of all 
words ; 
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins ; 
And there is such confusion in my powers, 
As, after some oration fairly spoke 
By a beloved prince, there doth appear 
Among the buzzing pleased multitude, 
Where every something, being blent to- 
gether, 
Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy, 
Express'd, and not express'd. 

M. V., Ill: 2. 378. 

— Mixed. 

Ant. * * Trumpeters, 
With brazen din blast you the city's ear ; 
Make mingle with our rattling tabourines ; 
That heaven and earth may strike their 

sounds together, 
Applauding our approach. 

A. C, IV: 8. 1571. 

— Popular, not Safe. 

Duke. * * I love the people, 
But do not like to stage me to their eyes : 
Though it do well, I do not relish well 
Their loud applause, and aves vehement ; 
Nor do I think the man of safe discretion 
That does affect it. 

M. 31., I: 1. 144. 

— Reciprocal. 

Macb. * * 
I would applaud thee to the very echo, 
That should applaud again. 

JL, V : 3. 1383. 

— Tempestuous. 

3 Gent. * * Which when the people 
Had the full view of, such a noise arose 

As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest. 
H. VIII. , IV : 1. 1083. 



— Undeserved. 

Ulyss. * * 
They clap the lubber Ajax on the shoulder ; 
As if his foot were on brave Hector's breast, 
And great Troy shrinking. 

T. C., Ill: 3. 1125. 

— Vehement. 

3 Gent. * * 

As loud, and to as many tunes : hats, cloaks, 

(Doublets, I think,) flew up; and had their 

faces 

Been loose, this day they had been lost. 

Such joy 

I never saw before. 

II. VIII, IV: l. 1083. 



Destroyed by 



APPRECIATION. 
Possession. 

Cres. Men prize the thing ungain'd more 

than it is. 

T. C, 1 : 2. 1107. 

— Lack of. 

Fal. Not so, my lord ; your ill angel is 
light ; but, I hope, he that looks upon me, 
will take me without weighing : and yet, in 
some respects, I grant, I cannot go, I can- 
not tell : Virtue is of so little regard in 
these costermonger times, that true valour 
is turned bear-herd : Pregnancy is made a 
tapster, and hath his quick wit wasted in 
giving reckonings : all the other gifts apper- 
tinent to man, as the malice of this age 
shapes them, are not worth a gooseberry. 
You, that are old, consider not the capaci- 
ties of us that are young : you measure the 
heat of our livers with the bitterness of your 
galls : and we that are in the vaward of our 
youth, I must confess, are wags too. 

//. IV., 2pt.,I: 2. 778. 

APPROPRIATION. — Of Glory of 
Good Acts. 
K. Hen. Things done well, 

And with a care, exempt themselves from 

fear ; 
Things done without example, in their issue 
Are to be fear'd. Have you a precedent 
Of this commission? I believe, not any. 
We must not rend our subjects from our 

laws, 
And stick them in our will. Sixth part of 

each ? 
A trebling contribution. Why, we take, 
From every tree, lop, bark, and part o' the 

timber ; 



APPROPRIATION. 



31 



ARROGANCE. 



And, though we leave it with a root, thus 

hack'd, 
The air will drink the sap. To every 

county, 
Where this is question'd, send our letters, 

with 
Free pardon to each man that has denied 
The force of this commission. 

//. VIII., 1 : 2. 1060. 
APOPLEXY. — Its Signs. 

FaL This apoplexy is, as I take it, a 
kind of lethargy, an 't please your lordship ; 
a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson 
tingling. 

H. /r.,2pt.,I: 2. 777. 

APOTHECARY.— Person Described. 

Rom. * * 
I do remember an apothecary, — 
And hereabouts he dwells, — whom late I 

noted 
In tatter'd weeds, with overwhelming brows, 
Culling of simples ; meagre were his looks, 
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones : 
And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, 
An alligator stuff'd, and other skins 
Of ill-shap'd fishes ; and about his shelves 
A beggarly account of empty boxes, 
Green earthen pots, bladders, and musty 

seeds, 
Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of 

roses 
Were thinly scatter'd, to make up a show. 
Noting this penury, to myself I said — 
An if a man did need a poison now, 
Whose sale is present death in Mantua, 
Here lives a caitiff wretch would sell it him. 
R.J.,Y: 1. 1273. 

ARDOR. — Youthful. 

Hot. No more, no more ; worse than the 
sun in March, 
This praise doth nourish agues. 

//. IV., lpt., IV: 1. 753. 

ARGUMENT. — Confusion in. 

The. His speech was like a tangled 

chain ; nothing impaired, but all disordered. 

M. N., V : 1. 343. 

ARMOR— Putting on. 

Ant. Rarely, rarely : 

He that unbuckles this, till we do please 
To doff 't for our repose, shall hear a storm. 
A. C, IV: 4. 1569. 



ARREST.— Not Desirable. 

Lucio. If I could speak so wisely under 
an arrest, I would send for certain of my 
creditors. And yet, to say the truth, I had 
as lief have the foppery of freedom as the 
morality of imprisonment. 

M. M.,1: 2. 145. 

ARROGANCE. — Charged and Re- 
buked. 

Agam. * * Go and tell him, * 
We come to speak with him : and you shall 

not sin, 
If you do say — we think him over-proud, 
And under-honest ; in self-assumption great- 
er, 
Than in the note of judgment ; and worthier 

than himself 
Here tend the savage strangeness he puts on ; 
Disguise the holy strength of their com- 
mand, 
And underwrite in an observing kind 
His humorous predominance ; yea, watch, 
His pettish lunes, his ebbs, his flows, as if 
The passage and whole carriage of this action 
Rode on his tide. Go, tell him this ; and 

add, 
That, if he overhokl his price so much, 
We '11 none of him ; but let him like an 

engine 
Not portable, lie under this report — 
Bring action hither, this cannot go to war : 
A stirring dwarf we do allowance give 
Before a sleeping giant. 

T. C, II: 3. 1117. 

— Does not Hurt. 

War. * * 
And, having France thy friend, thou shalt 

not dread 
The scatter'd foe, that hopes to rise again ; 
For though they cannot greatly sting to hurt, 
Yet look to have them buzz, to offend thine 
ears. 

//. VI, 3 pt., II : 6. 970. 

— Excites Contempt. 

Suf. that I were a god, to shoot forth 

thunder 
Upon these paltry, servile, abject drudges ! 
Small things make base men proud : this 

villain here, 
Being captain of a pinnace, threatens more 



ARROGANCE. 



32 



ARTILLERY. 



Than Bargulus the strong Illyrian pirate. 

Drones suck not eagles' blood, but rob bee- 
hives. 

It is impossible, that I should die 

By such a lowly vassal as thyself. 

Thy words move rage, and not remorse, in 
me. 

II. VI, 2pt., IV: 1. 933. 

— Extenuated. 

Q. Eliz. The countess Richmond, good 

my lord of Stanley, 
To your good prayer will scarcely say — 

amen. 
Yet, Stanley, notwithstanding she 's your 

wife, 
And loves not me, be you, good lord, as- 

sur'd, 
I hate not you for her proud arrogance. 
Stan. I do beseech you, either not be- 
lieve 
The envious slanders of her false accusers ; 
Or, if she be accus'd on true report, 
Bear with her weakness, which, I think, 

proceeds 
From wayward sickness, and no grounded 

malice. 

R. III., 1 : 3. 1006. 

— Of Office. 

K. Hen. * * 
And at the door too, like a post with packets. 

IT. VIII., V : 2. 1090. 

— Priestly. 

Win. Now, Winchester will not submit, 
I trow, 
Or be inferior to the proudest peer. 
Humphrey of Gloster, thou shalt well per- 
ceive, 
That, neither in birth, or for authority, 
The bishop will be overborne by thee : 
I '11 either make thee stoop, and bend thy 

knee, 
Or sack this country with a mutiny. 

H. VI, lpt., V: 1. 892. 

Win. Nay, stand thou back, I will not 
budge a foot ; 
This be Damascus, be thou cursed Cain, 
To slay thy brother Abel, if thou wilt. 



Glo. I will not slay thee, but I '11 drive 
thee back : 
Thy scarlet robes, as a child's bearing-cloth 
I '11 use, to carry thee out of this place. 
Win. Do what thou dar'st ; I beard thee 

to thy face. 
Glo. What? am I dar'd, and bearded to 
my face? 
Draw, men, for all this privileged place ; 
Blue-coats to tawny-coats. Priest, beware 

your beard ; 
I mean to tug it, and to cuff you soundly : 
Under my feet I stamp thy cardinal's hat ; 
In spite of Pope or dignities of church, 
Here by the cheeks I '11 drag thee up and 
down. 
Win. Gloster, thou 'It answer this be- 
fore the Pope. 
Glo. Winchester goose, I cry — a rope! 
a rope ! — 
Now beat them hence : Why do you let 

them stay ! — 
Thee I '11 chase hence, thou wolf in sheep's 

array. — 
Out, tawny coats ! — out, scarlet hypocrite ! 
II. VI, 1 pt., 1 : 3. 868. 

ART. — Mends Nature. 

Pol. * * This is an art 
Which does mend nature, — change it rather : 

but 
The art itself is nature. 

W. T., IV : 3. 601. 

ARTILLERY. — All Conquering. 

Chorus. * * And the nimble gunner 
With linstock now the devilish cannon 

touches, 
And down goes all before them. 

H. V., Ill : C. 831. 

— Its Power. 
K. John. * * 
The cannons have their bowels full of wrath ; 
And ready mounted are they, to spit forth 
Their iron indignation 'gainst your walls : 
All preparation for a bloody siege, 
And merciless proceeding by these French, 
Confront your city's eyes, your winking 

gates ; 
And, but for our approach, those sleeping 

stones 



ARTILLERY. 



33 



ASS, 



That as a waist do girdle you about, 
By the compulsion of their ordnance 
By this time from their fixed beds of lime 
Had been dishabited, and wide havoc made 
For bloody power to rush upon your peace. 
K. J., II : 1. 652. 

ARTISTS.— Some Good. 

Sim. * * 
In framing artists, art hath thus decreed, 
To make some good, but others to exceed ; 
And you 're her labour'd scholar. 

P., II : 3. 1651. 

ARTS.— Black. 

Bra. * * 
I therefore apprehend and do attach thee, 
For an abuser of the world, a practiser 
Of arts inhibited and out of warrant : — 
Lay hold upon him ; if he do resist, 
Subdue him at his peril. 

0., 1 : 2. 1494. 

ASPIRATION. — Defeated. 

Iago. * * By the faith of man, 
I know my price, I am worth no worse a 

place : 
But he, as loving his own pride and pur- 
poses, 
Evades them, with a bombast circumstance, 
Horribly stufF'd with epithets of war ; 
And, in conclusion, nonsuits 
My mediators; "for, certes," says he, 
"I have already chose my officer. " 
And what was he? 
Forsooth, a great arithmetician, 
One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, 
A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife : 
That never set a squadron in the field, 
Nor the division of a battle knows 
More than a spinster ; unless the bookish 

theoric, 
Wherein the toged consuls can propose 
As masterly as he : mere prattle, without 

practice, 
Is all his soldiership. But, he, sir, had the 
election. 

0., 1 : 1. 1491. 

ASS.— Detected. 

Fa I. I do begin to perceive that I am 
made an ass. 

M. W., V : 5. 119. 



The. With the help of a surgeon, he 
might yet recover, and prove an ass. 

M. JT..V: 1. 344. 



— Dogberry's Desire to be an. 

Con. Away ! you are an ass ! you are an 
ass ! 

Dogb. Dost thou not suspect my place? 
Dost thou not suspect my years? — O that 
he were here to write me down an ass ! but, 
masters, remember that I am an ass ; though 
it be not written down, yet forget not that I 
am an ass : — No, thou villain, thou art full 
of piety, as shall be prov'd upon thee, by 
good Avitness. I am a wise fellow ; and, 
which is more, an officer ; and, which is 
more, a householder ; and, which is more, 
as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in Mes- 
sina ; and one that knows the law, go to ; 
and a rich fellow enough, go to ; and a fel- 
low that hath had losses ; and one that hath 
two gowns and everything handsome about 
him: — Bring him away. O, that I had 
been writ down an ass ! 

J/. A., IV : 2. 248. 



— How Bottom was Transformed 
into an. 

Puck. My mistress with a monster is in 

love. 
Near to her close and consecrated bower, 
While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, 
A crew of patches, rude mechanicals, 
That work for bread upon Athenian stalls, 
Were met together to rehearse a play, 
Intended for great Theseus' nuptial day. 
The shallowest thick-skin of that barren 

sort, 
Who Pyramus presented in their sport, 
Forsook his scene, and enter'd in a brake, 
When I did at him this advantage take. 
An ass's nowl I fixed on his head ; 
Anon, his Thisby must be answered, 
And forth my mimic comes. When they 

him spy, 
As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye, 
Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort, 
Rising and cawing at the gun's report, 
Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky ; 
So, -at his 'sight, away his fellows fly, 
And, at our stamp, here o'er and o'er one 

falls ; 
He murder cries, and help from Athens calls. 
Their sense thus weak, lost with their fears 

thus strong, 



ASS. 



34 



ATONEMENT, 



Made senseless, things begin to do them 

wrong ; 
For briers and thorns at their apparel snatch ; 
Some, sleeves ; some, hats ; from yielders 

all things catch. 
I led them on in this distracted fear, 
And left sweet Pyramus translated there : 
When in that moment (so it came to pass,) 
Titania wak'd, and straightway lov'd an ass. 
M. N., Ill : 2. 332. 

— May be Loved. 

Quin. Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! 
thou art translated. 

Bot. I see their knavery : This is to 
make an ass of me ; to fright me, if they 
could. But I will not stir from this place, 
do what they can ; I will walk up and down 
here, and I will sing, that they shall hear 
I am not afraid. 

The woosel cock, so black of hue, 

With orange-tawny bill, 
The throstle with his note so trae, 

The wren with little quill ; 

Tita. What angel wakes me from my 

flow'ry bed? 

Bot. 

The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, 

The plain-song cuckoo gray, 
Whose note full many a man doth mark, 

And dares not answer, nay — 

for, indeed, who would set his wit to so fool- 
ish a bird? who would give a bird the lie, 
though he cry "Cuckoo" never so? 

Tita. I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing 

again : 
Mine ear is much enamour'd of thy note, 
So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape ; 
And thy fair virtue's force perforce doth 

move me, 
On the first view, to say, to swear, I love 

thee. 
Bot. Methinks, mistress, you should have 
little reason for that: and yet, to say the 
truth, reason and love keep little company 
together now-a-days : the more the pity, that 
some honest neighbours will not make them 
friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion. 

Tita. Thou art as wise as thou art beau- 
tiful. 

M.N., III: 1. 331. 

— Poor Example. 

Flu. If the enemy is an ass and a fool, 
and a prating coxcomb, is it meet, think 



you, that we should also, look you, be an 
ass, and a fool, and a prating coxcomb ; in 
your own conscience, now? 

//. V., IV : 1. 840. 

ASSIGNEES.— Described. 

Post. * * Vile men, 
Who of their broken debtors take a third, 
A sixth, a tenth, letting them thrive again 
On their abatement. 

Cym., V : 4. 1623. 

ASSOCIATES.— Evil. 

Fal. * * Company, villanous com- 
pany, hath been the spoil of me. 

//. IV., 1 pt., Ill : 3. 749. 

— Influence of. 

Fal. * * It is certain, that either wise 
bearing, or ignorant carriage, is caught, as 
men take diseases, one of another : there- 
fore let men take heed of their company. 

H. /F.,2pt., V: 1. 805. 

ASSOCIATIONS.— Bad, Demand 
Care. 

Dro. S. Marry, he must have a long 
spoon that must eat with the devil. 

C. E., IV : 2. 206. 

ASSAULT— Impetuous. 

Fr. King. * * 
Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow 
Upon the valleys ; whose low vassal seat 
The Alps doth spit and void his rheum upon. 
H. J., Ill: 5. 835. 

— Violent. 

Reig. * * 
The other lords, like lions wanting food, 
Do rush upon us as their hungry prey. 

H. VI., lpt.,I: 2. 866. 

ATONEMENT— An Inspiration. 

K. Hen. * * 
As far as to the sepulchre of Christ, 
(Whose soldier now, under whose blessed 

cross 
We are impressed and engag'd to fight,) 
Forthwith a power of English shall we levy ; 
Whose arms were moulded in their mother's 

womb, 
To chase these pagans, in those holy fields, 
Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet, 



ATONEMENT. 



35 



AUSTERITY. 



Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were 

nail'd 
For our advantage, on the bitter cross. 

H. IV, 1 pt., 1 : 1. 727. 

— Recognized. 
War. As surely as ray soul intends to 
live 
With that dread King that took our state 

upon him 
To free us from his Father's wrathful curse. 
H. VI., 2pt., Ill: 2. 928. 

ATTEMPTS. — Foolish. 

Will. * * 
You may as well go about to turn the sun 

to ice, 
With fanning in his face with a peacock's 
feather. 

//. V., IV: 1. 842. 

— Fruitless. 

York. * * But, out, alas ! 
We bodg'd again ; as I have seen a swan 
With bootless labour swim against the tide, 
And spend her strength with over-matching 
waves. 

//. VI., 3 pt., 1 : 4. 960. 

— More Alarming than Deeds. 

Lady M. Alack ! I am afraid they have 
awak'd, ' - 

And 't is not done : — the attempt, and not 
the deed, 

Confounds us: — Hark! — I laid their dag- 
gers ready, 

He could not miss them. — Had he not re- 
sembled 

My father as he slept. I had done 't. — My 
husband? 

31., II : 2. 1364. 

ATTENDANCE.— Dancing, Tedious. 

Ber. I shall stay here the forehorse to a 
smock, 
Creaking my shoes on the plain masonry, 
Till honour be bought up, and no sword 

worn 
But one to dance with ! By heaven, I '11 
steal away. 

A. TF.,11: 1. 502. 



ATTRACTION — Of Love, its Power. 

Rom. Can I go forward, when my heart 
is here? 
Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre 
out. 

R. J., II . 1. 1250. 

AUDACITY. — Invoked. 

lack. Boldness be my friend ! 
Arm me, audacity, from head to foot! 
Or, like the Parthian, I shall flying fight ; 
Rather, directly fly. 

I'ym., I: 7. 1596. 

AUDIENCE. — Private on Public Af- 
fairs. 

Ago m . What 's your affair, I pray you? 
JEne. Sir, pardon; 't is for Agamem- 
non's ears. 
A gam. He hears nought privately, that 

comes from Troy. 
JEne. Nor I from Troy come not to 
whisper him : 
I bring a trumpet to awake his ear ; 
To set his sense on the attentive bent, 
And then to speak. 

Agam. Speak frankly as the wind ; 

It is not Agamemnon's sleeping hour : 
That thou shalt know, Trojan, he is awake, 
He tells thee so himself. 

; T. C, I: 3. 1110. 

AUSTERITY.— Belonging to a Father. 

Tra. 'T is well ; and hold your own, in 

any case, 

With such austerity as*'longeth to a father. 

T. S.,TV: 4. 477. 

— Rebellion Against. 
Biron. I can but say their protestation 

over, 
So much, dear liege, I have already sworn, 
That is, — To live and study here three 

years. 
But there are other strict observances : 
As, not to see a woman in that term ; 
Which, I hope well, is not enrolled there : 
And, one day in a week to touch no food, 
And but one meal on every day beside ; 
The which, I hope, is not enrolled there : 
And then to sleep but three hours in the 

night, 



AUSTERITY, 



36 



AUTHORITY. 



And not to be seen to wink of all the day ; 
(When I Avas wont to think no harm all 

night, 
And make a dark night too of half the day ;) 
Which, I hope well is not enrolled there : 
0, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep ; 
Not to see ladies, — study, fast, — not sleep. 

L. L., 1 : 1. 271. 

AUTHORITY.— A Birthright. 

K. Rich. We were not born to sue, but 
to command. 

R. II., I: 1. 686. 

— Consequence of Disputing. 

Nest. * * In the reproof of chance 
Lies the true proof of men : The sea being 

smooth, - 
How many shallow bauble boats dare sail 
Upon her patient breast, making their way 
With those of nobler bulk? 

T. C., 1 : 3. 1107. 

— Controlled by Gold. 

Clo. * * Though anthority be a stub- 
born bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with 
gold. 

W. T.,IV: 3. 610. 

— Curative. 

Isab. Because authority, though it err 
like others, 
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, 
That skins the vice o' the top. 

M. M., II : 3. 153. 

— Demands Patience. 

Par. Well, thou hast a son shall take 
this disgrace off me, scurvy, old, filthy, 
scurvy lord! — Well, I must be patient; 
there is no fettering of authority. I '11 beat 
him, by my life, if I can meet him with any 
convenience, an he were double and double 
a lord. 

A. W., 11:3. 508. 

— God-bestowed. 

K. Rich. We are amazed ; and thus long 

have we stood 
To watch the fearful bending of thy knee, 
Because we thought ourself thy lawful 

king: 
And if we be, how dare thy joints forget 
To pay their awful duty to our presence? 



If we be not, show us the hand of God 
That hath dismiss'd us from our steward- 
ship; 
For well we know, no hand of blood and 

bone 
Gan gripe the sacred handle of our sceptre, 
Unless he do profane, steal, or usurp. 
And though you think, that all, as you have 

done, 
Have torn their souls, by turning them from 

us, 
And we are barren, and bereft of friends ; — 
Yet know, — my master, God omnipotent, 
Is must'ring in his clouds, on our behalf, ' 
Armies of pestilence ; and they shall strike 
Your children yet unborn, and unbegot, 
That lift your vassal hands against my 

head, 
And threat the glory of my precious crown. 
Tell Bolingbroke, (for yond', methinks, he 

is,) 
That every stride he makes upon my land, 
Is dangerous treason : he is come to ope 
The purple testament of bleeding war ; 
But ere the crown he looks for live in peace, 
Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' 

sons 
Shall ill become the flower of England's 

face; 
Change the complexion of her maid-pale 

peace 
To scarlet indignation, and bedew 
Her pastures' grass with faithful English 

blood. 

R. II, III: 3. 704. 

— Ill Denned. 

Escal. I shall desire you, sir, to give me 
leave 
To have free speech with you ; and it con- 
cerns me 
To look into the bottom of my place : 
A pow'r I have ; but of what strength and 

nature 
I am not yet instructed. 

M. M., 1 : 1. 144. 

— Its Arrogance. 

Isab. * * But man, proud man ! 
Dress'd in a little brief authority, — 
Most ignorant of what he 's most assur'd, 
His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, 



AUTHORITY. 



37 



AVARICE. 



Plays such fantastic tricks before high 

heaver, 
As make the angels weep : who, with our 

spleens, 
Would all themselves laugh mortal. 

M. M., II : 2. 152. 

— Its Surrender. 

K. Rich. What must the king do now? 

Must he submit? 
The king shall do it. Must he be depos'd? 
The king shall be contented : Must he lose 
The name of king? o' God's name, let it go : 
I '11 give my jewels, for a set of beads ; 
My gorgeous palace, for a hermitage ; 
My gay apparel, for an alms-man's gown; 
My figur'd goblets, for a dish of wood; 
My sceptre, for a palmer's walking-staff; 
My subjects, for a pair of carved saints ; 
And my large kingdom for a little grave, 
A little, little grave, and obscure grave : — 
Or I '11 be buried in the king's highway, 
Some way of common trade, where subjects' 

feet 
May hourly trample on their sovereign's 

head : 
For on my heart they tread, now whilst I 

live; 
And, buried once, why not upon my head? — 
Aumerle, thou weep'st ; My tender-hearted 

cousin ! — 
We '11 make foul weather with despised 

tears ; 
Our sighs, and they, shall lodge the summer 

corn, 
And make a dearth in this revolting land. 
Or shall we play the wantons with our woes, 
And make some pretty match with shedding 

tears? 
As thus; — To drop them still upon one 

place, 
Till they have fretted us a pair of graves 
Within the earth; and, therein laid, — 

"There lies 
Two kinsmen, digg'd their graves with 

weeping eyes?" 

R. II, Ill: 3. 704. 

— Neglect of. 

Ulyss. * * 
And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand 
Hollow upon this plain, so many factions. 



When that the general is not like the hive, 
To whom the foragers shall all repair, 
What honey is expected? 

T. G., 1 : 3. 1108. 

— Not Always Just. 

Claud. Thus can the demi-god, Au- 
thority, 
Make us pay down for our offence by 

weight. — 
The word of heaven — on whom it will, it 

will ; 
On whom it will not, so ; yet still 't is just. 
M. J/., 1 : 2. 145. 

— Obeyed. 

Lear. And the creature run from the 
cur? There thou might'st behold the great 
image of authority : a dog 's obeyed in office. 

K. L.,IV: 6. 1476. 

AVARICE.— A Stanchless. 

Mai. With this, there grows, 

In my most ill-composed affection, such 
A stanchless avarice, that, were I king, 
I should cut off the nobles for their lands ; 
Desire his jewels, and this other's house : 
And my more-having would be as a sauce 
To make me hunger more ; that I should 

forge 
Quarrels unjust against the good, and loyal, 
Destroying them for wealth. 

Macd. This avarice 

Sticks deeper ; grows with more pernicious 

root 
Than summer-seeding lust : and it hath been 
The sword of our slain kings : Yet do not 

fear; 
Scotland hath foysons to fill up your will, 
Of your mere own : All these are portable, 
With other graces weigh'd. 

M., IV : 3. 1378. 

— An Old Man's. 

Clo. * * 
I begin to love, as an old man loves money, 
with no stomach. 

A. W., Ill : 2. 511. 

— Destroys Love. 

Shy. Why there, there, there, there ! a 
diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats 
in Frankfort ! The curse never fell upon 
our nation till now ; I never felt it till now : 



AVARICE. 



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BALLADS. 



— two thousand ducats in that; and other 
precious, precious jewels. — I would my 
daughter were dead at my foot, and the 
jewels in her ear ! would she were hearsed 
at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin ! 
No news of them? — Why, so : — and I know 
not what 's spent in the search : Why thou 
loss upon loss ! the thief gone with so much, 
and so much to find the thief; and no satis- 
faction, no revenge : nor no ill luck stirring 
hut what lights o' my shoulders ; no sighs 
but o' my breathing ; no tears but o' my 
shedding. 

Jf. V, Ill : 1. 376. 

— Never Yields. 

Ant. I pray you, think you question with 

the Jew, 
You may as well go stand upon the beach, 
And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; 
You may as well use question with the wolf, 
Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the 

lamb ; 
You may as well forbid the mountain pines 
To wag their high tops, and to make no 

noise, 
When they are fretten with the gusts of 

heaven ; 
You may as well do anything most hard, 
As seek to soften that (than which what 's 

harder?) 

His Jewish heart. 

M. V., IV: 1. 383. 

— Revolting. 

K. Hen. * * 
How quickly nature falls into revolt, 
When gold becomes her object ! 

H. IV., 2 pt., IV : 4. 802. 



AVERSION.— Bitterly Expressed. 

K. lien. * * 
Lay not thy hands on me ; forbear, I say ; 
Their touch affrights me, as a serpent's 
sting. 

//. VI, 2 pt,, III : 2. 927. 

— Extreme. 

I . Sir To. * * I think oxen and wain- 
J ropes cannot hale them together. 

T. .v., Ill : 2. 557. 

Feci. Thou might'st as well say I love to 
walk by the Counter-gate ; which is as hate- 
ful to me as the reek of a lime kill. 

M. W., Ill: 3. 105. 

—To Comfort. 

Seb. He receives comfort like cold por- 
ridge. 

T., II : 1. 15. 

— Undisguised. 

Clif. Hence, heap of wrath, foul indi- 
gested lump, 
As crooked in thy manners as thy shape ! 

II. VI, 2 pt,, V : 1. 943. 

AVOIDANCE— The True Wisdom. 

Cam. * * I am sure, 't is safer to 
Avoid what 's grown than question how 't is 
born. 

W. T., 1 : 2. 586. 



B 



BADNESS.— In Character. 

Jfacd. Not in the legions 

Of horrid hell, can come a devil more 

damn'd 
In evils, to top Macbeth. 

Mai. I grant him bloody, 

Luxurious, avaricious, false, deceitful, 

Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin 

That has a name. 

M., IV : 3. 1378. 



BALANCES. — Nature's. 

Dio. E. For a fish without a fin, there 's 
a fowl without a feather. 

C. E., Ill : 1- 200. 

BALLADS. — Offensive. 

Hel. * * Traduc'd by odious ballads. 
A. W.,II: 1. 504. 



BANISHMENT. 



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BANISHMENT. 



BANISHMENT. — A Boundless Woe. 

Jul. * * " Romeo is banished, — " 
There is no end, no limit, measure, bound. 
In that word 's death ; no words can that 



woe sound. 



R. J., Ill : 2. 1262. 



— A Mercy. 

Luc. To rescue my two brothers from 
their death : 

For which attempt, the judges have pro- 
nounc'd 

My everlasting doom of banishment. 

Tit. happy man ! they have befriend- 
ed thee. 

Why, foolish Lucius, dost thou not per- 
ceive, 

That Rome is but a wilderness of tigers ? 

Tigers must prey; and Rome affords no 
prey, 

But me and mine : How happy art thou 
then, 

From these devourers to be banished ! 

Tit. And., Ill : 1. 1214. 

— Its Bitterness. 

Boling. Eating the bitter bread of ban- 
ishment. 

R. II, Ill : 1. 700. 

K. Rich. We banish you our territories : 
You, cousin Hereford, upon pain of life, 
Till twice five summers have enrich'd our 

fields, 
Shall not regreet our fair dominions, 
But tread the stranger paths of banish- 
ment. 
Boling. Your will be done : this must 
my comfort be, — 
That sun, that warms you here, shall shine 

on me ; 
And those his golden beams, to you here 

lent, 
Shall point on me, and gild my banishment. 
K. Rich. Norfolk, for thee remains a 
heavier doom, 
Which I with some unwillingness pro- 
nounce : 
The fly-slow hours shall not determinate 
The dateless limit of thy dear exile ; — 
The hopeless word of — never to return, 
Breathe I against thee, upon pain of life. 



Nor. A heavy sentence, my most sove- 
reign liege, 
And all unlook'd for from your highness' 

mouth : 
A dearer merit, not so deep a maim 
As to be cast forth in the common air, 
Have I deserved at your highness' hand. 
The language I have learn'd these forty 

years, 
My native English, now I must forego : 
And now my tongue's use is to me no more 
Than an unstringed viol or a harp ; 
Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up, 
Or, being open, put into his hands 
That knows no touch to tune the harmony. 
Within my mouth you have engaol'd my 

tongue, 
Doubly portcullis'd, with my teeth, and 

lips ; 
And dull, unfeeling, barren ignorance 
Is made my gaoler to attend on me. 
I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, 
Too far in years to be a pupil now ; 
What is thy sentence then, but speechless 

death, 
Which robs my tongue from breathing native 
breath? 
K. Rich. It boots thee not to be com- 
passionate ; 
After our sentence, plaining comes too late. 
Nor. Then thus I turn me from my 
country's light, 
To dwell in solemn shades of endless night. 
R. II., I: 3. 680. 

— "Worse than Death. 

Rom. Ha ! banishment? be merciful, say 
death : 

For exile hath more terror in his look, 

Much more than death : do not say — banish- 
ment. 
Fri. Hence from Verona art thou ban- 
ished : 

Be patient, for the world is broad and wide. 
Rom. There is no world without Verona 
walls, 

But purgatory, torture, hell itself. 

Hence-banished is banish'd from the world, 

And world's exile is death: — then banish- 
ment 

Is death mis-term'd : calling death — banish- 
ment, 



BANISHMENT. 



4 



BARGE. 



Thou cutt'st my head off with a golden axe, 

And smil'st upon the stroke that murders 

me. 

Fri. O deadly sin ! O rude unthankful- 

ness ! 

Thy fault our law calls death ; hut the kind 

prince, 
Taking thy part, hath rush'd aside the law, 
And turird that black word death to banish- 
ment : 
This is dear mercy, and thou seest it jiot. 
Rom. "T is torture, and not mercy : heav- 
en is here, 
Where Juliet lives ; and every cat, and dog, 
And little mouse, every unworthy thing, 
Live here in heaven, and may look on her, 
But Romeo may not. — More validity, 
More honourable state, more courtship lives 
In carrion flies, than Romeo : they may seize 
On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand, 
And steal immortal blessing from her lips ; 
Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, 
Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin ; 
But Romeo may not ; he is banished : 
Flies may do this, when I from this must 

fly; 
They are free men, but I am banished. 
And say'st thou yet, that exile is not death? 
Hadst thou no poison mix'd, no sharp- 
ground knife, 
No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so 

mean, 
But — banished — to kill me ; banished? 
friar, the damned use that word in hell ; 
Howlings attend it : How hast thou the heart, 
Being a divine, a ghostly confessor, 
A sin-absolver, and my friend profess'd, 
To mangle me with that word — banishment? 

R. J., Ill : 3, 1262. 



BANTERING.— Ridiculous. 

Boyet. * * 
With that all laugh'd, and clapp'd him on 

the shoulder; 
Making the bold wag by their praises bolder. 
One rubb'd his elbow, thus ; and fleer'd, and 

swore, 
A better speech was never spoke beiore : 
Another with his finger and his thumb, 
Cry'd, " Via ! we will do 't, come what will 

come : " 



The third he caper'd, and cried, "All goes 

well ; " 
The fourth turn'd on the toe, and down he 

fell. 
With that, they all did tumble on the ground, 
With such a zealous laughter, so profound, 
That in his spleen ridiculous appears, 
To check their folly, passion's solemn tears. 
L. L., V : 2. 294. 

BARBARITY. — Pious. 

Tit. Patient yourself, madam, and par- 
don me. 
These are their brethren, whom you Goths 

beheld 
Alive, and dead ; and for their brethren 

slain, 
Religiously they ask a sacrifice : 
To this your son is mark'd ; and die he 

must, 
To appease their groaning shadows that are 

gone. 
Luc. Away with him ! and make a fire 

straight ; 
And with our swords, upon a pile of wood, 
Let 's hew his limbs, till they be clean con- 

sum'd. 

Tit. And., 1 : 2. 1202. 

BARGAINS. — Cavils on. 

Hot. I do not care : I '11 give thrice so 
much land 
To any well-deserving friend ; 
But, in the way of bargain, mark ye me, 
I '11 cavil on the ninth part of a hair. 
Are the indentures drawn? shall we be 
gone? 

//. /F., l pt., Ill : 1. 746. 

BARGE. — Cleopatra's. 

Eno. I will tell you : 
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, 
Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten 

gold; 
Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that 
The winds were love-sick with them : the 

oars were silver ; 
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and 

made 
The water, which they beat, to follow faster, 
As amorous of their strokes. 

A. C., II: 2. 1550. 



BARRENNESS. 



4 1 



BASTARD. 



BARRENNESS. — Cured by Touch. 

Cass. Forget not, in your speed, Anto- 
nius, 
To touch Calphurnia : for our elders say, 
The barren, touched in this holy chase, 
Shake off their steril curse. 

J. C, 1 : 2. 1323. 

BASENESS.— Of One who Lies. 

Lucid. * * Draw nearer, honest Fla- 
minius. Thy lord 's a bountiful gentleman : 
but thou art wise ; and thou knowest well 
enough, although thou comest to me, that 
this is no time to lend money ; especially 
upon, bare friendship, without security. 
Here 's three solidares for thee : good boy, 
wink at me, and say, thou saw'st me not. 
Fare thee well. 

Flam. Is 't possible, the world should so 
much differ ; 

And we alive that liv'd? Fly, damned base- 
ness, 

To him that worships thee. 

Lucul. Ha! Now I see, thou art a fool, 

and fit for thy master. 

Flam. May these add to the number 
that may scald thee ! 

Let molten coin be thy damnation, 

Thou disease of a friend, and not himself! 

Has friendship such a faint and milky heart, 

It turns in less than two nights? O you 
gods, 

I feel my master's passion ! This slave 

Unto his honour, has my lord's meat in 
him : 

Why should it thrive, and turn to nutri- 
ment, 

When he is turn'd to poison? 

0, may diseases only work upon 't! 

And, when he is sick to death, let not that 
part of nature 

Which my lord paid for, be of any power 

To expel sickness, but prolong his hour ! 

T. A., Ill : 1. 1297. 



—Too Bold. 

lack. Let me my service tender on your 
lips. 

Imo. Away ! — I do condemn mine ears, 
that have 
So long attended thee. — If thou wert hon- 
ourable, 



Thou would'st have told this tale for virtue, 

not 
For such an end thou seek'st ; as base, as 

strange. 
Thou wrong'st a gentleman, who is as far 
From thy report, as thou from honour ; and 
Solicit'st here a lady, that disdains 
Thee and the devil alike. — What ho, 

Pisanio ! — 
The king my father shall be made ac- 
quainted 
Of thy assault : if he shall think it fit, 
A saucy stranger, in his court, to mart 
As in a Romish stew, and to expound 
His beastly mind to us ; he hath a court 
He little cares for, and a daughter whom 
He not respects at all. 

Cym., 1 : 7. 1597. 

BASS.— Too Heavy, Mars a Tune. 

Luc. It is too heavy for so light a tune. 
Jul. Heavy? belike it hath some burden 
then. 
* * 

Luc. Nay, now you are too flat, 
And mar the concord with too harsh a des- 
cant : 
There wanteth but a mean to fill your song. 
Jul. The mean is drown'd with your un- 
ruly base. 
Luc. Indeed, I bid the base for Proteus. 

T. O., 1 : 3. 50. 



BASTARD. 

Ther. I am a bastard too ; I love bas- 
tards. I am a bastard begot, bastard in- 
structed, bastard in mind, in valour, in 
everything illegitimate. 

T. C V : 8. 1142. 



Ang. Ha ! Fie, these filthy vices ! It 

were as good 
To pardon him that hath from nature stol'n 
A man already made, as to remit 
Their saucy sweetness, that do coin heaven's 

image 
In stamps that are forbid : 't is all as easy 
Falsely to take away a life true made, 
As to put metal in restrained means, 
To make a false one. 

M. M., II : 4. 154. 



BACHELOR. 



4 2 



BEAUTY, 



BACHELOR. — His Happiness. 

D. Pedro. I do but stay till your mar- 
riage be consummate, and then I go toward 
Arragon. 

Claud. I '11 bring you thither, my lord, 
if you '11 vouchsafe me. 

D. Pedro. Nay, that would be as great 
a soil in the new gloss of your marriage, as 
to show a child his new coat, and forbid 
him to wear it. I will only be bold with 
Benedick for his company; for, from the 
crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he 
is all mirth ; he hath twice or ftirice cut 
Cupid's bowstring, and the little hangman 
dare not shoot at him : he hath a heart as 
sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clap- 
per; for what his heart thinks, his tongue 
speaks. 

M. A., Ill : 2. 239. 

— Old. 

Bene. * * Shall I never see a bache- 
lor of three score again? 

M. A., 1 : 1. 227. 

Bene. * * 

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did 
not think I should live till I were married. 
M. A., II : 3. 237. 



BATTLE. — Artillery. 

K. John. * * 
The cannons have- their bowels full of 

wrath ; 
And ready mounted are they, to spit forth 
Their iron indignation 'gainst your walls. 

K. J., II : 1. 652. 

BATTLEFIELD.— Its Dangers. 

Stew. * * 
From courtly friends, with camping foes to 
live, 



worth. 



A. W., Ill: 4. 513. 



BEARD. — Launcelot's. 

Gob. * * Lord, worshipped might he 
be ! what a beard hast thou got ! thou hast 
got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my 
phill-horse has on his tail. 

J/. V., II: 2. 338. 

— Round and Red. 

Quick. Does he not wear a great round 
beard, like a glover's paring-knife? 



Sim. No, forsooth : he hath but a little 
wee face, with a little yellow beard ; a Cain 
coloured beard. 

M. W., 1 : 4. 93. 

— Sign of Manhood. 

Beat. * * He that hath a beard is more 
than a youth ; and he that hath no beard is 
less than a man. 

M. A., II : 1. 230. 

BEARDS.— Rare in Colors. 

. Bot. Well, I will undertake it.. What 
beard were I best to play it in? 
Quin. Why, what you will. 
Bot. I will discharge it in either your 
straw-colour beard, your orange-tawny 
beard, your purple-in-grain beard, or your 
French-crown-colour beard, your perfect 
yellow. 

M. N., I: 2. 325. 

BEARING.— Becoming. 

Cieo. * * 

But this is not the best : Look, pr'ythee, 

Charmian, 

How this Herculean Roman does become 

The carriage of his chafe. 

A. C, 1 : 3. 1544. 

BEAUTY. 

Bet. * * Kate, like the hazel-twig, 
Is straight, and slender ; and as brown in 

hue, 
As hazel-nuts, and sweeter than the kernels. 
T. S., II : 1. 464. 
Pet. * * 
Say, that she frown; I '11 say, she looks as 

clear 
As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. 

T. S., II : 1. 463. 

—A 'Witch. 

Claud.- * * For beauty is a witch, 

Against whose charms faith melteth into 

blood. 

JL A., U: 1. 232. 

— And Kindness. 

Song. For beauty lives with kindness. 

T. G., IV • 2. 66. 

— By Comparison. 

Pro. * * 
Thou think'st there are no more such shapes 

as he, 
Having seen but him and Caliban. 



BEAUTY. 



43 



BEAUTY . 



To the most of men this is a Caliban, 
And they to him are angels. 

Mira. My affections 

Are then most humble ; I have no ambition 
To see a goodlier man. 

T., I: 2. 14. 

— Complimented. 

K. Hen. The fairest hand I ever touch'd ! 
O beauty, 
Till now I never knew thee. 

H. VIII., 1 : 4. 1064. 

— Cruel. 

Vio. 'T is beauty truly blent, whose red 

and white \> 

Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid 

on : 
Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive, 
If you will lead these graces to the grave, 
And leave the world no copy. 
* * 

Vio. Make me a willow cabin at your 

gate, 
And call upon my soul within the house ; 
Write loyal cantons of contemned love, 
And sing them loud even in the dead of 

night ; 
Holla your name to the reverberate lulls, 
And make the babbling gossip of the air 
Cry out, Olivia ! 0, you should not rest 
Between the elements of air and earth, 
But you should pity me. 

1\ N., I : 5. 546. 

— Disarming Power of. 
Mar. * * 

O, had the monster seen those lily hands 
Tremble, like aspen leaves, upon a lute, 
And make the silken strings delight to kiss 

them, 
He would not then have touch'd them for 

his life ; 
Or, had he heard the heavenly harmony, 
Which that sweet tongue hath made, 
He would have dropp'd his knife, and fell 

asleep, 
As Cerberus at the Thracian poet's feet. 

Tit. And., II : 5. 1213. 

— Effect on Women. 

York. 'T is beauty, that doth oft make 
women proud. 

//. VI, 3 pt., 1 : 4. 961. 



— Excites "Wrath. 

Y. Clif. * * Tears virginal 
Shall be to me even as the dew to fire ; 
And beauty, that the tyrant oft reclaims, 
Shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax. 

H. VI., 2 pt., V : 2. 945. 

— Exquisite. 

Rom. * * 
Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night 
Like a rkh jewel in an Ethiop's ear : 
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear ! 
Ii. J., 1 : 5. 1248. 

— Eye, the Judge of. 

Prin. * * 
Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, 
Nor utter'd by base sale of chapmen's 
tongues. 

L.L., II: 1. 277. 

—Female. 

Pet. * * 
Such war of white and red within her 

cheeks? 
What stars do spangle heaven with such 

beauty, 
As those two eyes become that heavenly 
face? 

T. S., IV : 5. 479. 

— Homage to. 

Val. * * 
She shall be dignified with this high honour, 
To bear my lady's train, lest the base earth 
Should from her vesture chance to steal a 

kiss, 
And, of so great a favour growing proud, 
Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower, 
And make rough winter everlastingly. 

T. G., II : 4. 56. 

— In "Woman. 

Eos. * * 
'T is not your inky brows, your black silk 

hair, 
Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of 

cream, 
That can entame my spirits to your worship. 
A. Y., Ill: 5. 427. 

— Irresistible. 

Suf. An earl I am, and Suffolk am I 
call'd. 



BEAUTY. 



44 



BEAUTY. 



Be not offended, nature's miracle, 

Thou art allotted to be ta'en by me : 

So doth the swan her downy cygnets save, 

Keeping them prisoners underneath her 

wings. 
Yet, if this servile usage once offend, 
Go, and be free again as Suffolk's friend. 
O, stay ! — I have no power to let her pass ; 
My hand would free her, but my heart says 

— no. 
As plays the sun upon the glassy streams, 
Twinkling another counterfeited beam, 
So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes. 
Fain would I woo her, yet I dare not speak : 
I '11 call for pen and ink, and write my 

mind : 
Fie, De la Poole ! disable not thyself; 
Hast not a tongue? is she not here thy pris- 
oner? 
Wilt thou be daunted at a woman's sight? 
Ay ; beauty's princely majesty is such, 
Confounds the tongue, and makes the senses 
rough. 

H. VI, lpt., V: 3. 893. 

—Its Effect. 

3 Gent. * * The rich stream 
Of lords, and ladies, having brought the 

queen 
To a prepar'd place in the choir, fell off 
A distance from her; while her grace sat 

down 
To rest a while, some half an hour, or so, 
In a rich chair of state, opposing freely 
The beauty of her person to the people. 
Believe me, sir, she is the goodliest woman 
That ever lay by man : which when the 

people 
Had the full view of, such a noise arose 
As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest, 
As loud, and to as many tunes : hats, cloaks, 
(Doublets, I think) flew up : and had their 

faces 
Been loose, this day they had been lost. 

Such joy 
I never saw before. 

II. VIII., IV: 1. 1083. 

— Manly. 
Pro. The fringed curtains of thine eye 
advance, 
And say what thou seest yond. 



Mir a. What is 't? a spirit? 

Lord, how it looks about ! Believe me, sir, 

It carries a brave form : — But 't is a spirit. 

Pro. No, wench ; it eats, and sleeps, 

and hath such senses 

As we have, such. This gallant, which thou 

seest, 
Was in the wreck ; and but he 's something 

stain'd 
With grief, that 's beauty's canker, thou 

mightst call him 
A goodly person. He hath lost his fellows, 
And strays about to find them. 

Mira. I might call him 

A thing divine ; for nothing natural 
I ever saw so noble. 

T., 1 : 2. 13. 

— More Dangerous than Gold. 

Eos. * * 
Maids as we are, to travel forth so far! 
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. 

A. Y.,1 : 3. 413. 

—Radiant. 

Vio. Most radiant, exquisite, and un- 
matchable beauty. 

T. N., 1 : 5. 545. 

— Sea Has a Sense of. 

Cas. He has had most favourable and 
happy speed • 
Tempests themselves, high seas, and howl- 
ing winds, 
The gutter'd rocks, and congregated sands — 
Traitors ensteep'd to clog the guiltless keel, 
As having sense of beauty, do omit 
Their mortal natures, letting go safely by 
The divine Desdemona. 

0., II : 1. 1501. 

—Want of, Deplored. 
Hel. O, I am out of breath in this fond 

chase ! 
The more my prayer, the lesser is my grace. 
Happy is Hermia, wheresoe'er she lies, 
For she hath blessed and attractive eyes. 
How came her eyes so bright? Not with 

salt tears : 
If so, my eyes are oft'ner wash'd than hers. 
No, no, I am as ugly as a bear ; 
For beasts that meet me run away for fear : 
Therefore, no marvel, though Demetrius 



BEAUTY. 



45 



BEGGAR. 



Do, as a monster, fly my presence thus. 
What wicked and dissembling glass of mine 
Made me compare with Hermia's sphery 



eyne 



M. N., II : 2. 329. 



— Woman's, above Praise. 

Biron. * * When shall you hear that I 

Will praise a hand, a foot, a face, an eye, 

A gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist, 

A leg, a limb? 

L.L.,IV: 3. 289. 

— Woman's, Overwhelming. 

Glo. * * 
My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear ; 
And what these sorrows could not thence 

exhale, 
Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with 

weeping. 
I never su'd to friend, nor enemy ; 
My tongue could never learn sweet soothing 

word; 

But now thy beauty is propos'd my fee, 

My proud heart sues, and prompts my 

tongue to speak. 

R. II J., 1 : 2. 1005. 

Tro. I cannot fight upon this argument ; 
It is too starv'd a subject for my sword. 

T. C ,1:1. 1103. 

BEAUX.— Rival, Disparaged. 

Fal. What made me love thee? let that 
persuade thee there 's something extraor- 
dinary in thee. Come, I cannot cog, and 
say thou art this and that, like a many of 
these lisping hawthorn-buds, that come like 
women in men's apparel, and smell like 
Bucklersbury in simple-time : I cannot : but 
I love thee ; none but thee ; and thou de- 
serv'st it. 

M. W., Ill : 3. 105. 

BED. — A Tempting. 

Lord. * * 
Or wilt thou sleep? we '11 have thee to a 

couch, 
Softer and sweeter than the lustful bed 
On purpose trimm'd up for Semiramis. 

T. £.,Ind: 2. 453. 

BEEF-EATING.— An Injury to the 
Wit. 

Sir And. * * But I am a great eater 
.of beef, and I believe that does harm to my 
wit. 

T. N.> I: 3. 542. 



BEES.— A Model for the State. 

Cant. True : therefore doth 

heaven divide 
The state of man in divers functions, 
Setting endeavour in continual motion ; 
To which is fixed, as an aim or butt, 
Obedience : for so work the honey bees ; 
Creatures, that, by a rule in nature, teach 
The act of order to a peopled kingdom. 
They have a king, and officers of sorts : 
Where some, like magistrates, correct at 

home ; 
Others, like merchants, venture trade 

abroad ; 
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, 
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ; 
Which pillage they with merry march bring 

home 
To the tent-royal of their emperor : 
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys 
The singing masons building roofs of gold ; 
The civil citizens kneading up the honey ; 
The poor mechanic porters crowding in 
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate ; 
The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum, 
Delivering o'er to executors pale 
The lazy yawning drone. 

//. V., 1 : 2. 822. 

BEGGAR.— An Unusual. 

Boling. What shrill-voic'd suppliant 

makes this eager cry? 
Duch. A woman, and thine aunt, great 
king; 't is I. 
Speak with me, pity me, open the door : 
A beggar begs, that never begg'd before. 
Boling. Our scene is alter'd, — from a 
serious thing, 
And now chang'd to " The Beggar and the 

King." — 
My dangerous cousin, let your mother in ; 
I know, she 's come to pray for your foul 
sin. 

R. II., V: 3. 715. 

—At What he Rails. 

Bast * * 
Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, 
And say, — there is no sin, but to be rich; 
And being rich, my virtue then shall be, 
To say, — there is no vice, but beggary. 

K.J.,II: 2. 656. 



BEGGAR. 



4 6 



BELLY. 



— His Reason. 

Glo. He has some reason, else he could 
not beg. 
I' the last night's storm I such a fellow saw ; 
Which made - me think a man a worm. 

K. Z..IV: 1. 1471. 
— How Answered. 
Por. * * 
You taught me first to beg ; and now, me- 

thinks, 
You teach me how a beggar should be an- 
swer'd. 

M. V., IV : 2. 387 

BEGGARS. — Abuse Position. 

York. * * Beggars, mounted, run 
their horse to death. 

//. FJ.,3pt.,I: 4. 961. 

—Their Death Unheralded. 

Cat. When beggars die, there are no 



comets seen. 



J. C, II : 2. 1333. 



BEGINNINGS. — Small, Dangerous. 

Cas. * * 
Those that with haste will make a mighty 

fire, 
Begin it with weak straws. 

J. C.,l : 3. 1328. 

BELIEF. — Impossibility of Inspiring. 

Her. * * I '11 believe as soon 

This whole earth may be bor'd ; and that 
the moon 

May through the centre creep, and so dis- 
please 

Her brother's noontide with th' Antipodes. 

It cannot be but thou hast murder'd him ; 

So should a murderer look ; so dread, so 
grim. 

M. N., Ill : 2. 333. 

BELLIGERENCY.— In a Bishop, Re- 
buked. 

P. John. * * 
My lord of York, it better show'd with you, 
When that your flock, assembled by the 

bell, 
Encircled you, to hear with reverence 
Your exposition on the holy text : 
Than now to see you here an iron man, 
Cheering a rout of rebels with your drum, 



Turning the word to sword, and life to 
death. 

That man, that sits within a monarch's 

heart, 
And ripens in the sunshine of his favour, 
Would he abuse the countenance of the 

king, 

Alack, what mischiefs might he set abroach, 
In shadow of such greatness ! With you, 

lord bishop, 
It is eA'en so: — Who hath not heard it 

spoken, 
How deep vou were within the books of 

God? 
To us, the speaker in his parliament ; 
To us, the imagin'd voice of God himself; 
The very opener, and intelligencer, 
Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven, 
And our dull workings : O, who shall be- 
lieve, 
But you misuse the reverence of your 

place ; 
Employ the countenance and grace of 

heaven, 
As a false favourite doth his prince's name, 
In deeds dishonourable? You have taken 

up, 
Under the counterfeited zeal of God, 
The subjects of his substitute, my father; 
And, both against the peace of heaven and 

him, 
Have here up-swarm'cl them. 

JI.JV., 2pt.,IV: 2. 797. 

BELL. — Sometimes Alarming. 

Oth. * * 

Silence that dreadful bell, it frights the isle 

From her propriety. 

6>.,II: 3. 1506. 

BELLOWING. — A Relief. 

Ant. * * 0, that I were 
Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar 
The horned herd ! for I have savage cause ; 
And to proclaim it civilly, were like 
A halter'd neck, which does the hangman 

thank 
For being yare about him. 

A. C, III: 11. 1567. 

BELLY. — A Cold, an Excuse. 

Fal. Come, let me pour in some sack to 
the Thames water ; for my belly 's as cold 
as if I had swallow'd snowballs for pills to 
cool the reins. 

J/. W.,III: 5. 103. 



BENEDICTION. 



47 



BETROTHAL. 



BENEDICTION. — Generous. 

Bel. * * 
Two of the sweet'st companions in the 

world : — 
The benediction of these covering heavens 
Fall on their heads like dew ! for they are 

worthy 
To inlay heaven with stars. 

Cym., V : 5. 1630. 

BEREAVEMENT. — Submission to. 
Dor. Comfort, dear mother; God is 
much displeas'd, 
That you take with unthankfulness his 

doing ; 
In common worldly things, 't is call'd — un- 

• grateful, 
With dull unwillingness to repay a debt, 
Which with a bounteous hand was kindly 

lent; 
Much more to be thus opposite with heaven, 
For it requires the royal debt it lent you. 

R. III., II : 2. 1017. 

BEST — Is Last. 

Gaunt. * * 
As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last. 
li. II., II: 1. 692. 

— Should be Last. 

Baling. * * 
Lo, as at English feasts, so I regreet 
The daintiest last, to make the end most 
sweet. 

R. II, 1 : 3. 688. 

BETRAYAL— By an Angel Face. 

Cle. Thou art like the harpy, 

Which, to betray, doth wear an angel's face, 
Seize with an eagle's talons. 

P., IV: 4. 1663. 

— Justifies Surrender. 

Mel. Fly, noble English, you are bought 
and sold ; 
Untread the road-way of rebellion, 
And welcome home again discarded faith. 
Seek out king John, and fall before his feet ; 
For, if the French be lords of this loud day, 
He means to recompense the pains you take, 
By cutting off your heads : Thus hath he 
sworn, 



And I with him, and many more witli me, 
Upon the altar at St. Edmund's-Burv : 
Even on that altar, where we swore to you 
Dear amity and everlasting love. 

K. J.,V: 4. 674. 

— Purchased by Gold. 

Buck. My surveyor is false ; the o'er- 
great cardinal 

Hath show'd him gold : my life is spann'd 
already : 

I am the shadow of poor Buckingham ; 

Whose figure even this instant cloud puts 
on, 

By dark'ning my clear sun. — My lord, fare- 
well. 

//. VIII, I: 1. 1039. 

BETRAYER.— Vengeance on a. 

Ant. * * 'T is well thou ; rt gone, 
If it be well to live : But better 't were 
Thou fell'st into my fury, for one death 
Might have prevented many. — Eros, ho ! — 
The shirt of Nessus is upon me : Teach me, 
Alcides, thou mine ancestor, thy rage : 
Let me lodge Lichas on the horns o' the 

moon, 
And with those hands, that grasp'd the 

heaviest club, 
Subdue my worthiest self. The witch shall 

die ; 
To the Roman boy she hath sold me, and I 

fall 
Under this plot ; she dies for 't. 

A. C, IV: 10. 1573. 

BETROTHAL — Abuse of. 

Pro. * * 
No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall 
To make this contract grow : but barren 

hate, 
Sour-ey'd disdain, and discord, shall be- 
strew 
The union of your bed with weeds so loathly. 
That you shall hate it both : therefore take 

heed, 
As Hymen's lamps shall light you. 

T. t IV : 1. 26. 

—Full. 

Por. You see me, lord Bassanio, where 
I stand, 
Such as I am : though, for myself alone, 



BETROTHAL. 



4 8 



BIRTH-PLACE. 



I would not be ambitious in my wish, 
To wish myself much better ; yet, for you, 
I would be trebled twenty times myself; 
A thousand times more fair, ten thousand 

times more rich ; 
That only to stand high in your account, 
I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends, 
Exceed account : but the full sum of me 
Is sum of nothing ; which, to term in gross, 
Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unprac- 

tis'd : 
Happy in this, she is not yet so old 
But she may learn ; happier than this, 
She is not bred so dull but she can learn ; 
Happiest of all, in that her gentle spirit 
Commits itself to yours to be directed, 
As from her lord, her governor, her king. 
Myself, and what is mine, to you and yours. 
Is now converted : but now, I was the lord 
Of this fair mansion, master of my servants, 
Queen o'er myself; and even now, but now, 
This house, these servants, and this same 

myself, 
Are yours, my lord : — I give them with this 

ring; 
Which when you part from, lose, or give 

away, 
Let it presage the ruin of your love, 
And be my vantage to exclaim on you. 

M. V., Ill : 2. 378. 

BETROTHMENT.-A plea for Famil- 
iarity. 

Lys. One turf shall serve as pillow for 

us both. 

One heart, one bed, two bosoms, and one 

troth. 

M. N., II : 2. 328. 

BEWILDERMENT.— Complete. 

Curt. * * 
And sits as one new-risen from a dream. 

T. S., TV : 1. 473. 

— Of Cross Purposes. 

Duke. Why what an intricate impeach is 
this! 
I think you all have drunk of Circe's cup. 
C. E., V : 1. 212. 

BEWITCHMENT. — A Lover's. 

. Obe. I pray thee, give it me. 

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, 



Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows ; 
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, 
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine ; 
There sleeps Titania, some time of the night, 
Lull'd in these flowers with dances and de- 
light ; 
And there the snake throws her enamell'd 

skin, 
Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in : 
And with the juice of this I '11 streak her 

eyes, 
And make her full of hateful fantasies. 
Take thou some of it, and seek through this 

grove : 
A sweet Athenian lady is in love 
With a disdainful youth : anoint his eyes ; 
But do it, when the next thing he espies 
May be the lady ; Thou shalt know the man 
By the Athenian garments he hath on. 
Effect it with some care, that he may prove 
More fond on her, than she upon her love. 
M. jr., II: 1. 328. 

BIRTH.— High. 

Glo. * * But I was born so high, 
Our aerie buildeth in the cedar's top, 
And dallies with the wind, and scorns the 
sun. 

It. III., I: 3. 1009. 

BIRTHDAY. — Cassius' Fatal. 

Cas. * * 
This day I breathed first : time is come 

round, 
And where I did begin, there I shall end ; 
My life is run Ids compass. 

J. C, V: 3. 1350. 

BIRTH-PLACE— Of Great Men. 

Flu. Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, 
captain Gower : What call you the town's 
name where Alexander the pig was porn? 

Gow. Alexander the great. 

Flu. Why, I pray you, is not pig, great? 
The pig, or the great, or the mighty, or the 
huge, or the magnanimous, are all one 
reckonings, save the phrase is a little varia- 
tions. 

Gow. I think Alexander the great was 
born in Macedon ; his father was called — 
Philip of Macedon, as I take it. 

Flu. I think, it is in Macedon, where 
Alexander is porn. I tell you, captain, — 
If you look in the maps of the 'orld, I war- 



BIRTH-PLACE. 



49 



BLACKNESS. 



rant, you shall find, in the comparisons be- 
tween Maeedon and Monmouth, that the 
situations, look you, is both alike. There 
is a river in Maeedon; and there is also 
moreover a river at Monmouth : it is called 
Wye, at Monmouth; but it is out of my 
prains, what is the name of the other river ; 
but 't is all one, 't is so like as my fingers is 
to my fingers, and there is salmons in both. 
If you mark Alexander's life well, Harry of 
Monmouth's life is come after it indifferent 
well; for there is figures in all things. 
Alexander (God knoAvs, and you know,) in 
his rages, and his furies, and his wraths, 
and his cholers, and his moods, and his dis- 
pleasures, and his indignations, and also be- 
ing a little intoxicates in his prains, did, in 
his ales and his angers, look you, kill his 
pest friend, Clytus. 

Gorv. Our king is not like him in that ; 
he never killed any of his friends. 

Flu. It is not well done, mark you know, 
to take tales out of my mouth, ere it is made 
an end and finished. I speak but in the 
figures and comparisons of it : As Alexander 
is kill his friend Clytus, being in his ales 
and his cups; so also Harry Monmouth, 
being in his right wits and his good judg- 
ments, is turn away the fat knight with the 
great pelly-doublet : he was full of jests, 
and gipes, and knaveries, and mocks ; I am 
forget his name. 

Gow. Sir John Falstaff. 

Flu. That is he : I can tell you, there is 
goot men born at Monmouth. 

E. V., IV : 7. 847. 

BITTERNESS. — Adds to Sweetness. 

King. * * 
The bitter past, more welcome is the. sweet. 
A. W.,V: 3. 530. 

— Misanthropic. 

Tim. Commend me to them; 

And tell them, that, to ease them of their 
griefs, 

Their fears of hostile strokes, their aches, 
losses, 

Their pangs of love, with other incident 
throes 

That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain 

In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kind- 
ness do them. 

* * 

I have a tree, which grows here in my close, 
That mine own use invites me to cut down, 
And shortly must I fell it : Tell my friends, 
Tell Athens, in the sequence of degree, 
From high to low throughout, that whoso 
please 



To stop affliction, let him take his haste, 
Come hither, ere my tree hath felt the axe, 
And hang himself. 

T.A., V: 2: 1314. 

BLACKNESS.— Badge of Hell. 

King. O paradox ! Black is the badge 
of hell, 
The hue of dungeons, and the scroll of 

night. 

L. L., IV : 3. 290. 

— Of Skin. 
Nur. A joyless, dismal, black, and sor- 
rowful issue : 
Here is the babe, as loathsome as a toad 
Amongst the fairest burdens of our clime. 
The empress sends it thee, thy stamp, thy 

seal, 
And bids thee ehristen it with thy dagger's 

point. 

* * 

Aar. It shall not die. 

Nur. Aaron, it must: the mother wills 
it so. 

Aar. What, must it, nurse? then let no 
man, but I, 
Do execution on my flesh and blood. 

Dem. I '11 broach the tadpole on my 
rapier's point; 
Nurse, give it me : my sword shall soon de- 
spatch it. 
Aar. Sooner this sword shall plow thy 
bowels up. 
Stay, murderous villains ! will you kill your 

brother? 

* * 

I tell you, younglings, not Enceladus, 
With all his threat'ning band of Typhon's 

brood, 
Xor great Alcides, nor the god of war, 
Shall seize this prey out of his father's 

hands. 
What, what ! ye sanguine, shallow-hearted 

boys ! 
Ye white-lim'd walls ! ye alehouse painted 

signs ! ♦ 

Coal-black is better than another hue, 
In that it scorns to bear another hue : 
For all the water in the ocean 
Can never turn a swan's black legs to white, 
Although she lave them hourly in the flood. 
Tell the empress from me, I am of age 
To keep mine own ; excuse it how she can. 
Tit. And., IV: 2. 1221. 



BLATHERSKITE. 



SO 



BLOOD. 



BLATHERSKITE.— A Loud Mouthed. 

Boy. * * I did never know so full a 
voice issue from so empty a heart ; but the 
saying is true, — The empty vessel makes 
the greatest sound. Bardolph, and Nym, 
had ten times more valour than this roaring 
devil i' the old play, that every one may 
pare his nails "with a wooden dagger ; and 
they are both hanged ; and so would this be, 
if he durst steal any thing adventurously. 

//. F., IV: 4. 846. 

BLEMISHES. — Demand Candor. 

Ant. * * 
Read not my blemishes in the world's re- 
port : 
I have not kept my square : but that to 

come 
Shall all be done by the rule. 

A. C, II: 3. 1551. 

BLINDNESS. — Varieties of. 

Laun. O Heavens, this is my true-be- 
gotten father ! who, being more than sand- 
blind, high-gravel blind, knows me not. 

M. V., II : 2. 368. 

—Willful. 
Leon. Have not you seen, Camillo, 

(But that 's past doubt — you have ; or your 

eye-glass 
Is thicker than a cuckold's horn,) or heard? 

W. T.,I: 2. 584. 

BLOOD. — Ancestral. 

Flu. All the water in Wye cannot wash 
your majesty's "Welsh plood out of your 
pody, I can tell you that : Got pless it and 
preserve it, as long as it pleases his grace, 
and his majesty too ! 

K. lien. Thanks, good my countryman. 

Flu. By Cheshu, I am your majesty's 
countryman, I care not who know it ; I will 
confess it to all the 'orld; I need not to be 
ashamed of your majesty, praised be God, 
so long as your majesty is an honest man. 

//. V., IV: 7. 848. 

— Ancestral Disgraced. 
Gaunt. O, spare me not, my brother 
Edward's son, 
For that I was his father Edward's son ; 
That blood already, like the pelican, v 
Hast thou tapp'd out, and drunkenly ca- 

rous'd 
My brother Gloster, plain well-meaning 
soul. 



(Whom fair befal in heaven 'mongst happy 

souls !) 
May be a precedent and witness good, 
That thou respect'st not spilling Edward's 

blood ; 
Join with the present sickness that I have ; 
And thy unkindness be like crooked age, 
To crop at once a too-long wither'd flower. 
Live in thy shame, but die not shame with 

thee ! — 
These words hereafter thy tormentors be ! 
Convey me to my bed, then to my grave : 
Love they to live, that love and honour 

have. 

R. II, II: 1. 693. 

— Innocent, Cries for Vengeance. 

Boling. * * 
Further I say, — and further will maintain 
Upon his bad life, to make all this good, — 
That he did plot the duke of Gloster's death ; 
Suggest his soon-believing adversaries ; 
And, consequently, like a traitor coward, 
Sluic'd out his innocent soul through streams 

of blood : 
Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries, 
Even from the tongueless caverns of the 

earth, 
To me, for justice, and rough chastisement ; 
And, by the glorious worth of my descent, 
This arm shall do it, or this life be spent. 

R.II.,1: 1. 685. 

— Lays Summer's Dust. 

Boling. * * 

If not, I '11 use the advantage of my power, 

And lay the summer's dust with showers of 
blood, 

Rain'd from the wounds of slaughter'd En- 
glishmen : 

The which, how far off from the mind of 
Bolingbroke 

It is, such crimson tempest should bedrench 

The fresh green lap of fair king Richard's 
land, 

My stooping duty tenderly shall show. 

R. II, III : 3. 703. 

—New Shed. 

Quin. * * 
Upon whose leaves are drops of new-shed 

blood, 

As fresh as morning's dew distill'd on 

flowers? 

Tit. And., II : 4. 1211. 



BLOOD. 



51 



BLOODSHED, 



— Royal, -will Show. 
Bel. * * 
These boys know little, they are sons to the 

king: 
Nor Cymbeline dreams that they are alive. 
They think, they are mine : and, though 

train'd up thus meanly 
I' the cave, wherein they bow, their thoughts 

do hit 
The roofs of palaces ; and nature prompts 

them, 
In simple and low things, to prince it, much 
Beyond the trick of others. This Poly- 

dore, — 
The heir of Cymbeline and Britain, whom 
The king his father call'd Guiderius, — 

Jove! 
When on my three-foot stool I sit, and tell 
The warlike feats I have done, his spirits fly 

out 
Into my story: say, — "Thus mine enemy 

fell ;> 
And thus I set my foot on his neck ; " even 

then 
The princely blood flows in his cheek, he 

sweats, 
Strains his young nerves, and puts himself 

in posture 
That acts my words. The younger brother 

Cadwal, 
(Once, Arviragus,) in as like a figure, 
Strikes life into my speech, and shows much 

more 

His own conceiving. 

Cym., Ill : 3. 1607. 

— Shed in Rage. 

K. Phi. * * 
Or shall we give the signal to our rage, 
And stalk in blood to our possession? 

R.J.,II: l. 652. 

— Shedding of. 

K. John. They burn in indignation; I 
repent ; 
There is no sure foundation set on blood ; 
No certain life achiev'd by others' death. 

K. J., IV: 2. 666. 

— Stains, Show the Hero. 

Vol. Indeed, you shall not. 
Methinks, I hear hither your husband's 
drum ; 



See him pluck Aufidius down by the hair ; 

As children from a bear, the Voices shun- 
ning him : 

Methinks, I see him stamp thus, and call 
thus,— 

"Come on, you cowards, you were got in 
fear, 

Though you were born in Rome : " His 
bloody brow 

With his mail'd hand then wiping, forth he 
goes; 

Like to a harvest-man, that 's task'd to mow 

Or all, or lose his hire. 

Vir. His bloody brow ! O, Jupiter, no 

blood ! 
Vol. Away, you fool ! it more becomes 
a man, 

Than gilt his trophy : The breasts of Hec- 
uba, 

When she did suckle Hector, look'd not 
lovelier 

Than Hector's forehead, when it spit forth 
blood 

At Grecian swords' contending. — Tell Va- 
leria, 

We are fit to bid her welcome. 

C, 1 : 3. 1153. 

BLOODLESSNESS.— Discerned. 

Sir To. * * For Andrew, if he were 
opened, and you find so much blood in his 
liver as will clog the foot of a flea, I '11 eat 
the rest of the anatomy. 

T. 2T., Ill: 2. 557. 

BLOODSHED. — Justified. 

K. Hen. * * 
For God doth know, how many now in 

health, 
Shall drop their blood in approbation 
Of what your reverence shall incite us to : 
Therefore take heed how you impawn our 

person, 
How you awake the sleeping sword of war ; 
We charge you in the name of God, take 

heed : 
For never two such kingdoms did contend, 
Without much fall of blood ; whose guilt- 
less drops 
Are every one a woe, a sore complaint, 
'Gainst him, whose wrongs give edge unto 

the swords 
That make such waste in brief mortality. 

H. V., 1 : 2. 821. 



BLUNTNESS. 



52 



BOASTING. 



BLUNTNESS.— In Whom Relished. 

Cas. He speaks home, madam ; you may 
relish him more in the soldier, than in the 
scholar. 

0., II : 1. 1502. 

BLUSH.— A Sign of Honesty. 

Sur. * * 

Now, if you can blush, and cry guilty, car- 
dinal, 
You '11 show a little honesty. 

E. VIII.,111: 2. 1080. 

— Habitual. 

P. Hen. O villain, thou stolest a cup of 
sack eighteen years ago, and wert taken 
with the manner, and ever since thou hast 
blushed extempore : Thou hadst fire and 
sword on thy side, and yet thou ran'st away ; 
What instinct hadst thou for it? 

E. IV., lpt., II: 4. 741. 

— Treachery of. 

Chi. I blush to think upon this igno- 
miny. 
Aar. Why, there 's the privilege your 
beauty bears : 
Fye, treacherous hue ! that will betray with 

blushing 
The close enacts and counsels of the heart ! 
Tit. And., IV: 2. 1221. 

BLUSHES.— Of Modesty. 

Adr. * * 
What observation mad'st thou in this case, 
Of his heart's meteors tilting in his face? 

C.E.,TV: 2. 205. 
Oth. * * 
I should make very forges of my cheeks, 
That would to cinders burn up modesty, 
Did I but speak thy deeds. 

<?., IV: 2. 1522. 

BLUSTER. — Sign of Cowardice. 

Boy. For Pistol, — he hath a killing 
tongue, and a quiet sword. 

H. V. Ill : 2. 832 

BOASTER. — Described by a Boaster. 

Fal. * * Like a man made after sup- 
per of a cheese-paring : when he was naked, 
he was, for all the world, like a forked 
radish, with a head fantastically carved 
upon it with a knife. 

H. 7F.,2pt.,in: 2. 794. 



BOASTING. — Egotistical. 

Glend. * * At my birth, 
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, 
The goats ran from the mountains, and the 

herds 
Were strangely clamorous to the frighted 

fields. 
These signs have mark'd me extraordinary ; 
And all the courses of my life do show, 
I am not in the roll of common men. 

H.lt., lpt.,m: 1. 744. 

— Good Grounds for. 

K. Hen. * * 
And is not this an honourable spoil? 
A gallant prize? ha, cousin, is it not? 

West. Faith 't is a conquest for a prince 
to boast of. 

E. IV., lpt., I: 1. 728. 

— Henry's. 

K. Hen. * * 
Either our history shall, with full mouth, 
Speak freely of our acts ; or else our grave, 
Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless 

mouth, 
Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph. 

II. V., 1 : 2. 823. 

— Loud. 

War. * * 
The wrinkles in my brows, now fill'd with 

blood, 
Were liken'd oft to kingly sepulchres ; 
For who liv'd king, but I could dig his 
grave ? 

II. VI, 3 pt., V : 2. 988. 

— Mocked. 

Rom. A gentleman, nurse, that loves to 
hear himself talk ; and will speak more in a 
minute, than he will stand to in a month. 

R. J., II : 4. 1256. 

Tro. O, sir, to such as boasting show 
their scars, 
A mock is due. Will you walk on, my 

lord? 
She was belov'd, she lov'd ; she is, and cloth : 
But, still, sweet love is food for fortune's 
tooth. 

T. C, IV : 5. 1135. 



BOASTING. 



53 



BOMBAST. 



— Ridiculed. 

Gow. Why, here he comes, swelling like 
a turkey-cock. 

H. V., V : 1. 852. 

— Vain. 

Vol. * * 
Thou hast affected the fine strains of honour, 
To imitate the graces of the gods ; 
To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' the 

air, 
And yet to charge thy sulphur with a bolt 
That should but rive an oak. 

C, V : 3. 1190. 

BODY.— Paste and Cover. 

K. Rich. * * 
And nothing can we call our own, but 

death ; 
And that small model of the barren earth, 
Which serves as paste and cover to our 
bones. 

E. II., Ill : 2. 702. 

K. John. * * Within this wall of flesh 
There is a soul, counts thee her creditor. 

K.J. ,111: 3. 661. 

— The Lees of Life. 

Macb. '* * 
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees 
Is left this vault to brag of. 

31., II : 3. 1366. 

Boling. * * This frail sepulchre of 
our flesh. 

E. II, 1 : 3. 689. 

BOISTEROUSNESS.— Irreverent. 

Boats. When the sea is. Hence ! What 
care these roarers for the name of king? 

T.,1: 1. 7. 

B OLDNES S. — Artificial. 

Lady M. That which hath made them 
drunk hath made me bold : 

What hath quench'd them, hath given me 
fire : — Hark ! — Peace ! 

It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bell- 
man, 

Which gives the stern'st good-night. He is 
about it : 

The doors are open; and the surfeited 
grooms 



Do mock their charge with snores : I have 

drugg'd their possets, 
That death and nature do contend about 

them, 
Whether they live, or die. 

31, II: 2. 1364. 

BOMBAST.— Armado's. 

King. * * (Reading.) 

So it is, besieged with sable-coloured mel- 
ancholy, I did commend the black-oppress- 
ing humour to the most wholesome physick 
of thy health-giving air : and, as I am a 
gentleman, betook myself to walk. The 
time when? About the sixth hour; when 
beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men 
sit down to that nourishment which is called 
supper. So much for the time when : Now 
for the ground which ; which, I mean, I 
walked upon : it is ycleped thy park. Then 
for the place where ; where, I mean, I did 
encounter that obscene and most piepostei'- 
ous- event, that draweth from my snow-white 
pen the ebon-coloured ink, which here thou 
viewest, beholdest, surveyest, or seest : But 
to the place where, — It standeth north- 
north-east and by east from the west corner 
of thy curious-knotted garden. There did 
I see that low-spirited swain, that base min- 
now of thy mirth, 

* * 

— sorted, and consorted, contrary to thy 
established proclaimed edict and continent 
canon, with — with — O with — but with this 
I passion to say wherewith, 

* * 

— with a child of our grandmother Eve, a 
female ; or, for thy more sweet understand- 
ing, a woman. Him I (as my ever-esteemed 
duty pricks me on) have sent to thee, to re- 
ceive the meed of punishment, by thy sweet 
grace's officer, Antony Dull ; a man of good 
repute, carriage, bearing, and estimation. 

* * 

For Jaquenetta (so is the weaker vessel 
called, which I apprehended with the afore- 
said swain,) I keep her as a vessel of thy 
law's fury ; and shall, at the least of thy 
sweet notice, bring her to trial. Thine, in 
all compliments of devoted and heart-burn- 
ing heat of duty. 

L.L.,I: 1. 274. 

— Falstaff's. 

P. Hen. * * Here comes lean Jack, 
here comes bare-bone. How now, my sweet 
creature of bombast? How long is 't ago, 
Jack, since thou sawest thine own knee? 

Fal. My own knee? when I was about 
thy years, Hal, I was not an eagle's talon in 
the waist ; I could have crept into any 



BOMBAST. 



54 



BONDAGE. 



alderman's thumb-ring. A plague of sigh- 
ing and grief! it blows a man up like a 
bladder. 

* * 

P. lien. He that rides at high speed, 
and with his pistol kills a sparrow flying. 
Fal. You have hit it. 
P. Hen. So did he never the sparrow. 

//. IV., 1 pt., II : 4. 741. 

— Of Patroclus. 

Ulyss. * * Sometime, great Agamem- 
non, 
Thy topless deputation he puts on ; 
And, like a strutting player, — whose con- 
ceit 
Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich 
To hear the wooden dialogue and sound 
'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaflbld- 

age, — 
Such to-be-pitied and o'er-wrested seeming 
He acts thy greatness in : and when he 



'T is like a chime a mending : with terms 

unsquar'd, 
Which, from the tongue of roaring Typhon 

dropp'd, 
AVould seem hyperboles. 

T. C, I : 3. 1109. 

— Touchstone's. 

Touch. Then learn this of me ; To have, 
is to have : For it is a figure in rhetoric, 
that drink, being pour'd out of a cup into a 
glass, by filling the one, doth empty the 
other : for all your writers do consent, that 
ipse is he ; now, you are not ipse, for I am 
he. 

Will. Which he, sir? 

Touch. He, sir, that must marry this 
woman ! Therefore, you, clown, abandon, 
which is in the vulgar, leave, the society, 
which in the boorish is, company, of this 
female, which in the common is, woman, 
which together is, abandon the society of 
this female ; or, clown, thou perishest ; or, 
to thy better understanding, diest; or to 
wit, I kill thee, make thee away, translate 
thy life into death, thy liberty into bondage ; 
I will deal in poison with thee, or in basti- 
nado, or in steel : I will bandy with thee in 
faction ; I will o'errun thee with policy ; I 
will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways ; 
therefore, tremble, and depart. 

A. F.,V: 1. 433. 

BOND. — Relentless Exaction of a. 

Por. Why, this bond is forfeit ; 

And lawfully by this the Jew may claim 



A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off 
Nearest the merchant's heart : — Be merci- 
ful; 
Take thrice thy money : bid me tear the 
bond. 
Shy. When it is paid according to the 
tenor. 
It doth appear you are a worthy judge ; 
You know the law ; your exposition 
Hath been most sound : I charge you by 

the law, 
Whereof you are a well-deserving pillar, 
Proceed to judgment : by my soul I swear, 
There is no power in the tongue of man 
To alter me : I stay here on my bond. 

M. V., IV : 1. 385. 

— Shy lock's Pound of Flesh. 

Shy. This kindness will I show : 
Go with me to a notary : seal me there 
Your single bond ; and, in a merry sport, 
If you repay me not on such a day, 
In such a place, such sum, or sums, as are 
Express'd in the condition, let the forfeit 
Be nominated for an equal pound 
Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken 
In what part of your body pleaseth me. 

M. V., 1 : 3. 366. 

BONDAGE. — Conscience Embitters. 

Post. Most welcome, bondage ! for thou 

art a way, 
I think, to liberty : Yet am I better 
Than one that 's sick o' the gout : since he 

had rather 
Groan so in perpetuity, than be cur'd 
By the sure physician, death; who is the 

key 
To unbar these locks. My conscience ! thou 

art fetter'd 
More than my shanks, and wrists : You 

good gods, give me 
The penitent instrument, to pick that bolt, 
Then, free for ever! Is 't enough, I am 

sorry? 
So children temporal fathers do appease ; 
Gods are more full of mercy. Must I re- 
pent ? 
\ cannot do it better than in gyves, 
Desir'd, more than constraint : to satisfy, 
If of my freedom 't is the main part, take 
No stricter render of me, than my all. 



BONDAGE. 



55 



BORROWER. 



I know, you are more clement than vile 

men, 
Who of their broken debtors take a third, 
A sixth, a tenth, letting them thrive again 
On their abatement : that 's not my desire : 
For Imogen's dear life, take mine ; and 

though 
'T is not so dear, yet 't is a life ; you coin'd 

it: 
'Tween man and man, they weigh not every 

stamp ; 
Though light, take pieces for the figure's 

sake : 
You .rather mine, being yours: And so, 

great powers, 
If you will take this audit, take this life, 
And cancel these cold bonds. O Imogen ! 
I '11 speak to thee in silence. 

Ctyra., V: 4. 1623. 

— Vilest to the Great. 
Mar. To be a queen in bondage is more 
vile 
Than is a slave in base servility ; 
For princes should be free. 

H. VI. , 1 pt., V : 3. 894. 

— Voiceless. 

Jul. * * 

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud ; 

Else would I tear the cave where echo lies, 

And make her airy tongue more hoarse than 

mine. 

S.J.,Il: 2. 1253. 

BOOKS.— A Secret Power. 

Cal. Why, as I told thee, 't is a custom 
with him 
I' the afternoon to sleep : there thou mayst 

brain him, 
Having first seiz'd his books ; or with a log 
Batter his skull, or paunch him with a stake, 
Or cut his wezand with thy knife : Remem- 
ber 
First to possess his books ; for, without 

them, 
He 's but a sot, as I am, nor hath not 
One spirit to command : They all do hate 

him 
As rootedly as I : Burn but his books ; 
He has brave utensils, (for so he calls them,) 
Which, when he has a house, he '11 deck 
withal. 



And that most deeply to consider, is 
The beauty of his daughter ; he himself 
Calls her a nonpareil : I never saw a woman 
But only Sycorax my dam, and she ; 
But she as far surpasseth Sycorax, 
As great'st does least. 

T., Ill : 2. 23. 

— A Solace. 

Tit. * * 
Come, and take choice of all my library, 
And so beguile thy sorrow. 

Tit. And., IV: 1. 1219. 

— Full of Dainties. 

Nath. Sir, he hath never fed of the 
dainties that are bred ir^ a book ; he hath 
not eat paper, as it were ; he hath not drunk 
ink: his intellect is not replenished; he is 
only an animal, only sensible in the duller 
parts. 

L. L., IV: 2. 285. 

BORES.— Insufferable. 

Hot. * * 0, he 's as tedious 
As is a tired horse, a railing wife ; 
Worse than a smoky house : — I had rather 

live 
With cheese and garlic, in a windmill, far, 
Than feed on cates, and have him talk to 

me, 
In any summer house in Christendom. 

J5r./F.,ipt.,III: 1. 746. 

BORROWER.— Affecting Honesty. 

Ven. Most honour'd Timon, 't hath 

pleas'd the gods remember 
My father's age, and call him to long peace. 
He is gone happy, and has left me rich : 
Then, as in grateful virtue I am bound 
To your free heart, I do return those talents, 
Doubled, with thanks, and service, from 

whose help 
I deriv'd liberty. 

Tim. O, by no means, 

Honest Ventidius : you mistake my love ; 
I gave it freely ever ; and there 's none 
Can truly say, he gives, if he receives : 
If our betters play at that game, we must 

not dare 
To imitate them : Faults that are rich, are 

fair. 

T. A., 1 : 2. 1290. 



BORROWER. 



BRAGGART. 



— Dulls the Edge. 

Pol. Neither a borrower, nor a lender 
be; 
For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; 
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 

II., I: 3. 1397. 

— No Hope for the. 

Fal. I can get no remedy against this 
consumption of the purse : borrowing only 
lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is 
incurable. 

H. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 2. 778. 

BOUNTIFUL.— The. 

Lor. Fair ladies, you drop manna in the 
way 
Of starved people.* 

M. V., V: 1. 391. 

Mori. * * Valiant as a lion, 
And wond'rous affable ; and as bountiful 
As mines of India. 

H.ir.,l]?t.,IJl: 1. 746. 

Lov. That churchman bears a bounteous 
mind indeed, 
A- hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us. 
//. VIII., 1 : 3. 1063. 

BOUNTY.— Should have Eyes Behind. 

Fla. * * 
'T is pity, bounty had not eyes behind ; 
That man might ne'er be wretched for his 
mind. 

T. A., 1 : 2. 1292. 

— Unexhaus te d. 

Cleo. * * For his bounty, 
There was no winter in 't ; an autumn 't was ; 
That grew the more by reaping. 

A. C, V : 2. 1578. 

BOYHOOD.— Innocence of. 

Pol. We were as twinn'd lambs, that did 

frisk i' the sun, 
And bleat the one at th' other : What we 

chang'd 
AVas innocence for innocence ; we knew not 
The doctrine of ill-doing, nor dream'd 
That any did : Had we pursu'd that life, 
And our weak spirits ne'er been higher 

rear'd 



With stronger blood, we should have an- 

swer'd Heaven 
Boldly, "Not guilty ; " the imposition clear'd 
Hereditary ours. 

W. T.,I: 2. 581. 

— Thoughtless. 
Pol. We were, fair queen, 

Two lads, that thought there was no more 

behin 1 
But such a day to-morrow as to-day, 
And to be boy eternal. 

W. T., 1 : 2. 581. 

BOYS.— Pretty. 

Eno. * * 
Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling 
Cupids. 

A. C., II: 2. 1550. 

BRAG.— Provoked. 

Hect. Wert thou an oracle to tell me so, 
I 'd not believe thee. Henceforth guard 

thee well : 
For I '11 not kill thee there, nor there, nor 

there : 
But, by the forge that stithied Mars his 

helm, 
I '11 kill thee every where, yea, o'er and 

o'er. — 
You wisest Grecians, pardon me this brag, 
His insolence draws folly from my lips ; 
But I '11 endeavour deeds to match these 

words, 

Or may I never 

T. C, IV : 5. 1134. 

BRAGGART. — Always an Ass. 

Par. * * Captain I '11 be no more ; 
But I will eat and drink, and sleep as soft 
As captain shall ; simply the thing I am 
Shall make me live. Who knows himself a 

braggart, 
Let him fear this ; for it will come to pass, 
That every braggart shall be found an ass. 
A. W., IV: 3. 522. 

—Fights Dead Lions. 

Bart. * * 
You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, 
Whose valour plucks dead lions by the 
beard. 

K. J., II : 1. 651. 



BRAGGART. 



57 



BRAGGARTS. 



— Forbearance with a. 

Clo. Soft ! What are you 

That fly me thus ? some villain mountaineers ? 
I have heard of such. — What slave art thou? 

Gui. A thing 

More slavish did I ne'er, than answering 
"A slave " without a knock. 

Clo. Thou art a robber, 

A law-breaker, villain : Yield thee, thief. 

Gui. To who? to thee? What art thou? 
Have not I 
An arm as big as thine? a heart as big? 
Thy words, I grant, are bigger ; for I wear 

• not 
My dagger in my mouth. Say, what thou 

art ; 
Why I should yield to thee ? 

Clo. Thou villain base, 

Know'st me not by my clothes? 

Gui. No, nor thy tailor, rascal, 

Who is thy grandfather; he made those 

clothes, 
Which, as it seems, make thee. 

Clo. Thou precious varlet, 

My tailor made them not. 

Gui. Hence then, and thank 

The man that gave them thee. Thou art 

some fool ; 
I am loath to beat thee. 



Cym., IV : 2. 1615. 



Picture of a. 



Fal. * * Lord, Lord, how subject we 
old men are to this vice of lying ! This same 
starved justice hath done nothing but prate 
to me of the wildness of his youth, and the 
feats he hath done about Turnbull-street ; 
and every third word a lie, duer paid to the 
hearer than the Turk's tribute. I do re- 
member him at Clement's-inn, like a man 
made after supper of a cheese-paring : when 
lie was naked, he was, for all the world, like 
a forked radish, with a head fantastically 
carved upon it with a knife : he was so for- 
lorn, that his dimensions to any thick sight 
Avere invisible : he was the very Genius of 
famine ; yet lecherous as a monkey, and the 
whores called him — mandrake: he came 
ever in the rear-ward of the fashion ; and 
sung those tunes to the over-scutched hus- 
wives that he heard the carmen whistle, and 
sware — they were his fancies, or his good- 
nights. And now is this Vice's dagger be- 
come a squire ; and talks as familiarly of 
John of Gaunt, as if he had been sworn 
brother to him : and I '11 be sworn he never 



saw him but once in the Tilt-yard ; and then 
he burst his head, for crowding among the 
marshal's men. I saw it ; and told John of 
Gaunt, he beat his own name: for you 
might have truss'd him, and all his apparel, 
into an eel-skin : the case of a treble haut- 
boy was a mansion for him, a court; and 
now has he lands and beeves. Well; I will 
be acquainted with him, if I return : and it 
shall go hard, but I will make him a philos- 
opher's two stones to me : If the young 
dace be a bait for the old pike, I see no 
reason, in the laAv of nature, but I may snap 
at him. Let time shape, and there an end. 

II. IV., 2 pt., Ill : 2. 794. 

— Profane. 

1 Lord. * * Is not this a strange fel- 
low, my lord, that so confidently seems to 
undertake this business, which he knows is 
not to be done ; damns himself to do, and 
dares better be damned than to clo 't? 

A. W., Ill : 6. 516. 

— Subterfuges of a. 

F. Hen. * * Charge an honest woman 
with picking thy pocket ! Why, thou * * 
impudent, embossed rascal, if there were 
any thing in thy pocket but tavern-reckon- 
ings, memorandums * * and one poor 
pennyworth of sugar candy to make thee 
long-winded ; if thy pocket were enriched 
with any other injuries but these-, I am a 
villain. And yet you will stand to it ; you 
will not pocket up wrong : Art thou not 
ashamed? 

Fal. Dost thou hear, Hal? thou knowest, 
in the state of innocency, Adam fell ; and 
what should poor Jack Falstaff do, in the 
days of villany? Thou seest, I have more 
flesh than another man ; and therefore more 
frailty. 

II. IV., 1 pt., Ill : 3. 751. 

BRAGGARTS. — Infamy Proclaimed. 

Foins. Welcome, Jack. Where hast 
thou been? 

Fal. A plague of all cowards, I say, 
and a vengeance too ! marry, and amen ! — 
Give me a cup of sack, boy. — Ere I lead 
this life long, I '11 sew nether-stocks, and 
mend them, and foot them too. A plague 
of all cowards! — Give me a cup of sack, 
rogue. — Is there no virtue extant? 

P. Tien. Didst thou never see Titan kiss 
a dish of butter? pitiful-hearted Titan, that 
melted at the sweet tale of the son ! if thou 
didst, then behold that compound. 

Fal. You rogue, here 's lime in this sack 
too : There is nothing but roguery to be 



BRAGGARTS. 



58 



BRAINS. 



found in villanous man : Yet a coward is 
worse than a cup of sack with lime in it ; a 
villanous coward. — Go thy ways, old Jack ; 
die when thou wilt-, if manhood, good man- 
hood, be not forgot upon the face of the 
earth, then am I a shotten herring. There 
live not three good men unhanged in Eng- 
land ; and one of them is fat, and grows 
old : God help the while ! a bad world, I 
say ! I would, I were a weaver ; I could 
sing psalms or any thing. A plague of all 
cowards, I say still. * * I call the cow- 
ard ! I '11 see thee damned ere I call thee 
coward : but I would give a thousand pound, 
I could run as fast as thou canst. You are 
straight enough in the shoulders, you care 
not who sees your back : Call you that 
backing of your friends? A plague upon 
such backing ! give me them that will face 
me. — Give me a cup of sack: — I am a 
rogue, if I drunk to-day. * * A king's 
son ! If I do not beat thee out of thy king- 
dom with a dagger of lath, and drive all thy 
subjects afore thee like a flock of wild geese, 
I '11 never wear hair on my face more. You 
prince of "Wales ! 

H. IV., 1 pt., II : 4. 739. 



— Inventions of. 

P. Hen. What, stand'st thou idle here? 
lend me thy sword : 
Many a nobleman lies stark and stiff 
Under the hoofs of vaunting enemies, 
Whose deaths are unreveng'd : Pr'ythee, 
lend thy sword. 

Fal. Hal, I pr'ythee, give me leave to 
breathe awhile. — Turk Gregory never did 
such deeds in arms, as I have done this day. 
I have paid Percy, I have made him sure. 

P. lien. He is, indeed ; and living to 
kill thee. 
Lend me thy sword, I pr'ythee. 

Fal. Nay, before God, Hal, if Percy be 
alive, thou gett'st not my sword; but take 
my pistol, if thou wilt. 

P. lien. Give it me : What, is it in the 
case? 

Fal. Ay, Hal ; 't is hot, 't is hot ; there 
\s that will sack a city. 

//. /r.,lpt., V: 3. 759. 



— Their Tearfulness. 

Fal. Though I could 'scape shot-free at 
London, I fear the shot here ; here 's no 
scoring, but upon the pate. — Soft! who art 
thou? Sir Walter Blunt ; — there 's honour 
for you : Here's no vanity! — I am as hot 
as molten lead, and as heavy too : God keep 



lead out of me ! I need no more weight 
than mine own bowels. — I have led my rag- 
gamuffins where they are peppered : there 's 
but three of my hundred and fifty left alive ; 
and they are for the town's end, to beg dur- 
ing life. But who comes here? 



//. IV., lpt.,V: 



759. 



BRAG-G-ING.— No Help. (See Mod- 
esty.) 

Con. Even as your horse bears your 
praises ; who would trot as well, were some 
of your brags dismounted. 

IT. V., Ill : 7. 838. 

— Proof of Poverty. 

Jul. Conceit, more rich in matter than 
in words. 
Brags of his substance, not of ornament : 
They are but beggars that can count their 
worth. 

E.J.,Il: 6. 1258. 

BRAINS. — Cannot be Knocked Out. 
Qui. This Cloten was a fool ; an empty 
purse, — 
There was no money in 't : not Hercules 
Could have knock'd out his brains, for he 

had none : 
Yet I not doing this, the fool had borne 
My head, as I do his. 

Bel. What hast thou done? 

Gui. I am perfect, what : cut off one 
Cloten's head, 
Son to the queen, after his own report ; 
Who call'd me traitor, mountaineer ; and 

swore, 
With his own single hand he 'd take us in, 
Displace our heads, where (.thank the gods !) 

they grow, 
And set them on Lud's town. 

Cym., IV : 2. 1616. 

— Men 'Without, Powerless. 

Titer. * * If Troy be not taken till 
these two undermine it, the walls will stand 
till they fall of themselves. * * If ye 
take not that little little less-than-little wit 
from them that they have ! which short- 
armed ignorance itself knows is so abundant 
scarce, it will not in circumvention deliver 
a fly from a spider, without drawing their 
massy irons, and cutting the web. 

T. C II : 3. 1116. 



BRAVADO. 



59 



BRAVERY. 



BRAVADO. 

~Tym,. 



A Dependence. 

I dare not fight ; but I will 



wink, and hold out mine iron : It is a simple 
one ; but what though? it will toast cheese, 
and it will endure cold as another man's 
sword will : and there 's the humour of it. 

//. V., II : l. 825. 

BRAVERY. — False. 

Orl. Foolish curs ! that run winking into 
the mouth of a Russian bear, and have their 
heads crushed like rotten apples : You may 
as well say, — that 's a valiant flea, that dare 
eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. 

//. V., Ill: 7. 839. 

— Incentives to. 

K. Hen. Once more unto the breach. 

dear friends, once more ; 
Or close the wall up with our English dead ! 
In peace, there 's nothing so becomes a 

man, 
As modest stillness, and humility : 
But when the blast of war blows in our 

ears, 
Then imitate the action of the tiger. 
* * 

Be copy now to men of grosser blood, 
And teach them how to war ! — And you, 

good yoemen, 
Whose limbs Avere made in England, show 

us here 
The mettle of your pasture ; let us swear 
That you are worth your breeding : which I 

doubt not ; 
For there is none of you so mean and base, 
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. 
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, 
Straining upon the start. The game 's 

afoot : 
Follow your spirit : and, upon this charge, 
Cry — God for Harry ! England ! and Saint 

George ! 

H. V., Ill: l. 831. 

— Its Fame. 

Pan. That 's iEneas : Is not that a brave 
man? he 's one of the flowers of Troy, I can 
tell you. 

T. C, 1 : 2. 1106. 

— Mocked. 

Cel. 0, that 's a brave man! he writes 
brave verses, speaks brave words, swears 
brave oaths, and breaks them bravely, quite 



traverse, athwart the heart of his lover ; as 
a puisne tilter, that spurs his horse but on 
one side, breaks his staff like a noble goose ; 
but all 's braA-e that youth mounts, and folly 
guides : — Who comes here? 

A. Y., Ill: 4. 426. 

— National. 

Queen. * * 
The natural bravery of your isle ; which 

stands 
As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in 
With rocks unscaleable, and roaring Avaters ; 
With sands, that Avill not bear your enemies' 

boats, 
But suck them up to the top-mast. 

Cym., Ill: 1. 1604. 

— Never Flies. 

Lucy. Too late comes rescue ; he is ta'en, 
or slain : 
For fly he could not, if he Avould have fled ; 
And fly Avould Talbot never, though he 
might. 

//. ri., lpt., IV: 4. 888. 

— Proud of Wounds. 

Scar. O my brave emperor, this is fought 
indeed ! 
Had Ave done so at first, we had driven them 

home 
With clouts about their heads. 

Ant. Thou bleed'st apace. 

Scar. I had a Avound here that was like 
aT, 
But now 't is made an H. 

Ant. They do retire. 

Scar. We '11 beat 'em into bench-holes ; 
I have yet 
Room for six scotches more. 

A. C IV : 7. 1571. 

— Seeks the Post of Danger. 
Mar. I do beseech you, 

By all the battles wherein Ave have fought, 
By the blood Ave have shed together, by the 

vows 
We have made to endure friends, that you 

directly 
Set me against Aufidius, and his Antiates : 
And that you not delay the present ; but, 
Filling the air with swords advanc'd, and 

darts, 



BRAVERY. 



60 



BRAVERY. 



We prove this very hour. 

Com. Though I could wish 

You were conducted to a gentle bath, 
And balms applied to you, yet dare I never 
Deny your asking ; take your choice of 

those 
That best can aid your action. 

Mar. Those are they 

That most are willing: — If any such be 

here, 
(As it were sin to doubt,) that love this 

painting 
Wherein'you see me smear'd; if any fear 
Lesser his person than an ill report ; 
If any think, brave death outweighs bad life, 
Let him, alone, or so many, so minded, 
Wave thus, [ Waving his Hand~\ to express 

Lis disposition, 
And follow Marcius. 
me, alone ! Make you a sword of me? 
If these shows be not outward, which of you 
But is four Voices? None of you but is 
Able to bear against the great Aufidius 
A shield as hard as his. A certain number, 
Though thanks to all, must I select : the 

rest 
Shall bear the business in some other sight, 
As cause will be obey'd. Please you to 

march \ 
And four shall quickly draw out my com- 
mand, 
Which men are best inclin'd. 

Com. March on, my fellows : 

Make good this ostentation, and you shall 

Divide in all with us. 

C., 1 : 6. 1157. 

— Suspicion of. 

Pan. Is 'a not? It does a man's heart 
good — Look you what hacks are on his hel- 
met? loolc you yonder, do you see? look 
you there! There 's no jesting: there 's 
laying on ; take 't off who will, as they say : 
there be hacks ! 

Cres. Be those with swords? 

T. C 1 : 2. 1106. 

— To be Feared. 

Chat. * * 
In brief, a braver choice of dauntless spirits, 
Than now the English bottoms have waft 

o'er, 
Did never float upon the swelling tide, 
To do offence and scath in Christendom. 

K. J., II : 1. 650. 



—Turns the Tide of Battle. 

Post. Close by the battle, ditch'd, and 
wall'd with turf; 
Which gave advantage to an ancient sol- 
dier, — 
An honest one, I warrant ; who deserv'd 
So long a breeding, as his white beard came 

to, 
In doing this for his country; — athwart the 

lane, 
He, with two striplings, (lads more like to 

run 
The country base, than to commit such 

slaughter ; 
Witli faces fit for masks, or rather fairer 
Than those for preservation cas'd, or shame) 
Made good the passage ; cry'd to those that 

fled, 
"Our Britain's harts die flying, not our 

men : 
To darkness fleet, souls that fly backwards ! 

Stand ; 
Or we are Romans, and will give you that 
Like beasts, which you shun beastly ; and 

may save, 
But to lookback in frown : stand, stand." — 

These three, 
Three thousand confident, in act as many, 
(For three performers are the file, when all 
The rest do nothing,) with this word " stand, 

stand," 
Accommodated by the place, more charm- 
ing, 
With their own nobleness, (which could 

have turn'd 
A distaff to a lance,) gilded pale looks, 
Part, shame, part, spirit renew'd ; that some, 

turn'd coward 
But by example, (0, a sin in war 
Damn'd in the first beginners !) 'gan to look 
The way that they did, and to grin like lions 
Upon the pikes o' the hunters. Then began 
A stop i' the chaser, a retire ; anon, 
A rout, confusion thick : Forthwith, they fly 
Chickens, the way which they stoop'd eagles ; 

slaves, 
The strides they victors made : And now 

our cowards 
(Like fragments in hard voyages,) became 
The life o' the need ; having found the back- 
door open 



BRAVERY. 



6l 



BRIBERY. 



Of the unguarded hearts, Heavens, how they 

wound ! 
Some, slain before; some, dying; some, 

their friends 
O'erborne i' the former wave : ten, chas'd 

by one, 
Are now each one the slaughter-man of 

twenty : 
Those, that would die or ere resist, are 

grown 
The mortal bugs o' the field. 

Lord. This was strange chance : 

A narrow lane ! an old man, and two boys ! 

Post. Nay, do not wonder at it : You are 

made 
Rather to wonder at the things you hear, 
Than to work any. Will you rhyme upon 't, 
And vent it for a mockery? Here is one : 
"Two boys, an old man twice a boy, a lane, 
Preserv'd the Britons, was the Roman's 

bane." 

Cym., V : 3. 1622. 

BRAWLING. — Destroys Reputation. 
Oth. Worthy Montano, you were wont 

be civil ; 
The gravity and stillness of your youth 
The world hath noted, and your name is 

great 
In mouths of wisest censure : What 's the 

matter, 
That you unlace your reputation thus, 
And spend your rich opinion, for the name 
Of a night-brawler? give me answer to it. 

O., II : 3. 1506. 

BREATH.— Perfuming the Air. 

Luc. Tranio, I saw her coral lips to 
move, 
And with her breath she did perfume the 

air; 
Sacred, and sweet, was all I saw in her. 

T. S., 1 : 1. 457. 

— Sweet. 

Per. * * 
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, 
Or Cytherea's breath. 

W. T.,IV: 3. 602. 

BREEDING.— Not to be Disguised. 

Pol. This is the prettiest low-born lass 
that ever 



Ran on the green sward : nothing she does 
or seems, 

But smacks of something greater than her- 
self; 

Too noble for this place. 

Cam. He tells her something 

That makes her blood look on 't ; Good 
sooth, she is 

The queen of curds and cream. 

W. T.,IV: 3. 602. 

—Will Tell. 

Bel. * * 
This youth, howe'er distress'd, appears, he 

hath had 
Good ancestors. 
Arv. How angel-like he sings ! 

Gui. But his neat cookery ! He cut 
our roots in characters ; 
And sauc'd our broths, as Juno had been 

sick, 
And he her dieter. 

Cym., IV: 2. 1615. 

BREVITY. — The Soul of Wit. 

Pol. * * 
Therefore, — since brevity is the soul of 

wit, 
And tediousness the limbs and outward 

flourishes, — 
I will be brief: Your noble son is mad : 
Mad call I it : for, to define true madness, 
What is 't, but to be nothing else but mad : 
But let that go. 

H., II : 2. 1404. 

BRIBE.— Its Power. 

Clo. He seems to be of great authority : 
close with him, give him gold ; and though 
authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft 
led by the nose with gold ; show the inside 
of your purse to the outside of his hand, 
and no more ado : Remember, ston'd and 
flay'd alive ! 

W. T.,IV: 3. 610. 

BRIBERY. — Disgraces a Roman. 

Cas. That you have wrong'd me, doth 

appear in this : 
You have condemn'd and noted Lucius 

Pella, 
For taking bribes here of the Sardians ; 
Wherein, my letters, praying on his side, 
Because I knew the man, were slighted off. 



BRIBERY. 



62 



BROTHERHOOD. 



Bru. You wrong'd yourself, to write in 

such a case. 
Cas. In such a time as this, it is not 
meet 
That every nice offence should bear his 
comment. 
Bru. Let me tell you, Cassius, you your- 
self 
Are much condemn'd to have an itching 

palm ; 
To sell and mart your offices for gold, 
To undeservers. 

Cas. I an itching palm? 

You know, that you are Brutus that speak 

this, 
Or, by the gods, this speech were else your 
last. 
Bru. The name of Cassius honours this 
corruption, 
And chastisement doth therefore hide his 
head. 
Cas. Chastisement ! 

Bru. Remember March, the ides of 
March remember ! 
Did not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? 
What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, 
And not for justice? What, shall one of us, 
That struck the foremost man of all this 

world, 
But for supporting robbers ; shall we now 
Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? 
And sell the mighty space of our large 

honours. 
For so much trash, as may be grasped 

thus? — 
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, 
Than such a Roman. 

J. C, IV : 3. 1344. 

— Its Power. 

King. * * 
In the corrupted currents of this world, 
Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice ; 
And oft 't is seen, the wicked prize itself 
Buys out the law. 

#.,111: 3. 1417. 

BRITAIN.— Neptune's Park. 

Queen. * * 
The natural bravery of your isle ; which 

stands 
As Neptune's park, ribbed and paled in 



With rocks unscaleable, and roaring waters ; 
With sands that will not bear your enemies' 

boots, 
But suck them up to the top-most. 

Cym., Ill: 1. 1604. 

BROILS. — Domestic. 

Duch Accursed and unquiet wrangling 
days ! 

How many of you have mine eyes beheld? 

My husband lost his life to get the crown ; 

And often up and down nry sons were tost, 

For me to joy, and weep, their gain, and 
loss ; 

And being seated, and domestic broils 

Clean over-blown, themselves, the con- 
querors, 

Make war upon themselves ; brother to 
brother, 

Blood to blood, self 'gainst self: — O, pre- 
posterous 

And frantic courage, end thy damned spleen ; 

Or let me die, to look on death no more ! 

R. III., II: 4. 1019. 

BROTHERHOOD.— Its Claims. 

Duch. Finds brotherhood in thee no 

sharper spur? 
Hath love in thy old blood no living fire? 
E hvard's seven sons, whereof thyself art 

one, 
Were as seven phials of his sacred blood, 
Or seven fair branches springing from one 

root : 
Some of those seven are dried by nature's 

course, 
Some of those branches by the destinies 

cut : 
But Thomas, my dear lord, my life, my 

Gloster, — 
One phial full of Edward's sacred blood, 
One flourishing branch of his most royal 

root, — 
Is crack'd, and all the precious liquor spilt ; 
Is hack'd down, and his summer leaves all 

faded, 
By envy's hand, and murder's bloody axe. 
Ah, Gaunt ! his blood was thine ; that bed, 

that womb, 
That mettle, that self-mould, that fashion'd 

thee, 



BROTHERHOOD. 



63 



BRUSQUENESS. 



Made him a man ; and though thou liv'st 
and breath'st, 

Yet art thou slain in him : thou dost con- 
sent 

In some large measure to thy father's 
death, 

In that thou seest thy wretched brother die, 

Who was the model of thy father's life. 

Call it not patience, Gaunt, it is despair : 

In suffering thus thy brother to be slaugh- 
ter'd, 

Thou show'st the naked pathway to thy life, 

Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee : 

That which in mean men we entitle — 
patience, 

Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. 

What shall I say? to safeguard thine own 
life, 

The best way is — to 'venge my Gloster's 

death. 

R. II, 1 : 2, 686. 

BROTHERS.— All Should be. 

Arv. * * 
Are we not brothers? 

Imo. So man and man should be ; 

But clay and clay differs in dignity, 
Whose dust is both alike. 

Gym., IV : 2. 1614. 

— Their Equality. 

Orl. Ay, better than him I am before 
knows me. I know you are my eldest 
brother ; and, in the gentle condition of 
blood, you should so know me. The court- 
esy of nations allows you my better, in 
that you are the first-born; but the same 
tradition takes not away my blood, were 
there twenty brothers betwixt us. I have 
as much of my father in me, as you ; albeit, 
I confess, your coming before me is nearer 
to his reverence. 

A. Y.,1: 1. 407. 

BROW.— A Title Leaf. 

North. Yea, this man's brow, like to a 
title-leaf, 
Foretels the nature of a tragic volume : 
So looks the strand, whereon the imperious 
flood 

Hath left a witness'd usurpation. 

H. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 1. 774. 

— Right Arched. 

Fal. * * Thou hast the right arched 
beauty of the brow, that becomes the ship- 



tire, the tire-valiant, or any tire of Venetian 
admittance. 

M. W., Ill: 3. 105. 

BROWS. — Black. 

Mam. Not for because 

Your brows are blacker ; yet black brows, 

they say, 
Become some women best ; so that there be 

not 
Too much hair there, but in a semicircle, 
Or a half-moon made with a pen. 

W. T., II: 1. 587. 

BRUSQUENESS. — A Sauce to Good 
Wit. 

Bru. What a blunt fellow is this grown 

to be ! 

He was quick mettle, when he went to 

school. 

Cas. So is he now, in execution 

Of any bold or noble enterprise, 

However he puts on this tardy form. 

This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, 

Which gives men stomach to digest his 

words 

With better appetite. 

J. C, 1 : 2. 1326. 

— Assumed by Craft. 

Corn. This is some fellow, . 

Who, having been prais'd for bluntness, 

doth affect 
A saucy roughness ; and constrains the 

garb, 
Quite from his nature : He cannot flatter, 

he! — 
An honest mind and plain, — he must speak 

truth : 
And they will take it, so ; if not, he 's plain. 
These kind of knaves I know, which in this 

plainness 
Harbour more craft, and more corrupter 

ends, 
Than twenty silly ducking observants, 
That stretch their duties nicely. 

K.L., II: 2. 1457. 

—Lying, Defense of. 

Glo. They do me wrong, and I will not 

endure it : — 
Who are they, that complain unto the king 
That I, forsooth, am stern, and love them 

not? 



BRUSQUENESS. 



6 4 



BUMMERS. 



By holy Paul, they love his grace but 

lightly, 
That fill his ears with such dissentious 

rumours. 
Because I cannot flatter, and speak fair, 
Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and 

cog, 
Duck with Trench nods and apish courtesy, 
I must be held a rancorous enemy. 
Cannot a plain man live, and think no harm, 
But thus his simple truth must be abus'd 
By silken, sly, insinuating Jacks? 

Grey. To whom in all this presence 

speaks your grace? 
Glo. To thee, that hast nor honesty, nor 

grace. 
When have I injur'd thee? when done thee 

wrong? — 
Or thee? — or thee? — or any of your fac- 
tion? 
A plague upon you all ! His royal grace, — 
Whom God preserve better than you would 

wish ! — 
Cannot be quiet scarce a breathing-while, 
But you must trouble him with lewd com- 
plaints. 
Q. Eliz. Brother of Gloster, you mistake 

the matter : 
The king, of his own royal disposition, 
And not provok'd by any suitor else ; 
Aiming, belike, at your interior hatred, 
That in your outward action shows itself, 
Against my children, brothers, and myself, 
Makes him to send ; that thereby he may 

gather 
The ground of your ill-will, and so remove 

it. 
Glo. I cannot tell ; — The world is grown 

so bad, 
That wrens may prey where eagles dare not 

perch : 
Since every Jack became a gentleman, 
There 's many a gentle person made a Jack. 
R. III., 1 : 3. 1007. 

— No Proof of 111 Nature. 

Mir a. Be of comfort ; 

My father 's of a better nature, sir, 

Than he appears by speech. 

T., 1 : 2. 14. 

— Resented and Rebuked. 

Q. Eliz. My lord of Gloster, I have too 
long borne 



Your blunt upbraidings, and your bitter 

scoffs : 
By heaven, I will acquaint his majesty, 
Of those gross taunts I often have endur'd. 
I had rather be a country servant-maid, 
Than a great queen, with this condition — 
To be so baited, scorn'd, and stormed at : 
Small joy have I in being England's queen. 
R. III., 1 : 3. 1007. 

BRUTALITY.— In the Great. 

Lod. My lord, this would not be believ'd 
in Venice, 
Though I should swear I saw it : 'T is very 

much ; 
Make her amends, she weeps. 

0., IV : 1. 1521. 

BUBBLES. —Earth's 

Ban. The earth hath bubbles, as the 
water has, 
And these are of them : — Whither are they 
vanish'd ? 
Macb. Into the air; and what seem'd 
corporal, melted 
As breath into the wind. — Would they had 
staid ! 

31., I: 3. 1359. 

BUFFOONERY.— Ability for. 

Bot. * * I could play Ercles rarely, 
or a part to tear a cat in, to make all split. 

M. N.,\: 2. 324. 

BULLETS. — Invoked. 

Eel. * * 0, you leaden messengers, 
That ride upon the violent speed of fire, 
Fly with false aim ; move the still-peering 

air, 
That sings with piercing ; do not touch my 
lord! 

A. IF., Ill : 2. 512. 

BUMMERS.— Only Think of Plunder. 

Mar. See here these movers, that do 
prize their hours 
At a crack'd drachm ! Cushions, leaden 

spoons, 
Irons of a doit, doublets that hangmen 

would 
Bury with those that wore them, these base 
slaves. 

C., I: 5. 1155. 



BURIAL. 



65 



CALAMITIES. 



BURIAL. — Antony's. 

Cleo. * * 
We '11 bury him; and then, what's brave, 

what 's noble, 
Let 's do it after the high Roman fashion, 
And make death proud to take us. Come, 

.away : 
This case of that huge spirit now is cold. 
Ah, women, women ! come ; we have no 

friend 
But resolution, and the briefest end. 

A. C., IV: 13. 1576. 

— Not to be Delayed. 

Gui. * * Let us bury him, 
And not protract with admiration what 
Is now due debt. — To the grave. 

Cym., IV: 2. 1617. 

— Plea for Honorable. 

Mar. My lord, this is impiety in you : 
My nephew Mutius' deeds do plead for him ; 
He must be buried with his brethren. 
* * 

Mar. Suffer thy brother Marcus to inter 
His noble nephew here in virtue's nest, 
That died in honour and Lavinia's cause. 
Thou art a Roman, be not barbarous. 
The Greeks, upon advice, did bury Ajax 
That slew himself; and wise Laertes' son 
Did graciously plead for his funerals. 
Let not young Mutius then, that was thy 

joy, 
Be barr'd his entrance here. 



Tit. Rise, Marcus, rise: — 

The dismall'st day is this, that e'er I saw, 
To be dishonour'd by my sons in Rome : 
Well, bury him, and bury me the next. 

Tit. And., 1 : 2. 1205. 

BURIAL-PLACE.— Not to be Polluted. 

Tit. Traitors, away ! he rests not in this 

tomb; 

This monument five hundred years hath 

stood, 
Which I have sumptuously re-edified : 
Here none but soldiers, and Rome's ser- 
vitors, 
Repose in fame ; none basely slain in 

brawls : — 
Bury him where you can, he comes not here. 
Tit. And., 1 : 2. 1205. 
BUSINESS.— Some, Loved. 

Ant. To business that we love, we rise 
be time, 
And go to it with delight. 

A. C, IV: 4. 1569. 

"BUT YET."— Not Liked. 

Cleo. I do not like "but yet," it does 
allay 
The good precedence ; fie upon "but yet :" 
" But yet" is as a gaoler to bring forth 
Some monstrous malefactor. Pr'ythee, 

friend, 
Pour out the pack of matter to mine ear, 
The good and bad together. 

A. C, II : 5. 1552. 



CALAMITIES.— Move the Dead. 

Bed. What say'st thou, man, before 
dead Henry's corse? 
Speak softly; or the loss of those great 

towns 
Will make him burst his lead, and rise from 
death. 
Glo. Is Paris lost? is Rouen yielded up? 
If Henry were recall'd to life again, 



These news would cause him once more 
yield the ghost. 

H. VI., lpt.,I: 1. 865. 

— National. 

Tim. * * 
If Alcibiades kill my countrymen, 
Let Alcibiades know this of Timon, 
That — Timon cares not. But if he sack 
fair Athens, 



CALAMITIES. 



66 



CALUMNY, 



And take our goodly aged men by the 

beards, 
Giving our holy virgins to the stain 
Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brain'd war; 
Then, let him know, — and tell him, Timon 

speaks it, 
In pity of our aged, and our youth, 
I cannot choose but tell him, that; — I care 

not, 
And let him take 't at worst; for their 

knives care not, 
While you have throats to answer. 

T. A., V: 2: 1314. 

CALAMITY. — Public. 

Cass. The breaking of so great a thing 

should make 
A greater crack ; The round world should 

have shook 
Lions into civil streets, 
And citizens to their dens : — The death of 

Antony 
Is not a single doom ; in the name lay 
A moiety of the world. 

A. C., V : 1. 1576. 

— Sudden. 

Bel. * * Then was I as a tree, 
Whose boughs did bend with fruit : but, in 

one night, 
A storm, or robbery, call it what you will, 
Shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my 

leaves, 
And left me bare to weather. 

Cym. t III : 3. 1607. 

CALL.— To Arms. 

Sat. Noble patricians, patrons of my 
right, 
Defend the justice of my cause with arms ; 
And, countrymen, my loving followers, 
Plead my successive title with your swords : 
I am his first-born son, that was the last 
That wore the imperial diadem of Rome ; 
Then let my father's honours live in me, 
Nor wrong mine age with this indignity. 

Tit. And., I: 1. 1201. 

CALUMNY.— Chance to Refute. 

Cran. I humbly thank your highness ; 
And am right glad to catch this good occa- 
sion 



Most thoroughly to be winnow'd, where my 
chaff 

And corn shall fly asunder : for, I know, 

There 's none stands under more calumni- 
ous tongues, 

Than I myself, poor man. 

K. Hen. Stand up, good Canterbury ; 

Thy truth, and thy integrity, is rooted 

In us, thy friend. 

* * 

K. Hen. Be of good cheer ; 

They shall no more prevail, than we give 

way to. 
Keep comfort to you ; and this morning see 
You do appear before them ; if they shall 

chance, 
In charging ) r ou with matters, to commit 

you, 
The best persuasions to the contrary 
Fail not to use, and with what vehemency 
The occasion shall instruct you : if entreat- 
ies 
Will render you no remedy, this ring 
Deliver them, and your appeal to us 
There make before them. — Look, the good 

man weeps ! 
He 's honest, on mine honour. God's blest 

mother ! 
I swear, he is true-hearted ; and a soul 
None better in my kingdom. — Get you 

gone, 
And do as I have bid you. He has strangled 
His language in his tears. 

H. VIII., V: 1. 1088. 

— Its Signs. 

Leon. * * 
The shrug, the hum, or ha; these petty 

brands 
That calumny doth use : — O, I am out, 
That mercy does ; for calumny will sear 
Virtue itself: these shrugs, these hums, 

and ha's, 
When you have said she 's goodly, come 

between, 
Ere you can say she 's honest : But be 't 

known, 
From him that has most cause to grieve it 

should be, 
She 's an adultress. 

W. T..TL: 1. 588. 



CALUMNY. 



67 



CARELESSNESS. 



— No Escape from. 

Duke. No might nor greatness in mortal- 
ity 
Can censure 'scape ; back-wounding calumny 
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so 

strong, 
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ! 
But who comes here? 

M'M., HI: 2. 161. 

— The Pure Cannot Escape. 

Ham. If thou dost marry, I '11 give thee 
this plague for thy dowry : Be thou as 
chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt 
not escape calumny. 

//., Ill: 1. 1411. 

CANDOR.— Claimed. 

. Oth. * * 

Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, 
Nor set down aught in malice. 

O., V: 2. 1533. 

CANNIBAL.— Fear Speaks Like a 

Host. There 's his chamber, his house, 
his castle, his standing-bed, and truckle-bed ; 
't is painted about Avith the story of the 
prodigal, fresh and new : Go, knock and 
call ; he '11 speak like an Anthropophaginian 
unto thee : Knock, I say. 

JI. W., IV : 5. 114. 

CARE.— Destroys Sleep. 

Fri. * * 
Care keeps his watch in every old man's 

eye, 
And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. 
R. J., II : 3. 1253. 

P. Hen. * * 
polish'd perturbation ! golden care ! 
That keep'st the ports of slumber open 

wide 
To many a watchful night ! 

H. IV., 2pt., IV: 4. 802. 

— Drowns the Heart. 
Q. Mar. From such a cause as fills mine 
eyes with tears, 
And stops my tongue, while heart is drown'd 
in cares. 

IT. VI, 3 pt., Ill : 3. 975. 

— Excessive. 

Gra. You look not well, signior Antonio ; 
You have too much respect upon the world : 



They lose it that do buy it with much care. 
Believe me, you are marvellously changed. 

JI. V., I: 1. 362. 

— Fruitless. 

Puc. * * 
Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, 
For things that are not to be remedied. 

//. VI, 1 pt., Ill : 3. 882. 

— Incessant, Destroys. 

Cla. No, no ; he cannot long hold out 
these pangs ; 
The incessant care and labour of his mind 
Hath wrought the mure, that should confine 

it in, 
So thin, that life looks through, and will 
break out. 

H. IV., 2 pt., IV : 4. 801. 

— Its Windy Side. 

D. Pedro. In faith, lady, you have a 
merry heart. 

Beat. Yea, my lord, I thank it; poor 
fool, it keeps on the windy side of care. 

JI. A., II : 1. 233. 

— Killed a Cat. 

Claud. What ! courage, man ! What 
though care kilFd a cat, thou hast mettle 
enough in thee to kill care. 

JI. A., V : 1. 250. 

— Not Lessened by Sharing. 

Bo ling. Part of your cares you give 

me with your crown. 
K. Rich. Your cares set up, do not pluck 
my cares down. 
My care is — loss of care, by old care done ; 
Your care is — gain of care by new care 

won : 
The cares I give, I have, though given 

away ; 
They tend the crown, yet still with me they 
stay. 

R. II, IV : 1. 709. 

CARELESSNESS.— Its Danger. 

A r% * * That many may be meant 
By the fool multitude, that choose by show, 
Not learning more than the fond eye doth 
teach. 



CARELESSNESS. 



68 



CAUTION. 



Which pries not to th' interior, but, like 

the martlet, 
Builds in the weather on the outward wall, 
Even in the force and road of casualty. 

M. V. t II : 9. 374. 

CARPING.— A Woman's. 

Hero. Why, you speak truth : I never 

yet saw man, 
How wise, how noble, young, how rarely 

featur'd, 
But she would spell him backward : if fair 

fac'd, 
She would swear the gentleman should be 

her sister; 
If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antic, 
Made a foul blot : if tall, a lance ill-headed ; 
If low, an agate very vildly cut : 
If speaking, why, a vane blown with all 

winds ; 
If silent, why, a block moved with none. 
So turns she every man the wrong side out, 
And never gives to truth and virtue that 
Which simpleness and merit purchaseth. 

M. X, Ill: 1. 238. 

— Not Commendable. 

Urs. Sure, sure, such carping is not 

commendable. 

Hero. No ; not to be so odd, and from 

all fashions. 

M.A. t JH: 1. 238. 

CASTE. — Based Upon Complexion. 

Mor. Mislike me not for my complexion, 
The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun, 
To whom I am a neighbour, and near bred. 
M. V., II: 1. 367. 
— In Society. 

Aid. Not he alone shall suffer what wit 
can make heavy, and vengeance bitter; but 
those that are germane to him, though re- 
mov'd fifty times, shall all come under the 
hangman : which though it be great pity, yet 
it is necessary. An old sheep-whistling rogue, 
a ram-tender, to offer to have his daughter 
come into grace ! Some say, he shall be 
ston'd ; but that death is too soft for him, 
say I : Draw our throne into a sheep-cote I 
all deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy. 

V. T., IV: 3. 609. 

— Its Strange Power. 
King. * * Strange is it, that our 
bloods, 



Of colour, weight, and heat, pour'd all 

together, 
Would quite confound distinction, yet stand 

off 
In differences so mighty. 

A. W.,Il: 3. 507. 

— Roman, its Badges. 

Fla. Hence ; home, you idle creatures, 

get you home ; 
Is this a holiday? What! know you not, 
Being mechanical, you ought not walk, 
Upon a labouring day, without the sign 
Of your profession? — Speak, what trade 

art thou? 

1 Cit. Why, sir, a carpenter. 

Mar. Where is thy leather apron, and 
thy rule? 
What dost thou with thy best apparel on? — 
You, sir; what trade are you? 

2 Cit. Truly, sir, in respect of a fine 
workman, I am but, as you would say, a 
cobbler. 

Mar. But what trade art thou? Answer 
me directly. 

1 Cit. A trade, sir, that, I hope, I may 
use with a safe conscience ; which is, in- 
deed, sir, a mender of bad soals. 

Mar. What trade, thou knave ; thou 
naughty knave, what trade? 

2 Cit. Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not 
out with me : yet, if you be out, sir, I can 
mend you. 

Mar. What meanest thou by that? Mend 

me, thou saucy fellow? 
2 Cit. Why, sir, cobble you. 

J. C, 1 : 1. 1322. 

CATCHING.— For Others. 

Tra. 0, sir, Lucentio slipp'd me like his 
greyhound, 
Which- runs himself, and catches for his 
master. 

T. S., V : 2. 482. 

CAT'S-PAW.— Declining to be a. 

Page. * * No, he shall not knit a knot 
in his fortunes with the finger of my sub- 
stance. 

Jf. IF., Ill: 2. 104. 

CAUTION— Inspired by Suspicion. 

Gads. Good morrow, carriers. What 's 

o'clock? 
1 Car. I think it be two o'clock. 



CAUTION. 



6 9 



CEREMONY. 



Gads. I pr'ythee, lend me thy lantern, 
to see my gelding in the stable. 

1 Car. Nay, soft, I pray ye ; I know a 
trick worth two of that, i' faith. 

Gads. I pr'ythee, lend me thine. 

2 Car. Ay, when? canst tell? — Lend me 
thy lantern, quoth a'? — marry, I '11 see thee 
hanged first. 

H. IV., 1 pt., II : 1. 734. 

— Not Based on Fear. 

Tro. Hear why I speak it, love ; 
The Grecian youths are full of quality ; 
They 're loving, well composed, with gifts 

of nature flowing, 
And swelling o'er with arts and exercise ; 
How novelty may move, and parts with 

person, 
Alas, a kind of godly jealousy 
(Which, I beseech you, call a virtuous sin,) 
Makes me afeard. 

T. C, IV: 4. 1130. 

— Required. 

Bap. Not in my house, Lucentio ; for, 
you know, 
Pitchers have ears, and I have many serv- 
ants : 
Besides, old Gremio is heark'ning still ; 
And, happily, we might be interrupted. 

T. S., IV : 4. 478. 

3 Cit. When clouds are seen, wise men 
put on their cloaks. 

E. III., II : 3. 1018. 

Wor. Cousin, farewell : — No further go 
in this, 

Than I by letters shall direct your course. 

When time is ripe, (which will be sud- 
denly,) 

I '11 steal to Glendower, and lord Mortimer ; 

Where you and Douglas, and our powers at 
once, 

(As I will fashion it,) shall happily meet. 

H. IV., 1 pt., 1 : 3. 734. 

CELERITY. — Admired. 

Cleo. Celerity is never more admir'd, 
Than by the negligent. 

A. C, III: 7. 1562, 

CENSURE— Dreaded. 

Cleo. * * Rather a ditch in Egypt 
Be gentle grave to me ! rather on Nilus' 
mud 



Lay me stark naked, and let the water-flies 
Blow me into abhorring ! rather make 
My country's high pyramides my gibbet, 
And hang me up in chains ! 

A. C.,V: 2. 1578. 

— Malicious. 

Wo I. * * We must not stint 
Our necessary actions, in the fear 
To cope malicious censurers ; which ever, 
As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow 
That is new trimm'd ; but benefit no further 
Than vainly longing. 

//. VIII, 1 : 2. 1060. 

— Not to be Escaped. 

Duke. No might nor greatness in mor- 
tality 
Can censure 'scape ; back-wounding cal- 
umny 
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so 

strong, 
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ! 
31. M., Ill: 2. 161. 

CEREMONY. — Hollow. 

K. Hen. * * 
O ceremony, show me but thy worth ! 
What is the soul of adoration? 
Art thou aught else but place, degree, and 

form, 
Creating awe and fear in other men? 

H. V., IV: 1. 842. 

Tim. Nay, my lords, ceremony 

Was but devis'd at first, to set a gloss 
On faint deeds, hollow welcomes, 
Recanting goodness, sorry ere 't is shown ; 
But where there is true friendship, there 

needs none. 
Pray, sit ; more welcome are ye to my for- 
tunes, 
Than my fortunes to me. 

T. A., 1 : 2. 1290. 

— Neglect of. (See Kings.) 
Cleo. What, no more ceremony? — See, 
my women! — 
Against the blown rose may they stop their 

nose, 
That kneel'd unto the buds. — Admit him, 
sir. 

A. C. t III : 11. 1565. 



CEREMONY. *JO CHALLENGE. 


— Sauce to Meat. 


That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop, 


Lady M. * * The sauce to meat is 
ceremony ; 
Meeting were bare without it. 

JI, Ill: 4. 1371. 

— Sign of Cooling Friendship. 
Bru. Thou hast describ'd 


To hang a doubt on : or, woe upon thy life. 

Iago. My noble lord, 

Oth. If thou dost slander her, and tor- 
ture me, 
Never pray more : abandon all remorse ; 
On horror's head horrors accumulate : 
Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth 


A hot friend cooling : Ever note, Lucilius, 
When love begins to sicken and decay, 
It useth an enforced ceremony. 


amaz'd, 
For nothing canst thou to damnation add, 
Greater than that. 


There are no tricks in plain and simple 


0., Ill : 3. 1514. 


faith : 
But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, 
Make gallant show and promise of their 

mettle : 


—Its Sign. 
Fal. What ! is the old king dead? 
Pist. As nail in door. 


But when they should endure the bloody 


H. IV., 2 pt., V : 3. 809. 


spur, 
They fall their crests, and, like deceitful 

jades, 
Sink in the trial. 

J. C, IV : 2. 1343. 


Sic. Friend, 
Art thou certain this is true? is it most cer- 
tain? 
Mess. As certain, as I know the sun is 


fire. 


— Undeserved. 


C.,V: 4. 1191. 


Wol. And for me, 


Aar. * * 


I have no further gone in this, than by 


As sure a card as ever won the set. 


A single voice ; and that not pass'd me, 


T,A., V: 1. 1226. 


but 
By learned approbation of the judges. 
If I am traduc'd by tongues, which neither 

know 


CHAGRDN".— At Mistaken Generosity. 

1 Con. How is it with our general? 
Auf. Even so, 


My faculties, nor person, yet will be 
The chronicles of my doing, — let me say, 


As with a man by his own alms empoison'd, 
And with his charity slain. 


'T is but the fate of place, and the rough 


C, V: 5. 1191. 


brake 
That virtue must go through. 
* * "What Ave oft do best, 
By sick interpreters, once weak ones, is 
Not ours, or not allow'd; what worst, as 

oft, 


— Fever of. 

K. John. * * 
And none of you will bid the winter come, 
To thrust his icy fingers in my maw ; 
Nor let my kingdom's rivers take their 


Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up 
For our best act. If we shall stand still, 


course 
Through my burn'd bosom ; nor entreat the 


In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd 
at, 


north 
To make his bleak winds kiss my parched 


We should take root here where we sit, or 
sit 


lips, 
And comfort me with cold. 


State statues only. 

H. VIII., 1 : 2. 1060. 

CERTAINTY. — Demanded. 


K. J., V : 7. 676. 

CHALLENGE. — Accepted. 

Hot. Cousin, I think, thou art enamoured 


Oth. Make me to see it ; or (at the least) 


Upon his follies ; never did I hear 


so prove it, 


Of any prince, so wild, at liberty : — 



CHALLENGE. 



71 



CHANGE. 



But, be he as he will, yet once ere night 
I will embrace him with a soldier's arm, 

That he shall shrink under my courtesy. 

Arm, arm, with speed: And, fellows, 

soldiers, friends, 
Better consider what you have to do, 
Than I, that have not well the gift of 

tongue, 
Can lift your blood up with persuasion. 

H. IV., lpt., V: 2. 758. 

— Bold and Chivalrous. 

JEne. * * Kings, princes, lords ! 
If there be one. among the fair'st of Greece, 
That holds his honour higher than his ease ; 
That seeks his praise more than he fears his 

peril ; 
That knows his valour, and knows not his 

fear ; 
That loves his mistress more than in con- 
fession, 
(With truant vows to her own lips he loves) 
And dares avow her beauty and her Avorth, 

In other arms than hers, to him this 

challenge. 
Hector, in view of Trojans and of Greeks, 
Shall make it good, or do his best to do it. 
He hath a lady, wiser, fairer, truer, 
Than ever Greek did compass in his arms ; 
And will to-morrow with his trumpet call, 
Mid-way between your tents and walls of 

Troy, 
To rouse a Grecian that is true in love : 
If any come, Hector shall honour him. 

T. C, 1 : 3. 1110. 

— Given Modestly. 

Ver. No, by my soul ; I never in my 
life 
Did hear a challenge urg'd more modestly, 
Unless a brother should a brother dare 
To gentle exercise and proof of arms. 
He gave you all the duties of a man ; 
Trimm'd up your praises with a princely 

tongue ; 
Spoke your deservings like a chronicle ; 
Making you ever better than his praise, 
By still dispraising praise, valued with you : 
And, which became him like a prince in- 
deed, 
He made a blushing cital of himself ; 
And chid his truant youth with such a 
grace, 



As if he master'd there a double spirit, 
Of teaching, and of learning, instantly. 
There did he pause : But let me tell the 

world 
If he outlive the envy of this day, 
England did never owe so sweet a hope, 
So much misconstrued in his wantonness. 

//. IV, lpt., V: 2. 758. 
— Laughed at. 
Ccbs. * * Let the old ruffian know, 
I have many other ways to die ; mean time, 
Laugh at his challenge. 

A. C, IV: 1. 1568. 

CHANCE.— May do all Things. 

Lew. * * 
Have I not here the best cards for the game, 
To win this easy match play'd for a crown? 
K. J.,V: 2. 673. 

Macb. If chance will have me king, why, 
chance may crown me, 
Without my stir. 

M., 1 : 3. 1360. 

— Unreliable. 

Mor. * * But, alas the while ! 
If Hercules and Lichas play at dice, 
Which is the better man ; the greater throw 
May turn by fortune from the weaker hand : 
So is Alcides beaten by his page ; 
And so may I, blind fortune leading me, 
Miss that which one unworthier may attain, 
And die with grieving. 

M. F..II: 1. 367. 

CHANGE.— Adored. 

Pand. * * 
And kiss the lips of unacquainted change. 

K. J., Ill : 4. 663. 

— Constant. 

Rosse. * * 
Things at the worst will cease, or else climb 

upward 
To what they were before. 

M., IV : 2. 1377. 

— Desired. 

Ant. * * 
And quietness, grown sick of rest, would 

purge 
By any desperate change. 

A. C, I: 3. 1544. 



CHANGE. 



72 



CHARACTER. 



— Love of, Dangerous. 

K. Hen. * * 
To face the garment of rebellion 
With some fine color, that may please the 

\ eye 
Of fickle changelings, and poor discontents, 
Which gape, and nib the elbow, at the 

news 
Of hurlyburly innovation. 

H. IV, lpt., V: 1. 757. 

— Of Seasons. 

P. Humph. * * 
The seasons change their manners, as the 

year 
Had found some months asleep, and leap'd 
them over. 

H. IV, 2 pt., IV : 4. 801. 

CHANGELESSNESS.— Of Vengeance. 

Oth. O, blood, Iago, blood ! 

Iago. Patience, I say; your mind, per- 
haps, may change. 
Oth. Never, Iago. Like to the Pontick 
sea, 
Whose icy current and compulsive course 
Ne'er knows retiring ebb, but keeps due on 
To the Propontick, and the Hellespont ; 
Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent 

pace, 
Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble 

love, 
Till that a capable and wide revenge 
Swallow them up. 

0., Ill : 3. 1515. 

CHANGELINGS. — Contests Over. 

Puck. The king doth keep his revels here 

to-night : 
Take heed the queen come not within his 

sight ; 
For Oberon is passing fell and wrath, 
Because that she, as her attendant, hath 
A lovely boy stol'n from an Indian king ; 
She never had so sweet a changeling : 
And jealous Oberon would have the child 
Knight of his train, to trace the forests 

wild : 
But she, perforce, withholds the loved boy, 
Crowns him with flowers, and makes him all 

her joy : 
And now they never meet in grove, or green, 



By fountain clear, or spangled starlight 

sheen, 
But they do square ; that all their elves, for 

fear, 
Creep into acorn-cups, and hide them there. 
J/. JT., II : 1. 325. 

CHANGES.— Great, in a Short Time. 

Ilel. The greatest grace lending grace, 
Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring 
Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring ; 
Ere twice in murk and occidental damp 
Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy 

lamp ; 
Or four-and-twenty times the pilot's glass 
Hath told the thievish minutes how they 

pass ; 
What is infirm from your sound parts shall 

fly, 

Health shall live free, and sickness freely 
die. 

A. W.,ll: 1. 504. 

CHAOS.— When Love Departs. 

Oth. Excellent wretch ! Perdition catch 
my soul, 
But I do love thee ! and when' I love thee 

not, 
Chaos is come again. 

O., Ill: 3. 1510. 

CHARACTER.— A Contradictory. 

Alex. This man, lady, hath robbed many 
beasts of their particular additions ; he is as 
valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear, slow 
as the elephant : a man into whom nature 
hath so crowded humours, that his valour is 
crushed into folly, his folly sauced with dis- 
cretion : He hath the joints of every thing; 
but every thing so out of joint, that he is a 
gouty Briareus, many hands and no use ; or 
purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight. 

T. C, 1 : 2. 1104. 

— Appearances do not Indicate. 

Pet. * * 
So honour peereth in the meanest habit. 
What, is the jay more precious than the lark, 
Because his feathers are more beautiful? 
Or is the adder better than the eel, 
Because his painted skin contents the eye? 
0, no, good Kate ; neither art thou the worse 
For this poor furniture and mean array. 

T. S.,TV: 3. 477. 



CHARACTER. 



73 



CHARACTER, 



— Beastly. 

Edg. False of heart, light of ear, bloody 
of hand: Hog in sloth, fox in stealth, wolf 
in greediness, dog in madness, lion in prey. 

K. Z., Ill: 4. 1465. 

— Congenital. 

K. Hen. Now, fye upon my false French ! 
By mine honour, in true English, I love 
thee, Kate : by which honour I dare not 
swear, thou lovest me, yet my blood begins to 
flatter me that thou dost, notwithstanding the 
poor and untempering effect of my visage. 
Now beshrew my father's ambition ! lie was 
thinking of civil wars * * therefore was 
I created with a stubborn outside, with an 
aspect of iron, that, when I came to woo 
ladies, I fright them. 

//. V., V: 2. 855. 

— Developed by Power. 

Duke. * * Lord Angelo is precise ; 
Stands at a guard with envy ; scarce con- 
fesses 
That his blood flows, or that his appetite 
Is more to bread than stone. Hence shall- 

we see, 
If power change purpose, what our seemers 
be, 

M. JI., 1 : 3. 147. 

— Discernment of. 

Mart. * * 

They say best men are moulded out of 

faults ; 

And, for the most, become much more the 

better 

For being a little bad. 

■ M. M., V : 1. 175. 

Back. Sir, 

I am thankful to you ; and I '11 go along 
By your prescription: — but this top-proud 

fellow, 
(Whom from the flow of gall I name not, 

but 
From sincere motions,) by intelligence 
And proofs as clear as founts in July, when 
We see each grain of gravel, I do know 
To be corrupt and treasonous. 

II. VIII., I: 1. 1058. 
— Duplex. 
Cleo. * * 
Though he be painted one way like a Gor- 
gon, 

T' other way he 's a Mars. 

A. C.,U: -5. 1553. 



— End of a Noble. 

Car. That honourable day shall ne'er be 
seen. — 
Many a time hath banish'd Norfolk fought 
For Jesu Christ ; in glorious Christian field 
Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross, 
Against black pagans, Turks, and Saracens ; 
And, toil'd with works of war, retir'd him- 
self 
To Italy ; and there, at Venice, gave 
II!s body to that pleasant country's earth, 
And his pure soul unto his captain Christ, 
Under whose colours he had fought so long. 
R. II, IV: 1. 708. 

— Fulfils the Law. 

Biron. * * 
For charity itself fulfils the law ; 
And who can sever love from charity? 

Z.Z., IV: 3. 291. 

— Its Contradiction. (See Con- 
tradictions.) 

Jul. serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring 

face ! 
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? 
Beautiful tyrant ! fiend angelical ! 
Dove-feather'd raven ! wolfish -ravening 

lamb ! 
Despised substance of divinest show ! 
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st, 
A damned saint, an honourable villain ! 
0, nature ! what hadst thou to do in hell, 
When thou did'st bower the spirit of a fiend 
In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh? — 
Was ever book, containing such vile matter. 
So fairly bound? 0, that deceit should 

dwell 
In such a gorgeous palace ! 

E. J., Ill : 2. 1261. 



— Key to Position. 

Ham. I humbly thank you, sir. — Dost 
know this water-fly ? 

Hor. No, my good lord. 

Ham. Thy state is the more gracious; 
for 't is a vice to know him : He hath much 
land, and let a beast be lord of beasts, and 
his crib shall stand at the king's mess. 'T is 
a chough ; but, as I say, spacious in the pos- 
session of dirt. 

H., V : 2. 1433. 



CHARITY. 



74 



CHARM. 



CHARITY.— Compelled. 

Edg. * * Bedlam beggars, who, with 
roaring voices, 

Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare 
arms 

Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rose- 
mary ; 

And with this horrible object, from low 
farms, 

Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes and mills, 

Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with 
prayers, 

Enforce their charity. 

K. Z., II: 3. 1458. 

— For the Dead. 

K. Hen. * * 
Let there be sung Non nobis, and Te Deum, 
The dead with charity enclosed in clay. 

H. F., IV: 8. 851. 

— Invoked. 

Chorus. * * 
Gently to hear, kindly to judge. 

H. V., 1 : 1. 819. 

—Justifies Theft. 

And. O ! be persuaded : Do not count it 
holy 
To hurt by being just : it is as lawful, 
For we would give much, to use violent 

thefts, 
And rob in the behalf of charity. 

T. C.,V: 3. 1139. 

— Makes us Considerate. 

Orl. I will chide no breather in the world 
but myself, against whom I know most 
faults. 

A. Y., Ill: 2. 423. 

— Sin, Counted as. 

Ang. * * 
Might there not be a charity in sin, 
To save this brother's life? 

Isab. Please you to do 't, 

I '11 take it as a peril to my soul ; 
It is no sin at all, but charity. 

Ang. Pleas'd you to . do % at peril of 
your soul, 
Were equal poise of sin and charity. 

M. M., II : 4. 155. 



— Sympathizing. 

K. Hen. * * 
He hath a tear for pity, and a hand 
Open as day for melting charity. 

H. IV., 2pt., IV: 4. 800. 

CHARM. — Oberon's. 

Obe. Having once this juice, 

I '11 watch Titania when she is asleep, 
And drop the liquor of it in her eyes : 
The next thing then she waking looks upon, 
(Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull, 
On meddling monkey, or on busy ape,) 
She shall pursue it with the soul of love. 
And ere I take this charm off from her sight, 
(As I can take it, with another herb,) 
I '11 make her render up her page to me. 

M. N., II : 1. 327. 

— Oberon's, Malicious. 

Obe. * * 
Do it for thy true-love take ; 
Love and languish for his sake : 
Be it ounce, or cat, or bear, 
Pard, or boar with bristled hair, 
In thy eye that shall appear, 
When thou wak'st, it is thy dear ; 
Wake when some vile thing is near. 

M. N., II : 2. 328. 

— The Witches'. 

1 Witch. Thrice the brindled cat hath 

mew'd. 

2 Witch. Thrice ; and once the hedge- 

pig whin'd. 

3 Witch. Harper cries : — 'T is time, 't is 

time. 

1 Witch. Round about the cauldron go ; 
In the poison'd entrails throw. 

Toad, that under coldest stone, 
Days and nights hast thirty-one 
Swelter'd venom sleeping got, 
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot ! 

All. Double, double toil and trouble, 
Fire, burn; and, cauldron, bubble. 

2 Witch. Fillet of a fenny snake, 
In the cauldron boil and bake : 
Eye of newt, and toe of frog, 
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, 
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, 
Lizard's leg, owlet's wing, 



CHARM. 



75 



CHEERFULNESS. 



For a charm of powerful trouble, 
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble. 

All. Double, double toil and trouble ; 
Fire, burn ; and, cauldron, bubble. 

3 Witch. Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf ; 
Witches' mummy ; maw, and gulf, 
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark ; 
Root of hemlock, digg'd i' the dark, 
Liver of blaspheming Jew, 
Gall of goat, and slips of yew, 
Silver'd in the moon's eclipse ; 
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips ; 
Finger of birth-strangled babe, 
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab, 
Make the gruel thick and slab : 
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron, 
For the ingredients of our cauldron. 

All. Double, double toil and trouble ; 
Fire, burn ; and, cauldron, bubble. 

2 Witch. Cool it with a baboon's blood, 
Then the charm is firm and good. 

Hec. 0, well done ! I commend your 
pains ; 
And every one shall share i' the gains. 
And now about the cauldron sing, 
Like elves and fairies in a ring, 
Enchanting all that you put in. 

SONG. 

Black spirits and white, 

Red spirits and grey; 

Mingle, mingle, mingle, 

You that mingle may. 

M., IV : 1. 1374. 

CHASTITY.— A Jewel. 

Dia. Mine honour 's such a ring : 

My chastity 's the jewel of our house, 
Bequeathed down from many ancestors ; 
Which were the greatest obloquy i' the 

world 
In me to lose. Thus your own proper 

wisdom 
Brings in the champion Honour on my part, 
Against your vain assault. 

A. W., IV : 2. 518. 

— Figures of. 

Post. I thought her 

As chaste as unsunn'd snow. 

Cym., II : 5. 1604. 

Claud. * * 
As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown. 

M. A., IV : 1. 244. 



Cor. * * 
The moon of Rome ; chaste as the icicle, 
That 's curded by the frost from purest 

snow, 
And hangs on Dian's temple. 

C, V : 3. 1189. 

— Octavia's. 

Eno. * * Octavia is of a holy, cold, 
and still conversation. 

A.C., II: 6. 1555. 

— Precious as Life. 

Isab. To whom should I complain? Did 
I tell this, 
Who would believe me? O perilous mouths, 
That bear in them one and the self-same 

tongue, 
Either of condemnation or approof! — 
Bidding the law make court'sy to their will ; 
Hooking both right and wrong to th' appe- 
tite, 
To follow as it draws ! I '11 to my brother : 
Though he hath fall'n by prompture of the 

blood, 
Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour, 
That, had he twenty heads to tender down 
On twenty bloody blocks, he 'd yield them 

up, 
Before his sister should her body stoop 
To such abhorr'd pollution. 
Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die : 
More than our brother is our chastity ! 
I '11 tell him yet of Angelo's request, 
And fit his mind to death, for his soul's rest. 
M. M. t II : 4. 156. 

CHEEKS.— Pale, Bad Sign. 

K. John. * * 
A fearful eye thou hast : Where is that 

blood, 
That I have seen inhabit in those cheeks? 
So foul a sky clears not without a storm : 
Pour down thy weather. 

A'. J., IV : 2. 667. 

CHEERFULNESS.— Aid to Recovery. 

Eos. I had rather have a fool to make 
me merry, than experience to make me sad. 

A. Y.,IV: 1. 429. 

Riv. Have patience, madam ; there 's no 
doubt his majesty 
Will soon recover his accustom'd health. 



CHEERFULNESS. 



76 



CHILDISHNESS. 



Grey. In that you brook it ill, it makes 

him worse : 
Therefore, for God's sake, entertain good 

comfort, 
And cheer his grace with quick and merry 

words. 
Q. Eliz. If he were dead, what would 

betide of me? 
Grey. No other harm, but loss of such 

a lord. 

Q. Eliz. The loss of such a lord includes 

all harms. 

B. III., 1 : 3. 1006. 

CHESS.— False Play at. 

Mir a. Sweet lord, you play me false. 
Fer. No, my dearest love, 

I would not for the world. 

Mira. Yes, for a score of kingdoms you 
should wrangle, 
And I Avould call it fair play. 

T., V: 1. 32. 

CHIDING.— Better than Heartbreak. 

Mrs. Page. * * Better a little chiding, 
than a great deal of heartbreak. 

M. W., V : 3. 117. 
— Gentle. 
Des. * * Those, that do teach yOung 
babes, 
Do it with gentle means, and easy tasks : 
He might have chid me so ; for, in good 

faith, 
I am a child to chiding. 

0., IV : 2. 1523. 

CHILD. — Disobedient. 

Duke. No, trust me ; she is peevish, sul- 
len, fro ward, 
Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty ; 
Neither regarding that she is my child, 
Nor fearing me as if I were her father : 
And, may I say to thee, this pride of hers, 
Upon advice, hath drawn my love from her ; 
And, where I thought the remnant of mine 

age 
Should have been cherish'd by her child- 
like duty, 
I now am full resolv'd to take a wife, 
And turn her out to who will take her in : 
Then let her beauty be her wedding-dow'r, 
For me and my possessions she esteems not. 
T. G., Ill : 1. 60. 



— Government by a. 

3 Cit. Woe to that land, that 's governed 

by a child ! 

R. III., II : 3. 1018. 

— Ungrateful, Cursed. 

Lear. * * Hear, nature, hear; 
Dear goddess, hear ! Suspend thy purpose, 

if 
Thou didst intend to make this creature 

fruitful ! 
Into her womb convey sterility ! 
Dry up in her the organs of increase ; 
And from her derogate body never spring 
A babe to honour her ! If she *nust teem, 
Create her child of spleen ; that it may live, 
And be a thwart disnatur'd torment to her ! 
Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth ; 
With cadent tears fret channels in her 

cheeks ; 
Turn all her mother's pains, and benefits, 
To laughter and contempt ; that she may 

feel 
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is 
To have a thankless child ! 

K. Z., I: 4. 1452. 

CHILDHOOD. — A Terrible. 

Per. A terrible child-bed hast thou had, 

my dear ; 
No light, no fire ; the unfriendly elements 
Forgot thee utterly ; nor have I time 
To give thee hallow'd to thy grave : but 

straight 
Must cast thee, scarcely coffined, in the 

ooze ; 
Where, for a monument upon thy bones, 
And aye-remaining lamps, the belching 

whale, 
And humming water must o'erwhelm thy 

corpse, 
Lying with simple shells. Lychorida, 
Bid Nestor bring me spices, ink and paper, 
My casket and my jewels ; and bid Nicander 
Bring me the satin coffer : lay the babe 
Upon the pillow : hie thee, whiles I say 
A priestly farewell to her : suddenly, woman. 

P., Ill : 1. 1656. 

CHILDISHNESS. — Freedom from. 

Cleo. Though age from folly could not 
give me freedom, 
It does from childishness. 

A. C, I: 3. 1544. 



CHILDREN. 



77 



CHOLER. 



CHILDREN. — A Blessing. 

Clo. In IsbePs case and mine own. Ser- 
vice is no heritage : and I think I shall never 
have the blessing of God, till I have issue a' 
my body ; for, they say, bairnes are bless- 
ings. 

A. W.,I: 3. 499. 

— A Punishment. 

K. Hen. * * 
I know not whether God will have it so, 
For some displeasing service I have done, 
That in his secret doom, out of my blood 
He '11 breed revengement and a scourge for 

me ; 
But thou dost, in thy passages of life, 
Make me believe, — that thou art only 

mark'd , 

For the hot vengeance and the rod of heav- 
en, 
To punish my mis-treadings. Tell me else, 
Could such inordinate, and low desires, 
Such poor, such bare, such lewd, such mean 

attempts, 
Such barren pleasures, rude society, 
As thou art matched withal, and grafted to, 
Accompany the greatness of thy blood, 
And hold their level with thy princely heart? 
//. IV., 1 pt., Ill : 2. 747. 

— Adherence to. 

Tro. * * 
We turn not back the silks upon the mer- 
chant, 
When we have soil'd them ; nor the remain- 
der viands 
We do not throw in unrespective sieve, 
Because we now are full. 

T. C, II: 2. 1114. 

— Dead, Hover over Us. 

Q. Eliz. Ah, my poor princes ! ah, my 
tender babes ! 
My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets ! 
If yet your gentle souls fly in the air, 
And be not fixed in doom perpetual, 
Hover about me with your airy wings, 
And hear your mother's lamentation ! 

R. III., IV : 4. 1034. 

CHOICE.— Freedom of. 

Nest. * * 
And choice, being mutual act of all our 
souls, 



Makes merit her election ; and doth boil, 
As 't were from forth us all, a man distill'd 
Out of our virtues. 

T. C, 1 : 3. 1111. 

— Of Evils. 

Anne. Alas, I had rather be set quick i' 
the earth, 
And bowl'd to death with turnips. 

M. W., Ill : 4. 108. 

— Of no Moment. 

Hor. 'Faith, as you say, there 's small 
choice in rotten apples. 

T. S.,I: 1. 456. 

— Power of. 

Iago. * * Our bodies are our gardens ; 
to the which, our wills are gardeners : so 
that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; 
set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it 
with one gender of herbs, or distract it with 
many ; either to have it steril with idleness, 
or manured with industry ; why, the power 
and corrigible authority of this lies in our 
wills. 

0..I: 3. 1498. 

CHOLER. — Defied and Rebuked. 

Bru. Hear me, for I will speak. 

Must I give way and room to your rash 

choler? 
Shall I be frighted, when a madman stares? 
Cas. O ye gods ! ye gods ! Must I en- 
dure all this? 
Bru. All this? ay, more : Fret, till your 

proud heart break ; 
Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, 
And make your bondmen tremble. Must I 

budge ? 
Must I observe you? Must I stand and 

crouch 
Under your testy humour? By the gods, 
You shall digest the venom of your spleen, 
Though it do split you : for, from this day 

forth, 
I '11 use you for my mirth, yea, for my 

laughter, 
When you are waspish. 

J. C., IV: 3. 1344. 

— Turns Pleasure into Gall. 

Tyb. Patience perforce with wilful choler 
meeting, 



CHOLER. 



78 



CHURLISHNESS. 



Makes my flesh tremble in their different 

greeting. 
I will withdraw : but this intrusion shall, 
Now seeming sweet, convert to bitter gall. 
B. J., 1 : 5. 1249. 

CHRISTENING.— Cause for Holiday. 

K. Hen. * * This day, no man think 
He has business at his house ; for all shall 

stay, 
This little one shall make it holiday. 

H. VIII., Y: 3. 1094. 

— Desired. 

K. Hen. Good man, those joyful tears 

show thy true heart. 
The common voice, I see, is verified 
Of thee, which says thus, " Do my lord of 

Canterbury 
A shrewd turn, and he is your friend for 

ever." — 
Come, lords, we trifle time away ; I long 
To have this young one made a christian. 

H. VIII., V: 2. 1092. 

CHRISTMAS-EVE.— Recognized by 

Fowls. 
Mar. * * 
Some say, that ever 'gainst that season 

comes 
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, 
This bird of dawning singeth all night long : 
And then, they say, no spirit can walk 

abroad ; 
The nights are wholesome ; then no planets 

strike, 
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to 

charm, 
So hallow'd and so gracious is the time. 

II., I: 1. 1393. 

CHRONICLER— An Honest. 

Katli. After my death I wish no other 

herald, 
No other speaker of my living actions, 
To keep mine honour from corruption, 
But such an honest chronicler as Griffith. 
Whom I most hated living, thou hast made 

me, 
With thy religious truth, and modesty, 
Now in his ashes honour : Peace be with 

him ! — 



Patience, be near me still ; and set me 

lower : 
I have not long to trouble thee. — Good 

Griffith, 
Cause the musicians play me that sad note 
I nam'd my knell, whilst I sit meditating 
On that celestial harmony I go to. 

//. VIII, IV : 2. 1085. 

CHURCH — A Tyrannical. 

Pand. All form is formless, order order- 
less, 
Save what is opposite to England's love. 
Therefore, to arms ' be champion of our 

church ! 
Or let the church, our mother, breathe her 

curse, 
A mother's curse, on her revolting son. 

K. J., Ill: 1. 659. 

— Reconciliation to the. 

Pand. Hail, noble prince of Prance ! 

The next is this, — king John hath reconcil'd 
Himself to Rome ; his spirit is come in, 
That so stood out against the holy church, 
The great metropolis and see of Rome : 
Therefore thy threat'ning colours now wind 

up, 
And tame the savage spirit of wild war ; 
That, like a lion foster'd up at hand, 
It may lie gently at the foot of peace, 
And be no further harmful than in show. 

K. J., V : 2. 672, 

CHURCHMAN— A Fighting. 

Shal. What ! the sword and the word ; 
do you study them both, master parson? 

M. W., Ill: 1. 102. 

CHURCHMEN. — Should be Peaceful. 

K. Hen. * * 
Or who should study to prefer a peace, 
If holy churchmen take delight in broils? 

//. VI., 1 pt., Ill : 1. 879. 

CHURLISHNESS. — Of Disposition. 

Cor. Fair sir, I pity her, 

And wish for her sake, more than for mine 

own, 
My fortunes were more able to relieve her : 
But I am shepherd to another man, 



CHURLISHNESS. 



79 



CIRCUMSTANCES , 



And do not shear the fleeces that I graze ; 
My master is of churlish disposition, 
And little recks to find the way to heaven 
By doing deeds of hospitality. 

A. Y., II: 4. 416. 

CIPHER. — Its Importance. 

•Pol. * * 
Go hence in debt : And therefore, like a 

cipher, 
Yet standing in rich place, I multiply, 
With one we-thank-you, many thousands 

more 
That go before it. 

W. T.,1: 2. 581. 

CIRCUMSTANCES.— Alter Cases. 

War. Ay, but the case is alter'd : 

When you disgrac'd me in my embassade, 
Then I degraded you from being king, 
And come now to create you duke of York. 
Alas ! how should you govern any kingdom, 
That know not how to use ambassadors ; 
Nor how to be contented with one wife ; 
Nor how to use your brothers brotherly ; 
Nor how to study for the people's welfare ; 
Nor how to shroud yourself from enemies? 
H. VI, 3pt., IV: 3. 981. 

— Change Opinions. 

Gaunt. Things sweet to taste, prove, in 

digestion sour. 
You urg'd me as a judge ; but I had rather, 
You would have bid me argue like a father : 
O, had it been a stranger, not my child, 
To smooth his fault I should have been more 

mild : 
A partial slander sought I to avoid, 
And in the sentence my own life destroy 'd. 
Alas, I look'd, when some of you should 

say, 
I was too strict, to make mine own away ; 
But you gave leave to my unwilling tongue, 
Against my will, to do myself this wrong. 

R. II. , 1 : 3. 690. 

—Defied. 

Arv. * * 
Our valour is, to chace what flies ; our cage 
We make a quire, as doth the prison bird, 
And sing our bondage freely. 

Cym., Ill : 3. 1607. 



— Give Character. 

Por. The crow doth sing as sweetly as 

the lark, 
When neither is attended ; and, I think 
The nightingale, if she should sing by day, 
When every goose is cackling, would be 

thought 
No better a musician than the wren. 
How many things by season season'd are 
To their right praise and true perfection ! 
31. V, V : 1. 389. 

— Ground of Suspicion. 

Fri. I am the greatest, able to do least, 
Yet most suspected, as the time and place 
Doth make against me, of this direful 

murder ; 
And here I stand, both to impeach and 

purge 
Myself condemned and myself excus'd. 

R. J., V : 3. 1277. 

— Perplexing. 

Imo. * * 'Faith, I '11 lie down and 
sleep. 

But, soft ! no bedfellow : — 0, gods and god- 
desses ! 

These flowers are like the pleasures of the 
world ; 

This bloody man, the care on 't. — I hope, I 
dream ; 

For, lo, I thought I was a cave-keeper, 

And cook to honest creatures : But 't is not 
so ; 

'T was but a bolt of nothing, shot at nothing, 

Which the brain makes of fumes : Our very 
eyes 

Are sometimes like our judgments, blind. 
Good faith, 

I tremble still with fear : But if there be 

Yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity 

As a wren's eye, fear'd gods, a part of it ! 

The dream 's here still : even when I wake, 
it is 

Without me, as within me ; not imagin'd, 
felt. 

A headless man! — The garments of Post- 
humus ! 

I know the shape of his leg : this is his 
hand; 

His foot Mercurial ; his Martial thigh ; 



CIRCUMSTANCES. 



80 



CLAMOR. 



The brawns of Hercules : but his jovial 

face, — 
Murder in heaven? — How? — 'T is gone. 

Cym. t IV : 2. 1618. 

— Small, Used. 

Pand. * * If but a dozen French 
Were there in arms, they would be as a call 
To train ten thousand English to their side ; 
Or, as a little snow, tumbled about, 
Anon becomes a mountain. O noble 

Dauphin, 
Go with me to the king : 'T is wonderful, 
What may be wrought out of their discon- 
tent. 

K.J., in: 4. 663. 

CITY. — Reputation Precious. 

Ant. The duke cannot deny the course 
of law ; 
For the commodity that strangers have 
With us in Venice, if it be denied, 
Will much impeach the justice of the state ; 
Since that the trade and profit of the city 
Consisteth of all nations. 

3f. V., Ill : 3. 380. 

CIVILITY.— Cold and Jealous. 

Beat. The count is neither sad, nor sick, 
nor merry, nor well : but civil, count ; civil 
as an orange, and something of that jealous 
complexion. 

M. A., II : 1. 233. 

CIVILIZATION.— Its Blessings Cursed. 

Cal. As wicked dew as e'er my mother 

brush' d 
With raven's feather from unwholesome 

fen, 
Drop on you both ! a south-west blow on ye, 
And blister you all o'er ! 

Pro. For this, be sure, to-night thou 

shalt have cramps, 
Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up ; 

urchins 
Shall, for that vast of night that they may 

work, 
All exercise on thee : thou shalt be pinch'd 
As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more 

stinging 
Than bees that made them. 

Cal. I must eat my dinner. 

This island 's mine, by Sycorax my mother, 



Which thou tak'st from me. When thou 

cam'st first, 
Thou strok'dst me, and mad'st much of me ; 

would'st give me 
Water with berries in 't ; and teach me how 
To name the bigger light, and how the less, 
That burn by day and night : and then I 

lov'd thee, 
And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle, 
The fresh springs, brine-pits, — barren place., 

and fertile ; 
Curs'd be I that did so ! — All the charms 
Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on 

you! 
For I am all the subjects that you have, 
Which first was mine own king : and here 

you sty me 
In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from 

me 
The rest o' the island. 
* * 
You taught me language, and my profit 

on 't 
Is, I know how to curse ! the red plague rid 

you, 
For learning me your language ! 

T., I • 2. 12. 

CLAIMS.— Not Obsolete. 

Exe. * * 
To him, and to his heirs ; namely, the 

crown, 
And all wide-stretched honours that pertain, 
By custom and the ordinance of times, 
Unto the crown of France. That you may 

know, 
'T is no sinister, nor no awkward claim, 
Pick'd from the worm-holes of long-vanish'd 

days, 
Nor from the dust of old oblivion rak'd, 
He sends you this most memorable line. 

H. V., II: 4. 830. 

CLAMOR. — Inconsistent. 

Cit. 'Faith, we hear fearful news. 

1 Cit. For mine own part, 
When I said, banish him, I said, 't was pity. 

2 Cit. And so did I. 

3 Cit. And so did I : and, to say the 
truth, so did very many of us : That we did, 
we did for the best : and though we will- 
ingly consented to his banishment, yet it 
was against our will. 



CLAMOR. 



8l 



COLD-BLOODED. 



1 Cit. The gods be good to us ! Come, 
masters, let 's home. I ever said, we were 
i' the wrong, when we banish'd him. 

2 Cit. So did we all. 

C, IV : 6. 1184. 

— Its Voice. 

Ros. * * More clamorous than a parrot 
against rain. 

A. Y., IV: 1. 430. 

— To be Disregarded. 
K. Hen. * * You are not to be taught 
That you have many enemies, that know not 
AVhy they are so, but, like to village curs, 
Bark when their fellows do. 

H. VIII. ,11: 4. 1073. 

CLAY.— Tempered with Blood. 

Car. My lord of York, try what your 

fortune is. 

The uncivil Kernes of Ireland are in arms, 

And temper clay with blood of Englishmen. 

H. VI, 2 pt., Ill : 1. 925. 

CLERGYMAN.— His Function. 

P. John. * * 
How deep you were within the books of 

God? 
To us, the speaker in his parliament ; 
To us, the imagin'd voice of God himself; 
The very opener, and intelligencer, 
Between the grace, the sanctities of heaven, 
And our dull workings. 

H. IV., 2 pt., IV ': 2. 797. 

CLOUDS. — Not Storms. 

K. Edw. Thus far our fortune keeps an 

upward course, 
And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory. 
But, in the midst .of this bright-shining day, 
I spy a black, suspicious, threat'ning cloud. 
That will encounter with our glorious sun, 
Ere he attain his easeful western bed : 
I mean, my lords, — those powers, that the 

queen 
Hath rais'd in Gallia, have arriv'd our coast, 
And, as we hear, march on to fight with us. 
Clar. A little gale will soon disperse 

that cloud, 
And blow it to the source from whence it 

came : 



Thy very beams will dry those vapours up ; 
For every cloud engenders not a storm. 

//. VI., 3 pt., V : 3. 988. 

COCK-CROWING.— Spirits Depart at. 

Tlor. * * I have heard, 
The cock, that is the trumpet to the morn, 
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding 

throat 
Awake the god of day ; and, at his warning, 
Whether in sea or fire, in earth or air, 
The extravagant and erring spirit hies 
To his confine : and of the truth herein 
This present object made probation. 

It., I: 1. 1393. 

COIGNR — Of Vantage. 

Ban. This guest of summer, 

The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, 
By his lov'd mansionry, that the heaven's 

breath 
Smells wooingly here : no jutty, frieze, 

buttress, 
]^or coigne of vantage, but this bird hath 

made 
His pendent bed, and procreant cradle : 

Where they 
Most breed and haunt, I have observ'd, the 

air 

Is delicate. 

J/., I: 6. 1362. 



COLD.— Indifference to. 

Gru. * * Now, were not I a little pot, 
and soon hot, my very lips might freeze to 
my teeth, my tongue to the roof of my 
mouth, my heart in my belly, ere I should 
come by a fire to thaw me : — But, I, with 
blowing the fire, shall warm myself; for, 
considering the weather, a taller man than 
I will take cold. 

T. S., IV : 1. 471. 



COLD-BLOODED.— The, Make Mis- 
takes. 

Leon. Cease ; no more. 

You smell this business with a sense as cold 
As is a dead man's nose. 

W. T., II : 1. 589. 

Lucio. * * A man whose blood 
Is very snow-broth ; one who never feels 
The wanton stings and motions of the sense. 
M.M.,1: 4. 147. 



COLDNESS. 



82 



COMMOTION. 



COLDNESS. —Extreme. 

Mer. * * 
The frozen bosom of the north. 

R J., 1 : 4. 1248. 

COMFORT.— Cold. 

K. John. Poison'd, — ill-fare; — dead, 

forsook, cast off: 
And none of you will bid the winter come, 
To thrust his icy fingers in my maw ; 
Nor let my kingdom's rivers take their 

course 
Through my burn'd bosom; nor entreat the 

north 
To make his bleak winds kiss my parched 

lips, 
And comfort me with cold : — I do not ask 

you much, 
I beg cold comfort ; and you are so strait, 
And so ingrateful, you deny me that. 

K. J., V : 7. 676. 

COMMANDS. — Suited to Exigencies. 

Boats. Down with the topmast ; yare ; 
lower, lower ; bring her to try with main- 
course. 
* * 

Boats. Lay her a-hold, a-hold : set her 
two courses ; off to sea again ; lay her off. 

T., 1:1. 7, 8. 
COMMENDATION. — Causes Hatred. 

3 Thief. He has almost charmed me 
from my profession, by persuading me to it. 

1 Thief. 'T is in the malice of mankind, 
that he thus advises us ; not to have us 
thrive in our mystery. 

2 Thief. I '11 believe him as an enemy, 
and give over my trade. 

1 Thief. Let us first see peace in Athens : 
There is no time so miserable, but a man 
may be true. 

T. A., IV: 3: 1310. 

— Should be Public. 

Duke. O, your desert speaks loud; and 
I should wrong it, 
To lock it in the wards of covert bosom, 
When it deserves with characters of brass 
A forted residence, 'gainst the tooth of time, 
And razure of oblivion. 

M. M., V : 1. 170. 

COMMERCE. — Aristocratic. 

Salar. Your mind is tossing on the 



There, where your argosies with portly sail, 
Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood, 
Or, as it Avere, the pageants of the sea, 
Do overpeer the petty traffickers, 
That curt'sy to them, do them reverence, 
As they fly by them with their woven wings. 
3L V., 1 : 1. 361. 

COMMISERATION — For Injured In- 
nocence. 
K. Hen. Ay, Margaret; my heart is 

drown'd with grief, 
Whose flood begins to flow within mine 

eyes ; 
My body round engirt with misery ; 
For what 's more miserable than discon- 
tent?— 
Ah, uncle Humphrey ! in thy face I see 
The map of honour, truth, and loyalty ; 
And yet, good Humphrey, is the hour to 

come, 
That e'er I prove thee false, or fear'd thy 

faith. 
What low'ring star now envies thy estate, 
That these great lords, and Margaret our 

queen, 
Do seek subversion of thy harmless life? 
Thou never didst them wrong, nor no man 

wrong : 
And as the butcher takes away the calf, 
And binds the wretch, and beats it when it 

strays, 
Bearing it to the bloody slaughter-house ; 
Even so, remorseless, have they borne him 

hence. 
And as the dam runs lowing up and down, 
Looking the way her harmless young one 

went, 
And can do naught but wail her darling's 

loss ; 
Even so myself bewails good Gloster's case, 
With sad unhelpful tears ; and with dimm'd 

eyes 
Look after him, and cannot do him good ; 
So mighty are his vowed enemies. 

//. VL, 2*pt., ni : 1. 924. 

COMMOTION— Its Cause the Cure. 
Band. It was my breath that blew this 
tempest up, 
Upon your stubborn usage of the pope ; 
But, since you are a gentle convertite, 



COMMOTION. 



83 



COMPANIONS, 



My tongue shall hush again this storm of 

war, 
And make fair weather in your blustering 

land. 
On this Ascension-day, remember well, 
Upon your oath of service to the pope, 
Go I to make the French lay down their 

arms. 

K. J., V : 1. 671. 

— Popular. 

North. * * 
The times are wild ; contention, like a horse 
Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, 
And bears down all before him. 

H. IV., 2pt.,I: 1. 774. 

Men You have made good work, 

You, and your apron men ; you that stood 

so much 
Upon the voice of occupation, and 
The breath of garlic-eaters ! 

C, IV. 6. 1184. 

COMMOTIONS. — How Excited. 

Geo. Come, and get thee a sword, though 
made of a lath; they have been up these 
two days. 

John. They have the more need to sleep 
now then. 

Geo. I tell thee, Jack Cade the clothier 
means to dress the commonwealth, and turn 
it, and set a new nap upon it. 

John. So he had need, for 't is thread- 
bare Well, I say, it was never merry 
world in England, since gentlemen came 
up. 

Geo. O miserable age! Virtue is not 
regarded in handy crafts-men. 

John. The nobility think scorn to go in 
leather aprons. 

Geo. Nay more, the king's council are 
no good workmen. 

John. True: And yet it is said, — Labour 
in thy vocation : which is as much to say, 
as, — let the magistrates be labouring men; 
and therefore should we be magistrates. 

Geo. Thou hast hit it : for there 's no 
better sign of a brave mind, than a hard 
hand. 

John. I see them ! I see them ! There 's 
Best's son, the tanner of Wingham : 

Geo. He shall have the skins of our 
enemies, to make dog's leather of. 

John. And Dick the butcher, 



Geo. Then is sin struck down like an 
ox, and iniquity's throat cut like a calf. 

John. And Smith the weaver : 

Geo. Argo, iheir thread of life is spun. 

John. Come, come, let 's fall in with 
them. 

H. VI., 2 pt., IV : 2. 934. 

COMMUNISM.— Its Language. 

1 Cit. You are all resolved rather to die, 
than to famish? 

Cit. Resolved, resolved. 

1 Cit. First you knoAv, Caius Marcius is 
chief enemy to the people. 

Cit. We know 't, we know 't. 

1 Cit. Let us kill him, and we '11 have 
corn at our own price. Is 't a verdict? 

Cit. No more talking on 't; let it be 
done : away, away. 

2 Cit. One Word, good citizens. 

1 Cit. We are accounted poor citizens ; 
the patricians, good : What authority sur- 
feits on, would relieve us : If they would 
yield us but the superfluity, while it were 
wholesome, we might guess, they relieved 
us humanely ; but they think, we are too 
dear : the leanness that afflicts us, the ab- 
jectness of our misery, is as an inventory to 
particularize their abundance ; our suffer- 
ance is a gain to them. — Let us revenge 
this with our pikes, ere we become rakes : 
for the gods know, I speak this in hunger 
for bread, not in thirst for revenge. 

G. t 1:1. 1149. 

COMPANION — A Merry. 

Ant. S. A trusty villain, sir, that very 

oft 

When I am dull with care and melancholy, 

Lightens my humour with his merry jests. 

C. E., 1 : 2. 194. 
t 

COMPANIONS.— Fascination of Bad. 

Fal. I am accursed to rob in that thief's 
company : the rascal hath removed my horse, 
and tied him I know not where. If I travel 
but four foot by the squire further afoot, I 
shall break my wind. Well, I doubt not 
but to die a fair death for all this, if I 'scape 
hanging for killing that rogue. I have for- 
sworn his company hourly any time this 
two-and-twenty years, and yet I am be- 
witched with the rogue's company. If the 
rascal have not given me medicines to make 
me love him, I '11 be hanged ; it could not 
be else; I have drunk medicines. — Poins ! 
— Hal! — a plague upon you both! — Bar- 
dolph ! — Peto ! — I '11 starve, ere I '11 rob a 
foot further. An 't were not as good a deed 



COMPANIONS. 



8 4 



COMPANIONSHIP. 



as drink, to turn true man, and leave these 
rogues, I am the veriest varlet that ever 
chewed with a tooth. Eight yards of un- 
even ground, is three score and ten miles 
afoot with me ; and the stony-hearted vil- 
lains know it well enough : A plague upon 
't, when thieves cannot be true to one an- 
other ! 

H. 7F.,lpt., II: 2. 735. 

— Insolence of Bad. 

Fal. I pr'ythee, good prince Hal, help 
me to my horse ; good king's son. 

P. Hen. Out, you rogue ! shall I be your 
ostler ! 

Fal. Go, hang thyself in thy own heir- 
apparent garters ! If I be ta'en, I '11 peach 
for this. An I have not ballads made on 
you all, and sung to filthy tunes, let a cup 
of sack be my poison : When a jest is so 
forward, and afoot too, — I hate it. 

H. IV., lpt., II: 2. 735. 

— Show Each Other's Sins. 

Cel. No? hath not? Kosalind lacks then 

the love, 
Which teacheth thee that thou and I am 

one; 
Shall we be sunder'd? shall we part, sweet 

girl? 
No ; let my father seek another heir. 
Therefore devise with me how we may fly, 
Whither to go, and what to bear with us : 
And do not seek to take your charge upon 

you, 
To bear your griefs yourself, and leave me 

out; 
For, by this heaven, now at our sorrows 

pale, 
Say what thou canst, I '11 go along with 

thee. I 

A. Y., 1 : 3. 413. 

Cel. * * If she be a traitor, 
Why, so am I ; we still have slept together, 
Rose at an instant, learn'd, play'd, eat 

together; 
And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, 
Still we Avent coupled, and inseparable. 

A. Y.,I: 3. 413. 

— Witless, Why Selected. 

Dol. They say, Poins has a good wit. 
Fal. He a good wit? hang him, baboon! 
his wit is as thick as Tewksbury mustard ; 



there is no more conceit in him, than is in a 
mallet. 

Dol. Why does the prince love him so 
then? 

Fal. Because their legs are both of a 
bigness ; and he plays at quoits well ; and 
eats conger and fennel ; and drinks off can- 
dles' ends for flap-dragons ; and rides the 
wild mare with the boys ; and jumps upon 
joint-stools ; and swears with a good grace ; 
and wears his boot very smooth, like unto 
the sign of the leg; and breeds no bate with 
telling of discreet stories ; and such other 
gambol faculties he hath, that show a weak 
mind and an able body, for the which the 
prince admits him : for the prince himself is 
such another ; the weight of a hair will turn 
the scales between their avoirdupois. 

ff.IV., 2pt.,II: 4. 787. 



COMPANIONSHIP. — Evil. 

Count. A very tainted fellow, and full 
of wickedness : 
My son corrupts a well-derived nature 
With his inducement. 

A. W., Ill : 2. 512. 

— Good, Essential. 

Cas. I will do so: — till .then, think of 
the world. 
Well, Brutus, thou art noble ; yet, I see, 
Thy honourable metal may be wrought 
From that it is dispos'd : Therefore 't is 

meet 
That noble minds keep ever with their likes : 
For who so firm, that cannot be seduc'd? 
Caesar doth bear me hard ; but he loves 

Brutus : 
If I were Brutus now, and he were Cassius, 
He should not humour me. I will this night, 
In several hands, in at his windows throw, 
As if they came from several citizens, 
Writings, all tending to the great opinion 
That Rome holds of his name ; wherein ob- 
scurely 
Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at : 
And, after this, let Caesar seek him sure ; 
For we will shake him, or worse days en- 
dure. 

J. C, 1 : 2. 1326. 

— Its Influence. 
Por. I never did repent for doing good, 
Nor shall not now ; for in companions 



COMPANIONSHIP. 



85 



COMPETITORS, 



That do converse and waste the time 

together, 
Whose souls do hear an equal } r oke of love, 
There must be needs a like proportion 
Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit: 
Which makes me think, that this Antonio, 
Being the bosom lover of my lord, 
Must needs be like my lord. 

M. V., Ill : 4. 380. 

— Low. 

Poins. Where hast been, Hal? 

P. Hen. With three or four loggerheads, 
amongst three or four score hogsheads. I 
have sounded the very base string of humil- 
ity. Sirrah, I am sworn brother to a leash 
of drawers ; and can call them all by their 
Christian names, as — Tom, Dick, and 
Francis. They take it already upon their 
salvation, that, though I be but prince of 
Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy ; and 
tell me flatly I am no proud Jack, like Fal- 
stafF ; but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle, a 
good boy, — by the Lord, so they call me ; 
and when I am king of England, I shall 
command all the good lads in Eastcheap. 

H. IV., 1 pt., II : 4. 738. 

— Wild, Renounced. 

King. I know thee not, old man : fall to 

thy prayers ; 
How ill white hairs become a fool, and 

jester ! 
I have long dream'd of such a kind of man, 
So surfeit-swell'd, so old, and so profane ; 
But, being awake, I do despise my dream. 
Make less thy body, hence, and more thy 

grace : 
Leave gormandizing ; know, the grave doth 

gape 
For thee thrice wider than for other men : — 
Reply not to me with a fool-born jest ; 
Presume not, that I am the thing I was : 
For heaven doth know, so shall the world 

perceive, 
That I have turn'd away my former self; 
So will I those that kept me company. 
When thou dost hear I am as I have been, 
Approach me ; and thou shalt be as thou 

wast, 
The tutor and the feeder of my riots. 

H. IV., 2pt., V: 5. 810. 

COMPANY.— Good, Desirable. 

Slen. Ay, you spake in Latin then too ; 
but 't is no matter : I '11 ne'er be drunk 



whilst I live again, but in honest, civil, 
godly company, for this trick : If I be drunk, 
I '11 be drunk with those that have the fear 
of God, and not with drunken knaves. 

31. W., 1 : 1. 90. 

— Bad, its Influence. 

Fal. * * There is a thing, Harry, 
which thou hast often heard of, and it is 
known to many in our land by the name of 
pitch : this pitch, as ancient writers do re- 
ports doth defile ; so doth the company thou 
keepest. 

//. IV., 1 pt., II : 4. 742. 

COMPARISONS. — Odorous. 

Dogb. Comparisons are odorous : pala- 
bras, neighbour Verges. 

M. A., Ill : 5. 243. 

— Show Distinctions. 

Ner. When the moon shone, we did not 

see the candle. 
Por. So doth the great glory dim 'the 
less ; 
A substitute shines brightly as a king, 
Until a king be by. 

M. V., V: 1. 389. 

COMPENSATION — In All Things. 
Agam. Go we to council. Let Achilles 
sleep : 
Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks 
draw deep. 

T. C, II : 3. 1119. 

— For Lack of Hair. 

Ant. S. Why is Time such a niggard of 
hair, being, as it is, so plentiful an excre- 
ment? 

Dro. S. Because it is a blessing that he 
bestows on beasts : and what he hath scanted 
men in hair, he hath given them in wit. 

0. E., II : 2. 197. 

COMPETITORS. — Vigilant. 

Ulyss. * * 
Where one but goes abreast ; keep then the 

path ; 
For emulation hath a thousand sons, 
That one by one pursue : If you give way, 
Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, 
Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, 
And leave you hindmost. 

T. C., III: 3. 1125. 



COMPLAINTS. 



86 



COMPROMISE. 



COMPLAINTS.— A Ground for War. 

Arch. * * I sent your grace 
The parcels and particulars of our grief; 
The which hath heen with scorn shov'd 

from the court, 
Whereon this Hydra son of war is born : 
Whose dangerous eyes may well be charm'd 

asleep, 
With grant of our most just and right 

desires ; 
And true obedience of this madness cur'd, 
Stoop tamely to the foot of majesty. 

Mowb. If not, we ready are to try our 

fortunes 
To the last man. 

Hast. And though we here fall down, 
We have supplies to second our attempt ; 
If they miscarry, theirs shall second them : 
And so, success of mischief shall be born ; 
And heir from heir shall hold this quarrel 

up, 
Whiles England shall have generation. 

H. IV., 2 pt., IV : 2. 797. 

COMPLEXION. — A Dark One Prized. 

Mor. Mislike me not for my complexion, 
The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun, 
To whom I am a neighbour, and near bred. 
Bring me the fairest creature northward 

born, 
Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles, 
And let us make incision for your love, 
To prove whose blood is reddest, his, or 

mine. 
I tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine 
Hath fear'd the valiant; by my love, I 

swear, 
The best-regarded virgins of our clime 
Have lov'd it too : I would not change this 

hue, 
Except to steal your thoughts, my gentle 

queen. 

M. V., II: 1. 367. 



— A Good One. 



Phi 



The best thing in him 



Is his complexion ; and faster than his 

tongue 
Did make offence,, his eye did heal it up. 
He is not very tall ; yet for his years he 's 

tall; 
His leg is but so so ; and yet 't is well : 



There was a pretty redness in his lip ; 

A little riper and more* lusty red 

Than that mix'c^ in his cheek ; 't was just 

the difference 
Betwixt the constant red, and mingled 

damask. 

A. F., Ill: 5. 42S. 

COMPLIMENT.— An Elegant. 

Boyet. * * 
Be now as prodigal of all dear grace, 
As Nature was in making graces dear, 
When she did starve the general world be- 
side, 
And prodigally gave them all to you. 

L.L., II: 1. 277. 

— A Fine. 

Cas. * * 
Ye men of Cyprus, let her have your knees : 
Hail to thee, lady ! and the grace of heaven, 
Before, behind thee, and on every hand, 
Enwheel thee round ! 

0., II : 1. 1501. 

COMPLIMENTS.— Beggarly Thanks. 

Jaq. Well, then, if ever I thank any 
man, I '11 thank you: but- that they call 
compliment is like the encounter of two 
dog-apes ; and when a man thanks me 
heartily, methinks I have given him a penny, 
and he renders me the beggarly thanks. 

A. Y., II: 5. 417. 

— Shallow. 

Fal. My good lord ! God give your lord- 
ship good time of day. I am glad to see 
your lordship abroad : I heard say, your 
lordship was sick . I hope, your lordship 
goes abroad by advice. Your lordship, 
though not clean past your youth, hath yet 
some smack of age in you, some relish of 
the saltness of time ; and I most humbly 
beseech your lordship, to have a reverend 
care of your health. 

H. IV, 2pt., I: 2. 777. 

COMPROMISE. — Inglorious. 

Bast. O inglorious league ! 

Shall we, upon the footing of our land, 
Send fair-play offers, and make compromise, 
Insinuation, parley, and base truce, 
To arms invasive? shall a beardless boy, 
A cocker'd silken wanton brave our fields, 
And flesh his spirit in a warlike soil, 
Mocking the air with colours idly spread, 



COMPROMISE. 



87 



CONCEIT. 



And find no check? Let us, my liege, to 

arms : 
Perchance, the cardinal cannot make your 

peace ; • 

Or if he do, let it at least be said, 
They saw we had a purpose of defence. 

K. J., V : 1. 671. 

COMPUNCTION. — Bemoaning Things 
Without. 

Lady M. * * Things without remedy, 

Should be without regard : what 's done, is 

done. 

31., III : 2. 1370. 

—Bitter. 

. Sal. * * 0, it grieves my soul, 

That I must draw this metal from my side 

To be a widow-maker. 

K.J.,V: 2. 672. 

— Has no Law. 

K. Rich. * * 
Cousin, I am too young to be your father, 
Though you are old enough to be my heir. 
What you will have, I '11 give, and willing 

too, 
For do we must, what force will have us do. 
R. II, Ill: 3. 705. 

— Voiceless. 

Sen. * * 
My heart is not compact of flint, nor steel : 
Nor can I utter all our bitter grief, 
But floods of tears will drown my oratory, 
And break my very utterance. 

Til. And., V : 3. 1230. 

CONCEALMENT. — Consumes. 

Vio. * * 

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, 

Feed on her damask cheek : she pnrd in 

thought. 

T. 3T., II : 4. 551. 

King. * * 
We would not understand what was most 

fit; 
But, like the owner of a foul disease, 
To keep it from divulging, let it feed 
Even on the pith of life. 

II., IV: 1. 1421. 

— True Wisdom. 

Per. * * 
Who has a book of all that monarchs do, 



He 's more secure to keep it shut, than 

shown ; 
For vice repeated, is like the wand'ring 

wind, 
Blows dust in others' eyes, to spread itself; 
And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, 
The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see 

clear : 
To stop the air would hurt them. 

P., 1 : 1. 1613. 

CONCEIT.— Of Introspection. 

Sir To. Here 's an overweening rogue ! 

Fab. O, peace ! Contemplation makes 
a rare turkey-cock of him ! how he jets un- 
der his advanc'd plumes ! 

T. N., II : 5. 552. 

— Rebuked and Braved. 

Ghost. * * 
O, step between her and her fighting soul ; 
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. 
//., Ill : 4. 1419. 

Chi. Demetrius, thou dost over-ween in 
all; 

And so in this to bear me down with braves. 

'T is not the difference of a year, or two, 

Makes me less gracious, thee more fortu- 
nate : 

I am as able, and as fit, as thou, 

To serve, and to deserve my mistress' grace ; 

And that my sword upon thee shall approve, 

And plead my passions for Lavinia's love. 

Tit. And., II: 1. 1207. 

— Shelters a Poor Conscience. 

Iago. * * 
Is — not to leave undone, but keep un- 
known. 

0., Ill : 3. 1512. 

— Thinks it can do Everything. 

Quin. * * Nick Bottom, the weaver. 

Bot. Ready. Name what part I am for, 
and proceed. 

Quin. You, Nick Bottom, are set down 
for Pyramus. 

Bot.. What is Pyramus? a lover, or a 
tyrant? 

Quin. A lover, that kills himself most 
gallantly for love. 

Bot. That will ask some tears in the 
true performing of it : If I do it, let the 



CONCEIT. 



88 



CONCESSIONS. 



audience look to their eyes ; I will move 

storms ; I will condole in some measure. 

To the rest : — Yet ray chief humour is for 

a tyrant : I could play Ercles rarely, or a 

part to tear a cat in, to make all split. 

"The raging rocks, 

And shivering shocks, 

Shall break the locks 

Of prison-gates ; 
And Phibbus' car 
Shall shine from far, 
And make and mar 
The foolish fates." 

This was lofty. 

* * 

An I may hide my face, let me play Thisby 
too : I '11 speak in a monstrous little voice : 
" Thisne, Thisne, — Ah, Pyramus, my lover 
dear ; thy Thisby dear ! and lady dear ! " 

* * 

Let me play the lion too. I will roar, 
that I will do any man's heart good to hear 
me ; I Avill roar, that I will make the duke 
say, "Let him roar again; let him roar 

again." 

* * 

I grant you, friends, if that you should 
fright the ladies out of their wits, they 
would have no more discretion but to hang 
us ; but I will aggravate my voice so, that I 
will roar you as gently as any sucking dove ; 
I will roar you an 't were any nightingale. 

31. y..I: 2. 324. 
— Victim of, Described. 

King. * * 
A man in all the world's new fashion 

planted, 
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : 
One who the music of his own vain tongue 
Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony. 

L.L., I: 1.273. 

Seb. I think he will carry this island 
home in his pocket, and give it his son for 
an apple. 

Ant. And, sewing the kernels of it in 
the sea, bring forth more islands. 

7*., II: 1. 16. 

CONCEITEDNESS. — In Opinion. 

Gra. * * 
There are a sort of men, whose visages 
Do- cream and mantle like a standing pond, 
And do a Avilfnl stillness entertain. 
With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion 
Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit : 
As who should say, "I am sir Oracle, 
And when I ope my lips let no dog bark ! " 
M. r.,I: 1. 362. 



CONCEITS. — Dangerous. 

Iago. * * 
Dangerous conceits are, in their nature, 

poisons, 
Which, at the first, are scarce found to dis- 
taste ; 
But, with a little act upon the blood, 
Burn like the mines of sulphur. 

0., Ill : 3. 1513. 

CONCESSIONS.— Popular, impolitic. 

Cor. * * This kind of service 
Did not deserve corn gratis : being i' the 

war, 
Their mutinies and revolts, wherein they 

show'd 
Most valour, spoke not for them : The accu- 
sation 
Which they have often made against the 

senate, 
All cause unborn, could never be the motive 
Of our so frank donation. Well, what then ! 
How shall this bisson multitude digest 
The senate's courtesy? Let deeds express 
What 's like to be their words : — " We did 

request it ; 
We are the greater poll, and in true fear 
They gave us our demands:" — Thus we 

debase 
The nature of our seats, and make the 

rabble 
Call our cares fears : which will in time 

break ope 
The locks o' the senate, and bring in the 

crows 
To peck the eagles. 

O., HI : 1. 1170. 

— Small, Fatal. 
K. Edw. Why, and I challenge nothing 
but my dukedom ; 
As being well content with that alone. 

Glo. But, when the fox hath once got in 
his nose, 
He '11 soon find means to make the body 
follow. 
Hast. Why, master mayor, why stand 
you in a doubt? 
Open the gates, we are king Henry's friends. 
May. Ay, say you so? the gates then 
shall be open'd. 



CONCESSIONS. 



89 



CONFESSION. 



Glo. A Avise stout captain, and persuad- 
ed soon ! 
Hast. The good old man would fain that 
all were well, 
So 't were not 'long of him : but, being en- 
teral, 
I doubt not, I, but we shall soon persuade 
Both him, and all his brothers, unto reason. 
K. Edu). So, master mayor : these gates 
must not be shut, 
But in the night, or in the time of war. 
What ! fear not, man, but yield me up the 

keys ; 
For Edward will defend the town, and thee, 
And all those friends that deign to follow me. 
H. VI., 3 pt., IV: 7. 984. 

CONCILIATION.— Its Pleadings. 
K. Rich. Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be 

rul'd by me ; 
Let 's purge this choler without letting 

blood : 
This we prescribe though no physician ; 
Deep malice makes too deep incision : 
Forget, forgive ; conclude, and be agreed ; 
Our doctors say, this is no time to bleed. 

R. II., I: 1. 688. 

CONCLUSION. —False. 

Des. To do what? 

Iago. To suckle fools, and chronicle 
small beer. 

Des. O most lame and impotent conclu- 
sion ! 

0., II: 1. 1502. 

Mai. M. But then there is no consonancy 
in the sequel ; that suffers under probation : 
A should follow, but does. 

T.X.,Il: 5. 553. 

CONDESCENSION.— Inspires Confi- 
dence. 

Chor. * * The poor condemned En- 
glish, 

Like sacrifices, by their watchful fires 

Sit patiently, and inly ruminate 

The morning's danger ; and their gesture 
sad, 

Investing lank-lean cheeks, and war-worn 
coats, 

Presenteth them unto the gazing moon 



So many horrid ghosts. 0, now, who will 

behold 
The royal captain of this ruin'd band, 
Walking from watch to watch, from tent to 

tent, 
Let him cry — Praise and glory on his head ! 
For forth he goes, and visits all his host ; 
Bids them good-morrow, with a modest 

smile ; 
And calls them— brothers, friends, and 

countrymen. 
Upon his royal face there is no note, 
How dread an army hath enrounded him ; 
Nor doth he dedicate one jot of colour 
Unto the weary and all-watched night : 
But freshly looks, and over-bears attaint, 
With cheerful semblance, and sweet majesty ; 
That every wretch, pining and pale before, 
Beholding him, plucks comfort from his 

looks : 
A largess universal, like the sun, 
His liberal eye doth give to every one, 
ThaAving cold fear. 

//. V ; , IV: C. 839. 

CONDUCT.— Best Exponent of Char- 
acter. 

Duke. Angelo, 

There is a kind of character in thy life, 
That, to th' observer, doth thy history 
Fully unfold. 

M. 31., 1 : 1. 143. 

CONFESSION— A Preparation for 
Death. 

Ang. * * 
Bring him his confessor, let him be pre- 

par'd ; 
For that 's the utmost of his pilgrimage. 

31. JL, II: 1. 148. 

— Lightens G-uilt's Burden. 

Doling. * * 
Confess thy treasons, ere thou fly the realm ; 
Since thou hast far to go, bear not along 
The clogging burden of a guilty soul. 

R. II, I • 3. 689. 

— Must be Plain. 
Fri. Be plain, good son, and homely in 
thy drift ; 
Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift. 
R. J., II : 3. 1254. 



CONFIDENCE. 



9 



CONFIDENCE. 



CONFIDENCE.— A Child's Unsuspect- 
ing. 
Arih. Are you sick, Hubert? you look 
pale to-day : 
In sooth, I would you were a little sick ; 
That I might sit all night, and watch with 

you: 
I warrant, I love you more than you do me. 
K. J., IV : 1. 664. 

— In Danger. 

Hast. I tell thee, man, 't is better with 
me now, 
Than when thou met'st me last where now 

we meet : 
Then was I going prisoner to the Tower, 
By the suggestion of the queen's allies ; 
But now, I tell thee, (keep it to thyself,) 
This day those enemies are put to death, 
And I in better state than ere I was. 
* * 

Pr. Well met, my lord ; I am glad to 

see your honour. 
Hast. I thank thee, good sir John, with 
all my heart. 
I am in your debt for your last exercise ; 
Come the next Sabbath, and I will content 
you. 
Pr. I '11 wait upon your lordship. 
Buck. What, talking with a priest, lord 
chamberlain? 
Your friends at Pomfret, they do need the 

priest ; 
Your honour hath no shriving work in 
hand. 
Hast. 'Good faith, and when I met this 
holy man, 
The men you talk of came into my mind. 
What, go you toward the Tower? 

Buck. I do, my lord ; but long I cannot 
stay there : 
I shall return before your lordship thence. 
Hast. Nay, like enough, for I stay din- 
ner there. 
Buck. And supper too, although thou 
know'st it not. 

R. III., Ill : 2. 1023. 

— Marital. 

Ford. Pardon me, wife : Henceforth do 
what thou wilt ; 
I rather will suspect the sun with cold 



Than thee with Avantonness : now doth thy 

honour stand, 
In him that was of late an heretic, 
As firm as faith. 

M. W., IV : 4. 113. 

— Misplaced. 

Glo. * * 

I took him for the plainest, harmless't crea- 
ture, 

That breath'd upon the earth a Christian ; 

Made him my book, wherein my soul re- 
corded 

The history of all her secret thoughts. 

R. III., Ill : 5. 1026. 

— Misplaced, Fatal. 

Q. Eliz. * * 
Trust not him that hath once broken faith. 
H. VI, 3 pt., IV: 4. 982. 

Hast. His grace looks cheerfully and 

smooth this morning ; 
There 's some conceit or other likes him 

well, 
When he doth bid good morrow with such 

spirit. 
I think, there 's ne'er a man in Christendom, 
Can lesser hide his love, or hate, than he ; 
For by his face straight shall you know his 

heart. 
Stan. What of his heart perceive you in 

his face, 
By any likelihood he show'd to-day? 

Hast. Marry, that with no man here he 

is offended; 
For, were he, he had shown it in his looks. 
Glo. I pray you all, tell me what they 

deserve, 
That do conspire my death with devilish 

plots 
Of damned witchcraft ; and that have pre- 

vail'd 
Upon my body with their hellish charms? 
Hast. The tender love I bear your grace, 

my lord, 
Makes me most forward in this noble pres- 
ence 
To doom the offenders : Whosoe'er they be, 
I say, my lord, they have deserved death. 
Glo. Then be your eyes the witness of 

their evil. 



CONFIDENCE, 



9 1 



CONJURER. 



Look how I am bewitch'd : behold mine 

arm 
Is, like a blasted sapling, wither'd up : 
And this is Edward's wife, that monstrous 

witch, 
Consorted with that harlot, strumpet Shore, 
That by their witchcraft thus have marked 

me. 
Hast. If they have done this deed, my 

noble lord, 

Glo. If! thou protector of this damned 

strumpet, v 

Talk'st thou to me of ifs ? — Thou art a 

traitor : — 
Off with his head : — now, by Saint Paul I 

swear, 
I will not dine until I see the same. — 
Lovel, and Catesby, look, that it be done ; 
The rest, that love me, rise, and follow me. 
Hast. Woe, woe, for England ! not a 

whit for me ; 
For I, too fond, might have prevented this : 
Stanley did dream, the boar did rase his 

helm; 
But I disdain'd it, and did scorn to fly. 
Three times to-day my foot-cloth horse did 

stumble, 
And startled when he look'd upon the Tower, 
As loath to bear me to the slaughter-house. 
O, now I Avant the priest that spake to me : 
I now repent I told the pursuivant, 
As too triumphing, how mine enemies, 
To-day at Pomfret bloodily were butcher'd, 
And I myself secure in grace and favour. 
O, Margaret, Margaret, now thy heavy 

curse 
Is lighted on poor Hastings' wretched head. 
Cate. Despatch, my lord, the duke would 

be at dinner. 
Make a short-shrift, he longs to see your 

head. 
Hast. O momentary grace of mortal 

men, 
Which we more hunt for than the grace of 

God! 
Who builds his hope in air of your fair 

looks, 
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast ; 
Ready, with every nod, to tumble down 
Into the fatal bowels of the deep. 

Lov. Come, come, despatch; 'tis boot- 
less to exclaim. 



Hast. 0, bloody Richard! — miserable 
England ; 
I prophesy the fearful'st time to thee, 
That ever wretched age hath look'd upon. — 
Come, lead me to the block, bear him my 

head ; 
They smile at me, who shortly shall be dead. 
R. III., Ill: 4. 1025. 



Sublime. 



Jul. 



But truer stars did govern Proteus' birth : 
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles ; 
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate ; 
His tears, pure messengers sent from his 

heart ; 
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from 

earth. 
Luc. Pray heav'n he prove so, when you 
come to him ! 

Jul. Now, as thou lov'st me, do him not 

that wrong, 
To bear a hard opinion of his truth : 
Only deserve my love, by loving him ; 
And presently go with me to my chamber, 
To take a note of what I stand in need of, 
To furnish me upon my longing journey. 
All that is mine I leave at thy dispose, 
My goods, my lands, my reputation; 
Only, in lieu thereof, despatch me hence : 
Come, answer not, but to it presently ; 
I am impatient of my tarriance. 

T. &., II: 7. 59. 

CONFINEMENT.— Delays Death. 

K. John. Ay, marry, now my soul hath 
elbow-room ; 
It would not out at windows, nor at doors. 
There is hot a summer in my bosom, 
That all my bowels crumble up to dust : 
I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen 
Upon a parchment ; and against this fire 
Do I shrink up. 

A'.J.,V: 7. 676. 

CONJURER. — His Injurious Tricks. 

Ant. E. * * 
They brought one Pinch, a hungry lean- 

fac'd villain, 
A mere anatomy, a mountebank, 
A thread-bare juggler, and a fortune-teller; 
A needy, hollow-ey'd, sharp-looking wretch, 



CONJURER. 



Q2 



CONSCIENCE. 



A living dead man : this pernicious slave, 
Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer, 
And gazing in mine eyes, feeling my pulse, 
And with no face, as 't were, outfacing me, 
Cries out, I was possess'd : then all together 
They fell upon me, hound me, bore me 

thence ; 
And in a dark and dankish vault at home 
There left me and my man, both bound to- 
gether ; 
Till gnawing with my teeth my bonds in 

sunder, 
I gain'd my freedom, and immediately 
Ran hither to your grace ; whom I beseech 
To give me ample satisfaction 
Eor these deep shames, and great indignities. 

C. E., V : 1. 212. 

Bra. * * I therefore vouch again, 
That with some mixtures powerful o'er the 

blood, 
Or with some dram conjur'd to this effect, 
He wrought upon her. 

0., 1 : 3. 1496. 

CONQUEROR— An Uninterrupted. 

Glo. England ne'er had a king, until his 

time. 
Virtue he had, deserving to command : 
His brandish'd sword did blind men with his 

beams ; 
His arms spread wider than a dragon's 

wings ; 
His sparkling eyes replete with wrathful 

fire, 
More dazzled and drove back his enemies, 
Than mid-day sun, fierce bent against their 

faces. 
What should I say? his deeds exceed all 

speech : 
He ne'er lift up his hand, but conquered. 

//. VI., l pt., I : l. 864. 

— What he Does. 

Vol. * * Before him 
He carries noise, and behind him he leaves 

tears ; 
Death, that dark spirit, in 's nervy arm doth 

lie ; 
Which being advanc'd, declines ; and then 
men die. 

C, II: 1. 1161. 



CONQUEST.— Its Tyranny. 

Ros. * t * 
O, that I knew he were but in by the week ! 
How I would make him fawn, and beg, and 

seek, 
And wait the season, and observe the times, 
And spend his prodigal wits in bootless 

rhymes ; 
And shape his service wholly to my behests, 
And make him proud to make me proud that 

jests ! 
So potently would I o'ersway his state, 
That he should be my fool, and I his fate. 

L. L., V : 2. 294. 

— Self, the Greatest. 
Ant. Peace : 

Not Caesar's valour hath o'erthrown Antony, 
But Antony's hath triumphed on itself. 
Cleo. So it should be, that none but 
Antony 
Should conquer Antony ; but woe 't is so ! 
A. C, IV: 13. 1575. 

CONSCIENCE.— A Guilty, Disarms us. 

Pro. * * 
Who mak'st a show, but dar'st not strike, — 

thy conscience 
Is so possess'd with guilt : come from thy 

ward, 
For I can here disarm thee with this stick, 
And make thy weapon drop. 

T.,I: 2. 14. 

— A Heavy Burden. 

King. O, 't is too true ! how smart 
A lash that speech doth give my conscience ! 
The harlot's cheek, beautied with plast'ring 

art, 
Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it, 
Than is my deed to my most painted word : 
heavy burden ! 

H., Ill: 1. 1410. 

— A Sufficient Punishment. 

Ham,. * * Leave her to heaven, 
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, 
To prick and sting her. 

IT., 1 : 5. 1400. 

— A Tell-Tale. 

Sal. The colour of the king doth come 
and go, 



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CONSCIENCE. 



Between his purpose and his conscience, 
Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set. 
K. J., IV : 2. 666. 

K. Rich. * * 
My conscience hath a thousand several 

tongues, 
And every tongue brings in a several tale, 
And every tale condemns me for a villain. 
R. III., V : 3. 1044. 

Ham. * * 

Let the galled jade wince, our withers are 
unwrung. 

H., Ill: 2. 1415. 

— A Thousand Swords. 

Oxf. Every man's conscience is a thou- 
sand swords, 
To fight against that bloody homicide. 

R.III.,V: 2. 1042. 

— A Troubled. 

Doct. * * Unnatural deeds 
Do breed unnatural troubles : Infected 

minds 
To their deaf pillows will discharge their 
secrets. 

31., V : 1. 1381. 

— An Excuse. 

K. Hen. Deliver this with modesty to 
the queen. 

The most convenient place that I can think 
of 

For such receipt of learning, is Black-Friars ; 

There ye shall meet about this weighty 
business : — 

My Wolsey, see it furnish'd. — O my lord, 

Would it not grieve an able man, to leave 

So sweet a bedfellow ? But conscience, con- 
science, — 

O, 't is a tender place, and I must leave her. 
//. VIII., II : 2. 1069. 

— An Excuse for Infamy. 

K. Hen. * * Thus it came; — give 
heed to 't : — 

My conscience first receiv'd a tenderness, 

Scruple, and prick, on certain speeches 
utter'd 

By the bishop of Bayonne, then French am- 
bassador ; 

Who had been hither sent on the debating 



A marriage, 'twixt the duke of Orleans and 
Our daughter Mary ; I' the progress of this 

business, 
Ere a determinate resolution, he 
(I mean, the bishop) did require a respite ; 
Wherein he might the king his lord adver- 
tise 
Whether our daughter were legitimate, 
Respecting this our marriage with the dow- 
ager, 
Sometime our brother's wife. This respite 

shook 
The bosom of my conscience, enter'd me, 
Yea, with a splitting power, and made to 

tremble 
The region of my breast ; which forc'd such 

way 
That many maz'd considerings did throng. 
And press'd in with this caution. First, me- 

thought, 
I stood not in the smile of heaven ; who had 
Commanded nature, that my lady's womb, 
If not conceiv'd a male child by me, should 
Do no more offices of life to 't, than 
The grave does to the dead : for her male 

issue 
Or died where they wert.- made, or shortly 

after 
This world had air'd them : -Hence I took a 

thought, 
This was a judgment on me ; that my king- 
dom 
Well worthy the best heir o' the world, 

should not 
Be gladded in 't by me : Then follows, that 
I weigh'd the danger which my realms 

stood in 
By this my issue's fail ; and that gave to me 
Many a groaning throe. Thus hulling in 
The wild sea of my conscience, I did steer 
Toward this remedy, whereupon we are 
Now present here together ; that *s to say, 
I meant to rectify my conscience, — which 
I then did feel full sick, and yet not well, — 
By all the reverend fathers of the land, 
And doctors learn'd. — First, I began m 

' private 
With you, my lord of Lincoln ; you remem- 
ber 
How under my oppression I did reek, 
When I first mov'd you. 



CONSCIENCE. 



94 



CONSCIENCE. 



Prove but our marriage lawful, by my life 
And kingly dignity, we are contented 
To wear our mortal state to come with her, 
Katharine our queen, before the primest 

creature 
That's paragon'd o' the world. 

H. VIIL, II : 4. 1073. 

— Anything to Escape Its Voice. 

Boling. * * 
Lords, I protest, my soul is full of woe, 
That blood should sprinkle me, to make me 

grow : 
Come, mourn with me for that I do lament 
And put on sullen black incontinent ; 
I '11 make a voyage to the Holy Land, 
To wash this blood off from my guilty hand : 
March sadly after; grace my mourning 

here, 
In weeping after this untimely bier. 

R. II, V : 6. 718. 

— Appealed to for Mercy. 

Isab. Because authority, though it err 

like others, 
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, 
That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your 

bosom; 
Knock there ; and ask your heart, what it 

doth know 
That 's like my brother's fault : if it confess 
A natural guiltiness, such as is his, 
Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue 
Against my brother's life. 

M. M.,\l: 2. 153. 

— Aroused by Actors. 
Harm. * * I have heard, 

That guilty creatures, sitting at a play, 
Have by the very cunning of the scene 
Been struck so to the soul, that presently 
They have proclaim'd their malefactions ; 
For murder, though it have no tongue, will 

speak 
With most miraculous organ. I '11 have 

these players 
Play something like the murder of my 

father, 
Before mine uncle : I '11 observe his looks ; 
I '11 tent him to the quick ; if he but blench, 
I know my course. The spirit, that I have 

seen, 



May be a devil : and the devil hath power 
To assume a pleasing shape ; yea, and, per- 
haps, 
Out of my weakness, and my melancholy, 
(As he is very potent with such spirits,) 
Abuses me to damn me : I '11 have grounds 
More relative than this. The play 's the 

thing 
Wherein I '11 catch the conscience of the 
king. 

H., II : 2. 1409. 

— Awaking. (See Soliloquy.) 

Gon. All three of them are desperate : 
their great guilt, 
Like poison given to work a great time 

after 
Now 'gins to bite the spirits. 

T., Ill : 3. 26. 

Bru. 'T is good. Go to the gate ; some- 
body knocks. 
Since Cassius first did whet me against 

Caesar, 
I have not slept. 

Between the acting of a dreadful thing 
And the first motion, all the interim is 
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : 
The genius, and the mortal instruments, 
Are then in council ; and the state of man, 
Like to a little kingdom, suffers then 
The nature of an insurrection. 

J. C, II : 1. 1329. 

— Gobbo's Conflict With. 

Laun. Certainly my conscience will 
serve me to run from this Jew, my master. 
The fiend is at mine elbow, and tempts me ; 
saying to me, — Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, 
good Launcelot, or good Gobbo, or good 
Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs, take the 
start, run away. My conscience says, — 
no ; take heed, honest Launcelot ; take heed, 
honest Gobbo ; or (as aforesaid) honest 
Launcelot Gobbo ; do not run : scorn run- 
ning with thy heels. Well, the most cou- 
rageous fiend bids me pack. Via ! says the 
fiend ; away ! says the fiend, for the heavens ; 
rouse u\) a brave mind, says the fiend, and 
run. Well, my conscience, hanging about 
the neck of my heart, says very wisely to 
me, — my honest friend, Lancelot, being an 
honest man's son, or rather an honest 
woman's son; — for, indeed, my father did 
something smack, something grow to, he 
had a kind of taste; — well, my conscience 
says, Launcelot, budge not : budge, says 



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95 



CONSCIENCE. 



the fiend ; budge not, says my conscience. 
Conscience, say I, you counsel well ; fiend, 
say I, you counsel ill : to be ruled by my 
conscience, I should stay with the Jew my 
master, who (God bless the mark!) is a 
kind of devil ; and to run away from the 
Jew, I should be ruled by the fiend, who, 
saving your' reverence, is the devil himself. 
Certainly, the Jew is the very devil incarna- 
tion ; and, in my conscience, my conscience 
is a kind of hard conscience, to offer to 
counsel me to stay with the Jew. The fiend 
gives the more friendly counsel : I will run, 
fiend ; my heels are at your commandment : 
I will run. 

31. P., II: 2. 367. 

— Its Accusing Voice. 
K. Rich. Give me another horse, — bind 
up my wounds, — 
Have mercy, Jesu ! — Soft ; I did but 
dream. — 

coward conscience, how dost thou afflict 

me ! 

The lights burn blue. — It is now dead mid- 
night. 

Cold fearful drops stand on my trembling 
flesh. 

What do I fear? myself? there 's none else 
by: 

Richard loves Richard ; that is, I am I. 

Is there a murderer here? No ; — yes ; I am : 

Then fly, — what, from myself? Great rea- 
son : Why ? — 

Lest I revenge. What? Myself upon my- 
self? 

1 love myself. Wherefore? for any good, 
That I myself have done unto myself? 

0, no : alas, I rather hate myself, 

For hateful deeds committed by myself. 

I am a villain : yet I lie, I am not. 

Fool, of thyself speak well : — Fool, do not 

flatter. 
My conscience hath a thousand several 

tongues 
And every tongue brings in a several tale, 
And every tale condemns me for a villain. 
Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree, 
Murder, stern murder, in the dir'st degree ; 
All several sins, all us'd in each degree, 
Throng to the bar, crying all, — Guilty ! 

guilty ! 
I shall despair. — There is no creature loves 

me ; 
And, if I die, no soul will pity me : — 



Nay, wherefore should they? since that I 

myself 
Find in myself no pity to myself. 
Methought, the souls of all that I had mur- 

der'd 

Came to my tent : and every one did threat 

To-morrow's vengeance on the head of 

Richard. 

B.III.,V: 3. 1044. 

— Its Matchless Peace. 

Wo I. * * I feel within me 
A peace above all earthly dignities, 
A still and quiet conscience. 

H. VIII., in: 2. 1081. 

— Its Qualms. 

Macb. * * 

In the affliction of these terrible dreams, 

That shake us nightly : Better be with the 

dead, 

Whom Ave, to gain our place, have sent to 

peace, 

Than on the torture of the mind to lie 

In restless ecstasy. 

M., Ill : 2. 1370. 

Macb. Bloody instructions, which, being 
taught, return 
To plague the inventor. 
* * That his virtues 

Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, 

against 
The deep damnation of his taking-off : 

31, 1 : 7. 1362. . 

— Small Things Awaken. 

Car. * * 
Comb down his hair ; look ! look ! it stands 

upright, 
Like lime-twigs set to catch my winged soul ! 
H. VI, 2 pt., Ill : 3. 931. 

— Sneered at. 

K. Rich. * *• 
Go, gentlemen, every man unto his charge : 
Let not our babbling dreams affright our 

souls ; 
Conscience is but a word that cowards use, 
Devis"d at first to keep the strong in awe ; 
Our strong arms be our conscience, swords 

our law. 
March on, join bravely, let us to 't pell-mell ; 
If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell. 
R. Ill, V : 3. 1046. 



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CONSPIRACIES. 



— Universal. 

Iago. * * Who has a breast so pure, 

But some uncleanly apprehensions 

Keep leets, and law-days, and in session sit 

With meditations laAvful? 

a, III: 3. 1511. 

— Voiced in Everything. 

Alon. O, it is monstrous ! monstrous ! 

Methought the billows spoke, and told me 
of it ; 

The winds did sing it to me ; and the thun- 
der, 

That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pro- 
nounc'd 

The name of Prosper ; it did bass my tres- 



Therefore my son i' the ooze is bedded ; and 
I'll seek him deeper than ere plummet 

sounded, 
And with him there lie mudded. 

T., Ill : 3. 25. 

CONSEQUENCES.— Fearful, Defied. 

Macb. How now, you secret, black, and 

midnight hags? 
What is 't you do? 

All. A deed without a name. 

Macb. I conjure you, by that which you 

profess, 
(Howe'er you come to know it,) answer me : 
Though you untie the winds, and let them 

fight 
Against the churches ; though the yesty 

waves 
Confound and swallow navigation up ; 
Though bladed corn be lodg'd and trees 

blown down ; 
Though castles topple on their warders' 

heads ; 
Though palaces, and pyramids, do slope 
Their heads to their foundations ; though 

the treasure 

Of nature's germins tumble all together, 

Even till destruction sicken, answer me 

To what I ask you. 

31., IV : 1. 1375. 

CONSIDERATION — Time for, Re- 
quired. 

Fr. King. * 
A night is but small breath, and little pause, 
To answer matters of this consequence. 

//. V., II : 4. 830. 



CONSISTENCY.— Of Character. 

Vio. There is a fair behaviour in thee, 

captain, 
And though that nature with a beauteous 

wall 
Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee 
I will believe thou hast a mind that suits 
With this thy fair and outward character. 

T. N., 1 : 2. 541. 

CONSPIRACIES.— Guarded Against. 

K. Rich. Return again, and take an oath 

with thee. 
Lay on our royal sword your banish'd 

hands ; 
Swear by the duty that you owe to heaven, 
(Our part therein we banish with your- 
selves.) 
To keep the oath that we administer : — 
You never shall (so help you truth and 

heaven !) 
Embrace each other's love in banishment ; 
Nor never look upon each other's face ; 
Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile 
This lowering tempest of your home-bred 

hate ; 

Nor never by advised purpose meet, 

To plot, contrive, or complot any ill, 

'Gainst us, our state, our subjects, or our 

land. 

R. II, 1 : 3. 689. 

— How Formed. 

Casca. You speak to Casca; and to such 

a man, 
That is no fleering tell-tale. Hold my 

hand : 
Be factious for redress of all these griefs ; 
And I will set this foot of mine as far, 
As who goes farthest. 

Cas. Thei-e 's a bargain made. 

Now know you, Casca, I have mov'd already 
Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans, 
To undergo, with me, an enterprise 
Of honourable-dangerous consequence ; 
And do I know, by this, they stay for me 
In Pompey's porch : For, now, this fearful 

night, 
There is no stir, or walking in the streets ; 
And the complexion of the element, * 
In favour 's like the work we have in hand, 
Most bloody, fiery, and most terrible. 

J. C, 1 : 3. 1328. 



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97 



CONSPIRATORS. 



CONSPIRACY.— Darker than a Cav- 
ern. 
Bru. Let them enter. 

They are the faction. O conspiracy ! 
Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow 

by night, 
When evils are most free? O, then, by day, 
Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough 
To mask thy monstrous visage ? Seek none, 

conspiracy ; 
Hide it in smiles and affability : 
Eor if thou path thy native semblance on, 
Not Erebus itself were dim enough 
To hide thee from prevention. 

J. C, IT: 1. 1329. 

— Its Taste Unknown. 

Her. * * Now, for conspiracy, 
I know not how it tastes ; though it be 

dish'd 
For me to try how. 

W. T., Ill : 2. 594. 



Art. 



Requires Watchfulness. 

* * 

"While you here do snoring lie, 
Open-ey'd Conspiracy 

His time doth take : 
If of life you keep a care, 
Shake off slumber, and beware : 

Awake! Awake! 

7\, II: 1. 18. 



CONSPIRATOR— A Pausing, Danger- 
ous. 

K. Rich. Ah, Buckingham, now do I 
play the touch, 
To try if thou be current gold, indeed : — 
Young Edward lives : — Think now what I 
would speak. 
Bach. Say on, my loving lord. 
K. Rich. Why, Buckingham, I say, I 

would be king. 
Buck. Why, so you are, my thrice-re- 
nowned liege. 
K. Rich. Ha! am I king? 'T is so : but 

Edward lives. 
Buck. True, noble prince. 
K. Rich. O bitter consequence, 

That Edward still should live, — true, noble, 

prince ! — 
Cousin, thou wast not wont to be so dull : — 
Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead; 



And I would have it suddenly perform'd. 
What say'st thou now ! speak suddenly, be 
brief. 
Buck. Your grace may do your pleasure. 
K. Rich. Tut, tut, thou art all ice, thy 
kindness freezes : 
Say, have I thy consent, that they shall die? 
Buck. Give me some breath, some little 
pause, dear lord, 
Before I positively speak in this ; 
I will resolve your grace immediately. 
Cede. The king is angry ; see, he gnaws 

his lip. 
K. Rich. I will converse with iron-witted 
fools, 
And unrespective boys ; none are for me, 
That look into me with considerate eyes ; — 
High-reaching Buckingham grows circum- 
spect. 

II. III., IV : 2. 1031. 

— Inspired by Malice. 

Iago. 0, you are well tun'd now ! 

But I '11 set down the pegs that makes this 

music, 
As honest as I am. 

<>., II: 1. 1502. 

— Over-reached. 

Chain. The king in this perceives him, 
how he coasts, 
And hedges, his own way. But in this 

point 
All his tricks founder, and he brings his 

physic 
After his patient's death ; the king already 
Hath married the fair lady. 

//. VIIL, III : 2. 1077. 

CONSPIRATORS.— Excited by Ap- 
plause. 

1 Con. Your native town you enter'd 

like a post, 

And had no welcomes home ; but he re- 
turns, 

Splitting the air with noise. 

2 Con.' And patient fools, 
Whose children he hath slain, their base 

throats tear, 
With giving him glory. 

3 Con. Therefore, at your vantage 
Ere he express himself, or move the people 



CONSPIRATORS. 



CONSTANCY. 



With what he would say, let him feel your 

sword, 
"Which we will second. When he lies 

along, 
After your way his tale pronounc'd shall 

bury 

His reasons with his body. 

C, V: 5. 1192. 

CONSTABLE.— A Superserviceable. 

Ant. S. What gold is this ? What Adam 
dost thou mean? 

Dro. S. Not that Adam that kept the 
paradise, but that Adam that keeps the 
prison : he that goes in the calf 's-skin that 
was kill'd for the prodigal ; he that came 
behind you, sir, like an evil angel, and bid 
you forsake your liberty. 

Ant. S. I understand thee not. 

Dro. S. No? why, 't is a plain case : he 
that went like a base-viol, in a case of 
leather; the man, sir, that, when gentle- 
men are tired, gives them a fob, and 'rests 
them; he, sir, that takes pity on decayed 
men, and gives them suits of durance ; he 
that sets up his rest to do more exploits 
with his mace, than a morris-pike. 

Ant. S. What ! thou mean'st an officer. 

Dro. S. Ay, sir, the sergeant of the 
band ; he, that brings any man to answer it 
that breaks his band ; one that thinks a 
man always going to bed, and says, " God 
give you good rest ! " 

C.E.,TV: 2. 206. 

— Humorously Described. 

Dro. S. No, he 's in Tartar limbo, worse 

than hell, 
A devil in an everlasting garment hath him ; 
One whose hard heart is button'd up with 

steel ; 
A fiend, a fairy, pitiless and rough; 
A wolf, nay, worse, — a fellow all in buff; 
A back-friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that 

countermands 
The passages of alleys, creeks, and narrow 

lands ; 
A hound that runs counter, and yet draws 

dry-foot well ; 

One that, before the judgment, carries poor 

souls to hell. 

C. E., IV: 2. 205. 

CONSTANCY. 

Tim. Noble Ventidius ! Well ; 

I am not of that feather, to shake off 
My friend when he must need me. 

T. A., 1 : 1. 1287. 



Post. Hang there like fruit, my soul, 

Till the tree die ! 

Cym., V : 5. 1629. 

— Essential to Perfection. 
Pro. * * heaven ! were man 
But constant, he were perfect. 

T. G.,V: 4. 72. 

— Invoked of Jove. 

Cor. The God of soldiers, 

With the consent of supreme Jove, inform 
Thy thoughts with nobleness ; that thou 

may'st prove 
To shame unvulnerable, and stick i' the 

Avars 
Like a great sea-mark, standing every flaw, 
And saving those that eye thee ! 

C., V : 3. 1189. 

— Its Concern. 
Por. I pr'ythee, boy, run to the senate- 
house ; 
Stay not to answer me, but get thee gone : 
Why dost thou stay? 

Luc. To know my errand, madam. 

Por. I would have had thee there, and 
here again, 
Ere I can tell thee what thou shouldst do 
there. — 

constancy, be strong upon my side ! 

Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and 
tongue ! 

1 have a man's mind, but a woman's might. 
How hard it is for women to keep counsel ! 
Art thou here yet? 

Luc. Madam, what should I do? 

Run to the Capitol, and nothing else? 
And so return to you, and nothing else? 
Por. Yes, bring me word, boy, if thy 
lord look well, 
For he went sickly forth : And take good 

note, 
What Caesar doth, what suitors press to 

him. 
Hark, boy! what noise is that? 
Luc. I hear none, madam. 
Por. Pr'ythee, listen well, 

I heard a bustling rumour, like a fray, 
And the wind brings it from the Capitol. 
Luc. Sooth, madam, I hear nothing. 

J. C, II : 4. 1334. 



CONSTANCY. 



99 



CONSTANCY. 



— Its Signs. 

Agam. * * 
Do you with cheeks abash'd behold our 

wrecks ; 
And think them shames, which are, indeed 

nought else 
But the protractive trials of great Jove, 
To find persistive constancy in men? 
The fineness of which metal is not found 
In fortune's love ; for then, the bold and 

coward, 
The wise and fool, the artist and unread, 
The hard and soft, seem all affin'd and kin. 
T. C., 1 : 3. 1107. 

— Makes a Good Voyage of Noth- 
ing. 

Clo. * * I would have men of such 
constancy put to sea, that their business 
might be everything, and their intent every- 
where ; for that 's it that always makes a 
good voyage of nothing. 

T. N., II : 4. 551. 

— Marble. (See Firmness.) 

Cleo. * * 
My resolution 's plac'd, and I have nothing 
Of woman in me : Now from head to foot 
I am marble-constant : now the fleeting 

moon 
No planet is of mine. 

A. C.,V: 2. 1581. 

— Proof of Demanded. (See Firm- 
ness and Fidelity.) 

Prin. ' A time, methinks, too short 

To make a world-without-end bargain in : 
No, no, my lord, your grace is perjur'd 

much, 
Full of dear guiltiness ; and, therefore, this ; 
If tor my love (as there is no such cause) 
You will do aught, this shall you do for me : 
Your oath I will not trust; but go with 

speed 
To some forlorn and naked hermitage, 
Remote from all the pleasures of the world ; 
There stay until the twelve celestial signs 
Have brought about their annual reckoning : 
If this austere insociable life 
Change not your offer made in heat of 

blood ; 
If frosts, and fasts, hard lodging, and thin 

weeds, ' 
Nip not the gaudy blossoms of your love, 



But that it bear this trial, and last love ; 
Then, at the expiration of the year, 
Come challenge, challenge me by these des- 
erts, 
And, by this virgin palm, now kissing thine, 
I will be thine ; and, till that instant, shut 
My woful self up in a mourning house, 
Raining the tears of lamentation 
For the remembrance of my father's death. 
If this thou do deny, let our hands part ; 
Neither intitled in the other's heart. 

Z. L., V: 2.303. 

— True, Never Shaken. 

Cam. This is desperate, sir. 

Flo. So call it; but it does fulfil my 

vow ; 
I needs must think it honesty. Camillo, 
Not for Bohemia, nor the pomp that may 
Be thereat glean'd; for all the sun sees, or 
The close earth wombs, or the profound seas 

hide 
In unknown fadoms, will I break my oath 
To this my fair belov'd : Therefore, I pray 

you, 
As you have ever been my father's honour'd 

friend, 
When he shall miss me, (as in faith. I mean 

not 
To see him any more,) cast your good 

counsels 
Upon his passion : Let myself and fortune 
Tug for the time to come. This you may 

know, 
And so deliver, — I am put to sea 
With her, whom here I cannot hold on shore ; 
And, most opportune to our need, I have 
A vessel rides fast by, but not prepar'd 
For this design. What course I mean to 

hold 
Shall nothing benefit your knowledge, nor 
Concern me the reporting. 

W. T., IV: 3. 606. 

— Unshaken. 

Lear. * * 
He, that parts us, shall bring a brand from 



heaven. 



A'. L., V : 3. 1481. 



— Vulgarly Vouched for. 

Pan. Nay, I '11 give my word for her 
too ; our kindred, though they be long ere 



CONSTANCY. 



IOO 



CONTEMPT. 



they are wooed, they are constant, being 
won : they are burs, I can tell you ; they '11 
stick where they are thrown. 

T. C, III : 2. 1122. 

— Woman's. 
Tro. O, that I thought it could be in a 
woman, 
(As, if it can, I will presume in you,) 
To feed for aye her lamp and flames of love ; 
To keep her constancy in plight and youth, 
Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind 
That doth renew swifter than blood decays ! 
T. C., III : 2, 1122. 

CONSTERNATION. — Complete. 

Cas. * * 
Behold, destruction, frenzy, and amaze- 
ment, 
Like witless antics, one another meet. 

T. C.,V: 3. 1140. 

CONSULTATION. — Close. 

Bru. * * 
Now sit we close about this taper here, 
And call in question our necessities. 

J. C, IV : 3. 1346. 

CONTAMINATION— By Contact. 

Dogb. Truly, by your office, you may; 
but I think they that touch pitch will be de- 
fll'd. 

M. A., ni : 3. 241. 



•Expressions of. (See 



CONTEMPT. 
Scorn.) 

Ther. No? why art thou then exasper- 
ate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleive silk, 
thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye, thou 
tassel of a prodigal's purse, thou? Ah, how 
the poor world is pestered with such water- 
flies ; diminutives of nature ! 

T. C.,V: 1. 1135. 

— For Adversaries. 

K. Rich. * * 

Remember whom you are to cope withal ; — 

A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and run- 
aways, 

A scum of Bretagnes, and base lackey peas- 
ants, 

Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits 
forth 

To desperate ventures and assur'd destruc- 
tion. 



You sleeping safe, they bring you to unrest ; 
You having lands, and bless'd with beaute- 
ous wives, 
They would restrain the one, disdain the 

other. 
And who doth lead them, but a paltry fellow, 
Long kept in Bretagne at our mother's cost? 
A milk-sop, one that never in his life 
Felt so much cold as over shoes in snow? 
Let 's whip these stragglers o'er the seas 

again ; 
Lash hence these over-weening rags of 

France, 
These famish'd beggars, weary of their lives ; 
Who, but for dreaming on this fond ex- 
ploit, 
For want of means, poor rats, had hang'd 

themselves : 
If we be conquer'd, let men conquer us, 
And not these bastard Bretagnes ; whom 

our fathers 
Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and 

thump'd, 
And, on record, left them the heirs of 

shame. 
Shall these enjoy our lands? lie with our 

wives? 
Ravish our daughters? — Hark, I hear their 

drum. 
Fight, gentlemen of England ! fight, bold 

yeomen ! 
Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the 

head ; 
Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in 

blood; 
Amaze the welkin' with your broken staves ! 
R. III., Y : 3. 1046. 

— Forgets Favors 

Ber. * * 

Contempt his scornful perspective did lend 

me, 

Which warp'd the line of every other favour ; 

Scorn'd a fair colour, or express'd it stolen ; 

Extended or contracted all proportions, 

To a most hideous object. 

A. W.,V: 3. 526. 

— For Fanderers. 

Duke. Fie, sirrah; a bawd, a wicked 

bawd ! 
The evil that thou causest to be done, 
That is thy means to live. Do thou but 

think 



CONTEMPT. 



IOI 



CONTEMPTUOUSNESS. 



What 't is to cram a maw, or clothe a back, 
From such a filthy vice : say to thyself, — 
From their abominable and beastly touches 
I drink, I eat, array myself, and live. 
Canst thou believe thy living is a life, 
So stinkingly depending? Go, mend; go, 
mend. 

M. M., Ill: 2. 159. 

— Its Bitter Expression. 

Wol. * * 
He parted frowning from me, as if ruin 
Leap'd from his eyes : So looks the chafed 

lion 
Upon the daring huntsman that has gall'd 

him ; 
Then makes him nothing. 

H. VIII., Ill: 2. 1079. 

Tlher. With too much blood, and too 
little brain, these two may run mad ; but if 
with too much brain, and too little blood, 
they do, I '11 be a curer of madmen. Here 
's Agamemnon, — an honest fellow enough, 
and one that loves quails : but he has not so 
much brain as ear-wax : and the goodly 
transformation of Jupiter there, his brother, 
the bull, — the primitive statue, and oblique 
memorial of cuckolds ; a thrifty shoeing- 
horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's 
leg, — to what form, but that he is, should 
wit larded with malice, and malice forced 
with wit, turn him to? To an ass, were 
nothing : he is both ass and ox : To an ox 
were nothing : he is both ox and ass. To 
be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a toad, a 
lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring with- 
out a roe, I would not care : but to be 
Menelaus, — I would conspire against des- 
tiny. Ask me not what I would be, if I 
were not Thersites ; for I care not to be the 
louse of a lazar, so I were not Menelaus. — 
Hey-day ! spirits and fires ! 

T. C, V : 2. 1136. 
— Looks Beautiful. 

Oli. O, what a deal of scorn looks beau- 
tiful 
In the contempt and anger of his lip ! 

T. JT., Ill : 1. 556. 

— Some Persons are Below. 

Cost. * * Thou art easier swallowed 
than a flap-dragon. 

L.L.,V: 1. 292. 

Tarn. * * 
The eagle suffers little birds to sing, 
And is not careful what they mean thereby ; 



Knowing that with the shadow of his wing, 
He can at pleasure stint their melody. 

Til. And., IV : 4. 1224. 

— Terms of. 

P. Hen. Wilt thou rob this leathern-jer- 
kin, crystal-button, nott-pated, agate-ring, 
puke-stocking, caddis-garter, smooth-tongue, 
Spanish-pouch? 

//. IV., lpt., II: 4. 739. 

— Treating Gallants with. 

Prin. No ; to the death we will not 
move a foot : 
Nor to their penn'd speech render we no 

grace : 
But, while 't is spoke, each turn away her 
face. 
Boyet. Why, that contempt will kill the 
speaker's heart, 
And quite divorce his memory from his part. 
L. L.,Y: 2. 295. 

CONTEMPTUOUSNESS.— Of a Weak 
Enemy. 

Con. * * 
Do but behold yon poor and starved band, 
And your fair show shall suck away their 

souls, 
Leaving them but the shales and husks of 

men. 
There is not work enough for all our hands ; 
Scarce blood enough in all their sickly veins, 
To give each naked curtle-axe a stain, 
That our French gallants shall to-day draw 

out. 
And sheath for lack of sport : let us but 

blow on them, 
The vapour of our valour will o'erturn them. 
'T is positive 'gainst all exceptions, lords, 
That our superfluous lackeys, and our peas- 
ants, — 
Who, in unnecessary action, swarm 
About our squares of battle, — were enough 
To purge this field of such a hilding foe ; 
Though we, upon this mountain's basis by 
Took stand for idle speculation : 
But that our honours must not. What 's to 

say? 
A very little little let us do, 
And all is done. * * 

Grand. Why do you stay so long, my 

lords of France? 



CONTEMPTUOUSNESS . 



I02 



CONTENTMENT. 



Yon island carrions, desperate of their 

bones, 
Ill-favour'dly become the morning field : 
Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose, 
And our air shakes them passing scornfully. 
Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggar'd 

host, 
And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps. 
Their horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks, 
With torch staves in each hand : and their 

poor jades 
Lob down their heads, dropping the hides 

and hips ; 
The gum down-roping from their pale-dead 

eyes ; 
And in their pale dull mouths the gimmal 

bit 
Lies foul with chew'd grass, still and motion- 
less ; 
And their executors, the knavish crows, 
Fly o'er them all, impatient for their hour. 
Description cannot suit itself in words, 
To demonstrate the life of such a battle 
In life so lifeless as it shows itself. 

Con. They have said their prayers, and 

they stay for death. 
Dau. Shall we go send them dinners, 

and fresh suits, 
And give their fasting horses provender? 

//. V., IV : 2. 843. 

CONTENT. — Absolute. 

Gaunt. All places that the eye of heaven 
visits, 
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. 
R. II, 1 : 3. 690. 

Oth. It gives me wonder great as my 

content, 
To see you here before me. my soul's 

joy! 
If after every tempest come such calms, 
May the winds blow till they have waken'd 

death. 
And let the labouring bark climb hills of 

seas, 
Olympus high ; and duck again as low 
As hell 's from heaven ! If it were now to 

die, 
'T were now to be most happy ; for, I fear, 
My soul hath her content so absolute, 
That not another comfort like to this 
Succeeds in unknown fate. 

0., TI : 1. 1502. 



CONTENTION— Let Loose. 

North. * * 
The times are wild ; contention, like a horse 
Full of high feeding, madly hath broke 

loose, 
And bears down all before him. 

//. IV., 2pt., I: l. 774. 

—Noble. 
Auf. * * Here I clip 
The anvil of my sword ; and do contest 
As hotly and as nobly with thy love, 
As ever in ambitious strength I did 
Contend against thy valour. 

C, IV : 5. 1181. 

CONTENTMENT — A Crown. 

2 Keep. Say, what art thou, that talk'st 

of kings and queens? 
K. Hen. More than I seem, and less than 
I was born to : 
A man at least, for less I should not-be ; 
And men may talk of kings, and why not I? 
2 Keep. Ay, but thou talk'st as if thou 

wert a king. 
K. Hen. Why, so I am, in mind ; and 

that 's enough. 
2 Keep. But, if thou be a king, where is 

thy crown? 
K. Hen. My crown is in my heart, not 
on my head ; 
Not deck'd with diamonds, and Indian 

stones, 
Nor to be seen : my crown is call'd, content ; 
A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy. 

H. IT., 3 pt., Ill: 1. 971. 

— Best Possession. 

Old L. Our content 

Is our best having. 

//. VIII, II: 3. 1070. 

Iago. Poor, and content, is rich, and 
rich enough. 

0., HI : 3. 1511. 

Lady M. Nought 's had, all 's spent, 

Where our desire is got without content. 

M., Ill : 2. 1370. 

— Better than Glitter. 

Anne. * * 
I swear, 't is better to be lowly born, 
And ransre with humble livers in content, 



CONTENTMENT. 



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CONTESTS. 



Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, 
And wear a golden sorrow. 

H. VIII., II : 3. 1070. 

— Human. 

Boling. * * 
Methinks, king Richard and myself should 

meet 
With no less terror than the elements 
Of fire and water, when their thund'ring 

shock 
At meeting tears the cloudy cheeks of 

heaven. 
Be he the fire, I '11 be the yielding water : 
The rage be his, while on the earth I rain 
My waters ; on the earth, and not on him. 

R. II, III : 3. 703. 

— Its Modesty. 
Fal. * * 
O, I could wish this tavern were my drum ! 
E. IV., lpt.,III: 3. 751. 

— National. 

Pern. This once again, but that your 
highness pleas'd, 
Was once superfluous : you were crown'd 

before, 
And that high royalty was ne'er pluck'd off; 
The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt ; 
Fresh expectation troubled not the land, 
With any long'd-for change, or better state. 
K. J., IV: 2. 665. 

— Never Envious. 

Cor. Sir, I am a true labourer ; I earn 
that I eat, get that I wear ; owe no man 
hate, envy no man's happiness ; glad of 
other men's good, content with my harm : 
and the greatest of my pride is, to see my 
ewes graze, and my lambs suck. 

A. Y., Ill : 2. 421. 

— With Small Possessions. 

Iden. Lord, who would live turmoiled 
in the court, 
And may enjoy such quiet walks as these? 
This small inheritance, my father left me, 
Contenteth me, and is worth a monarchy. 
I seek not to wax great by others' waning ; 
Or gather wealth, I care not with what 

envy ;. 
Sufnceth, that I have maintains my state, 



And sends the poor well pleased from my 
gate. 

//. VI, 2 pt., IV : 10. 940. 

CONTEST. — Personal Courage in. 

Sold. Doubtful it stood; 

As two spent swimmers, that do cling to- 
gether, 

And choke their art. The merciless Mac- 
donwald 

(Worthy to be a rebel ; for, to that, 

The multiplying villanies of nature 

Do swarm upon him,) from the western 
isles 

Of Kernes and Gallowglasses is supplied ; 

And fortune, on his damned quarrel smil- 
ing, 

Show'd like a rebel's whore : But all 's too 
weak, 

For brave Macbeth, (well he deserves that 
name,) 

Disdaining fortune, with brandish'd steel 

Which smoked with bloody execution, 

Like valour's minion, 

Carv'd out his passage, till he fac'd the 
slave ; 

And ne'er shook hands, nor bade farewell 
to him, 

Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the 
chaps, 

And fix'd his head upon our battlements. 

M., 1 : 2. 1357. 

CONTESTS. — Honorable. 

Git. * * 
Blood hath bought blood, and blows have 

answer'd blows ; 
Strength match'd with strength, and power 

confronted power : 
Both are alike ; and both alike we like. 
One must prove greatest ; while they weigh 

so even 
We hold our town for neither ; yet for both. 
K. J., II : 2. 653. 

— Undetermined. 

Bast. * * 
Cry, havoc, kings : back to the stained field, 
You equal potents, fiery-kindled spirits ! 
Then let confusion of one part confirm 
The other's peace ; till then, blows, blood, 
death ! 

K.J.,1I: 2. 653. 



CONTINENCY. 



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CONVERSION. 



CONTINENCY. —Recommended. 

Page. * * 
For your physicians have expressly charg'd, 
In peril to incur your former malady, 
That I should yet ahsent me from your bed. 
T. S., Ind : 2. 454. 

CONTRADICTIONS. — Absurd. 

Lys. "A tedious brief scene of young 

Py ramus, 

And his love Thisbe; very tragical mirth." 

The. Merry and tragical ! Tedious and 

brief! 

That is hot ice, and wond'rous seething 

snow. 
How shall we find the concord of this dis- 
cord? 

M.X.,Y: 1. 342. 

— In Action, Misleading. 

Lew. What he hath won, that hath he 
fortified ; 
So hot a speed with such advice dispos'd, 
Such temperate order in so fierce a cause, 
Doth want example : Who hath read, or 

heard, 
Of any kindred action like to this ? 

K. J., Ill : 4. 661. 

— In Character. 

mi. * * 

His humble ambition, proud humility, 
His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet. 

A. IF., I: 2. 497. 

— Of Character. 

Jul. O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring 

face ! 
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? 
Beautiful tyrant ! fiend angelical ! 
Dove-feather'd raven ! wolfish -ravening 

lamb ! 
Despised substance of divinest show ! 
Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st, 
A damned saint, an honourable villain ! — 
O, nature ! what hadst thou to do in hell, 
When thou did'st bower the spirit of a fiend 
In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh? — 
Was ever book, containing such vile matter, 
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should 

dwell 
In such a gorgeous palace ! 

R. J., Ill : 2. 1261. 



CONTRAST— Town and Country. 

Cor. * * Those that are good man- 
ners at the court are as ridiculous in the 
country, as the behaviour of the country is 
most mockable at the court. 

A. Y., Ill: 2. 421. 

— Its Power. 

Boling. * * 
Since, the more fair and crystal is the sky, 
The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. 

R. II., I: 1. 684. 

CONVERSATION. — Common. 

Solan. But it is true, — without any slips 
of prolixitv, or crossing the plain highway 
of talk. 

M. V., Ill : 1. 375. 



— Prandial, Complimented. 

Hoi. Satis quod sufficit. 

Nath. I praise God for you, sir : your 
reasons at dinner have been sharp and sen- 
tentious ; pleasant without scurrility, witty 
without affection, audacious without impu- 
dency, learned without opinion, and strange 
without heresy. I did converse this quon- 
dam day with a companion of the king, who 
is intituled, nominated, or called, don Ad- 
riano de Armado. 

L.L.,Y: 1. 291. 

— Shortens Journeys. 

North. * * 
These high wild hills, and rough uneven 

ways, 
Draw out our miles, and make them weari- 
some : 
And yet your fair discourse hath been as 

sugar, 
Making the hard way sweet and delectable. 
R. II, II : 3. 697. 

CONVERSION— A Complete. 

Cant. The courses of his youth promis'd 

it not, 
The breath no sooner left his father's body, 
But that his wildness, mortified in him, 
Seem'd to die too : yea, at that very moment, 
Consideration like an angel came, 
And whipp'd the offending Adam out of 

him : 
Leaving his bod} r as a paradise, 
To envelop and contain celestial spirits. 
Never was such a sudden scholar made : 



CONVERSION. 



I0 5 



CORRECTION. 



Never came reformation in a flood, 

With such a heavy current, scouring faults ; 

Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness 

So soon did lose his seat, and all at once, 

As in this king. 

Ely. We are blessed in the change. 

Cant. Hear him but reason in divinity, 
And, all-admiring, with an inward wish 
You would desire, the king were made a 
prelate. 

H. V., 1 : 1. 820. 

Oli. 'T was I ; but 't is not I : I do not 
shame 
To tell you what I was, since my conver- 
sion 
So sweetly tastes, being the thing I am. 

A. Y, IV: 3. 432. 

— Its Fruits. 

Jaques de B. Let me have audience for 

a word or two ; 
I am the second son of old sir Rowland, 
That bring these tidings to this fair assem- 

bly: 
Duke Frederick, hearing how that every 

day 
Men of great worth resorted to this forest, 
Address'd a mighty power, which were on 

foot. 
In his own conduct, purposely to take 
His brother here, and put him to the sword : 
And to the skirts of this wild wood he came, 
Where, meeting with an old religious man, 
After some question with him, was con- 
verted 
Both from his enterprise, and from the 

world : 
His crown bequeathing to his banish 1 d 

brother, 
And all their lands restor'd to them again, 
That were with him exil'd. This to be true, 
I do engage my life. 

A. Y, V : 4. 437. 

— Power of Love to Promote. 

Bene. May I be so converted, and see 
with these eyes? 

Jf.A.,II: 3. 235. 

Mary. * * And how you may be con- 
verted, I know not. 

M.A.,III: 4. 243. 



For. * * 
Myself, and what is mine, to you and yours 
Is now converted. 

If. V., Ill : 2. 378. 

Jes. * * For, in converting Jews to 
Christians, you raise the price of pork. 

Jr. V.. in: 5. 381. 
CONVERTITE. 

Pond. * * Since you are a gentle con- 
vertite. 

K.J.,\: 1. 671. 

COOKERY. — Fattened Caesar. 

Pom. No, Anthony, take the lot; but, 
first, 
Or last, your fine Egyptian cookery 
Shall have the fame. I have heard, that 

Julius Caesar 
Grew fat with feasting there. 

A. C, II: 6. 1554. 

—Neat. 

Qui. But his neat cookery ! He cuts 
our roots in characters ; 
And sauc'd our broths, as Juno had been 

sick, 
And he her dieter. 

Cym., TV : 2. 1615. 

COQUETRY. — Scornful. 

Beat. * * * I had rather hear my 
dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he 
loves me. 

Jl. A., 1 : 1. 226. 

— "Waits on Desire. 

The. * * She lingers my desires, 
Like to a step-dame, or a dowager, 
Long withering out a young man's revenue. 
JL X., 1 : 1. 321. 

Pand. * * She does so blush, and 
fetches her wind so short, as if she were 
frayed with a sprite. 

T. C, III: 2. 1121. 

CORPULENCE.— Its Inconvenience. 

Fal. * * 
I am as hot as molten lead, and as heavy 
too. 

//. IV., 1 pt., V : 3. 759. 

CORRECTION — Low. 

Glo. * * Your purpos'd low correction 
Is such, as basest and contemned'st wretches, 



CORRECTION. 



1 06 



COUNTENANCE, 



For pilferings and most common trespasses, 

Are punish'd with. 

K. L., II : 2. 1457. 

Glo. My masters of Saint Albans, have 
you not beadles in your town, and things 
called whips? 

H. VI, 2 pt., II : 1. 917. 

— Needed. 

Duke. * * 
Correction and instruction must both work, 
Ere this rude beast will profit. 

M. M., Ill : 2. 160. 

CORRESPONDENCE.— A Lover's, 
Prized. 

Post. * * Thither write, my queen, 
And with mine eyes I '11 drink the words 

you send, 
Though ink be made of gall. 

Cym., 1 : 2. 1590. 

CORRUPTION. — Bemoaned. 

Ar. * * 
O, that estates, degrees, and offices, 
Were not deriv'd corruptly ! and that clear 

honour 
Were purchas'd by the merit of the wearer ! 
M. V., II : 9. 374. 

Duke. My business in this state 

Made me a looker-on here in Vienna, 

Where I have seen corruption boil and 

bubble. 

M. 31, Y: 1. 173. 

COST.— Often Exceeds Value. 

Tro. * * Why, she is a pearl, 
Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand 

ships, 
And turn'd crown'd kings to merchants. 

T. C., II : 2. 1114. 

COUNSEL. — Evil and Villainous. 

Aar. * * 
My lords, a solemn hunting is in hand; 
There will the lovely Roman ladies troop : 
The forest walks are wide and spacious ; 
And many unfrequented plots there are, 
Fitted by kind for rape and villany : 
Single you thither then this dainty doe, 
And strike her home by force, if not by 

words : 
This way, or not at all, stand you in hope. 
Come, come, our empress, with her sacred 

wit, 



To villany and vengeance consecrate, 

"Will we acquaint with all that we intend ; 

And she shall file our engines with advice 

That will not suffer you to square your- 
selves, 

But to your wishes' height advance you both. 

The emperor's court is like the house of 
fame, 

The palace full of tongues, of eyes, of ears : 

The woods are ruthless, dreadful, deaf, and 
dull; 

There speak, and strike, brave boys, and 
take your turns : 

There serve your lust, shadow'd from heav- 
en's eye, 

And revel in Lavinia's treasury. 

Chi. Thy counsel, lad, smells of no 

cowardice. 
Dem. Sit fas aut nefas, till I find the 
stream 

To cool this heat, a charm to calm these fits, 

Per Styga, per manes vehor. 

Tit. And., II : 1. 1208. 

— Friendly. 

K. Hen. When Gloster says the word, 
king Henry goes ; 
For friendly counsel cuts off many foes. 

H. VI., 1 pt., Ill : 1. 880. 

— Not Always Followed. 

Clo. I thank your worship for yqur good 
counsel, but I shall follow it as the flesh 
and fortune shall better determine. 

M. M., II : 1. 150. 
COUNSELLORS.— Good, Successful. 

Clo. Come ; fear not you : good counsel- 
lors lack no clients : though you change 
your place, you need not change your trade. 

J/. J/., 1 : 2. 145. 

COUNTENANCE.— Pleasant. 

Per. * * 
Her face, the book of praises, where is read 
Nothing but curious pleasures, as from 

thence 
Sorrow were ever ras'd, and testy wrath 
Could never be her mild companion. 

P., I: 1. 1642. 

— Sorrowful. 

Ham. What, look'd he frowningly? 

Hor. A countenance more 

In sorrow than in anger. 

H..I: 2. 1396. 



COUNTRY 



IO7 



COURAGE. 



COUNTRY. — A Fearful. 

Gon. All torment, trouble, wonder, and 
amazement 
Inhabits here : Some heavenly power guide 

T1S 

Out of this fearful country ! 

T., V: 1. 31. 

COURAGE. 

Cor. * * Nay, mother, 

Where is your ancient courage? you were 
us'd 

To say, extremity was the trier of spirits ; 

That common chances common men could 
bear; 

That, when the sea was calm, all boats alike 

Show'd mastership in floating; fortune's 
blows, 

When most struck home, being gentle-mind- 
ed, craves 

A noble cunning : you were us'd to load me 

With precepts, that would make invincible 

The heart that conn'd them. 

C.,IV: 1. 1177. 

— Admiration of. 

Vol. * * The breasts of Hecuba, 
When she did suckle Hector, look'd not 

lovelier 
Than Hector's forehead, when it spit forth 

blood 
At Grecian swords' contending. 

0., I: 3. 1153. 

Ant. * * 
Tell them your feats ; whilst they with joy- 
ful tears 
Wash the congealment from your wounds, 

and kiss 
The honoured gashes whole. 

A. C, IV: 8. 1571. 

Cap. * * I saw your brother, 
Most provident in peril, bind himself 
(Courage and hope both teaching him the 

practice) 
To a strong mast that liv'd upon the sea ; 
Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back, 
I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves, 
So long as I could see. 

T. N., I: 2. 540. 

Ant. * * I, that with my sword 
Quarter'd the world. 

A. C, IV : 12. 1574. 



— An Englishman's. 

Ram. That island of England breeds 
very valiant creatures. * * 

Con. * * And then give them great 
meals of beef, and iron and steel, they will 
eat like wolves, and fight like devils. 

Orl. Ay, but these English are shrewdly 
out of beef. 

Con. Then we shall find to-morrow — 
they have only stomachs to eat, and none to 
fight. 

//. V., Ill : 7. 839. 

— Begotten of Restraint. 
Rich. Oft have I seen a hot o'erweening 
cur 
Run back and bite, because he was with- 
held ; 
Who, being suffer d with the bear's fell paw, 
Hath clapp'd his tail between his legs, and 

cry'd ; 
And such a piece of service will you do, 
If you oppose yourselves to match lord 
Warwick. 

H. VI., 2 pt,, V : 1. 943. 

— Exhortation to. 

Bast. * * 
Be stirring as the time ; be fire with fire ; 
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the 

brow 
Of bragging horror : so shall inferior eyes, 
That borrow their behaviours from the 

great, 
Grow great by your example, and put on 
The dauntless spirit of resolution : 
Away ; and glister like the god of war, 
When he intendeth to become the field. 

A'.J.,V: 1. 671. 

—False. 

Orl. Foolish curs ! that run winking into 
the mouth of a Russian bear, and have their 
heads crushed like rotten apples : You may 
as well say. 

H. V., Ill: 7. 839. 

— Honored in Death. 

1 Lord. Bear from hence his body, 

And mourn you for him : let him be re- 
garded 
As the most noble corse, that ever herald 
Did follow to his urn. 

Auf. My rage is gone, 



COURAGE. 



108 



COURAGE. 



And I am struck with sorrow. — Take him 
up: — 

Help, three o' the chiefest soldiers ; I '11 be 
one. — 

Beat thou the drum, that it speak mourn- 
fully : 

Trail your steel pikes. — Though in this 
city he 

Hath widow'd and unchilded many a one, 

Which to this hour bewail the injury, 

Yet he shall have a noble memory. 

C, V : 5. 1193. 

— Incentive to. 

Bo ling. * * 

thou, the earthly author of my blood, — 
Whose youthful spirit, in me regenerate, 
Doth with a two-fold vigour lift me up 

To reach at victory above my head, — 
Add proof unto mine armour with thy 

prayers ; 
And with thy blessings steel my lance's point, 
That it may enter Mowbray's waxen coat, 
And furbish new the name of John of 

Gaunt, 
Even in the lusty 'haviour of his son. 

R.II.,1: 3. 688. 

— Inspired by Drink. 

Ste. Tell not me; — when the butt is 
out, we will drink water ; not a drop before : 
therefore bear up, and board 'em : Servant- 
monster, drink to me. 

* * 

Drink, servant-monster, when I bid thee : 
thy eyes are almost set in thy head. 

* * 

My man-monster hath drown'd his tongue 
in sack ; for my part, the sea cannot drown 
me : I swam, ere I could recover the shore, 
five-and-thirty leagues, off and on, — by 
this light ! Thou shalt be my lieutenant, 
monster, or my standard. 

* * 

Trin. Thou liest, most ignorant monster : 

1 am in case to justle a constable : Why, 
thou deboshed fish thou, was there ever a 
man a coward, that hath drunk so much 
sack as I to-day? 

IT., Ill: 2. 22,23. 

— Lady Macbeth's Opinion. 

Lady M. We fail ! 

But screw your courage to the sticking- 

plaee, 
And we '11 not fail. When Duncan is 

asleep, 



(Whereto the rather shall his day's hard 

journey 
Soundly invite him,) his two chamberlains 
Will I with wine and wassel so convince, 
That memory, the warder of the brain, 
Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason 
A limbeck only : When in swinish sleep 
Their drenched natures lie, as in a death, 
What cannot you and I perform upon 
The unguarded Duncan? what not put upon 
His spongy officers ; who shall bear the 

guilt 

Of our great quell? 

If., I: 7. 1363. 

— More than Weapons. 

Page. I have heard the Frenchman hath 
good skill in his rapier. 

Shal. Tut, sir, I could have told you 
more : In these times you stand on distance, 
your passes, stoccadoes, and I know not 
what : 't is the heart, master Page ; 't is here. 
I have seen the time with my long sword I 
would have made you four tall fellows skip 
like rats. 

M. W., II : 1. 97. 

— Needed. 

Wor. * * 
As full of peril and advent'rous spirit, 
As to o'er-walk a current, roaring loud, 
On the unsteadiest footing of a spear. 

H. TV., 1 pt., I: 3. 732. 

— Provoked by Occasion. 

Aust. By how much unexpected, by so 
much 
We must awake endeavour for defence ; 
For courage mounteth with occasion. 

K.J.,U: 1. 650. 

— Respected. 

P. Hen. By heaven, thou hast deceiv'd 
me, Lancaster, 
I did not think thee lord of such a spirit : 
Before, I lov'd thee as a brother, John ; 
But now, I do respect thee as my soul. 

H. TV., lpt., V: 4. 760. 

— Roused by Rage. 

Nest. * * For, in her ray and bright- 
ness, 
The herd hath more annoyance by the brize, 
Than by the tiger : but when the splitting 
wind 



COURAGE. 



IO9 



COURTESY. 



Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks, 

And flies fled under shade, Why, then, the 
thing of courage, 

As rous'd Avith rage, with rage doth sympa- 
thize, 

And with an accent turn'd in self-same key, 

Returns to chiding fortune. 

T. a, 1 : 3. 1108. 

— Strong on Its Own Ground. 

Bast. * * 
Show boldness, and aspiring confidence. 
What, shall they seek the lion in his den, 
And fright him there? and make him trem- 
ble there? 
O, let it not be said ! — Courage, and run 
To meet displeasure further from the doors ; 
And grapple with him, ere he come so nigh. 
K. J., V : 1. 671. 

— Suffers Wisely. 

1 Sen. * * 
He 's truly valiant, that can wisely suffer 
The worst that man can breathe ; and make 

his wrongs 
His outsides ; wear them like his raiment, 

carelessly ; 
And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, 
To bring it into danger. 

T. A., Ill : 5. 1301. 

— True. 

Macb. Pr'ythee, peace : 

I dare do all that may become a man ; 
Who dares do more, is none. 

M., 1 : 7. 1362. 

— Tamed by Labor. 

Ver. Come, come, it may not be. 

I wonder much, being men of such great 

leading, 
That you foresee not what impediments 
Drag back our expedition : Certain horse 
Of my cousin Vernon's are not yet come up : 
Your uncle Worcester's horse came but to- 
day; 
And now their pride and mettle is asleep, 
Their courage with hard labour tame and 

dull, 
That not a horse is half the half himself. 

H. IV., lpt., IV: 3. 754. 



— With Loyalty Precious. 

Nor. * * 
A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest 
Is — a bold spirit in a loyal breast. 

R. II, 1 : 1. 686. 

— Youthful. 

Arth. Ah, none, but in this iron age, 

would do it. 
The iron of itself, though heat red-hot, 
Approaching near these eyes, would drink 

my tears, 
And quench his fiery indignation, 
Even in the matter of mine innocence : 
Nay, after that, consume away in rust, 
But for containing fire to harm mine eye. 

K.J.,IY: 1. 664. 

COURT.— An Open. 

Prin. * * The roof of this court is 
too high to be yours. 

L. L., II : 1. 278. 

— The. 

Aar. * * 
The emperor's court is like the house of 

fame, 
The palace full of tongues, of eyes, of ears. 
Tit. And., II : 1. 1208. 

COURTESIES. — Carried too Far. 

Leon. * * This entertainment 
May a free face put on ; derive a liberty 
From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom, 
And well become the agent : it may, I grant : 
But to be paddling palms, and pinching 

fingers, 
As now they are ; and making practis'd 

smiles, 
As in a looking glass; — and then to sigh, 

as *t were 
The mort o' the deer ; O, that is entertain- 
ment 
My bosom likes not, nor my brows. 

W. T., 1 : 2. 582. 

COURTESY.— Covers Sin in Hypo- 
crites. 
Per. How courtesy would seem to cover 
sin ! 
When what is done is like an hypocrite. 

P., 1 : 1. 1644. 



COURTESY. 



HO 



COURTIERS. 



— Excessive. 

Biron. * * 
He can carve too, and lisp : Why, this is he, 
That kiss'd away his hand in courtesy ; 
This is the ape of form, Monsieur the Nice, 
That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice 
In honourable terms ; nay, he can sing 
A mean most meanly ; and, in ushering, 
Mend him who can : the ladies call him, 

sweet ; 
The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his 

feet; 
This is the flower that smiles on every one, 
To show his teeth as white as whales' bone : 
And consciences, that will not die in debt, 
Pay him the due of honey-tongued Boyet. 

L. L., V : 2. 297. 

Apem. So, so; there! — 

Aches contract and starve your supple 

joints ! — 
That there should be small love 'mongst 

these sweet knaves, 
And all this court'sy ! The strain of man 's 

bred out 
Into baboon and monkey. 

T.A.,I: 1. 1289. 

— Extreme. 

Clo. Fie, thou dishonest Sathan ! I call 
thee by the most modest terms ; for I am 
one of those gentle ones that will use the 
devil himself with courtesy. 

T. N., IV : 2. 563. 

— Hypocritical. 

K. Rich. Fair cousin, you debase your 

princely knee, 
To make the base earth proud with kissing 

it; 
Me rather had, my heart might feel your 

love, 
Than my unpleas'd eye see your courtesy. 
Up, cousin, up ; your heart is up, I know, 
Thus high at least, [ Touching his own head'] 

although your knee be low. 

R. II, Ill: 3. 705. 

— In an Executioner. 

Sil. * * The common executioner, 
Whose heart th' accustom'd sight of death 
makes hard, 



Falls not the axe upon the humbled neck, 
But first begs pardon. 

A. Y"., Ill: 5. 427. 

— Impossible in Some. 

Ulyss. The elephant hath joints, but 
none for courtesy : his legs are legs for 
necessity, not for flexure. 

T. C, II: 3. 1117. 

— Its Mirror. 

2 Gent. All the commons 

Hate him perniciously, and, o' my con- 
science, 
Wish him ten fathom deep : this duke as 

much 
They love and dote on ; call him, bounteous 

Buckingham, 
The mirror of all courtesy. 

H. VIII, II: 1. 1066. 

— Mistaken for Pride. 

&ne. * * 

In the extremity of great and little, 

Valour and pride excel themselves in Hec- 
tor ; 

The one almost as infinite as all, 

The other blank as nothing. Weigh him 
well, 

And that, Avhich looks like pride, is courtesy. 

This Ajax is half made of Hector's blood : 

In love whereof, half Hector stays at home ; 

Half heart, half hand, half Hector comes to 
seek 

This blended knight, half Trojan, and half 

Greek. 

T. C., IV : 5. 1132. 

COURTIER.— A Counterfeit. 

Aid. * * I am a courtier. See'st thou 
not the air of the court in these enfoldings? 
hath not my gait in it the measure of the 
court? receives not thy nose court-odour 
from me? reflect I not on thy baseness, 
court-contempt? Think'st thou, for that I 
insinuate, or touze from thee thy business, 
I am therefore no courtier? I am courtier 
cap-a-pie. 

W. T.,YV: 3. 609. 

COURTIERS.— In Peace. 

Mne. Courtiers as free, as debonair, un- 

arm'd, 

As bending angels; that 's their fame in 

peace. 

T. C, I: 3. 1110. 



COURTIERS. 



Ill 



COURTSHIP. 



— Make Kings. 
Q. Mar. Deceitful Warwick! it was thy 
device 
By this alliance to make void my suit ; 
Before thy coming, Lewis was Henry's 

friend. 

* * 

Peace, impudent and shameless Warwick, 
peace ; 

Proud setter-up and puller-down of kings ! 

I will not hence, till with my talk and tears, 

Both full of truth, I make king Lewis be- 
hold 

Thy sly conveyance, and thy lord's false 
love; 

For both of you are birds of self-same 
feather. 

H. VI., 3pt.,III: 3. 976. 

COURTSHIP.— Over the Coffin. (See 

Women.) 
Glo. I did not kill your husband. 
Anne. Why, then he is alive. 

Glo. Nay, he is dead ; and slain by 

Edward's hand. 
Anne. In thy soul's throat thou liest ; 

queen Margaret saw 
Thy murderous faulchion smoking in his 

blood. 

* * 

Anne. Would they were basilisks, to 

strike thee dead ! 
Glo. I would they were, that I might 

die at once, 
For now they kill me with a living death. 
Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn 

salt tears, 
Sham'd their aspects with store of childish 

drops : 
These eyes, which never shed remorseful 

tear, — 
Not, Avhen my father York and Edward 

wept, 
To hear the piteous moan that Rutland 

made, 
When black-fac'd Clifford shook his sword 

at him : 
Nor when thy warlike father, like a child, 
Told the sad story of my father's death ; 
And twenty times made pause, to sob, and 

weep, 
That all the standers-by had wet their 

cheeks, 



Like trees bedash'd with rain : in that sad 

time, 
My manly eyes did scorn an humble tear ; 
And what these sorrows could not thence 

exhale, 
Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with 

weeping. 
I never su'd to friend, nor enemy ; 
My tongue could never learn sweet sooth- 
ing Avord ; 
But now thy beauty is propos'd rAy fee, 
My proud heart sues, and prompts my 

tongue to speak. 
Teach not thy lip such scorn ; for it was 

made 
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. 
If thy revengeful heart cannot forgive, 
Lo ! here I lend thee this sharp - pointed 

sword ; 
Which if thou please to hide in this true 

breast, 
And let the soul forth that adoreth thee, 
I lay it naked to the deadly stroke, 
And humbly beg the death upon my knee. 
Nay, do not pause ; for I did kill king- 
Henry ; — 
But 't was thy beauty that provoked me. 
Nay, now despatch ; 't was I that stabb'd 

young Edward ; — 
But 't was thy heavenly face that set me on. 
Take up the sword again, or take up me. 
Anne. Arise, dissembler ; though I wish 

thy death, 
I will not be thy executioner. 

Glo. Then bid me kill myself, and I will 

do it. 
Anne. I have already. 
* * 

Glo. Look, how this ring encompasseth 

thy finger, 
Even so thy breast encompasseth my poor 

heart ; 
Wear both of them, for both of them are 

thine. 
And if thy poor devoted servant may 
But beg one favor at thy gracious hand, 
Thou dost confirm his happiness forever. 
Anne. What is it? 
Glo. That it may please you leave these 

sad designs 
To him that hath more cause to be a mourner, 
And presently repair to Crosby-place : 



COURTSHIP. 



112 



COWARDICE. 



"Where — after I have solemnly interr'd, 
At Chertsey monast'ry, this noble king, 
And wet his grave with my repentant tears, 
I will with all expedient duty see you : 
For divers unknown reasons, I beseech you, 
Grant me this boon. 

Anne. With all my heart ; and much it 
joys me too, 
To see you become so penitent. 

R. III., I: 2. 1004. 

CO VETOUSNESS.— Between Friends. 

Bru. You have done that you should be 

sorry for. 
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; 

* * I did send to you 
For certain sums of gold, which you denied 

me ; — 
For I can raise no money by vile means : 
By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, 
And drop my blood from drachmas, than to 

wring 
From the hard hands of peasants their vile 

trash, 
By any indirection. I did send 
To you for gold to pay my legions, 
Which you denied me : Was that done like 

Cassius? 
Should I have answered Cassius so? 
When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, 
To lock such rascal counters from his 

friends, 
Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts, 
Dash him to pieces ! 

J. C, IV: 3. 1345. 

Inseparable from Age. 

Fal. * * A man can no more separate 
age and covetousness, than he can part 
young limbs and lechery. 

H. IV., 2 pt., I: 2. 778. 

COWARD. — A Confessed. 

Ant. I have fled myself; and have in- 
structed cowards 
To run, and show their shoulders. 

A. C, in: 9. 1564. 

— A Natural. 

Nym. His mind is not heroic, and there 
's the humour of it. 

31. W., 1 : 3. 92. 



Ilel. * * I know him a notorious liar, 
Think him a great way fool, solely a coward. 

A. W., 1 : 1. 496. 

Bass. * * 
How many cowards, whose hearts are all as 

false 
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins 
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, 
Who, inward search'd, have lives white as 
milk. 

JI r.,III: 2. 377. 

— A Prudent. 

Mar. * * He hath the gift of a coward 
to allay the gust he hath in quarrelling, 't is 
thought among the prudent he would quick- 
ly have the gift of a grave. 

T. X., 1 : 3. 542. 

— A Superlative. 

Par. * * In a retreat, he outruns any 



lackey ; marry 
cramp. 



in coming on he has the 



A. W.yYf: 3. 522. 



— Bloodless. 

Sir To. * * I think oxen and wain- 
ropes cannot hale them together. For 
Andrew, if he were opened, and. you find so 
much blood in his liver as will clog the foot 
of a flea, I '11 eat the rest of the anatomy. 

T. JV.,111: 2. 557. 

Sir To. Go, write it in a martial hand : 
be curst and brief; it is no matter how wit- 
ty, so it be eloquent and full of invention ; 
taunt him with the licence of ink : if thou 
thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be 
amiss ; and as many lies as will lie in thy 
sheet of paper, although the sheet were big 
I enough for the bed of Ware of England, set 
'em down : go about it. 

T. Jf. Ill : 2. 556. 

—Defied. 

Chi. * * 
Foul-spoken coward! that thunder'st with 

thy tongue. 
And with thy weapon nothing dar'st perform. 
T. A., II: 2. 1208. 

COWARDICE. — Abject. 

Tat. * * 
Sheep run not half so timerous from the 

wolf, 
Or horse, or oxen, from the leopard. 
j As you fly from your oft-subdued slave*. 

H. TV.,lpt., I: 6. 871. 



COWARDICE. 



1*3 



COWARDICE. 



Fal. * * Had as lief hear the devil as 
a drum ; such as fear the report of a caliver, 
worse than a struck fowl, or a hurt wild- 
duck. 

//. /F.,lpt., IV: 2. 753. 

Hel. * * 
The dove pursues the griffin ; the mild hind 
Makes speed to catch the tiger. Bootless 

speed ! 
When cowardice pursues, and valour flies. 
M. N., II : 2. 328. 

— Affection no Excuse for. 

Eno. * * 
The itch of his affection should not then 
Have nick'd his captainship. 

A. C, 111 : 11. 1565. 

— Bitterly Rebuked. 
Mar. All the contagion of the south light 

on you, 
You shames of Rome I you herd of — Boils 

and plagues 
Plaster you o'er ; that you may be abhorr'd 
Farther than seen, and one infect another 
Against the wind a mile ! You souls of 

geese, 
That bear the shapes of men, how have you 

run 
From slaves that apes would beat? Pluto 

and hell ! 
All hurt behind ; backs red, and faces pale 
With flight and agued fear! Mend, and 

charge home, 
Or, by the fires of heaven, I '11 leave the foe, 
And make my wars on you. 

C, 1 : 4. 1155. 

— Denounced and Proved. 

Const. * * Thou slave, thou wretch, 

thou coward ; 
Thou little valiant, great in villany ! 
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side ! 
Thou fortune's champion, that dost never 

fight 
But when her humorous ladyship is by 
To teach thee safety ! thou art perjur'd too, 
And sooth'st up greatness. What a fool art 

thou, 
A ramping fool; to brag, and stamp, and 

swear, 
Upon my party ! Thou cold-blooded slave, 
Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side? 



Been sworn my soldier? bidding me depend 
Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength? 
And dost thou now fall OA r er to my foes? 
Thou wear a lion's hide ! doff it for shame, 
And hang a calf s-skin on those recreant 
limbs. 
Aust. O, that a man should speak those 

words to me ! 
Bast. And hang a calf s-skin on those 

recreant limbs. 
Aust. Thou dar'st not say so, villain, for 

thy life. 
Bast. And hang a calf s-skin on those 

recreant limbs. 
K. John. We like not this ; thou dost 
forget thyself. 

K. J., Ill : 1. 657. 

— Destroys the Innocent. 

Bolincj. * * Like a traitor coward, 
Sluic'd out his innocent soul through 
streams of blood. 

R. II, 1 : 1. 685. 

— Disclaimed. 

Ver. Do me no slander, Douglas : by 
my life, 
(And I dare well maintain it with my life,) 
If well-respected honour bid me on, 
I hold as little counsel with weak fear, 
As you, my lord, or any Scot that lives : — 
Let it be seen to-morrow in the battle, 
Which of us fears. 

H. IV., 1 pt., IV : 3. 754. 

— Does not Dare. 

Lady 31. * * 
Letting I dare not wait upon I would, 
Like the poor cat i' the adage. 

M., 1 : 7. 1362. 

— Falsely Charged. 
Gon. Milk-liver'd man ! 

That bear'st a cheek for blows, a head for 

wrongs ; 
Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning 
Thine honour from thy suffering ; that not 

• know'st, 
Pools do those villains pity, who are pun- 

ish'd 
Ere they have done their mischief. 

K. L., IV : 2. 1472. 



COWARDICE. 



II 4 



COWARDICE. 



—Flies the Field. 

Mor * * 
And as the thing that 's heavy in itself, 
Upon enforcement, flies with greatest speed ; 
So did our men, heavy in Hotspur's loss, 
Lend to this weight such lightness with their 

fear, 
That arrows fled not swifter toward their 

aim, 
Than did our soldiers, aiming at their safety, 
Fly from the field. 

H. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 1. 775 

— Hare-Hearted. 

Tro. * * Manhood and honour 
Should have hare hearts, would they but fat 

their thoughts 
With this cramm'd reason : reason and re- 
spect 
Make livers pale, and lustihood deject. 

T. C., II: 2. 1114. 

—In Flight. 

Scar. * * 
I never saw an action of such shame ; 
Experience, manhood, honour, ne'er before 
Did violate so itself. 

A. C, III: 8. 1563. 

— In Religion. 

Fab. A coward, a most devout coward, 
religious in it. 

T. JUT., Ill : 4. 562. 

— Its Expedients. 

Bard. 'Faith, I ran when I saw others 
run. 

P. Hen. Tell me now in earnest, How 
came Falstaff's sword so hacked? 

Peto. Why, he hacked it with his dagger ; 
and said, he would swear truth out of Eng- 
land, but he would make you believe it was 
done in fight ; and persuaded us to do the 
like. 

Bard. Yea, and to tickle our noses with 
spear-grass, to make them bleed ; and then 
to besiubber our garments with it, and swear 
it was the blood of true men. I did that I 
did not this seven years before, I blushed to 
hear his monstrous devices. 

II. IV, lpt., II: 4. 741. 

— Kingly, Rebuked* 
Q. Mar. Enforc'd thee! art thou king, 
and wilt be forc'd? 



I shame to hear thee speak. Ah, timorous 

wretch ! 
Thou hast undone thyself, thy son, and me ; 
And given unto the house of York such 

head, 
As thou shalt reign but by their sufferance. 
To entail him and his heirs unto the crown, 
What is it, but to make thy sepulchre, 
And creep into it far before thy time? 
Warwick is chancellor, and the lord of 

Calais ; 
Stern Faulconbridge commands the narrow 

seas; 
The duke is made protector of the realm ; 
And yet shalt thou be safe? such safety 

finds 
The trembling lamb, environed with wolves. 
Had I been there, which am a.silly woman, 
The soldiers should have toss'd me on their 

pikes, 
Before I would have granted to that act. 
But thou preferr'st thy life before thine 

honour : 
And seeing thou dost, I here divorce myself, 
Both from tny table, Henry, and thy bed, 
Until that act of parliament be repeal'd, 
Whereby my son is disinherited. 
The northern lords, that have forsworn thy 

colours, 
Will follow mine, if once they see them 

spread : 
And spread they shall be ; to thy foul dis- 
grace, 
And utter ruin of the house of York. 

H. VI., 3pt., I: 1. 957. 

—Longs for Safety. 

Bard. On. on, on, on, on ! to the breach, 

to the breach ! 
JYym. 'Pray thee, corporal, stay ; the 
knocks are too hot ; and, for mine own part, 
I have not a case of lives : the humour of 
it is too hot, that is the very plain-song of it. 
Pist. The plain-song is most just; for 
humours do abound ; 
Knocks go and come to all and some ; 
God's vassals feel the same. 
Aud sword and shield, 
In bloody field, 
Doth win immortal fame. 

Boy. 'Would I were in an alehouse in 
London ! I would give all my fame for a pot 
of ale and safety. 

H. F..IH: 2. 831. 



COWARDICE. 



115 



COWARDICE. 



— Not Caesar's Weakness. 

Cces. The gods do this in shame of cow- 
ardice : 
Caesar should be a beast without a heart. 
If he should stay at home to-day for fear. 
No, Caesar shall not : Danger knows full 

well, 
That Caesar is more dangerous than he. 
We were two lions litter'd in one day, 
And I the elder and more terrible ; 
And Caesar shall go forth. 

J. C, II : 2. 1333. 

— Not to be Trusted. 

Mar. * * He that trusts you, 
Where he should find you lions, finds you 

hares ; 
Where foxes, geese : You are no surer, no, 
Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, 
Or hailstone in the sun. 

C 1 : 1. 1151. 

— Punished. 

Scar. Let us score iheir backs, 

And snatch 'em up as we take hares, behind ; 
'T is sport to maul a runner. 

A. C, IV: 7. 1571. 

— Retreats. 

Ilel. You go so much backward when 
you fight. 

A. IF., I: 1.-497. 

— Ruins any Cause. 

York * * 
And all my followers to the eager foe 
Turn back, and fly, like ships before the 

wind, 
Or lambs pursu'd by hunger-starved wolves. 
E. VI, 3 pt., 1 : 4. 959. 

— Scorned. 

Prince. Methinks, a woman of this val- 
iant spirit 

Should, if a coward heard her speak these 
words, 

Infuse his breast with magnanimity, 

And make him, naked, foil a man at arms. 

I speak not this, as doubting any here ; 

For, did I but suspect a fearful man, 

He should have leave to go away betimes ; 

Lest, in our need, he might infect another, 



And make him of like spirit to himself. 
If any such be here, as God forbid ! 
Let him depart, before we need his help. 
Som. And he, that will not fight for such 
a hope. 
Go home to bed, and, like the owl by day, 
If he arise, be mock'd and wonder'd at. 

H. VI, 3pt., V: 4. 989. 

— Self Accusing. 
Ham. * * 

Yet I, 

A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, 

Like John a-dreams, unpregnant of my 

cause. 

H., II : 2. 1409. 

— Sir John Falstaff's. 

Tal. Shame to the duke of Burgundy, 
and thee ! 
I vow'd, base knight, when I did meet thee 

next, 
To tear the garter from thy craven's leg, 
(Which I have done) because unworthily 
Thou wast installed in that high degree. — 
Pardon me, princely Henry, and the rest : 
This dastard, at the battle of Patay, 
When but in all I was six thousand strong, 
And that the French were almost ten to 

one, — 
Before we met, or that a stroke was given, 
Like to a trusty squire, did run away ; 
In which assault we lost twelve hundred 

men ; 
Myself, and clivers gentlemen beside, 
Were there surpris'd, and taken prisoners. 
Then judge, great lords, if I have done 

amiss ; 
Or whether that such cowards ought to wear 
This ornament of knighthood, yea. or no. 
Glo. To say the truth, this fact was in- 
famous 
And ill beseeming any common man ; 
Much more a knight, a captain, and a leader. 
H. VI, 1 pt., IV : 1. 884. 

— The Charge Resented. 

Clif. So cowards fight, when they can 
fly no further ; 

So doves do peck the falcon's piercing tal- 
ons ; 

So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their 
lives, 



COWARDICE. 



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COWARDS. 



Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers. 

York. O, Clifford, but bethink thee once 

again, 

And in thy thought o'er-run my former time : 

And, if thou canst for blushing, view this 

face ; 

And bite thy tongue, that slanders him with 

coward. 

H. VI, 3 pt., 1 : 4. 960. 

— When an Honor. 

Alcib. * * 
Nor did he soil the fact with cowardice ; 
(An honour in him, which buys out his 

fault,) 
But, with a noble fury, and fair spirit, 
Seeing his reputation touch'd to death, 
He did oppose his foe : 

Tit. And., Ill : 5. 1301. 

COWARDS. — An Incumbrance. 

K. Hen. * * 
Kather proclaim it, Westmoreland, through 

my host, 
That he, which hath no stomach to this fight, 
Let him depart ; his passport shall be made, 
And crowns for convoy put into his purse : 
We would not die in that man's company, 
That fears his fellowship to die with us. 

H. V., IV : 3. 844. 

— Beget Cowards. 

Bel. * * 

Cowards father cowards, and base things 

sire base. 

Nature hath meal, and bran ; contempt, and 

grace. 

Cym., IV: 2. 1614. 

— Bred by Peace. 

Irno. * * 
Plenty, and peace, breeds cowards. 

Cym., Ill: 6. 1612. 

— Die Many Deaths. 

Cces. Cowards die many times before 
their deaths ; 
The valiant never taste of death but once. 
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, 
It seems to me most strange that men should 

fear; 
Seeing that death, a necessary end, 
Will come, when it will come. 

J. C., II : 2. 1333 



—Flee before Cowards. 

Mar. * * 
The mouse ne'er shunned the cat, as they 

did budge 
From rascals worse than they. 

C, 1 : 6. 1156. 

— From Force of Example. 

P. Hen. Now, sirs ; by 'r lady, you 
fought fair ; — so did you, Peto ; — so did you, 
Bardolph : you are lions too, you ran away 
upon instinct, you will not touch the true 
prince ; no, — fie ! 

Bard. 'Faith, I ran when I saw others 
run. 

//. IV., lpt., II: 4. 741. 

— Great Braggarts. 

Poins. Well, for two of them, I know 
them to be as true-bred cowards as ever 
turned back ; and for the third, if he fight 
longer than he sees reason, I '11 forswear 
arms. The virtue of this jest will be, the 
incomprehensible lies that this same fat 
rogue will tell us, when we meet at supper : 
how thirty, at least, he fought with ; what 
wards, what blows, what extremities he en- 
dured ; and, in the reproof of this, lies the 
jest. 

H. 7F.,lpt., I: 2. 730. 

— Love Weakness. 

Glo. * * 
None do you like but an effeminate prince, 
Whom, like a school-boy, you may over-awe. 
//. VI, I: 1. 864. 

— Meet not the Brave. 

K. Hen. Thou dost belie him, Percy, 
thou dost belie him, 
He never did encounter with Glendower ; 
I tell thee, 

He durst as well have met the devil alone, 
As Owen Glendower for an enemy. 

H. IV., lpt., I: 3. 732. 

— Swashing and Martial. 

Ros. * * 
We '11 have a swashing and a martial out- 
side, 
As many other mannish cowards have, 
That do outface it with their semblances. 

A. Y.,I: 3. 413. 

— Three Thieving, Described. 

Boy. As young as I am, I have observed 
these three swashers. I am boy to them all 



COWARDS. 



117 



CREDIT. 



three : but all they three, though they would 
serve me, could not be man to me ; for, in- 
deed, three such antics do not amount to a 
man. For Bardolph, — he is white-livered, 
and red-faced ; by the means whereof 'a 
faces it out, but fights not. For Pistol, — 
he hath a killing tongue and a quiet sword ; 
by the means whereof 'a breaks words, and 
keeps whole weapons. For Nym, — he hath 
heard, that men of few words are the best 
men ; and therefore he scorns to say his 
prayers, lest 'a should be thought a coward ; 
but his few bad words are match'd with as 
few good deeds ; for 'a never broke any 
man's head but his own; and that was 
against a post, when he was drunk. 

//. V , III : 2. 832. 

COXCOMB. — Depicted. 

Osr. Nay, good my lord ; for my ease, 
in good faith. Sir, here is newly come to 
court, Laertes : believe me, an absolute 
gentleman, full of most excellent differences, 
of very soft society, and great showing : 
Indeed, to speak feelingly of him, he is the 
card or calendar of gentry, for you shall 
find in him the continent of what part a gen- 
tleman would see. 

II., V: 2. 1434. 

COXCOMBS.— Burst like Bubbles. 

Ham. * * Thus has he (and many 
more of the same breed, that, I know, the 
drossy age dotes on,) only got the tune of 
the time, and outward habit of encounter ; 
a kind of yesty collection, which carries 
them through and through the most fond 
and winnowed opinions ; and do but blow 
them to their trial, the bubbles are out. 

H., V • 2. 1435. 



CRAFT. — Richer than Innocency. 

Clo. * * And furr'd with fox and 
lambskins too, to signify that craft, being 
richer than innocency, stands for the facing. 

M. 31., Ill: 2. 159. 

CRAFTINESS.— Its Overthrow. 

Nor. Hear the king's pleasure, cardinal : 
who commands you 
To render up the great seal presently 
Into our hands ; and to confine yourself 
To Asher-house, my lord of Winchester's, 
Till you hear further from his highness. 

Wol. Stay, 

Where 's your commission, lords? words 

cannot carry 
Authority so weighty. 

Suf. Who dares cross them? 



Bearing the king's will from his mouth 
expressly? 
Wol. Till I find more than will, or 
words, to do it, 
(I mean, your malice,) know, officious lords, 
I dare, and must deny it. Now I feel 
Of what coarse metal ye are moulded, — 

envy. 
How eagerly ye follow my disgraces, 
As if it fed ye ! and how sleek and wanton 
Ye appear in every thing may bring my 

ruin ! 
Follow your envious courses, men of mal- 
ice ; 
You have christian warrant for them, and, 

no doubt, 
In time will find their fit rewards. That 

seal, 
You ask with such a violence, the king, 
(Mine, and your master,) with his own hand 

gave me : 
Bade me enjoy it, with the place and hon- 
ours, 
During my life ; and, to confirm his good- 
ness, 
Tied it by letters patents : Now, who '11 
take it? 
Sur. The king, that gave it. 

H. VIII., Ill : 2. 1079. 

— Its Power. 

K. Hen. * * 

Who 's there? my good lord cardinal?— O 
my Wolsey, 

The quiet of my wounded conscience, 

Thou art a cure fit for a king. — You 're 
welcome, 

Most learned reverend sir, into our king- 
dom ; 

Use us, and it: — My good lord, have great 
care 

I be not found a talker. 

Wol. Sir, you cannot. 

I would, your grace would give us. but an 
hour 

Of private conference. 

K. Hen. We are busy ; go. 

//. VIII., II : 2. 1068. 

CREDIT.— Impolicy of Giving. 

Pist. * * 
Look to my chattels, and my moveables : 



CREDIT. 



Il8 



CRIME, 



Let senses rule; the -word is, li Pitch and 

pay ; " 

Trust none ; 

For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer- 
cakes, 
And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck ; 
Therefore, caveto be thy counsellor. 

//. V.. II : 3. 829. 

CREDITOR.— Nurses his Revenge. 

Shy. There I have another bad match : 
a bankrout, a prodigal, wdio dare scarce 
show his head on the Rialto ; a beggar, that 
was us'd to come so smug upon the mart. — 
Let him look to his bond ! he was wont to 
call me usurer; — let him look to his bond : 
he was wont to lend money for a Christian 
courtesy ; — let him look to his bond ! 

M. V., Ill : 1. 375. 

CREDITORS. — Rapacious. 

Flav. "What do you ask of me, my 

friend? 
Tit. We wait for certain money here, sir. 
Flav. Ay, 

If money were as certain as your waiting, 
'T were sure enough. Why then preferred 

you not 
Your sums and bills, when your false mas- 
ters eat 
Of my lord's meat? Then they could smile, 

and fawn 
Upon his debts, and take down th' interest 
Into their gluttonous maws. You do your- 
selves but wrong, 
To stir me up ; let me pass quietly : 
Believe 't, my lord and I have made an end ; 
I have no more to reckon, he to spend. 
Luc. Serv. Ay, but this answer will not 

serve. 
Flav. If 't will not, 

'T is not so base as you ; for you serve 
knaves. 

T.A., III: 4. 1300. 

CREDULITY. — Easily Victimized. 

Edm. * * 
A credulous father, and a brother noble, 
Whose nature is so far from doing harms, 
That he suspects none ; on whose foolish 

honesty 
My practices ride easy. 

A'. L., 1 : 2. 1449. 



— Led by the Nose. 

Iago. * * 
The Moor is of a free and open nature, 
That thinks men honest, that but seem to 

be so ; 
And will as tenderly be led by the nose, 
As asses are. 

0., I-' 4. 1499. 



Of the Dead. 

never: — Come, away, 



CREMATION. 

1 Cit. Never 

away ; 
We '11 burn his body in the holy place, 
And with the brands fire the traitors' houses. 
Take up the body. 

2 Cit. Go, fetch fire. 

J. C, III : 2. 1341. 

CRESCENT.— The Sign of Hope. 

Pom. I shall do well : 

The people love me, and the sea is mine ; 
My power 's a crescent, and my auguring 

hope 
Says it will come to the full. 

A. C, II: 1. 1547. 

CREST-FALLEN. — Completely. 

Fal. * * 
I were as crest-fall'n as a dried pear. 

M. W., IV : 5. 115 

CRIME. — Aristocratic. 

Gads. What talkest thou to me of the 
hangman? if I hang, I '11 make a fat pair of 
gallows : for, if I hang, old sir John hangs 
with me ; and, thou knowest, he 's no starve- 
ling. Tut ! there are other Trojans that 
thou dreamest not of, the which, for sport 
sake, are content to do the profession some 
grace ; that would, if matters should be 
looked into, for their own credit sake, make 
all whole. I am joined with no foot land- 
rakers, no long-staff, sixpenny strikers ; 
none of these mad, mustachio purple-hued 
malt-worms : but with nobility, and tran- 
quility ; burgomasters and great oneyers. 

IT. TV., lpt., TT: 1. 735. 

— Beasts Revolt at. 
Old M. 'T is unnatural, 

Even like the deed that 's done. On Tues- 
day last, 
A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place, 
Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at, and kill'd. 



CRIME. 



II 9 



CRIME. 



Rosse. And Duncan's horses, (a thing 
most strange and certain,) 
Beauteous and swift, the minions of their 

race, 
Turn'd wild in nature, broke their stalls, 

flung out, 
Contending 'gainst obedience, as they would 

make 
War with mankind. 

Old M. 'T is said, they eat each other. 
Rosse. They did so ; to the amazement 
of mine eyes, 
That look'd upon 't. 

JL, II: 4. 1367. 

— Brings Sorrow. 

Pern. * * I '11 go with thee, 
And find the inheritance of this poor child, 
His little kingdom of a forced grave. 
That blood, which ow'd the breath of all 

this isle, 
Three foot of it doth hold : Bad world the 

while 
This must not be thus borne : this will break 

out 
To all our sorrows, and ere long, I doubt. 

K. J., IV : 2. 666. 

— Demands Despatch. 
Hub. If I talk to him, with his innocent 
prate 
He will awake my mercy, which lies dead : 
Therefore I will be sudden, and despatch. 

K.J.,TV: 1. 664. 

— Expects Exemption. 

Fal. * * But, I pr'ythee, sweet wag, 
shall there be gallows standing in England 
when thou art king? and resolution thus 
fobbed as it is, with the rusty curb of old 
father antic the law? Do not thou, when 
thou art king, hang a thief. 

P. Hen. No ; thou shalt. 

U. IV., 1 pt., 1 : 2.' 729. 

— Great, a Vortex. 

K. Rich. * * I say again, give out, 
That Anne my queen is sick, and like to die : 
About it ; for it stands me much upon, 
To stop all hopes, whose growth may dam- 
age me. — 
I must be married to my brother's daughter, 
Or else my kingdom stands on brittle glass : 



Murder her brothers, and then marry her ! 
Uncertain way of gain ! But I am in 
So far in blood, that sin will pluck on sin. 
Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye. 

R. III., IV: 2. 1032. 

— Its Punishment. 

Macb. We have scotch'd the snake, not 

kill'd it ; 
She '11 close, and be herself; whilst our poor 

malice 
Remains in danger of her former tooth. 
But let 
The frame of things disjoint, both the 

worlds suffer, 
Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep 
In the affliction of these terrible dreams, 
That shake us nightly : better be with the 

dead, 
Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to 

peace, 
Than on the torture of the mind to lie 
In restless ecstacy. 

Jf., Ill: 2. 1370. 

— Its Scene Revolting. 
Sal. * * 
Away, with me, all you whose souls abhor 
The uncleanly savours of a slaughter-house ; 
For I am stifled with this smell of sin. 

K. J., IV: 3. 670. 

— Makes Crimes Necessary. 

Pand. * * 
A sceptre, snatch'd with an unruly hand, 
Must be as boisterously maintain'd as gain'd : 
And he, that stands upon a slippery place, 
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up : 
That John may stand, then Arthur needs 

must fall ; 
So be it, for it cannot be but so. 

X.J., III: 4. 663. 

— Must be Punished. 

Pern. Indeed, we heard how near his death 

he was, 
Before the child himself felt he was sick : 
This must be answer'd, either here or hence. 
K. J., IV : 2. 666. 

— National, Punished. 

Car. * * 
My lord of Hereford here, whom you call 

king, 



CRIME. 



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CRIMES. 



Is a foul traitor to proud Hereford's king : 
And if you crown him, let me prophesy, — 
The blood of English shall manure the 

ground, 
And future ages groan for this foul act : 
Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels, 
And, in this seat of peace, tumultuous wars 
Shall kin with kin, and kind with kind con- 
found ; 
Disorder, horror, fear, and mutiny, 
Shall here inhabit, and this land be call'd 
The field of Golgotha, and dead men's 

skulls. 
O, if you rear this house against this house, 
It will the woefullest division prove, 
That ever fell upon this cursed earth ; 
Prevent, resist it, let it not be so, 
Lest child, child's children, cry against 
you — woe ! 

It. II, IV: 1. 708. 

— Strange, Unexpected. 

Isab. Most strange, but yet most truly, 
will I speak : 
That Angelo 's forsworn ; is it not strange? 
That Angelo 's a murtherer ; is 't not strange 
That Angelo is an adulterous thief, 
An hypocrite, a virgin violator ; 
Is it not strange, and strange? 

Duke. Nay, it is ten times strange. 

Isab. Is it not truer he is Angelo, 
Than this is all as true as it is strange ; 
Nay, it is ten times true ; for truth is truth 
To th' end of reck'ning. 

M. M., V : 1. 170. 

CRIMES. — Excite the Populace. 
Hub. My lord, they say, five moons were 

seen to-night : 
Four fixed ; and the fifth did whirl about 
The other four, in wond'rous motion. 
K. John. Five moons? 
Hub. Old men, and beldams, in the 

streets 
Do prophesy upon it dangerously : 
Young Arthur's death is common in their 

mouths : . 
And when they talk of him, they shake their 

heads, 
And whisper one another in the ear ; 
And he that speaks doth gripe the hearer's 

wrist ; 



Whilst he that hears makes fearful action, 
With wrinkled brows, with nods, with roll- 
ing eyes. 
I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, 
And whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, 
With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; 
Who, with his shears and measure in his 

hand, 
Standing on slippers, (which his nimble 

haste 
Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet,) 
Told of a many thousand warlike French, 
That were embatteled and rank'd in Kent : 
Another lean unwash'd artificer 
Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death. 

K. J., IV : 2. 667. 

— Great, Demand Disguise. 
Macb. * * Though I could 

With bare-fac'd power sweep him from my 

sight, 
And bid my will avouch it ; yet I must not, 
For certain friends that are both his and 

mine, 
Whose loves I may not drop, but wail his 

fall 
Whom I myself struck down .' and thence 

it is, 
That I to your assistance do make love ; 
Masking the business from the common eye, 
For sundry weighty reasons. 

M., Ill: 1. 1369. 

— Great, often Fruitless. 

Macb. * * 
Upon my head they plac'd a fruitless crown, 
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, 
Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal 

hand, 
No son of mine succeeding. If it be so, 
For Banquo's issue have I fil'd my mind ; 
For them the gracious Duncan have I mur- 

der'd ; 
Put rancours in the vessel of my peace 
Only for them : and mine eternal jewel 
Given to the common enemy of man, 
To make them kings, the seed of Banquo 

kings ! 
Rather than so, come, fate, into the list, 
And champion me to the utterance ! 

M., Ill: 1. 1369. 



CRIMES. 



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CROWN. 



— Grow. 

Dec. Shall no man else be toueh'd but 

only Caesar? 
Cas. Decius, well urg'd : — I think it is 
not meet, 
Mark Antony, so well belov'd of Caesar, 
Should outlive Caesar : We shall find of him 
A shrewd contriver; and, you know, his 

means, 
If he improves them, may well stretch so far, 
As to annoy us all : which to prevent, 
Let Antony, and Caesar, fall together. 

J. C, II : 1. 1330. 

— Some, beyond Mercy. 

Bast. * * Knew you of this fair work? 
Beyond the infinite and boundless reach 
Of mercy, if thou didst this deed of death, 
Art thou damn'd, Hubert. 
* * 

Ha ! I '11 tell thee what ; 
Thou art damn'd as black — nay, nothing- is 

so black ; 
Thou art more deep damn'd than prince 

Lucifer : 
There is not yet so ugly a fiend of hell 
As thou shalt be, if thou didst kill this child. 
K. J., IV: 3. 670. 

CRIMINALS.— Great, Easily Accused. 

Glo. Presumptuous priest ! this place 
commands my patience, 
Or thou should'st find thou hast dishonour'd 

me. 
Think not, although in writing I preferrd 
The manner of thy vile outrageous crimes, 
That therefore I have forg'd, or am not able 
Verbatim to rehearse the method of my pen : 
No. prelate ; such is thy audacious wicked- 
ness, 
Thy lewd, pestiferous, and dissentious 

pranks, 
As very infants prattle of thy pride. 
Thou art a most pernicious usurer : 
Froward by nature, enemy to peace ; 
Lascivious, wanton, more than well be- 
seems 
A man of thy profession, and degree ; 
And for thy treachery, what 's more mani- 
fest? 
In that thou laid'st a trap to take my life, 
As well at London bridge, as at the Tower? 



Beside, I fear me, if thy thoughts were 
sifted, 

The king, thy sovereign, is not quite ex- 
empt 

From envious malice of thy swelling heart. 
//. r/.,lpt.,III: 1. 878. 

CRITIC— That, or Nothing. 

Iago. O gentle lady, do not put me to 't ; 
For I am nothing, if not critical. 

0., II : 1. 1501. 

CROAKING— Justifiable. 

Thcr. * * I would croak like a raven ; 
I would bode, I would bode. 

T. C, V : 2. 1139. 

CROCODILE.— Description of. 

Lep. What manner o' thing is your croc- 
odile? 

Ant. It is shaped, sir, like itself; and it 
is as broad as it hath breadth : it is just so 
high as it is, and moves with its own organs : 
it lives by that which nourisheth it ; and the 
elements once out of it, it transmigrates. 

Lep. What colour is it of? 

Ant. Of its own colour too. 

Lep. 'T is a strange serpent. 

Ant. 'T is so. And the tears of it are 
wet. 

Cces. Will this description satisfy him? 
A. C. t XL: 7. 1556. 

CROWD.-No Place to Plead. 

Art. * * Here the street is narrow : 
The throng that follows Caesar at the heels, 
Of senators, of praetors, common suitors, 
Will crowd a feeble man almost to death : 
I '11 get me to a place more void, and there 
Speak to great Caesar as he comes along. 

J. C, II: 4. 1335. 

CROWN — Its Cost. 

K. Edw. Once more we sit in England's 

royal throne, 
Re-purchas'd with the blood of enemies. 
What valiant foe-men, like to autumn's 

corn, 
Have we mow'd down, in tops of all their 

pride ! 
Three dukes of Somerset, threefold re- 

nown'd 
For hardy and undoubted champions : 
Two Cliffords, as the father and the son, 



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And two Northumberlands ; two braver men 
Ne'er spurr'd their coursers at the trumpet's 

sound : 
"With them, the two brave bears, Warwick 

and Montague, 
That in their chains fetter'd the kingly lion, 
And made the forest tremble when they 

roar'd. 
Thus have we swept suspicion from our seat, 
And made our footstool of security. — 
Come hither, Bess, and let me kiss my 

boy : — 
Young Ned, for thee, thine uncles, and my- 
self, 
Have in our armours watch'd the winter's 

night ; 
Went all a-foot in summer's scalding heat, 
That thou might'st repossess the crown in 

peace ; 
And of our. labours thou shalt reap the gain. 
H. VI, 3 pt., V : 7. 992. 

— "Wearing, Sweet. 

Rich. * * And, father, do but think, 
How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown; 
Within whose circuit is Elysium, 
And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. 
Why do Ave linger thus? I cannot rest, 
Until the white rose, that I wear, be dyed 
Even in the lukewarm blood of Henry's 
heart. 

H. VI, 3pt.,I: 2. 958. 

CRUELTY. — Easily Punished. 

Bast. If thou didst but consent 

To this most cruel act, do but despair, 
And, if thou want'st a cord, the smallest 

thread 
That ever spider twisted from her womb 
Will serve to strangle thee ; a rush will be 
A beam to hang thee on ; or would'st thou 

drown thyself, 
Put but a little water in a spoon, 
And it shall be as all the ocean, 
Enough to stifle such a villain up. 

K. J., IV : 3. 670. 

—Expostulated with. 

Arih. heaven ! — that there were but 
a mote in j^ours, 
A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wand'ring hair, 
Any annoyance in that precious sense ! 



Then, feeling what small things are bois- 

t'rous there, 
Your vile intent must needs seem horrible. 
K.J.,IV: 1. 665. 

— Extreme. 
Mar. O, that delightful engine of her 
thoughts, 
That blab'd them with such pleasing elo- 
quence, 
Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage ; 
Where, like a sweet melodious bird, it sung 
Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear ! 
Tit. And., Ill: 1. 1215. 

— Fiendish. 

Corn. See it shalt thou never. — Eel- 
lows, hold the chair : — 
Upon these eyes of thine I '11 set my foot. 
Glo. He, that will think to live till he be 
old, 
Give me some help : — cruel ! ye gods ! 
Reg. One side will mock another ; the 

other too. 
Corn. If you see vengeance. — 

* * 

Lest it see more, prevent it: — Out, vile 

jelly! 
Where is thy lustre now? 

Glo. All dark and comfortless. — Where 's 

my son Edmund? 
Edmund, enkindle all the sparks of nature, 
To quit this horrid act. 

* * 

Reg. Go, thrust him out at gates, and 
let him smell 
His way to Dover. 

K. L., Ill : 7. 1469. 

— Foretold. 

K. Hen. * * 
For the fifth Harry from curb'd licence 

plucks 
The muzzle of restraint, and the wild dog 
Shall flesh his tooth in every innocent. 

H. IV., 2pt., IV: 4. 803. 

—Hereditary. 
K. Hen. * * 
Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain, 
And yet brought forth less than a mother's 

hope ; 
To wit, — an indigest deformed lump, 



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Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree. 
Teeth hadst thou in thy head, when thou 

wast born. 
To signify. — thou cam'st to bite the world. 
//. VI., 3pt., V: 6. 991-2. 

— In Words. 

Ham. * * 
Let me be cruel, not unnatural : 
I will speak daggers to her, but use none. 

//., Ill: 3. 1416. 

— Invoked by Ambition. 

Lady M. * * Come, come, you spirits 

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me 
here ; 

An fill me, from the crown to the toe, top- 
full 

Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood, 

Stop up the access and passage to remorse ; 

That no compunctious visitings of nature 

Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace be- 
tween 

The effect, and it ! Come to my woman's 
breasts, 

And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring 
ministers, 

Wherever in your sightless substances 

You wait on nature's mischief! 



M„ 1 : 5. 1361. 



— Its Ingenuity. 



Aut. He has a son, who shall be flayed 
alive : then 'nointed over with honey, set on 
the head of a wasp's nest; then stand, till 
he be three quarters and a dram dead ; then 
recover'd again with aquavitse, or some other 
hot infusion; then, raw as lie is, and in the 
hottest day prognostication proclaims, shall 
he be set against a brick wall, the sun look- 
ing with a soutlrward eye upon him, where 
he is to behold him with flies blown to 
death. But what talk we of these traitorly 
rascals, whose miseries are to be smil'd at, 
their offences being so capital? 

W. T., IV : 3. 610. 

— Remorseless. 

K. Hen. * * 
And as the butcher takes away the calf, 
And binds the wretch, and beats it when it 

strays, 
Bearing it to the bloody slaughter-house ; 
Even so, remorseless, have they borne him 
hence. 

H. Fr.,2pt.,III: 1. 924. 



— The Nature of Some. 

Men. * * There is no more mercy in 
him, than there is milk in a male tiger. 

C, V : 4. 1191. 

— Vindictive. 

North. Hold, Clifford ; do not honour 

him so much, 
To prick thy finger, though to wound his 

heart : 
What valour were it, when a cur doth grin, 
For one to thrust his hand between his 

teeth, 
When he might spurn him with his foot 

away ! 
It is war's prize to take all vantages ; 
And ten to one is no impeach of valour. 

II. VI, 3pt.,I: 4. 960. 

— Woman's. 

Tarn. Give me thy poniard; you shall 
know, my boys, 
Your mother's hand shall right your moth- 
er's wrong. 

* * 

Lav. O Tamora ! thou bear'st a woman's 

face. — 
Tarn. I will not hear her speak ; away 

with her. 
Lav. Sweet lords, entreat her hear me 

but a word. 
Hem. Listen, fair madam : Let it be 
your glory 
To see her tears, but be your heart to them 
As unrelenting flint to drops of rain. 

Lav. When did the tiger's young ones 
teach the dam? 
O, do not learn her wrath ; she taught it 

thee : 
The milk, thou suck'dst from her, did turn 

to marble ; 
Even at thy teat thou hadst thy tyranny. — 
Yet every mother breeds not sons alike ; 
Do thou entreat her show a woman pity. 

* * 

'T is true : the raven doth not hatch a lark : 
Yet I have heard, (O could I find it now !) 
The lion, mov'd with pity, did endure 
To have his princely claws par'd all away. 
Some say that ravens foster forlorn children, 
The whilst their own birds famish in their 

nests : 
O, be to me, though thy hard heart say no, 



CRUELTY. 



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CUPID. 



Nothing so kind, but something pitiful ! 
Tarn. X know not what it means ; away 

with her. 
Lav. 0, let me teach thee : for my 

father's sake, 
That gave thee life, when well he might 

have slain thee, 
Be not obdurate, open thy deaf ears. 

Tarn. Had thou in person ne'er offended 

me, 
Even for his sake am I pitiless : — 
Remember, boys, I pour'd forth tears in 

vain, 
To save your brother from the sacrifice ; 
But fierce Andronicus would not relent. 
Therefore away with her, and use her as 

you will ; 
The worse to her, the better lov'd of me. 

Lav. Tamora, be call'd a gentle queen, 
And with thine own hands kill me in this 

place : 
For 't is not life, that I have begged so long ; 
Poor I was slain, when Bassianus died. 
Tarn. What begg'st thou then ; fond 

woman, let me go. 
Lav. 'T is present death I beg ; and one 

thing more, 
That womanhood denies my tongue to tell : 
O, keep me from their worse than killing 

lust, 
And tumble me into some loathsome pit; 
Where never man's eye may behold my 

body : 
Do this, and be a charitable murderer. 

sfc * 

Dem. Away, for thou hast staid us here 

too long. 
Lav. No grace? no womanhood? Ah, 
beastly creature ! 
The blot and enemy to our general name ! 
Tit. And., II : 3. 1210. 

CUNNING. — With Power, Dangerous. 

Buck. To the king I '11 say 't ; and make 
my vouch as strong 
As shore of rock. Attend. This holy fox, 
Or wolf, or both, (for he is equal ravenous, 
As he is subtle ; and as prone to mischief, 
As able to perform it : his mind and place 
Infecting one another, yea, reciprocally,) 
Only to show his pomp as well in France 
As here at home, suggests the king our 
master 



To this last costly treaty, the interview, 
That swallow'd so much treasure, and like 

a glass 
Did break i' the rinsing. 

Nor. 'Faith, and so it did. 

Buck. Pray, give me favour, sir. This 

cunning cardinal 
The articles o' the combination drew, 
As himself pleas'd ; and they were ratified, 
As he cried, Thus let be : to as much end, 
As give a crutch to the dead : But our 

count-cardinal 
Has done this, and 't is well ; for worthy ' 

Wolsey, 
Who cannot err, he did it. Now this fol- 
lows, 
(Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy 
To the old dam, treason,) — Charles the 

emperor, 
Under pretence to see the queen his aunt, 
(For 't was, indeed, his colour ; but he came 
To whisper Wolsey,) here makes visitation : 
His fears were, that the interview, betwixt 
England and France, might, through their 

amity, 
Breed him some prejudice ; for from this 

league 
Peep'd harms that menac'd him : He privily 
Deals with our cardinal ; and, as I trow, — 
Which I do well ; for, I am sure, the em- 
peror 
Paid ere he promis'd ; whereby his suit was 

granted, 
Ere it was ask'd; — but when the way was 

made. 
And pav'd with gold, the emperor thus de- 

sir'd; — 
That he would please to alter the king's 

course, 
And break the foresaid peace. Let the king 

know, 
(As soon he shall by me,) that thus the 

cardinal 
Does buy and sell his honour as he pleases, 
And for his own advantage. 

H. VIIL, I: 1. 1058. 

CUPID. — Described. 

Biron. * * 
This whimpled, whining, purblind, wayward 

boy, 
This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid : 



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CURSE. 



Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, 
Th' anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, 
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. 

L.L., III: 1. 282. 

— His Prejudice. 

Ros. No ; that same wicked bastard of 
Venus, that was begot of thought, conceiv'd 
of spleen, and born of madness ; that blind 
rascally boy, that abuses every one's eyes, 
because his own are out, let him be judge 
how deep I am in love. 

A. Y., IV : 1. 430. 

— Kills Some by Traps. 
Urs. She 's lim'd, I warrant you ; we 

have caught her, madam. 
Hero. If it prove so, then loving goes 
by haps : 
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with 
traps. 

M.A., in: 1. 238. 

CURIOSITY.— Not to be Satisfied. 

Hot. * * But hark you, Kate ; 
I must not have you henceforth question me 
Whither I go, nor reason whereabout : 
Whither I must, I must; and, to conclude, 
This evening must I leave you, gentle Kate. 
I know you wise ; but yet no further wise, 
Than Harry Percy's wife : constant you are ; 
But yet a woman : and for secrecy, 
No lady closer ; for I well believe, 
Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not 

know ; 
And so far will I trust thee, gentle Kate ! 

Lady. How ! so far? 

Hot. Not an inch further. 

//. IV., lpt., II: 3. 738. 

CURSE.— A Father's. 

Lear. Never, Regan : 

She hath abated me of half my train ; 
Look'd black upon me ; struck me with her 

tongue, 
Most serpent-like, upon the very heart : — 
All the stor'd vengeances of heaven fall 
On her ingrateful top ! Strike her young 

bones, 
You taking airs, with lameness ! 
Corn. Fie, fie, fie ! 

Lear. You nimble lightnings, dart your 
blinding flames 
Into her scornful eyes ! Infect her beauty, 



You fen-suck'd fogs, drawn by the powerful 

sun, 
To fall and blast her pride ! 

K. L., II : 4. 1460. 

— A Mother's. 

K. Rich. Who intercepts me in my ex- 
pedition? 

* * 

Duch. Thou toad, thou toad, where is 

thy brother Clarence? 
And little Ned Plantagenet, his son? 

Q. Eliz. Where is the gentle Rivers, 

Vaughan, Grey? 
Duch. Where is kind Hastings? 

* * 

K. Rich. And came I not at last to com- 
fort you? 
Duch. No, by the holy rood, thou 
know'st it well, 

Thou cam'st on earth to make the earth my 
hell. 

A grievous burden was thy birth to me ; 

Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy ; 

Thy school-days, frightful, desperate, wild, 
and furious ; 

The prime of manhood, daring, bold, and 
venturous ; 

Thy age confirm'd, proud, subtle, sly, and 
bloody, 

More mild, but yet more harmful, kind in 
hatred : 

What comfortable hour canst thou name, 

That ever grac'd me in thy company? 
K. Rich. So : 

Duch. Either thou wilt die, by God's 
just ordinance, 

Ere from this war thou turn a conqueror ; 

Or I with grief and extreme age shall perish, 

And never look upon thy face again. 

Therefore, take with thee my most heavy 
curse ; 

Which, in<the day of battle, tire thee more, 

Than all the complete armour that thou 
wear'st ! 

My prayers on the adverse party fight ; 

And there the little souls of Edward's chil- 
dren 

Whisper the spirits of thine enemies, 

And promise them success and victory. 

Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end ; 

Shame serves thy life, and doth thy death 
attend. 

R.III.,TV: 4. 1035. 



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CURSES. 



— A Widow's. 

Const. A widow cries ; be husband to 

me, heavens ! 
Let not the hours of this ungodly day 
Wear out the day in peace ; but, ere sunset, 
Set armed discord 'twixt these perjur'd 

kings ! 

Hear me, O, hear me ! 

K. J., Ill : 1. 657. 

Const. A wicked day, and not a holiday. 
What hath this day deserv'd? what hath 

it done ; 
That it in golden letters should be set, 
Among the high tides in the calendar? 
Nay, rather, turn this day out of the week ; 
This day of shame, oppression, perjury : 
Or, if it must stand still, let wives with 

child 
Pray, that their burdens may not fall this 

day, 
Lest that their hopes prodigiously be cross'd : 
But on this day, let seamen fear no wreck ; 
No bargains break, that are not this day 

made : 
This day, all things begun come to ill end ; 
Yea, faith itself to hollow falsehood change ! 
K. J., HI: 1. 657. 

— Remembered and Fulfilled. 

Buck. * * 
This, this All-Souls' day to my fearful soul. 
Is the determin'd respite of my wrongs. 
That high All-seer which I dallied with, 
Hath turned my feigned prayer on my head, 
And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest. 
Thus doth he force the swords of wicked 

men 
To turn their own points on their masters' 

bosoms : 
Thus Margaret's curse falls heavy on my 

neck, — 
"When he," quoth she, "shall split thy 

heart with sorrow. 
Remember Margaret was a prophetess." — 
Come, sirs, convey me to the block of 

shame ; 

Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due 

of blame. 

E.III.,V: 1. 1041. 

— Self -Reaped. 

Q. Eliz. Go, go, poor soul, I envy not 
thy glory ; 



To feed my humour, wish thyself no harm. 
Anne. No ! why? — When he, that is my 

husband now, 
Came to me, as I follow'd Henry's corse ; 
When scarce the blood was well wash'd 

from his hands, 
Which issu'd from my other angel husband, 
And that dead saint which then I weeping 

follow'd ; 
O, when, I say, I look'd on Richard's face, 
This was my wish, — "Be thou," quoth I, 

"accurs'd, 
For making me, so young, so old a widow ! 
And, when thou wed'st, let sorrow haunt thy 

bed; 
And be thy wife (if any be so mad) 
More miserable by the life of thee, 
Than thou hast made me by my dear lord's 

death ! " 
Lo, ere I can repeat this curse again, 
Even in so short a space, my woman's heart 
Grossly grew captive to his honey words, 
And prov'd the subject of mine own soul's 

curse : 
Which ever since hath held mine eyes from 

rest; 
For never yet one hour in his bed 
Did I enjoy the golden dew of sleep, 
But with his timorous dreams was still 

awak'd. 
Besides, he hates me for my father War- 
wick ; 
And will, no doubt, shortly be rid of me. 

R. III., IV : l. 1031. 

CURSES. — Often a Prophecy. 

Q. Mar. O princely Buckingham, I kiss 

thy hand, 
In sign of league and amity with thee : 
Now fair befall thee, and thy noble house ! 
Thy garments are not spotted with our 

blood, 
Nor thou within the compass of my curse. 
Buck. Nor no one here ; for curses never 

pass 
The lips of those that breathe them in the 

air. 
Q. Mar. I '11 not believe but they ascend 

the sky, 
And there awake God's gentle -sleeping 

peace. 
O Buckingham, beware of yonder dog; 



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Look, when he fawns, he bites : and, when 

he bites, 
His venom tooth will rankle to the death : 
Have not to do with him, beware of him ; 
Sin, death, and hell, have set their marks 

on him ; 
And all their ministers attend on him. 

Glo. What doth she say, my lord of 

Buckingham? 
Buck. Nothing that I respect, my gra- 
cious lord. 
Q. Mar. What, dost thou scorn me for 
my gentle counsel? 
And sooth the devil that I warn thee from? 
O, but remember this another day, 
When he shall split thy very heart with sor- 
row; 
And say, poor Margaret was a prophetess. — 
Live each of you the subjects to his hate, 
And he to yours, and all of you to God's ! 

R. III., 1 : 3. 1009. 

— Recoil. 

Q. Mar. * * 
And these dead curses — like the sun 'gainst 

glass, 
Or like an overcharged gun, — recoil, — 
And turn the force of them upon thyself. 

H. VI, 2pt., Ill: 2. 930. 

CURSING.— Excess in. 

Beat. Too curst is more than curst: I 
shall lessen God's sending that way : for it 
is said, "God sends a curst cow" short 
horns ; " but to a cow too curst he sends 
none. 

M. A., II : 1. 230. 

— Skill in. 

Q. Eliz. thou well skill'd in curses, 
stay a while, 
And teach me how to curse mine enemies. 
Q. Mar. Forbear to sleep the night, and 
fast the day ; 
Compare dead happiness with living woe ; 
Think that thy babes were fairer than they 

were, 
And he, that slew them, fouler than he is : 
Bettering thy loss makes the bad-causer 

worse ; 
Kevolving this will teach thee how to curse. 
Q. Eliz. My words are dull, O, quicken 
them with thine ! 



Poor breathing orators of miseries ! 

Let them have scope : though what they do 

impart 
Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. 
Duch. If so, then be not tongue-ty'd : 

go with me, 
And in the breath of bitter words let 's 

smother 
My damned son, that thy two sweet sons 

smother'd. 

R. Ill, IV : 4. 1035. 

CUSTOM.— Makes Flint Down. 

Oth. The tyrant custom, most grave sen- 
ators, 
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of Avar 
My thrice-driven bed of down : I do agonize 
A natural and prompt alacrity, 
I find in hardness ; and do undertake 
These present wars against the Ottomites. 

O., 1 : 3. 1497. 

— Not to be Followed. 

Cor. * * 
What custom wills, in all things should we 

do 't, 
The dust on antique time would lie unswept, 
And mountainous error be too highly heap'd 
For truth to over-peer. 

C, II : 3. 1166. 

CYNIC— A Friend to Brutes. 

Tim. * * What would'st thou do with 
the world, Apemantus, if it lay in thy power? 

Apem. Give it the beasts, to be rid of 
the men. 

Tim. Would'st thou have thyself fall in 
the confusion of men, and remain a beast 
with the beasts? 

Apem. Ay, Timon. 

T. A., IV: 3. 1309. 

CYNICISM.— Bitterness of. 

Tim. * * Thou singly honest man, 
Here, take : — the gods out of my misery 
Have sent thee treasure. Go, live rich, and 

happy : 
But thus condition'd : Thou shalt build from 

men; 
Hate all, curse all : show charity to none ; 
But let the famish'd flesh slide from the 

bone, 
Ere thou relieve the beggar : give to dogs 



CYNICISM. 



128 



DANCING. 



What thou deny'st to men ; let prisons swal- 
low them, 

Debts wither them : Be men like blasted 
woods, 

And may diseases lick up their false bloods ! 
T. A., IV : 3. 1311. 

— Its Prayer. 

Tim. That nature, being sick of man's 

unkindness, 
Should yet be hungry ! — Common mother, 

thou, 
Whose womb unmeasurable, and infinite 

breast, 
Teems, and feeds all; whose self-same 

mettle, 
Whereof thy proud child, arrogant man, is 

puff'd, 
Engenders the black toad, and adder blue, 
The gilded newt, and eyeless venom'd worm, 
With all the abhorred births below crisp 

heaven, 
Whereon Hyperion's quickening fire doth 

shine : 
Yield him, who all thy human sons doth 

hate, 



From forth thy plenteous bosom, one poor 
root : 

Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb, 

Let it no more bring out ingrateful man ! 

Go great with tigers, dragons, wolves, and 
bears ; 

Teem with new monsters, whom thy upward 
face 

Hath to the marbled mansion all above 

Never presented ! — O. a root, — Dear thanks ! 

Dry up thy meadows, vines, and plough- 
torn leas : 

Whereof ingrateful man, with liquorish 
draughts, 

And morsels unctuous, greases his pure 
mind, 

That from it all consideration slips ! 

T. A., IV : 3. 1307. 

— Woman's. 
Tim. What, dost thou weep? — Come 
nearer ; — then I love thee, 
Because thou art a woman, and disclaim'st 
J Flinty mankind ; whose eyes do never give, 
But thorough lust, and laughter. 

T. A., IV : 3. 1311. 



D 



DAINTINESS.— Excessive. 

Biron. O, if the streets were paved with 

thine eyes, 

Her feet were much too dainty for such 

tread ! 

L. Z., IV : 3. 290. 

DAMNATION. — Dared by Revenge. 

Laer. How came he dead? I '11 not be 

juggled with : 
To hell, allegiance ! vows, to the blackest 

devil ! 
Conscience, and grace, to the profoundest 

pit! 
I dare damnation : To this point I stand, — 
That both the worlds I give to negligence, 
Let come what comes ; only I '11 be reveng'd 
Most thoroughly for my father. 

If., IV : 5. 1425. 



DANCING. — Admired. 

Cap. Gentlemen, welcome ! ladies that 

have their toes 
Unplagu'd with corns, will have a bout with 

you ; — 
Ah ha, my mistresses ! which of you all 
Will now deny to dance? she that makes 

dainty, she, 
I '11 swear, hath corns : Am I come near you 

now? 
You are welcome, gentlemen ! 
* * 
More light, ye knaves ; and turn the tables 

up, 
And quench the fire, the room is grown too 

hot. — 
Ah, sirrah, this unlook'd-for sport comes 

well. 

R. J., 1 : 5. 1248. 



DANCING. 



I29 



DANGER. 



— Like "Waves. 

Flo. * * When you do dance, I wish 
you 
A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do 
Nothing but that ; move still, still so. 

W. T., IV : 3. 602. 

— With a Burden. 

Rom. I am too sore enpierced with his 
shaft 
To soar with his light feathers ; and so 

bound, 
I cannot bound a pitch above dull woe : 
Under love's heavy burden do I sink. 
* * 

Mer. If love be rough with you, be rough 
with love ; 
Prick love for pricking, and you beat love 
down. 

R. J., 1 : 4. 1247. 

DANGER.— Braved, Vanishes. 

Cess. Caesar shall forth : The things that 
threaten'd me, 
Ne'er look'd but on my back; when they 

shall see 
The face of Caesar, they are vanished. 

J. C, II: 2. 1332. 

— Caution against. 

Suf. * * 
Thou may' st not wander in that labyrinth ; 
There Minotaurs, and ugly treasons, lurk. 
H. VI., 1 pt., V : 3. 894. 

— Deliverance out of. 

Mart. Upon his bloody finger he doth 

wear 
A precious ring, that lightens all the hole, 
Which, like a taper in some monument, 
Doth shine upon the dead man's earthy 

cheeks, 
And shows the ragged entrails of this pit : 
So pale did shine the moon on Pyramus, 
When he by night lay bath'd in maiden 

blood. 

Tit. And., II: 4. 1212. 

— Demands Courage. 

K. Hen. Gloster, 't is true, that we are 
in great danger ; 
The greater therefore should our courage be. 
H. V., IV : 1. 840. 



— Disguised. 

Eno. I think so too. But you shall find, 
the band that seems to tie their friendship 
together, will be the, very strangler of their 
amity. 

A. C., II: 6. 1555. 

— Fear, a Source of. 
Bel. * * Whose top to climb 
Is certain falling, or so slippery, that 
The fear 's as bad as falling. 

Cym., Ill: 3. 1607. 

— Fed, Destroys. 

Fool. For you trow, nuncle, 

The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long, 
That it had its head hit off hy its young. 

So, out went the candle, and we were left 
darkling. 

K. L. t I: 4. 1452. 

— Foreseen. 

Wol. * * 
Anne Bullen ! No ; I '11 no Anne Bullens 

for him : 
There is more in it than fair visage. — 

Bullen ! 
No, we '11 no Bullens. 

H. VIII., Ill : 2. 1077. 

— Forewarned of. 

3 at. * * 

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust 
Ensuing danger ; as, by proof, we see 
The water swell before a boist'rous storm. 
E. Ill, II: 3. 1018. 

— From Alliances. 

Pand. * * 
France, thou may'st hold a serpent by the 

tongue, 
A cased lion by the mortal paw, 
A fasting tiger safer by the tooth, 
Than keep in peace that hand which thou 
dost hold. 

K. J., Ill : 1. 659. 

— From False Friends. 

Q. Mar- * * Such safety finds 
The trembling lamb, environed with wolves. 
//. VI., 3 pt., 1 : 1. 957. 

— From Omission- 

Pair. * * 

Omission to do what is necessary 



DANGER. 



I30 



DARING, 



Seals a commission to a blank of danger ; 
And danger, like an ague, subtly taints 
Even then when we sit idly in the sun. 

T. C, III : 3. 1126. 

— Future, Foreseen. 

Ant. * * Much is breeding, 
Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but 

life, 
And not a serpent's poison. 

. A. C, 1 : 2. 1543. 

— Imminent. 

Lucio. I warrant, it is : and thy head 
stands so tickle on thy shoulders, that a 
milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off. 

M. M., 1 : 2. 146. 

— None to Fools. 

Ulyss. * * 

The fool slides o'er the ice that you should 

break. 

T. C., III : 3. 1125. 

— Rescue from, Urged. 

Lucy. * * 
Spur to the rescue of the noble Talbot ; 
Who now is girdled with a waist of iron, 
And hemm'd about with grim destruction. 

H. VI, lpt., IV: 3. 887. 

— Seemingly Powerless. 

Eno. 'T is better playing with a lion's 
whelp, 
Than with an old one dying. 

A. a, III: 11. 1566. 

—The Nettle of Safety. 

Hot. * * "The purpose you under- 
take is dangerous ; " — Why, that 's certain ; 
't is dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to 
drink : but I tell you, my lord fool, out of 
this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, 
safety. 

H. IV., lpt., II: 3. 736. 

DARING.— Beyond Manhood. 

Macb. Pr'ythee, peace : 

I dare do all that may become a man ; 
Who dares do more, is none. 

M., 1 : 7. 1362. 

— In Extreme Peril. 

K. Edw. Bring forth the gallant, let us 
hear him speak : 
What ! can so young a thorn begin to prick? 
Edward, what satisfaction canst thou make, 



For bearing arms, for stirring up my sub- 
jects, 
And all the trouble thou hast turn'd me to? 
Prince. Speak like a subject, proud am- 
bitious York ! 
Suppose, that I am now my father's mouth ; 
Resign thy chair, and, where I stand, kneel 

thou, 
Whilst I propose the self-same words to 

thee, 
Which, traitor, thou wouldst have me an- 
swer to. 
Q. Mar. Ah, that thy father had been so 

resolv'd! 
Glo. That you might still have worn 
the petticoat, 
And ne'er have stol'n the breech from Lan- 
caster. 
Prince. Let iEsop fable in a winter's 
night : 
His currish riddles sort not with this place. 
Glo. By heaven, brat, I '11 plague you 

for that word. 
Q. Mar. Ay, thou wast born to be a 

plague to men. 
Glo. For God's sake, take away this 

captive scold. 
Prince. Nay, take away this scolding 

crook-back rather. 
K. Edw. Peace, wilful boy, or I will 

charm your tongue. 
Clar. Untutor'd lad, thou art too mala- 
pert. 
Prince. I know my duty, you are all un- 
dutiful. 
Lascivious Edward, — and thou perjur'd 

George, — 
And thou misshapen Dick, — I tell ye all, 
I am your better, traitors as ye are ; — 
And thou ursurp'st my father's right and 

mine. 

H. VI., 3 pt., V : 5. 990. 

— Inspired. 

Puc. * * 
Now am I like that proud insulting ship, 
Which Caesar and his fortune bare at once. 
H. VI, lpt., I: 2. 868. 

— Irrepressible. 

Hor. * * 
I '11 cross it, though it blast me. 

H., 1 : 1. 1392. 



DARING. 



131 



DAUGHTER. 



Laer. * * 
I dare damnation : To this point I stand. 

H., IV: 5. 1425. 

— Man's Daily. 

Claud. O, what men dare do ! what men 
may do ! what men daily do I not knowing 
what they do ! 

31. A., IV : 1. 244. 

DARKNESS.— Flecked. 

Fri. * * 
And necked darkness like a drunkard reels 
From forth day's path-way, made by Titan's 
wheels. 

R.J.,ll: 3. 1253. 

— Invoked. 

Lady M. * * Come, thick night, 
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell ! 
That my keen knife see not the wound it 

makes ; 
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of 
the dark, 

To cry, "Hold, hold!" Great Glamis ! 

worthy Cawdor ! 

31, 1 : 5. 1361. 

— Preternatural. 

Rosse. Ah, good father, 

Thou see'st, the heavens, as troubled with 

man's act, 
Threaten his bloody stage : by the clock, 

't is day, 
And yet dark night strangles the travelling 

lamp. 
Is it night's predominance, or the day's 

shame, 
That darkness does the face of earth intomb, 
When living light should kiss it? 

M., II : 4. 1367. 

— Quickens the Brain. 

Obe. * * 
Hie therefore, Robin, overcast the night ; 
The starry welkin cover thou anon 
With drooping fog, as black as Acheron. 

31. JOT., Ill : 2. 336. 

Her. Dark night, that from the eye his 
function takes, 
The ear more quick of apprehension makes ; 
Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense, 
It pays the hearing double recompense. 

M. IT., HI : 2. 334. 



— Suits Bad Designs. 

Macb. * * Stars, hide your fires ! 
Let not light see my black and deep desires : 
The eye wink at the hand ! yet let that be, 
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see. 

Jf., I: 4. 1360. 

—The Friend of Evil. 
K. Rich. Discomfortable cousin ! know'st 
thou not, 
That when the searching eye of heaven is 

hid 
Behind the globe, and lights the lower world, 
Then thieves and robbers range abroad un- 
seen, 
In murders, and in outrage, boldly here. 

R. II, Ill: 2. 701. 

DASTARDLINESS.— In a Brother. 

Claud. Sweet sister, let me live : 

What sin you do to save a brother's life, 
Nature dispenses with the deed so far, 
That it becomes a virtue. 

Isab. O, you beast ! 

0, faithless coward ! O, dishonest wretch ! 
Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice? 
Is 't not a kind of incest, to take life 
From thine own sister's shame? 

31. 31., HI : l. 158. 

DAUGHTER. — A Disappointing. 

Lear. * * Thou art a boil, 
A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle, 
In my corrupted blood. But I '11 not chide 

thee ; 
Let shame come when it will, I do not call 

it: 
I do not bid the thunder-bearer shoot, 
Nor tell tales of thee to high-judging Jove : 
Mend, when thou canst; be better, at thy 

leisure. 

K. L., II : 4. 1461. 

— Blessing Invoked upon. 

Her. You gods, look down, 

And from your sacred vials pour your graces 
Upon my daughter's head ! 

W. T., V : 3. 617. 

—Filial Duty of a. 

Lear. * * 'T is not in thee 
To grudge my pleasures, to cut off my train, 
To bandy hasty words, to scant my sizes, 



DAUGHTER. 



132 



DEAD. 



And, in conclusion, to oppose the bolt 
Against my coming in : thou better know'st 
The offices of nature, bond of childhood, 
Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude. 

K.L., II : 4. 1460. 

— Gross Revolt of a. 

Rod. * * 
Your daughter, — if you have not given her 

leave, — 
I say again, hath made a gross revolt ; 
Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes, 
To an extravagant and wheedling stranger. 

0.,I:.1. 1492. 

DAUGHTERS.— Not to be Trusted. 

Bra. * * O treason of the blood ! — 
Fathers, from hence trust not your daugh- 
ters' minds' 
By what you see them act. 

0. % 1 : 1. 1493. 

— Tigers. 

Alb. * * 
Tigers, not daughters, what have you per- 

form'd ? 
A father, and a gracious aged man, 
Whose reverence the head-lugg'd bear would 

lick, 
Most barbarous, most degenerate ! 

K. L., IV: 2. 1472. 

DAWN. — Early. 

Ant. * * 
This morning, like the spirit of a youth 
That means to be of note, begins betimes. 
A. C, IV : 4. 1570. 

DAY. — A Blabber. 

Cap. The gaudy, blabbing, and remorse- 
ful day 

Is crept into the bosom of the sea; 

And now loud-howling wolves arouse the 
jades 

To drag the tragic melancholy night ; 

Who with their drowsy, slow, and nagging 
wings 

Clip dead men's graves, and from their misty 
jaws 

Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air. 
JT. VI, 2 pt., IV : 1. 932. 



— An Illustrious. 
Bard. * * O, such a day, 
So fought, so follow 'd, and so fairly won, 
Came not, till now, to dignify the times, 
Since Cassar's fortunes ! 

IT. IV., 2 -pt., I: 1. 774. 

DAYBREAK.— How Heralded. 

Rom. * * Look, love, what envious 
streaks 
Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east : 
Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund 

day 
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops. 

R. J., Ill : 5. 1265. 

— Spirits Rest at. 

Puck. * * Yonder shines Aurora's 
harbinger ; 

At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here 
and there, 

Troop home to church-yards : damned spir- 
its all, 

That in cross-ways and floods have burial, 

Already to their wormy beds are gone ; 

For fear lest day should look their shames 
upon, 

They wilfully themselves exile from light, 

And must for aye consort with black-brow 'd 
night. 

M.M.,m.: 2. 337. 

— Walking o'er the Dew. 

Hor. * * 
But, look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, 
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. 

R., 1 : 1. 1393. 

DAYS. — Ominous of Misfortune. 

Bast. Now, by my life, this day grows 
wondrous hot; 
Some airy devil hovers in the sky, 
And pours down mischief. 

K.J., HI: 2. 660. 

DEAD. — Avenge their "Wrong. 

Bru. O Julius Caesar, thou art mighty 
yet! 
Thy spirit walks abroad, and turns our 

swords 
In our own proper entrails. 

J. C.,V: 3. 1351. 



DEAD. 



133 



DEAFNESS. 



— Destiny of their Dust. 

Ham. To what base uses we may return, 
Horatio ! Why may not imagination trace 
the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it 
stopping a bunghole? 

* * 

As thus ; Alexander died, Alexander was 
buried, Alexander returneth to dust; the 
dust is earth ; of earth we make loam : And 
why of that loam whereto he was converted, 
might they not stop a beer-barrel? 

Imperious Csesar, dead, and turn'd to clay, 
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away : 
O, that the earth, which kept the world in awe, 
Should patch a wall to expel the winter's flaw ! 

H., V : 1. 1431. 

— Honored. 

Char. * * 
Her ashes, in an urn more precious 
Than the rich-jewel'd coffer of Darius, 
Transported shall be at high festivals 
Before the kings and queens of France. 

H. VI., lpt.,I: 6. 871. 

— Insulting Body of. 

Bast. Hew them to pieces, hack their 
bones asunder ; 
Whose life was England's glory, Gallia's 
wonder. 

H. VL, lpt.,IV: 7. 890. 

— Obligations to the. 

Bru. * * Friends, I owe more fears 
To this dead man, than you shall see me 
pay. 

J. C.,V: 3. 1351. 

— Prayer for the. 

Boling. Sweet peace conduct his sweet 
soul to the bosom 
Of good old Abraham ! 

R. II., IV : 1. 708. 

— Sight of the. 

K. Hen. O thou that judgest all things, 
stay my thoughts ; 

* * 

Fain would I go to chase his paly lips 
With twenty thousand kisses, and to drain 
Upon his face an ocean of salt tears ; 
To tell my love unto his dumb deaf trunk, 
And with my fingers feel his hand unfeeling. 
But all in vain are these mean obsequies ; 



And, to survey his dead and earthy image, 
What were it but to make my sorrow greater? 
//. VI., 2 pt., Ill : 2. 928. 

— Soon Forgotten. 

Ham. So long? * * O heavens! die 
two months ago, and not forgotten yet? 
Then there 's hope, a great man's memory 
may outlive his life half a year : But, by'r- 
lady, he must build churches then. 

JT., IU: 2. 1413. 

— Talking of the. 

Leon. Prithee, no more ; cease ; thou 
know'st 
He dies to me again, when talk'd of : 

W. T.,V: 1. 612. 

— The, beyond Recall. 

Paul. I say, she 's. dead : I '11 swear 't : 
if word, nor oath, 
Prevail not, go and see : if you can bring 
Tincture, or lustre, in her lip, her eye, 
Heat outwardly, or breath within, I '11 serve 

you 
As I would do the gods. 

W. T., Ill : 2. 596. 

DEAD-BEAT. — Smells Strong. 

Clo. Truly, Fortune's displeasure is but 
sluttish, if it smell so strongly as thou 
speak'st of: I will henceforth eat no fish of 
Fortune's butt'ring. Prithee allow the wind. 

A. W.,V: 2. 525. 

DEAFNESS. 

Ch. Just. What, to York? Call him 
back again. 

Atten. Sir John Falstaff ! 

Fal. Boy, tell him I am deaf. 

Page. You must speak louder, my mas- 
ter is deaf. 

Ch. Just. I am sure he is, to the hearing 
of anything good. 

H. IV., 2pt.,I: 2. 777. 

— Affected. 

Ch. Just. I think, you are fallen into 
the disease ; for you hear not what I say to 
you. 

Fal. Very well, my lord, very well : 
rather, an 't please you, it is the disease of 
not listening, the malady of not marking, 
that I am troubled withal. 

E. IV, 2pt.,I: 2. 777. 



DEATH. 



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DEATH. 



DEATH. — A Debt. 

Fal. Hal, if thou see me down in the 
battle, and bestride me, so ; 't is a point of 
friendship. 

P. Hen. Nothing but a colossus can do 
thee that friendship. Say thy prayers, and 
farewell. 

Fal. I would it were bed-time, Hal, and 
all well. 

P. Hen. Why, thou owest God a death. 
H. IV., lpt., V: 1. 757. 

— A Despairing. 

Car. * * 
Died he not in his bed? where should he die? 
Can I make men live, whe'r they will or no? 

! torture me no more, I will confess. — 
Alive again? then show me where he is ; 

1 '11 give a thousand pound to look upon 

him. — 

He hath no eyes, the dust hath blinded 
them. — 

Comb down his hair ; look ! look ! it stands 
upright, 

Like lime-twigs set to catch my winged 
soul ! — 

Give me some drink; and bid the apothe- 
cary 

Bring the strong poison that I bought of 
him. 
K. Hen. O thou eternal Mover of the 
heavens, 

Look with a gentle eye upon this wretch ! 

O, beat away the busy meddling fiend, 

That lays strong siege unto this wretch's 
soul, 

And from his bosom purge this black de- 
spair ! 

//. VI, 2pt.,III: 3. 931. 

— A Gain. 

Ant. S. He gains by death, that hath 
such means to die : — 
Let Love, being light, be drowned if she 
sink ! 

C. E., Ill : 2. 201. 



— A Great Disguiser. 

Puke. 0, death 's a great disguiser : and 
you may add to it. Shave the head, and tie 
the beard ; and say, it was the desire of the 
penitent to be so bar'd before his death. You 
know the course is common. 

M. M, IV : 2. 166. 



— A Journey. 

Puke. * * I beseech you, look for- 
ward on the journey you shall go. 

M. M., IV : 3. 167. 

— A Lingering. 

Kent. Vex not his ghost : O, let him 
pass ! he hates him, 
That would upon the rack of this tough 

world 
Stretch him out longer. 

K. L., V : 3. 1485. 

— A Mirror. 

Per. * * 
For death remember'd, should be like a 

mirror, 
Who tells us, life 's but breath ; to trust it, 

error. 

P., 1 : 1. 1643. 

— A Mother's. 

Mess. My liege, her ear 

Is stopp'd with dust ; the first of April, died 
Your noble mother : And, as I hear, my 

lord, 
The lady Constance in a fren?y died 
Three days before. 

K. John. * * Dreadful occasion ! 
* * 
What ! mother dead ! 

X. J., IV : 2. 667. 

— A Warning Bell. 

La. Cap. O me ! this sight of death is as 
a bell, 
That warns my old age to a sepulchre. 

R. J., V : 3. 1277. 

— Always at Command. 
Cas. * * 

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, 
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of 

iron, 
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit ; 
But life, being weary of these worldly bars, 
Never lacks power to dismiss itself. 

J. C, 1 : 3. 1327. 

— Ambition's Debt. 

Bru. * * Stand still: — ambition's 
debt is paid. 

J. C, III : 1. 1336. 



DEATH. 



135 



DEATH, 



— An Escape from Kings. 

K. John. We cannot hold mortality's 
strong hand : — 
Good lords, although my will to give is 

living, 
The suit which you demand is gone and 

dead ; 
He tells us, Arthur is deceas'd to-night. 

K.J., IV: 2. 666. 

— An Eternal Sleep. 

Tit. * * 
Secure from worldly chances and mishaps ! 
Here lurks no treason, here no envy swells, 
Here grow no damned grudges ; here, are 

no storms, 
No noise, but silence and eternal sleep. 

Tit. And., I- 2. 1203. 

— Assuredly Certain. 

Fal. What! is the old king dead? 
Pist. As nail in door. 

H. IV., 2pt., V: 3. 809. 

— Attempt to Bribe. 

Car. If thou be'st death, I '11 give thee 
England's treasure, 
Enough to purchase such another island, 
So thou wilt let me live, and feel no pain. 
K. Hen. Ah, what a sign it is of evil 
life, 
When death's approach is seen so terrible ! 
H. VI, 2 pt., Ill; 3. 931. 

— Bemoaned. 

Arv. * * The bird is dead, 
That we have made so much on. I had 

rather 
Have skipp'd from sixteen years of age to 

sixty, 
To have turn'd my leaping time into a 

crutch, 
Than to have seen this. 

Oym., IV : 2. 1617. 

— Blaspheming and Remorseless. 

Vaux. * * Beaufort is at point of 
death : 
For suddenly a grievous sickness took him. 
That makes him gasp, and stare, and catch 

the air, 
Blaspheming God, and cursing men on earth. 



Sometime, he talks as if duke Humphrey's 

ghost 
Were by his side ; sometime, he calls the 

king, 
And whispers to his pillow, as to him, 
The secrets of his overcharged soul : 
And I am sent to tell his majesty, 
That even now he cries aloud for him. 

H. VI, 2pt., Ill: 2. 930. 

— Cawdor's, Studied. 

Mai. * * Nothing in his life 
Became him, like the leaving it ; he died 
As one that had been studied in his death. 

31., 1 : 4. 1360. 

— Changes Everything. 

Cap. All things, that we ordained festi- 
val, 
Turn from their office to black funeral : 
Our instruments, to melancholy bells ; 
Our wedding cheer, to a sad burial feast ; 
Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change ; 
Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse, 
And all things change them to the contrary. 
R. J., IV r 5. 1272. 

— Cheerfulness in. 

Boling. * * 
Not sick, although I have to do with death ; 
But lusty, young, and cheerly drawing 
breath. 

£.27., I: 3. 688. 

— Counterfeit. 

Fal. Counterfeit? I lie, I am no coun- 
terfeit : To die, is to be a counterfeit ; for 
he is but the counterfeit of a man, who hath 
not the life of a man : but to counterfeit 
dying, when a man thereby liveth, is to be 
no counterfeit, but the true and perfect im- 
age of life indeed. The better part of val- 
our is — discretion ; in the which better part, 
I have saved my life. 

H. IV., lpt., V: 4. 761. 

— Crawling Towards. 

Lear. * * 
Unburdened crawl toward death. 

K.L.,1: 1 1443. 

— Declared Prematurely. 

Cer. * * They were too rough, 
That threw her in the sea. Make fire with- 
in; 



DEATH. I36 DEATH. 


Fetch hither all the boxes in my closet. 


And buss thee as thy wife ! Misery's love, 


Death may usurp on nature many hours. 
And yet the fire of life kindle again 
The overpressed spirits. I have heard 
Of an Egyptian, had nine hours lien dead, 
By good appliance was recovered. 
* * 


0, come to me ! 

A'. J., Ill : 4. 662. 

— Desired in Dishonor. 

York. * * 
Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe. 


This queen will live ; nature awakes ; a 

warmth 
Breathes out of her ; she hath not been en- 


R. II., II : 1. 693. 
— Disregards Rank. 


tranc'd 


Char. * * 


Above five hours. See, how she 'gins to 
blow 


Now boast thee, death ! in thy possession 
lies 


Into life's flower again ! 
* * 

She is alive ; behold • 
Her eyelids, cases to those heavenly jewels 
Which Pericles hath lost, 


A lass unparall'd. — Downy windows, close ; 
And golden Phoebus never be beheld 
Of eyes again so royal. 

A. C, V : 2. 1581. 


Begin to part their fringes of bright gold ; 
The diamonds of a most praised water. 

P., Ill : 2. 1657. 


— Easy, Sought. 

Cces. Most probable, 
That so she died ; for her physician tells me, 


— Desired. 


She hath pursued conclusions infinite 


King. * * "Let me not live," quoth he, 
"After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff 


Of easy ways to die. 

A. C, V : 2. 1582. 


Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive 

senses 
All but new things disdain." 

A. IF., I: 3. 498. 

Anne. * * 
0, would to God, that the inclusive verge 
Of golden metal, that must round my brow, 
Were red-hot steel, to sear me to the brain ! 


— Effect on a Mother. 

Puc. * * 
As looks the mother on her lovely babe, 
When death doth close his tender dying 
eyes. 

H. VI., 1 pt., Ill : 3. 883. 

— End of Life's Fever. 


Anointed let me be with deadly venom ; 
And die, ere men can say — God save the 


Macb. * * Duncan is in his grave ; 
After life's fitful fever, he sleeps well ; 


queen ! 

R. III., IV: 1. 1031. 

— Desired and Invoked. 

Const. * * 


Treason has done his worst : nor steel, nor 

poison, 
Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, 
Can touch him further. 


Death, death : — amiable lovely death ! 
Thou odoriferous stench ! sound rottenness ! 
Arise forth from the couch of lasting night, 


31., Ill : 2. 1370. 

— Ends all Distinctions. 


Thou hate and terror to prosperity. 
And I will kiss thy detestable bones ; 
And put my eye-balls in thy vaulty brows ; 
And ring these fingers with thy household 


Guid. * * 
Thersites' body is as good as Ajax, 
When neither are alive. 

Cym., IV : 2. 1618. 


worms ; 
And stop this gap of breath with fulsome 
dust, 


— Ends Prosperity. 

Q. Mar. So, now prosperity begins to 


And be a carrion monster like thyself: 
Come, grin on me ; and I will think thou 


mellow, 
And drop into the rotten mouth of death. 


smil'st, 


R. II, IV : 4. 1034. 



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137 



DEATH, 



— Fattened for. 

Ham. * * Your worm is your only 
emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else, 
to fat us ; and we fat ourselves for maggots : 
Your fat king, and your lean beggar, is but 
variable service ; two dishes, but to one 
table ; that 's the end. 

H., IV : 3. 1422. 

— Foolishness of a Lingering. 

Edg. * * 
That with the pain of death we 'd hourly 

die, 
Rather than die at once. 

K.L.,Y: 3. 1484. 

— Frivolity a Sign of. 
P. Hen. It is too late : the life of all his 
blood 
Is touch' d corruptibly; and his pure brain 
("Which some suppose the soul's frail dwell- 
ing-house) 
Doth, by the idle comments that it makes, 
Foretell the ending of mortality. 

K.J.,V: 7. 675. 

— Good Inspirations at. 

Ner. Your father was ever virtuous ; and 
holy men at their death have good inspira- 
tions. 

M. V., I: 2. 363. 

— Grins at Pomp. 

K. Rich. * * For within the hollow 
crown, 
That rounds the mortal temples of a king, 
Keeps death his court : and there the antic 

sits, 
Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp. 
R. II., Ill : 2. 702. 

— Heroic. 

Tal. * * 
Triumphant death, smear'd with captivity ! 
Young Talbot's valour makes me smile at 

thee : — 
When he perceiv'd me shrink, and on my 

knee, 
His bloody sword he brandish'd over me, 
And, like a hungry lion, did commence 
Rough deeds of rage, and stern impatience ; 
But when my angry guardant stood alone, 
Tend'ring my ruin, and assail'd of none, 
Dizzy-ey'd fury, and great rage of heart, 
Suddenly made him from my side to start 



Into the clust'ring battle of the French ; 
And in that sea of blood my boy did drench 
His overmounting spirit; and there died. 

//. VI., 1 pt., IV : 7. 890. 

— Heroic, in Battle. 

Exe. * * 
Suffolk first died : and York, all haggled 

over, 
Comes to him, where in gore he lay in- 

steep'd, 
And takes him by the beard ; kisses the 



That bloodily did yawn upon his face ; 

And cries aloud, — " Tarry, dear cousin Suf- 
folk! 

My soul shall thine keep company to heav- 
en : 

Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then ' fly 
a-breast ; 

As, in this glorious and well-foughten field, 

We kept together in our chivalry ! " 

* * 

So he did turn, and over Suffolk's neck 
He threw his wounded arm, and kiss'd his 

lips; 
And so, espous'd to death, with blood he 

seal'd 
A testament of noble-ending love. 

H. V., IV : 6. 847. 

— Honorable. 

Tit * * 
For two and twenty sons I never wept, 
Because they died in honour's lofty bed. 

Tit. And., Ill : 1. 1214. 

— Impartial. 

Ham. * * This fell sergeant, death, 

Is strict in his arrest. 

//., V : 2. 1436. 

— In View. 

Mel. Have I not hideous death within 
my view, 
Retaining but a quantity of life ; 
Which bleeds away, even as a form of wax 
Resolveth from his figure 'gainst the fire? 

K. J., V : 4. 674. 

— Indiscriminate. 

Bast. * * 
O, now doth death line his dead chaps with 
steel ; 



DEATH. 138 DEATH. 


The swords of soldiers are his teeth, his 


The pendent world; or to be worse than 


fangs ; 


worst 


And now he feasts, mouthing the flesh of 


Of those, that lawless and incertain thoughts 


men, 


Imagine howling ! — 't is too horrible ! 


In undetermined differences of kings. 


M. M., HI : 1. 158. 


K.J.,11'. 2. 653. 






— Its Signs. 


— Inevitable. 


P. Hen. * * By his gates of breath 


Bru. * * We must die, Messala : 


There lies a downy feather, which stirs not : 


With meditating that she must die once, 


Did he suspire, that 1'ght and weightless 


I have the patience to endure it now. 


down 


J. C., IV: 3. 1346. 


Perforce must move. — My gracious lord! 


Bvii. * * 


my father ! — 


That we shall die, we know ; 't is but the 


This sleep is sound indeed ; this is a sleep, 


time, 


That from this golden rigo hath divorc'd 


And drawing days out, that men stand upon. 


So many English kings. 


J. C, III: 1. 1336. 


U. IV., 2 pt., IV : 4. 802. 


— Insatiable. 


— Its Silence. 


Fort. This quarry cries on havock ! — 


North. * * 


proud death ! 


His tongue is now a stringless instrument ; 


What feast is toward in thine eternal cell, 


Words, life, and all, old Lancaster hath 


■That thou so many princes, at a shot, 


spent. 


So bloodily hast struck? 


R. II, II : 1. 693. 


H., V : 2. 1437. 


— Juliet's Sudden. 


— Invoked. 


Cap. * * Alas ! she 's cold ; 


Cleo. Where art thou, death? 


Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; 


Come hither, come ! come, come, and take 


Life and these lips have long been separated ; 


a queen 


Death lies on her, like an untimely frost 


Worth many babes and beggars ! 


Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. 


A. C.,V: 2. 1578. 


R. J., IV : 5. 1271. 


— Its Fear. 


— Like a Lover's Pinch. 


Claud. * * 


Cleo. * * 


The weariest and most loathed worldly life, 


If thou and nature can so gently part, 


That age, ach, penury, and imprisonment 


The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, 


Can lay on nature, is a paradise 


Which hurts, and is desir'd. 


To what we fear of death. 


A. C.,V: 2. 1581. 


M. M., Ill: 1. 158. 






— Mercenary Wish for. 


— Its Horrible Uncertainties. 


K. Rich. Now put it, heaven, in his phy- 


Claud. Ay, but to die, and go we know 


sician's mind, 


not where ; 


To help him to his grave immediately ! 


To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; 


The lining of his coffers shall make coats 


This sensible warm motion to become 


To deck our soldiers for these Irish wars. 


A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit 


R. II, 1 : 4. 691. 


To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside 




In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice ; 


— Natural 


To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, 


War. He 's walk'd the way of nature ; 


And blown with restless violence round 


And, to our purposes, he lives no more. 


about 


H. IV., 2pt., V: 2. 806. 



DEATH. 



139 



DEATH. 



— Not Found when Sought. 

Post. * * I, in mine own woe charm'cl, 
Could not find death, where I did hear him 

groan ; 
Nor feel him, where he struck : Being an 

ugly monster, 
'T is strange, he hides him in fresh cups, 

soft beds, 
Sweet words : or hath more ministers than 

we 
That draw his knives i' the war. 

Cytn., V : 3. 1623. 

— Not to be Feared. 

Duke. Be absolute for death; either 

death, or life, 
Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus 

with life : 
If I lose thee, I do lose a thing 
That none but fools would keep. 

* * Thou art Death's fool ; 

For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun, 
And yet runn'st toward him still. 

* * Thy best of rest is sleep, 

And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly 

fear'st 
Thy death, which is no more. 

* * Friend hast thou none 

For thine own bowels, which do call thee 

sire, 
The mere effusion of thy proper loins, 
Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum, 
For ending thee no sooner. Thou hast nor 

youth, nor age : 
But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, 
Dreaming on both : 

* * What 's yet in this, 

That bears the name of life ? Yet in this life 
Lie hid more thousand deaths : yet death 

we fear, 
That makes these odds all even. 

M. M., Ill: 1. 156. 

— Not to be Mourned. 

Fri. L. * * 
And weep ye now, seeing she is advanc'd, 
Above the clouds, as high as heaven itself? 
O, in this love, you love your child so ill, 
That you run mad, seeing that she is well : 
She 's not well married, that lives married 

long; 
But she 's best married, that dies married 

young. 



Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary 
On this fair corse ; and, as the custom is, 
In all her best array bear her to church : 
For though fond nature bids us all lament, 
Yet nature's tears are reason's merriment. 

Ii.J.,IV: 5. 1272. 

— Of an Only Child. 

Gap. Despis'd, distressed, hated, mar- 
tyr'd, kill'd! — 
Uncomfortable time ! why cam'st thou now 
To murder, murder our solemnity? — ■ 

child ! child ! — my soul, and not my 

child ! — 
Dead art thou, dead! — alack! my child is 

dead ; 
And, with my child, my joys are buried ! 

R. J., IV : 5. 1272. 

— Of Caesar. 

Gin. O Caesar, 

Gees. Hence ! wilt thou lift up Olympus ? 

Dec. Great Caesar, 

Ccbs. Doth not Brutus bootless kneel? 
Casca. Speak, hands, for me. 

[Casca stabs C^es. in the neck. Cjes. 
catches hold of his arm. He is then 
stabbed by several other Conspirators, 
and at last by Marcus Brutus.] 
Gees. Et tu, Brute ? — Then fall, Caesar. 
Gin. Liberty ! Freedom ! Tyranny is 
dead ! — 
Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets. 
Gas. Some to the common pulpits, and 
cry out, 
''Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!" 
Bru. People and senators ! be not af- 
frighted ; 
Fly not; stand still: — ambition's debt is 
paid. 

J. C., III : 1. 1336. 

— Of Falstaff. 

Quick. Nay, sure, he 's not in hell ; he is 
in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Ar- 
thur's bosom. 'A made a finer end, and 
went away, an it had been any christom 
child ; 'a parted even just between twelve 
and one, e'en at turning o' the tide : for after 

1 saw him fumble with the sheets, and play 
with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' 
ends, I knew there was but one way ; for 
his nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a bab- 
bled of green fields. How now, sir John? 
quoth I : what, man ! be of good cheer. So 
'a cried out — God, God, God ! three or four 
times : now I, to comfort him, bid him 'a 



DEATH. 



I4O 



DEATH. 



should not think of God; I hoped, there 
was no need to trouble himself with any 
such thoughts yet : So 'a bade me lay more 
clothes on his feet : I put my hand into the 
bed, and felt them, and they were as cold 
as any stone ; then I felt to his knees, and 
so upward, and upward, and all was as cold 
as any stone. 

H. V., II : 3. 828. 

— Of Richard II. 

K. Rich. * * 
That hand shall burn in never-quenching 

fire, 
That staggers thus my person. — Exton, thy 

fierce hand 
Hath with the king's blood stain'd the king's 

own land. 
Mount, mount, my soul ! thy seat is up on 

high ; 
Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here 

to die. 

B.II.,V: 5. 717. 

— Of Salisbury. 

Tal. * * 
In thirteen battles Salisbury o'ercame ; 
Henry the Fifth he first train'd to the wars ; 
Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck 

up, 
His sword did ne'er leave striking in the 

field.— 
Yet liv'stthou Salisbury? though thy speech 

doth fail, 
One eye thou hast, to look to heaven for 

grace : 
The sun with one eye vieweth all the 

world. — 
Heaven, be thou gracious to none alive, 
If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands ! — 
Bear hence his body, I will help to bury it. 
H. VI., 1 pt., 1 : 4. 870. 

— Of Sir Thomas Gargrave. 

Tal. * * 

Sir Thomas Gargrave, hast thou any life? 

Speak unto Talbot ; nay, look up to him. 

Salisbury, cheer thy spirit with this com- 
fort ; 

Thou shalt not die, whiles 

He beckons with his hand and smiles on me ; 

As who should say, " When I am dead and 
gone, 

Remember to avenge me on the French. — " 

Plantagenet, I will ; and Nero-like, 



Play on the lute, beholding the towns burn : 

Wretched shall France be only in my name. 

E. VI, 1 pt., 1 : 4. 870. 

—Of the Duke of York. 

York. That face of his the hungry can- 
nibals 
Would not have touch'd, would not have 

stain'd with blood : 
But you are more inhuman, more inexora- 
ble,— 
O, ten times more, — than tigers of Hyrca- 

nia. 
See, ruthless queen, a hapless father's tears : 
This cloth thou dipp'dst in blood of my 

sweet boy, 
And I with tears do wash the blood away. 
Keep thou the napkin, and go boast of this : 
* * 

North. Had he been slaughter-man to 
all my kin, 
I should not for my life but weep with him, 
To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul. 
Q. Mar. What, weeping-ripe, my lord 
Northumberland ? 
Think but upon the wrong he did us all, 
And that will quickly dry thy melting tears. 
Clif. Here 's for my oath, h6re 's for my 
father's death. [Stabbing him. 

Q. Mar. And here 's to right our gentle- 
hearted king. [Stabbing him. 
York. Open thy gate of mercy, gracious 
God! 
My soul flies through these wounds to seek 
out thee. 
Q. Mar. Off with his head, and set it on 
York gates ; 
So York may overlook the town of York. 

H. F/.,3pt,, I: 4. 961. 

— Of the Great. 

Ros. * * The cease of majesty 
Dies not alone ; but, like a gulf, doth draw 
What 's near it, with it : it is a massy wheel, 
Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, 
To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser 

things 
Are mortis'd anA adjoin'd; which, when it 

falls, 
Each small annexment, petty consequence, 
Attends the boist'rous ruin. Never alone 
Did the king sigh, but with a general groan. 

£T. t III : 3. 1417. 



DEATH. 



I 4 I 



DEATH. 



Cces. The breaking of so great a thing 

should make 
A greater crack : The round world should 

have shook 
Lions into civil streets, 
And citizens to their dens : — The death of 

Antony 
Is not a single doom ; in the name lay 
A moiety of the world. 

A. C., V: 1. 1576. 

Ant. mighty Caesar ! Dost thou lie so 

low? 
Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, 

spoils, 
Shrunk to this little measure? — Fare thee 

well. — 
I know not, gentlemen, what you intend, 
Who else must be let blood, who else is 

rank : 
If I myself, there is no hour so fit 
As Caesar's death's hour ; nor no instrument 
Of half that worth, as those your swords, 

made rich 
With the most noble blood of all this world. 
I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard, 
Now, whilst your purple hands do reek and 

smoke, 
Fulfil ycur pleasure. Live a thousand years, 
I shall not find myself so apt to die : 
No place will please me so, no mean of 

death, 
As here by Caesar, and by you cut off. 

J. C, III: 1. 1337. 

— Of Wolsey. 

Grif. * * 

Lodg'd in the abbey ; where the reverend 
abbot, 

With all his convent, honourably receiv'd 
him; 

To whom he gave these words, — " O father 
abbot, 

An old man, broken with the storms of 
state, 

Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; 

Give him a little earth for charity ! " 

So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness 

Pursu'd him still ; and, three nights after 
this, 

About the hour of eight, (which he himself 

Foretold, should be his last,) full of repent- 
ance, 



Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows, 
He gave his honours to the world again, 
His blessed part to heaven, and slept in 
peace. 

H. VIII., IV: 2. 1084. 

— Past Fearing. 

Duke. * * 
That life is better life, past fearing death, 
Than that which lives to fear. 

M. 31, V: 1. 174. 

— Pays all Debts. 

Ste. He that dies, pays all debts. 

T.,Ill: 2. 24. 

— Personifications of. 

Mor. * * 
But now, the arbitrator of despairs, 
Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries, 
With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me 
hence. 

If. VI, 1 pt.,11: 5. 876. 

— Pomp no Barrier to. 

War. * * 

Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, 

Whose arms gave shelter to the princely 
eagle, 

Under whose shade the ramping lion slept ; 

Whose top-branch overpeer'd Jove's spread- 
ing tree, 

And kept low shrubs from winter's power- 
ful wind. 

These eyes, that now are dimm'd with death's 
black-veil, 

Have been as piercing as the mid-day sun, 

To search the secret treasons of the world : 

The wrinkles in my brows, now filFd with 
blood, 

Were likened oft to kingly sepulchres ; 

For who liv'd king but I could dig his grave ? 

And who durst smile, when Warwick bent 
his brow? 

Lo, now my glory smear'd in dust and blood ! 

My parks, my walks, my manors that I had, 

Even how forsake me ; and, of all my lands, 

Is nothing left me, but my body's length ! 

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth 
and dust? 

And, live we how we can, yet die we must. 
If. VI, 3 pt., V : 2. 988. 



DEATH, 



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DEATH. 



— Predetermined. 

Achil. * * Keep yourselves in breath. 
And when I have the bloody Hector found, 
Empale him with your weapons round about ; 
In fellest manner execute your arms. 
Follow me, sirs, and my proceedings eye ; — 
It is decreed — Hector the great must die. 

T. C., V : 7. 1142. 

— Preparation "Wanting for. 

Cate. 'T is a vile thing to die, my gra- 
cious lord, 

"When men are unprepar'd, and look not for 
it. 
Hast. monstrous, monstrous ! and so 
falls it out 

With Rivers, Vaughan, Grey : and so 't will 
do 

With some men else, who think themselves 

as safe 

As thou, and I. 

It. III., Ill: 2. 1023. 

— Relation to Sleep. 

Lady M. * * The sleeping, and the 
dead, 
Are but as pictures : 't is the eye of child- 
hood, 
That fears a painted devil. 

31. II : 2. 1365. 

— Rids of Languish. 

Cleo. What, of death too 

That rids our dogs of languish? 

A. C.,V: 2. 1578. 

— Saves from Greater Misery. 

Gra. Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy 

father 's dead ; 
Thy match was mortal to him, and pure 

grief 
Shore his old thread in twain : did he live 

now, 

This sight would make him do a desperate 

turn. 

0.,V: 2. 1531. 

— Sense of. 

Isab. * * 
The sense of death is most in apprehension ; 
And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, 
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great 
As when a giant dies. 

M. M., HI : 1. 157. 



— Simulated. 

Fri. L. * * 
Take thou this phial, being then in bed, 
And this distilled liquor drink thou off : 
When, presently, through all thy veins shall 

run 
A cold and drowsy humour ; for no pulse 
Shall keep his native progress, but surcease : 
No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou 

liv'st ; 
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade 
To paly ashes ; thy eyes' windows fall, 
Like death, when he shuts up the day of life ; 
Each part, depriv'd of supple government, 
Shall stiff, and stark, and cold, appear like 

death : 
And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk 

death 
Thou shalt remain full two and forty hours, 
And then awake as from a pleasant sleep. 
Now when the bridegroom in the morning 

comes 
To rouse thee from thy bed, there art thou 

dead : 
* * 

In the mean time, against thou shalt awake, 
Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift ; 
And hither shall he come ; and he and I 
Will watch thy waking. 

E. J., IV : 1. 1269. 

— Subject of every Third Thought. 

Pro. * * 
And thence retire me to my Milan, where 
Every third thought shall be my grave. 

T., V : 1. 34. 

— The Common Lot. 

Queen. * * 
Seek for thy noble father in the dust : 
Thou know'st, 't is common ; all, that live, 

must die, 
Passing through nature to eternity. 

If., I: 2. 1394. 



Claud. 



Death is a fearful thing. 
M. M.,Ill: L 157. 



— The Night of Life. 

Achil. Look, Hector, how the sun begins 
to set ; 
How ugly night comes breathing at his heels : 



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DEATH, 



Even with the vail and darkening of the sun, 
To close the day up, Hector's life is done. 

T. C, V : 9. 1143. 

— Unbalances the Mind. 

P. Hen. * * 
Death, having prey'd upon the outward 

parts, 
Leaves them invisible ; and his siege is now 
Against the mind, the which he pricks and 

wounds 
With many legions of strange fantasies ; 
Which, in their throng and press to that 

last hold, 
Confound themselves. 'T is strange, that 

death should sing. 

K. J., V: 7. 676. 

— Unmerited. 

Buck. * * 
I have this day receiv'd a traitor's judgment, 
And by that name must die : Yet, heaven 

bear witness, 
And, if I have a conscience, let it sink me, 
Eyen as the axe falls, if I be not faithful ! 
The law I bear no malice for my death, 
It has done, upon the premises, but justice : 
But those, that sought it, I could wish more 

christians : 
Be what they will, I heartily forgive them : 
Yet let them look they glory not in mischief, 
Nor build their evils on the graves of great 

men; 
For then my guiltless blood must cry against 

them. 

* * 

Go with me, like good angels, to my end ; 
And, as the long divorce of steel falls on 

me, 
Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice, 
And lift my soul to heaven. — Lead on, o' 

God's name. 

* * All good people, 

Pray for me ! I must now forsake ye ; the 

last hour 
Of my long weary life is come upon me. 
Earewell : 
And when you would say something that is 

sad, 
Speak how I fell. 

H. VIII., II : 1. 1066. 



— Unties the Knot of Life. 

Cleo. * * 
With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate 
Of life at once untie. 

A. C.,V: 2. 1581. 

— Untimely. 

Ghost. * * 
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, 
Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd; 
No reckoning made, but sent to my account 
With all my imperfections on my head. 

//., 1 : 5. 1400. 

— "Waiting on News. 

K. John. cousin, thou art come to set 

mine eye : 
The tackle of my heart is crack'd and 

burn'd ; 
And all the shrouds, wherewith my life 

should sail, 
Are turn'd to one thread, one little hair : 
My heart hath one poor string to stay it by, 
Which holds but till thy news be uttered ; 
And then all this thou seest, is but a clod, 
And module of confounded royalty. 

K. J.,V: 7. 676. 

— Welcomed. 

Claud. * * If I must die, 
I will encounter darkness as a bride, 
And hug it in mine arms. 

31. 31, III : 1. 157. 

— Wipes its Brow. 

Vol. * * His bloody brow 
With his mail'd hand then wiping, forth he 

goes; 
Like to a harvest-man, that 's task'd to mow 
Or all, or lose his hire. 

C, 1 : 3. 1153. 

— York's. 

Rich. Say how he died, for I will hear 

it all. 
Mess. Environed he was with many foes ; 
And stood against them as the hope of Troy 
Against the Greeks, that would have enter'd 

Troy. 
But Hercules himself must yield to odds ; 
And many strokes, though with a little axe, 
Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. 



DEATH. 



I 44 



DEBT. 



By many hands your father was subdu'd ; 
But only slaughter'^ by the ireful arm 
Of unrelenting Clifford, and the queen : 
Who crown'd the gracious duke in high de- 
spite ; 
Laugh'd in his face ; and, when with grief 

he wept, 
The ruthless queen gave him, to dry his 

cheeks, 
A napkin steeped in the harmless blood 
Of sweet young Rutland, by rough Clifford 

slain : 
And, after many scorns, many foul taunts, 
They took his head, and on the gates of 

York, 
They set the same ; and there it doth re- 
main, 
The saddest spectacle that e'er I view'd. 

H. VI, 3pt.,II: 1. 962. 

DEATH-BED. — Counsel. 

Mor. * * 
Mourn not, except thou sorrow for my good ; 
Only, give order for my funeral ; 
And so farewell ; and fair be all thy hopes ! 
And prosperous be thy life, in peace, and 
war! 

H. VI, 1 pt., II : 5. 877. 

DEBAUCHERY.— Its Expense. 

Poins. Palstaff ! — fast asleep behind the 
arras, and snorting like a horse. 

P. Hen. Hark, how hard he fetches 
breath: Search his pockets. What hast 
thou found? 

Poins. Nothing but papers, my lord. 

P. Hen. Let 's see what they be : read 
them. 

Poins. Item, A capon, 2s. 2d. 
Item, Sauce, Ad. 
Item, Sack, two gallons, 5s. Sd. 
Item, Anchovies, and sack after supper, 

2s. Qd. 
Item, Bread, a halfpenny. 

P. Hen. O monstrous ! but one half-pen- 
nyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of 
sack! 

H. IT., 1 pt., II ; 4. 744. 

DEBT.— Cowardly to Pay a. 

Nym. You '11 pay me the eight shillings 
I won of you at betting? 

Pist. Base is the slave that pays. 

H. V, II: 1. 825. 



— Demanded, Hopelessly. 

Fal. Master Shallow, I owe you a thou- 
sand pound. 

Shal. Ay, marry, sir John ; which I be- 
seech you to let me have home with me. 

Fal. That can hardly be, master Shallow. 
Do not you grieve at this ; I shall be sent 
for in private to him : look you, he must 
seem thus to the world. Fear not your ad- 
vancement ; I will be the man yet, that shall 
make you great. 

Shal. I cannot perceive how ; unless 
you give me your doublet, and stuff me out 
with straw. I beseech you, good sir John, 
let me have five hundred of my thousand. 

Fal. Sir, I will be as good as my word : 
this that you heard, was but a colour. 

Shal. A colour, I fear, that you will die 
in, sir John. 

//. IV., 2pt., V: 5. 810. 

— How to Demand one. 

Sen. Get on your cloak, and haste you 

to lord Timon ; 
Importune him for my monies ; be not ceas'd 
With slight denial ; nor then silenc'd, when — 
"Commend me to your master" — and the 

cap 
Plays in the right hand, thus : — but tell 

him, sirrah, 
My uses cry to me, I must serve my turn 
Out of mine own ; his days and times are 

past, 
And my reliances on his fracted dates 
Have smit my credit : I love, and honour 

him; 
But must not break my back, to heal his 

finger : 
Immediate are my needs ; and my relief 
Must not be toss'd and turn'd to me in 

words, 
But find supply immediate. Get you gone : 
Put on a most importunate aspect, 
A visage of demand ; for, I do fear, 
When every feather sticks in his own wing, 
Lord Timon will be left a naked gull, 
Which flashes now a phoenix. 

T. A., II : 1. 1293. 

— Not Paid by Sickness. 

Luc. Serv. Many do keep their chambers, 
are not sick : 
And, if it be so far beyond his health, 
Methinks, he should the sooner pay his debts, 
And make a clear way to the gods. 

T.A.,U1: 4. 1300. 



DECAY. 



HS 



DECEPTION. 



DECAY.— Sudden. 

Lys. * * Behold, 

The jaws of darkness do devour it up : 
So quick bright things come to confusion. 
M. 2f., 1 : 1. 323. 

DECEIT. — A "Warning against. 

Pol. * * 
Do not believe his vows : for they are 

brokers ; — 
Not of that die which their investments 

show, 
But mere implorators of unholy suits, 
Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds, 
The better to beguile. 

II., I: 3. 1398. 

— Cursed. 

Tim. * * Speak, and be hang'd : 
For each true word, a blister ! and each false 
Be as a caut'rizing to the root o' the tongue, 
Consuming it with speaking ! 

T.A.,V: 2. 1313. 

— Ineffectual. 

Tim. * * 
Paint till a horse may mire upon your face. 
T. A., IV : 3. 1307. 

— Never Enriches. 

Nor. * * 
The fire, that mounts the liquor till it run 

o'er, 
In seeming to augment it, wastes it. 

//. VIII. , 1:1. 1058. 

— Universal. 

Tim. * * All is oblique ; 
There 's nothing level in our cursed natures, 
But direct villany. 

T. A., IV : 3. 1305. 

— "With Grandeur. 

Jul. * * O, that deceit should dwell 
In such a gorgeous palace ! 

R. J., Ill : 2. 1261. 

Duch. Ah, that deceit should steal such 
gentle shapes, 
And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice ! 
He is my son, ay, and therein my shame, 
Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit. 
R. III., II : 2. 1016. 



DECEIVED. — Self. 

Ham. * * Mother, for love of grace, 
Lay not that flattering unction to your 

soul, 
That not your trespass, but my madness 

speaks : 
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place ; 
Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, 
Infects unseen. 

H. Ill : 4. 1420. 

Gas. I humbly thank you for 't. I never 
knew 
A Florentine more kind and honest. 

0., Ill : 1. 1509. 

DECEIVERS. — Take the Roses. 

Dia. Ay, so you serve us, 

Till we serve you : but when you have our 

roses, 
You barely leave our thorns to prick our- 
selves, 
And mock us with our bareness. 

A. W., IV : 2. 518. 

DECEPTION. — Bold. 

Iago. Do ; with like timorous accent, 
and dire yell, 
As when, by night and negligence, the fire 
Is spied in populous cities. 

O., 1 : 1. 1492. 

— Impotent with Justice. 

Ch. Just. Sir John, sir John, I am well 
acquainted with your manner of wrenching 
the true cause the false way. It is not a 
confident brow, nor the throng of words 
that come with such more than impudent 
sauciness from you, can thrust me from a 
level consideration ; you have, as it appears 
to me, practised upon the easy-yielding 
spirit of this woman, and made her serve 
your uses both in purse and person. 

H. IV., 2pt., II: 1. 781. 

— Quaint and Perfect. 

Lord. Even as a fiatt'ring dream, or 
worthless fancy. 

Then take him up, and manage well the 
jest ; 

Carry him gently to my fairest chamber, 

And hang it round with all my wanton pict- 
ures : 

Balm his foul head in" warm distilled waters, 



DECEPTION. 



I46 



DECISION. 



And burn sweet wood to make the lodging 

sweet : 
Procure me music ready when he wakes, 
To make a dulcet and a heavenly sound ; 
And if he chance to speak, be ready 

straight, 
And, with a low submissive reverence, 
Say, — What is it your honour will com- 
mand? 
Let one attend him with a silver bason, 
Full of rose-water, and bestrew'd with flow- 
ers ; 
Another bear the ewer, the third a diaper, 
And say, — Will 't please your lordship 

cool your hands? 
Some one be ready with a costly suit, 
And ask him what apparel he will wear ; 
Another tell him of his hounds and horse, 
And that his lady mourns at his disease : 
Persuade him that he hath been lunatic : 
And, when he says he is, — say that he 

dreams, 
For he is nothing but a mighty lord. 
This do, and do it kindly, gentle sirs ; 
It will be pastime passing excellent 
If it be husbanded with modesty. 

T. S., Ind : 1. 452. 

— Repeats Itself. 
Bra. Look to her, Moor ; have a quick 
eye to see ; 
She has deceiv'd her father, and may thee. 

0., 1 : 3. 1498. 

— Seen Through. 

Sil. You have your wish; my will is 
even this, — 

That presently you hie you home to bed. 

Thou subtle, perjur'd, false, disloyal man ! 

Think'st thou, I am so shallow, so conceit- 
less, 

To be seduced by thy flattery, 

That hast deceiv'd so many with thy vows? 

Eeturn, return, and make thy love amends. 

For me, — by this pale queen of night I 
swear, 

I am so far from granting thy request, 

That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit; 

And by and by intend to chide myself, 

Even for this time I spend in talking to thee. 
T. G., IV : 2. 67. 



—Verbal. 

Glo. So wise so young, they say, do ne'er 

live long. 
Prince. What say you, uncle? 
Glo. I say, without characters, fame lives 
long. 
Thus, like the formal vice, Iniquity, 
I moralize two meanings in one word. 

R. III., Ill : 1. 1020. 

DECEPTIONS. — By Mischievous 
Fairies. 

Puck. I '11 follow you. I '11 lead you 
about a round, 
Through bog, through bush, through 
brake, through brier, 
Sometime a horse I '11 be, sometime a 
hound, 
A hog, a headless bear, sometime a fire ; 
And neigh, and bark, and grunt, and roar, 

and burn, 
Like horse, hound, hog, bear, fire, at every 
turn. 

M. N., Ill : 1. 331. 

— Of the Imagination. 

Ant. Sometime, we see a cloud that 's 
dragonish ; r , 

A vapour, sometime, like a bear, or lion, 
A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, 
A forked mountain, or blue promontory 
With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, 
And mock our eyes with air : Thou hast 

seen these signs ; 
They are black vesper's pageants. 

Eros. Ay, my lord. 

Ant. That, which is now a horse, even 
with a thought, 
The rack dislimns ; and makes it indistinct, 
As water is in water. 

Eros. It does, my lord. 

A. C. t IV: 12. 1573. 



DECISION.— Difficulty of. (See So- 
liloquy.) 
War. Between two hawks, which flies 
the higher pitch, 

Between two dogs, which hath the deeper 
mouth, 

Between two blades, which bears the better 
temper, 



DECISION. 



147 



DEFEAT. 



Between two horses, which doth bear him 
best, 

Between two girls, which hath the merriest 
eye, 

I have, perhaps, some shallow spirit of judg- 
ment : 

But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, 

Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw. 

H. VI., 1 pt., II : 4. 875. 

DECOYING.— Its Arts. 

Ari. * * Then I beat my tabor, 
At which, like unbaek'd colts, they prick'd 

their ears, 
Advanc'd their eyelids, lifted up their noses, 
As they smelt music ; so I charm'd their 

ears, 
That, calf-like, they my lowing follow'd 

through 
Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss 

and thorns. 

T., IV : 1. 28. 

DECREES. — Unalterable. 

Bass. * * And I beseech you, 
Wrest once the law to your authority : 
To do a great right, do a little wrong. 
And curb this cruel devil of his will. 

Por. It must not be. There is no power 
in Venice 
Can alter a decree established : 
'T will be recorded for a precedent ; 
And many an error, by the same example, 
Will rush into the state : — it cannot be. 
Shy. A Daniel come to judgment ! yea, 
a Daniel ! 
O wise young judge, how I do honour thee ! 
M. V., IV: 1. 384. 

DEEDS. — Unnatural. 

Doct. Foul whisperings are abroad : Un- 
natural deeds 
Do breed unnatural troubles : Infected 

minds 
To their deaf pillows will discharge their 

secrets. 
More needs she the divine, than the physi- 
cian. 

Jf., V: 1. 1381. 

DEER. — Picture of a Wounded. 

1 Lord. * * ■ 
To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself 



Did steal behind him, as he lay along 
Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out 
Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : 
To the which place a poor sequester'd stag, 
That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt, 
Did come to languish ; and, indeed, my lord, 
The wretched animal heav'd forth such 

groans, 
That their discharge did stretch his leathern 

coat 
Almost to bursting ; and the big round tears 
Cours'd one another down his innocent nose 
In piteous chase : and thus the hairy fool', 
Much marked of the melancholy Jaques, 
Stood on th' extremest verge of the swift 

brook, 
Augmenting it with tears. 

A. Y., II : 1. 414. 

DEFEAT.— A Great. 

Queen. * * His shipping, 
(Poor ignorant baubles !) on our terrible 

seas, 
Like egg-shells mov'd upon their surges, 

crack'd 
As easily 'gainst our rocks. 

Cym., Ill: 1. 1605. 

—Begets Desperation. 

Auf. * * Five times, Marcius, 
I have fought with thee ; so often hast thou 

beat me : 
And would'st do so, I think, should we en- 
counter 
As often as we eat. — By the elements, 
If e'er again I meet him beard to beard, 
He is mine, or I am his : Mine emulation 
Hath not that honour in 't, it had ; for where 
I thought to crush him in an equal force, 
(True sword to sword,) I'll potch at him 

some way ; 
Or wrath, or craft, may get him. 
1 Sol. He 's the devil. 

Auf. Bolder, though not so subtle : My 
valour 's poison'd, 
With only suffering stain by him ; for him 
Shall fly out of itself: nor sleep, nor sanct- 
uary, 
Being naked, sick : nor fane, nor Capitol, 
The prayers of priests, nor times of sacri- 
fice, 
Embarquements all of fury, shall lift up 



DEFEAT. 



I48 



DEFENCE. 



Their rotten privilege and custom 'gainst 
My hate to Marcius : where I find him, 

were it 
At home, upon my brother's guard, even 

there 
Against the hospitable canon, would I 
Wash my fierce hand in his heart. 

C, 1 : 10. 1159. 

— Death, rather than. 

Hot. 0, Harry, thou hast robb'd me of 

my youth, 
I better brook the loss of brittle life, 
Than those proud titles thou hast won of me ; 
They wound my thoughts, worse than thy 

sword my flesh : — 
But thought ? s the slave of life, and life 

time's fool ; 
And time, that takes survey of all the 

world, 
Must have a stop. 0, I could prophesy, 
But that the earthy and cold hand of death 
Lies on my tongue : — No, Percy, thou art 

dust, 
And food for — [Dies. 

H. IV., lpt., V: 4. 761. 

—Deserved. 

Suf. * * I told ye all, 
When we first put this dangerous stone a 

rolling, 
'T would fall upon ourselves. 

Nor. Do you think, my lords, 

The king will suffer but the little finger 
Of this man to be vex'd? 

Cham. 'T is now too certain : 

How much more is his life in value with 

him? 
'Would I were fairly out on 't. 

Crom. My mind gave me, 

In seeking tales, and informations, 
Against this man, (whose honesty the devil 
And his disciples only envy at,) 
Ye blew the fire that burns ye : Now have 
at ye. 

H. VIII., V : 2. 1091. 

— Ignominious. 

Scar. * * 
Whom leprosy o'ertake ; i' the midst of the 

fight, — 
When vantage like a pair of twins appear'd, 



Both as the same, or rather ours the elder, — 
The brize upon her, like a cow in June, 
Hoists sails, and flies. 

A. C, II: 8. 1563. 

Ant. Hark, the land bids me tread no 
more upon 't, 
It is asham'd to bear nte. 

A. C, III : 9. 1563. 

— Shame of. 
Tal. * * 

A witch, by fear, not force, like Hannibal, 
Drives back our troops, and conquers as she 

lists : 
So bees with smoke, and doves with noisome 

stench, 
Are from their hives, and houses, driven 

away. 
They eall'd us, for our fierceness, English 

dogs ; 
Now, like to whelps, we crying run away. 

II. VI., lpt., I: 5. 871. 

DEFECTS.— Distinguished by. 

Por. He knows me, as the blind man 

knows the cuckoo, 

By the bad voice. 

M. V., V : 1. 389. 

DEFENCE. — Of Reputation. 

JEge. Yet, that the world may witness 
that my end 
Was wrought by nature, not by vile offence, 
I '11 utter what my sorrow gives me leave. 

C. E., 1 : 1. 192. 

— Of Rights. 

Bas. " Romans, — friends, followers, fa- 
vourers of my right, — 
* * 

Keep then this passage to the Capitol ; 
And suffer not dishonour to approach 
The imperial seat, to virtue consecrate, 
To justice, continence, and nobility : 
But let desert in pure election shine ; 
And, Romans, fight for freedom in your 
choice. 

Tit. And., I: 1. 1201. 

— Preparation for. 

Bau. * * 
In cases of defence 't is best to weigh 
The enemy more mighty than he seems, 



DEFENCE. 



I 49 



DEFIANCE. 



So the proportions of defence are fill'd ; 

Which, of a weak and niggardly projection, 

Doth, like a miser, spoil his coat, with 

scanting 

A little cloth. 

H. V., II : 4. 829. 

— Self, no Vice. 
Mon. * * 
Of all that I do know : nor know I aught 
By me that 's said or done amiss this night ; 
Unless self-charity be sometime a vice ; 
And to defend ourselves it be a sin, 
When violence assails us. 

0., II : 3. 1506. 

DEFIANCE— A Braggart's. 

Bast. * * 
This apish and unmannerly approach, 
This harness'd masque, and unadvised revel, 
This unhair'd sauciness, and boyish troops, 
The king doth smile at : and is well pre- 

par'd 
To whip this dwarfish war, these pigmy 

arms, 
From out the circle of his territories. 
That hand, which had the strength, even at 

your door, 
To cudgel you and make you take the hatch ; 
To dive, like buckets, in concealed wells ; 
To crouch in litter of your stable planks ; 
To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chests and 

trunks ; 
To hug with swine ; to seek sweet safety out 
In vaults and prisons ; and. to thrill, and 

shake, 
Even at the crowing of your nation's cock, 
Thinking his voice an armed Englishman ; — 
Shall that victorious hand be feebled here, 
That in your chambers gave you chastise- 
ment? 
No : Know, the gallant monarch is in arms ; 
And like an eagle o'er his aery towers, 
To souse annoyance that comes near his 

nest. 

K. J.,V: 2. 673. 

— Armed. 

JEne. Health to you, valiant sir, 
During all question of the gentle truce : 
But when I meet you arm'd, as black defi- 
ance, 
As heart can think, or courage execute. 

T. C, IV: I. 1127. 



— Bold. 

Bast. Thou wert better gall the devil, 
Salisbury : 
If thou but frown on me, or stir thy foot, 
Or teach thy hasty spleen to do me shame, 
I '11 strike thee dead. 

K. J., IV : 3. 670. 

Hot. * * 
The mailed Mars shall on his altar sit, 
Up to the ears in blood. I am on fire, 
To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh, 
And yet not ours : — Come, let me take my 

horse, 
Who is to bear me, like a thunderbolt, 
Against the bosom of the prince of Wales : 
Harry to Harry shall, hot horse to horse, 
Meet and ne'er part, till one drop down a 

corse. 

H. IV., lpf., IV: 1. 753. 

— Courageous. 

Mont. Thus says my king : — Say thou to 
Harry of England, Though we seemed dead, 
we did but sleep : Advantage is a better sol- 
dier, than rashness. Tell him, we could 
have rebuked him at Harfleur ; but that we 
thought not good to bruise an injury, till it 
were full ripe: — now Ave speak upon our 
cue, and our yoice is imperial : England 
shall repent his folly, see his weakness, and 
admire our sufferance. Bid him, therefore, 
consider of his ransom ; which must pro- 
portion the losses we have borne, the sub- 
jects we have lost, the disgrace we have 
digested ; which, in weight to reanswer, his 
pettishness would bow under. For our 
losses, his exchequer is too poor; for the 
effusion of blood, the muster of his king- 
dom too faint a number; and for our dis- 
grace, his own person, kneeling at our feet, 
but a weak and worthless, satisfaction. To 
this add — defiance : and tell him, for con- 
clusion, he hath betrayed his followers, 
whose condemnation is pronounced. 

H. F.,111: 6. 837. 

— How Met. 

Bast. * * Let France and England 
mount 
Their battering cannon, charged to the 

• mouths ; 
Till their soul-fearing clamours have brawl'd 

down 
The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city. 

K. J., II : 2. 654. 



DEFIANCE, 



I50 



DEFORMITY. 



— Hurled in the Teeth. 
Oct. Come, Antony ; away. — 

Defiance, traitors, hurl we in your teeth : 
If you dare fight to-day, come to the field ; 
If not, when you have stomachs. 

J. C, V: 1. 1349. 

— "Lay on, Macduff." 

Macb. I '11 not yield, 

To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's 

feet, 
And to be baited with the rabble's curse. 
Though Birnam Avood be come to Dunsi- 

nane, 
And thou oppos'd, being of no woman born, 
Yet I will try the last : Before my body 
I throw my warlike shield ; lay on, Macduff: 
And damned be him that first cries, " Hold, 

enough." 

31., V : 7. 1385. 

— Met by Defiance. 

Buck. I read in his looks 

Matter against me ; and his eye revil'd 
Me, as his abject object : at this instant 
He bores me with some trick : He 's gone to 

the king ; 
I '11 follow, and out-stare him. 

//. VIII., J: l. 1058. 

— Of Enemies. 

Rich. Now Clifford, I have singled thee 
alone : 

Suppose, this arm is for the duke of York, 

And this for Rutland : both bound to re- 
venge, 

Wert thou environ'd with a brazen wall. 
Glif. Now, Richard, I am with thee here 
alone : 

This is the hand, that stabbed thy father 
York ; 

And this the hand that slew thy brother Rut- 
land ; 

And here 's the heart, that triumphs in their 
death, 

And cheers these hands, that slew thy sire 
and brother, 

To execute the like upon thyself; 

And so, have at thee. 

//. F7.,3pt., II: -4. 967. 

— Of Unjust Judges. 

Q. Kath. * * Now the Lord help, 



They vex me past my patience ! — pray you, 

pass on; 
I will not tarry : no, nor ever more, 
Upon this business, my appearance make 
In any of their courts. 

//. VIII, II: 4. 1072. 

— Sign of. 

Sam. Nay, as they dare. I will bite my 
thumb at them ; which is a disgrace to them, 
if they bear it. 

Abr. Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? 

Sam. I do bite my thumb, sir. 

Abr. Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? 

Sam. Is the law on our side, if I sav — 
ay? 

Gre. No. 

Sam. No, sir, I do not bite my thumb 
at you, sir; but I bite my thumb, sir. 

R. J., I : l. 1242. 

— Throws out its Signs. 

Macb. Hang out our banners on the out- 
ward walls ; 
The cry is still, "They come:" Our cas- 
tle's strength 
Will laugh a siege to scorn : here let them 

lie, 
Till famine, and the ague, eat them up. 

JL, V: 5. 1383. 

DEFILEMENT. — Causes Loathing. 

Per. * * 
You 're a fair viol, and your sense the 

strings ; 
Who, finger'd to make man his lawful music, 
Would draw heaven down, and all the gods 

to hearken; 
But, being played upon before your time, 
Hell only danceth at so harsh a chime : 
Good sooth, I care not for you. 

P., 1 : 1. 1643. 

DEFORMITY. — An Impediment. 

Glo. * * 
Why, love forswore me in my mother's 

womb ; 
And, for I should not deal in her soft laws, 
She did corrupt frail nature with some 

bribe 
To shrink mine arm up like a wither'd 

shrub ; 



DEFORMITY, 



151 



DELAY. 



To make an envious mountain on my back, 
Where sits deformity to mock my body ; 
To shape my legs of an unequal size ; 
To disproportion me in every part, 
Like to a chaos, or an unlick'd bear-whelp, 
That carries no impression like the dam. 
And am I then a man to be beloved? 

//. VI, 3 pt., Ill : 2. 974. 

— Contempt for. 

Glo. * * 
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, 
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, 
Deforrn'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time 
Into this breathing world, scarce half made 

up, 
And that so lamely and unfashionable, 
That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them. 

B. III., 1 : 1. 1001. 

Glo. * * The women cried, 
" O, Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth ! " 
And so I was ; which plainly signified — 
That I should snarl, and bite, and play the 
dog. 

H. VI, 3pt., V: 6. 992. 

— None, but in the Mind. 

Ant. * * 
In nature there 's no blemish but the mind ; 
None can be call'd deforrn'd but the un- 
kind. 
Virtue is beauty ; but the beauteous evil 
Are empty trunks, o'erflourish'd by the 
devil. 

T. X., Ill : 4. 562. 

DEGENERACY.— In Brains. 

3 Lord. * * 
That such a crafty devil as is his mother 
Should yield the world this ass ! a woman, 

that 
Bears all down with her brain ; and this her 

son 
Cannot take two from twenty for his heart, 
And leave eighteen. 

Cym., II : 1. 1599. 

— Universal. 

Glo. I cannot tell ; — The world is grown 
so bad, 
That wrens may prey where eagles dare not 
perch : 



Since every Jack became a gentleman, 
There 's many a gentle person made a Jack 
R.III, I: 3. 1007. 

DEGRADATION.— In making Changes 
K. Rich. O God! God! that ere this 

tongue of mine, 
That laid the sentence of dread banishment 
On yon proud man, should take it off again 
With words of sooth ! O, that I were as 

great 
As is my grief, or lesser than my name ! 
Or that I could forget what I have been ! 
Or not remember what I must be now ! 
Swell'st thou, proud heart? I '11 give thee 

scope to beat, 
Since foes have scope to beat both thee and 

me. 

B. II., in: 3. 704. 

DELAY.— Baited for Revenge. 

Mrs. Page. * * Let 's be reveng'd on 
him : let 's appoint him a meeting ; give him 
a show of comfort in his suit ; and lead him 
on with a fine baited delay, till he hath 
paAvn'd his horses to mine host of the Garter. 

31. W., II: 1. 96. 

— Bitterness of. 

Kath. O my good lord, that comfort 
comes too late ; 
'T is like a pardon after execution : 
That gentle physic, given in time, had cur'd 

me ; 
But now I am past all comforts here, but 
prayers. 

R. VIII, IV : 2. 1086. 

— Dulls Device. 

Iago. * * 
Dull not device by coldness and delay. 

0., II: 3. 1508. 

— Extenuated by Disaster. 

Com. 'T is not a mile ; briefly we heard 
their drums : 
How could'st thou in a mile confound an 

hour, 
And bring thy news so late? 

Mess. Spies of the Voices 

Held me in chase, that I was forc'd to wheel 
Three or four miles about ; else had I, sir, 
Half an hour since brought my report. 

C, 1 : 6. 1156. 



DELAY. 



152 



DEMAGOGUE. 



— Gives Advantage. 
K. Hen. * * 
Our hands are full of business : let 's away ; 
Advantage feeds him fat, while men delay. 
E. IV., 1 pt., Ill : 2. 749. 

— Incentive to Despair. 

Sal. * * 
One day too late, I fear, my noble lord, 
Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth : 
0, call back yesterday, bid time return. 

R. II, III: 2. 701. 

— Its Danger. 

Alen. Defer no time : Delays have dan- 
gerous ends. 

H. VI, 1 pt., Ill : 2. 881. 

Tro. * * 
Injurious time now, with a robber's haste, 
Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not 

how : 
As many farewells as be stars in heaven, 
With distinct breath and consign'd kisses 

to them, 
He fumbles up into a loose adieu ; 
And scants us with a single famish'd kiss, 
Distasted with the salt of broken tears. 

T. C, IV: 4. 1130. 

Glo. But he, poor man, by your first or- 
der died, 
And that a winged Mercury did bear ; 
Some taidy cripple bore the countermand. 
R. Ill, II; 1. 1015. 

K. Rich. * * Fearful commenting 
Is leaden servitor to dull delay ; 
Delay leads impotent and snail-pac'd beg- 
gary : 
* * 

AVe must be brief, when traitors brave the 
field. 

R. Ill, IV : 3. 1034. 

King. * * 
We should do when we would ; for this 

would changes, 
And hath abatements and delays as many, 
As there are tongues, are hands, are acci- 
dents. 

H.,IV: 7. 1428. 

York. * * 
Away ; vexation almost stops my breath, 



That sunder'd friends greet in the hour of 

death. — 
Lucy, farewell : no more my fortune can, 
But curse the cause I cannot aid the man. — 
Maine, Blois, Poictiers, and Tours, are won 

away, 
'Long all of Somerset, and his delay. 

H. VI, 1 pt., IV : 3. 887. 

— Its Dangers. 

Mer. I mean, sir, in delay 

We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by 
day. 

R.J.,I: 4. 1247. 

Trin. Monster, come, put some lime 
upon your fingers, and away with the rest. 
Gal. I will have none on 't : we shall 
lose our time 
And all be turn'd to barnacles, or to apes 
With foreheads villainous low. 

T., IV: 1. 29. 

— Not Denial. 

Mene. Know, worthy Pompey, 

That what they do delay, they not deny. 

A. C. t II : 1. 1547. 

DELICACY. — Conies of Leisure. 

Ham. 'T is e'en so : the hand of little 
employment hath the daintier sense. 

H., V : 1. 1430. 

DELUSION. — Self. 

Kath. He that is giddy thinks the world 



turns round. 



T. S., V: 2. 482. 



DEMAGOGUE.— Tragic End of. 

Cade. By my valour, the most complete 
champion that ever I heard. — Steel, if thou 
turn the edge, or cut not out the burly-boned 
clown in chines of beef ere thou sleep in 
thy sheath, I beseech God on my knees, 
thou mayest be turned to hobnails. [They 
fight. Cade falls.] O, I am slain ! famine, 
and no other, hath slain me : let ten thou- 
sand devils come against me, and give me 
but the ten meals I have lost, and I 'd defy 
them all. Wither, garden ; and be hence- 
forth a burying-place to all that do dwell in 
this house, because the unconquered soul of 
Cade is fled. 



Iden. * * 
Die, damned wretch, the curse of her that 
bare thee ! 



DEMAGOGUE. 



153 



DENUNCIATION. 



And as I thrust thy body in with my sword, 
So wish I, I might thrust thy soul to hell. 
Hence will I drag thee headlong by the heels 
Unto a dunghill, which shall be thy grave, 
And there cut off thy most ungracious head ; 
Which I will bear in triumph to the king, 
Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon. 
H. VI., 2 pt., IV : 10. 941. 

DEMAGOGUES.— Bloody and Ar- 
rogant. 

Sold. Jack Cade ! Jack Cade ! 

Cade. Knock him down there. [They 
kill him.'] 

Smith. If this fellow be wise, he '11 never 
call you Jack Cade more : I think, he hath 
a very fair warning. 

Dick. My lord, there 's an army gathered 
together in Smithfield. 

Cade. Come then, let 's go fight with 
them : But, first, go and set London-bridge 
on fire ; and, if you can, burn down the 
Tower too. Come, let 's away. 

H. FY.,2pt., IV: 6. 937. 

— Promise Extravagantly. 

Cade. Be brave then ; for your captain 
is brave, and vows reformation. There 
shall be, in England, seven half-penny loaves 
sold for a penny : the three-hooped pot shall 
have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony 
to drink small beer : all the realm shall be 
in common, and in Cheapside shall my pal- 
frey go to grass. And, when I am king, (as 
king I will be) 

All. God save your majesty ! 

Cade. I thank you, good people : — there 
shall be no money ; all shall eat and drink 
on my score ; and I will apparel them all in 
one livery, that they may agree like brothers, 
and worship me their lord. 

Dick. The first thing we do, let 's kill all 
the lawyers. 

Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not 
this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of 
an innocent lamb should be made parch- 
ment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, 
should undo a man? Some say, the bee 
stings : but I say, 't is the bee's wax, for I 
did but seal once to a thing, and I was never 
mine own man since. 

H. VI, 2 pt., IV : 1. 934. 

— Use the People. 

Sic. Assemble presently the people hith- 
er : 
And when they hear me say, " It shall be so 



I' the right and strength o' the commons,"' 

be it either 
For death, for fine, or banishment, then let 

them, 
If I say, fine, cry "fine;" if death, cry 

"death." 
Insisting on the old prerogative 
And power i' the truth o' the cause. 

C, III : 3. 1175. 

DEMONIAC. — Affecting to be One. 

Edg. Poor Tom ; that eats the swim- 
ming frog, the toad, the tadpole, the wall- 
newt, and the water ; that in the fury of his 
heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow- 
dung for sallets ; swallows the old rat, and 
the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of 
the standing pool ; who is whipped from 
tything to tything, and stocked, punished, 
and imprisoned ; who hath had three suits 
to his back, six shirts to his body, horse to 
ride, and weapon to wear, — 

But mice, and rats, and such small deer, 
Have been Tom's food for seven long year. 

Beware my follower : — Peace, Smolkin ; 
peace, thou fiend ! 

K.L., III : 4. 1466. 

DEMONSTR ATI VENE S S. — Excess- 
ive. 

York. * * I have seen him 
Caper upright like a wild Morisco, 
Shaking the bloody darts, as he his bells. 

//. VI, 2 pt., Ill : 2. 926. 

DENIAL.— The Greatest Good. 

Mene. We, ignorant of ourselves, 

Beg often our own harms, which the wise 

powers 
Deny us for our good ; so find we profit, 
By losing of our prayers. 

A. C, II: 1. 1547. 

DENUNCIATION.— A Wronged 
Brother's. 

Edg. * * I protest, — 

Maugre thy strength, youth, place, and em- 
inence, 

Despite thy victor sword, and fire-new for- 
tune, 

Thy valour, and thy heart, — thou art a 
traitor : 

False to thy gods, thy brother, and thy 
father : 



DENUNCIATION. 



154 



DEPENDENCE. 



Conspirant 'gainst this high illustrious 

prince ; 
And from the extremest upward of thy 

head, 
To the descent and dust beneath thy feet, 
A most toad-spotted traitor. 

K.L.,V: 3. 1483. 

DEPARTING. — Watched. 

Imo. I Avould have broke mine eye- 
strings ; crack'd them, but 
To look upon him ; till the diminution 
Of space had pointed him sharp as my nee- 
dle,— 
Naj r , follow'd him, till he had melted from 
The smallness of a gnat to air ; and then 
Have turn'd mine eye, and wept. 

Cym., 1 : 4. 1592. 

DEPARTURE. — Of the Tedious. 

Pol. * * My honorable lord, I will 
most humbly take my leave of you. 

Ham. You cannot, sir, take from me 
anything that I will more willingly part 
withal ; except my life, except my life, ex- 
cept my life. 

Pol. Fare you well, my lord. 

Ham. These tedious old fools ! 

IT., II : 2. 1405. 

— Sighed at. 

Ulyss. * * Welcome ever smiles, 
And farewell goes out sighing. 

T. a, III: 3. 1125. 

— Stealthy. 

Hel. * * I will be gone : 
My being here it is that holds thee hence : 
Shall I stay here to do 't? no, no, although 
The air of paradise did fan the house, 
And angels offic'd all : I will be gone, — 
That pitiful rumour may report my flight, 
To consolate thine ear. Come, night ; end, 

day! 
For, with the dark, poor thief, I '11 steal 

away. 

M.A., III : 2. 513. 

— The Order of. 

Rosse. What sights, my lord? 

Lady M. I pray you, speak not ; he grows 
worse and worse ; 
Question enrages him : at once, good night : 



Stand not upon the order of your going, 
But go at once. 

M., Ill : 4. 1373. 

DEPENDENTS.— Care for. 

Kath. * * My next poor petition 
Is, that his noble grace would have some 

pity 
Upon my wretched women. 

* * 

The last is, for my men; — they are the 

poorest, 
But poverty could never draw them from 

me; — ■ 
That they may have their wages duly paid 

them, 
And something over to remember me by ; 
If heaven had pleased to have given me 

longer life, 
And able means, we had not parted thus. 
These are the whole contents : — And, good 

my lord, 
By that you love the dearest in this world, 
As you wish Christian peace to souls de- 
parted, 
Stand these poor people's friend, and urge 

the king 
To do me this last right. 

H. VIII., IV : 2. 1086. 

DEPENDENCE. — Mutual. 

Men. There was a time when all the 

body's members 
Rebell'd against the belly ; thus accus'd it : — 
That only like a gulf it did remain 
I' the midst o' the body, idle and inactive, 
Still cupboarding the viand, never bearing 
Like labour with the rest ; where the other 

instruments 
Did see, and hear, devise, instruct, walk, 

feel, 
And, mutually participate, did minister 
Unto the appetite and affection common 
Of the whole body. 

* * The belly answered, — 

"True is it, my incorporate friends," quoth 

he, 
"That I receive the general food at first, 
Which you do live upon : and fit it is ; 
Because I am the store-house, and the shop 
Of the whole body : But if you do remem- 
ber, 



DEPENDENCE. 



155 



DESERTION. 



I send it through the rivers of your blood, 
Even to the court, the heart — to the seat o' 

the brain ; 
And, through the cranks and offices of man, 
The strongest nerves, and small inferior 

veins, 
From me receive that natural competency 
Whereby they live." 

C, 1 : 1. 1150. 

—Wifely. 

Adr. * * 
Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine : 
Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, 
Whose weakness, married to thy stronger 

state, 
Makes me with thy strength to communicate : 
If aught possess thee from me, it is dross, 
Usurping ivy, briar, or idle moss. 

C. E., II : 2. 198. 

DEPRAVITY. — Universal. 

Chan. * * We all are men, 
In our natures frail ; and capable 
Of our flesh, few are angels. 

II. VIII., V : 1. 1090. 

Apem. * * Who lives, that 's not 
Depraved, or depraves? 

T. A., 1 : 2. 1291. 

DEPRECATION. — Self. 

Ant. I am a tainted wether of the flock, 

Meetest for death ; the weakest kind of fruit 

Drops earliest to the ground, and so let me. 

M. V., IV: 1. 383. 

Tro. * * 
But I am weaker than a woman's tear, 
Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance ; 
Less valiant than the virgin in the night, 
And skill-less as unpractis'd infancy. 

T. C, 1 : 1. 1102. 

DEPUTY. — His Power. 

Duke. * * We have Avith special soul 
Elected him our absence to supply ; 
Lent him our terror, dress'd him with our 

love ; 
And given his deputation all the organs 
Of our own pow'r. 



In our remove, be thou at full ourself : 
Mortality and mercy in Vienna 
Live in thy tongue and heart. Old Escalus, 
Though first in question, is thy secondary. 
M. 31., 1:1. 143. 

DESCENT — Does not Insure Respect. 

Imo. * * 

Wert thou the son of Jupiter, and no more, 

But what thou art, besides, thou wert too 
base 

To be his groom : thou wert dignified 
enough, 

Even to the point of envy, if 't were made 

Comparative for your virtues, to be styl'd 

The under-hangman of his kingdom; and 
hated 

Eor being preferr'd so well. 

Clo. The south fog rot him ! 

Imo. He never can meet more mischance, 
than come 

To be but nam'd of thee. His meanest gar- 
ment, 

That ever hath but clipp'd his body, is 
dearer, 

In my respect, than all the airs above thee, 

Were they all made such men. 

Cym., II: 3. 1601. 

DESERT — Not a Measure. 

Ham. Odd's bodikin, man, much better : 
Use every man after his desert, and who 
shall 'scape whipping? Use them after your 
own honour and dignity : The less they 
deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. 
Take them in. 

II, U: 2. 1409. 

DESERTERS.— Treatment of. 

Scar. Let us score their backs, 

And snatch 'em up, as we take hares, be- 
hind ; 
'T is sport to maul a runner. 

A. C..IV: 7. 1571. 
DESERTION — A Doubtful Friend's. 

Bast. * * 
Your nobles will not hear you, but are gone 
To offer service to your enemy ; 
And wild amazement hurries up and down 
The little number of your doubtful friends. 
K.J.,Y: 1. 671- 

— By Braggart. 

Fal. * * A rascal bragging slave ! the 
rogue tied from me like quicksilver. 

H. IV., 2pt.,II: 4. 787. 



DESERTION. 



156 



DESPAIR. 



— Treatment of. 

Ant. Is he gone? 
Sold. Most certain. 

Ant. Go, Eros, send his treasure after ; 
do it; 
Detain no jot, I charge thee : write to him 
(I will subscribe) gentle adieus, and greet- 
ings : 
Say, that I wish he never find more cause 
To change a master. — O, my fortunes have 
Corrupted honest men. 

A. C..IV: 5. 1570. 

DESERTS.— Humbly Sued for. 

Cor. * * 
I will, sir, natter my sworn brother the 
people, to earn a dearer estimation of them ; 
't is a condition they account gentle : and 
since the wisdom of their choice is rather 
to have my hat than my heart, I will prac- 
tise the insinuating nod, and be off to them 
most counterfeitly ; that is, sir, I will coun- 
terfeit the bewitchment of some popular 
man, and give it bountifully to the desirers. 
Therefore, beseech you, I may be consul. 

C, II: 3. 1166. 

DESER VERS.— Rewarded. 

Dun. * * 
But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall 

shine 
On all deservers. 

M., 1 : 4. 1360. 

DESIRE.— Of the Multitude. 

Ar. * * 
What says the golden chest? ha ! let me 

see : 
" Who chooseth me shall gain what many men de- 
sire." 

What many men desire. — That many may 

be meant 
By the fool multitude, that choose by show, 
Not learning more than the fond eye doth 

teach, 
Which pries not to th' interior, but, like the 

martlet, 
Builds in the weather on the outward wall, 
Even in the force and road of casualty. 
I will not choose what many men desire, 
Because I will not jump with common 

spirits, 
And rank me with the barbarous multi- 
tudes. 

M. V., II : 9. 374. 



Laer. * * 
And keep you in the rear of your affection, 
Out of the shot and danger of desire. 

JT., 1 : 3. 1397. 

Aug. * * 
So play the foolish throngs with one that 

swounds ; 
Come all to help him, and so stop the air 
By which he should revive. 

M. M., II : 4. 154. 

— Persistent. 

Duke. * * 
And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, 
E'er since pursue me. 

T. tf., 1 : 1. 540. 

— Sharper than Filed Steel. 

Ant. I could not stay behind you ; my 
desire, 
More sharp than filed steel, did spur me 
forth. 

T. &., Ill : 3. 557. 

— Sickly. 

Mar. * * Your affections are 
A sick man's appetite, who desires most that 
Which would increase his evil. 

C, I: 1. 1151. 

DESOLATION.— Complete. 

Bast. * * 
I 'd play incessantly upon these jades, 
Even till unfenced desolation 
Leave them as naked as the vulgar air. 

K. J., II : 2. 654. 

DESPAIR. — A Sense of Desertion. 

Ant. * * My good stars, that were my 
former guides, 
Have empty left their orbs, and shot their 

fires 
Into the abism of hell. 

A. C., III: 12. 1567. 

— A Warrior's. 

Cas. * * 
And in their steads, do ravens, crows, and 

kites, 
Fly o'er our heads, and downward look on 

us, 



DESPAIR. 



157 



DESPAIR. 



As we were sickly prey ; their shadows seem 
A canopy most fatal, under which 
Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost. 
J. C.,V: 1. 1349. 

— An Adjunct of Cruelty. 
K. John. cousin, thou art come to set 
mine eye : 
The tackle of my heart is crack 'd and 

burn'd ; 
And all the shrouds, wherewith my life 

should sail, 
Are turned to one thread, one little hair : 
My heart hath one poor string to stay it by, 
Which holds but till thy news be uttered ; 
And then all this thou seest, is but a clod, 
And module of confounded royalty. 

K. J., V : 7. 676. 

— Death a Relief to. 

Const. O, if thou teach me to believe 
this sorrow, 
Teach thou this sorrow how to make me 

die; 
And let belief and life encounter so, 
As doth the fury of two desperate men, 
Which, in the very meeting, fall, and die. — 
K.J.,1TL: 1. 656. 
— Demands Silence. 
Val. No more ; unless the next word 
that thou speak'st 
Have some malignant power upon my life : 
If so, I pray thee, breathe it in mine ear, 
As ending anthem of my endless dolour. 

T. G„ Ill : 1. 62. 
— Expostulated "with. 
Edg. What, in ill thoughts again? Men 
must endure 
Their going hence, even as their coming 

hither : 
Ripeness is all : Come on. 

K.L.,Y: 2. 1481. 

— Extreme. (See Recklessness and 
Repentance.) 

K. Hen. Even as men wrecked upon a 
sand, that look to be washed off the next 
tide. 

H. V., IV : 1. 841. 
Hot. * * 
Sick, low in the world's regard, wretched and 
A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home. 

H. IV., lpt.,IV: 3. 755. 



— Its Warrant. 
Bard. * * 
Lives so in hope, as in an early spring 
We see the appearing buds ; which, to prove 

fruit, 
Hope gives not so much warrant, as despair, 
That frosts will bite them. 

//. 7F.,2pt., I: 3. 779. 

— Language of. 

Tim. Come not to me again : but say to 
Athens, 
Timon hath made his everlasting mansion 
Upon the beached verge of the salt flood ; 
Which once a day with his embossed froth 
The turbulent surge shall cover; thither 

come, 
And let my grave-stone be your oracle. 

T. A., V : 2. 1314. 

— Maddened by Deception. 

Macb. They have tied me to a stake; I 
cannot fly, 
But, bear-like, I must fight the course. — 

What 's he, 
That was not born of woman? Such a one 
Am I to fear, or none. 

To. Siw. What is thy name? 
Macb. Thou 'It be afraid to hear it. 

Yo. Siw. No ; though thou call'st thy- 
self a hotter name, 
Than any is in hell. 

Macb. My name 's Macbeth. 

Yo. Siw. The devil himself could not 
pronounce a title 
More hateful to mine ear. 

J/., V : 7. 1384. 

— Makes Desperate. 

Bru. * * 
Our enemies have beat us to the pit : 
It is more worthy to leap in ourselves, 
Than tarry till they push us. 

J. C,V: 5. 1352. 

— Of a Patriot. 

Edw. * * 
Now my soul's palace is become a prison. 

H. VI, 3 pt., II : 1. 963. 

Reig. * * 
He fighteth as one weary of his life. 

H. VI, 1 pt., 1 : 2. 866. 



DESPAIR. 



158 



DESPERATION. 



Macd. * * nation miserable, 
With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd, 
When shalt thou see thy wholesome days 

again? 
Since that the truest issue of thy throne 
By his own interdiction stands accurs'd, 
And does blaspheme his breed? — Thy royal 

father 
Was a most sainted king; the queen, that 

bore thee, 
Oftener upon her knees than on her feet, 
Died every day she lived. ' Fare thee well ! 
These evils, thou repeat'st upon thyself, 
Have banish'd me from Scotland. — O, my 

breast, 
Thy hope ends here ! 

M., IV : 3. 1379. 

— On the Death of Friends. 

Jul. * * 
Then, dreadful trumpet, sound the general 

doom ! 
For who is living, if those two are gone? 

R. J., Ill : 2. 1261. 

— Unalterable. 

K. Rich. * * What comfort have we 
now? 
By heaven, I '11 hate him everlastingly, 
That bids me be of comfort any more. 
Go, to Flint castle ; there I '11 pine away ; 
A king, woe's slave, shall kingly woe obey. 
That power I have, discharge ; and let them 

go 
To ear the land that hath some hope to grow, 
For I have none. 

R. II., Ill : 2. 703. 

— Uncalled for. 

Laun. * * I reckon this, always — that 
a man is never undone. 

T. G., II: 5.57. 

— Utter. 

Tet. * * 
O, what a sympathy of woe is this? 
As far from help as limbo is from bliss ! 

Tit. And., Ill : 1. 1215. 

Oth. * * 
But there, where I have garner 'd up my 

heart ; 
Where either I must live, or bear no life ; 



The fountain from the which my current 
runs, 

Or else dries up ; to be discarded thence ! 

Or keep it as a cistern, for foul toads 

To knot and gender in ! — turn thy complex- 
ion there ! 

Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cher- 
ubim ; 

Ay, there, look grim as hell ! 

0., IV: 2.1522. 

DESPERATE.— The, Dangerous. 

Rom. * * 
Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate 

man, 
Fly hence and leave me ; — think upon these 

gone ; 
Let them affright thee. — I beseech thee, 

youth, 
Heap not another sin upon my head, 
By urging me to fury : — O, be gone ! 
By heaven, I love thee better than myself; 
For I come hither arm'd against myself; 
Stay not, be gone; — live, and hereafter 

say — 
A madman's mercy bade thee run away. 

R. J., V : 3. 1275. 

DESPERATION. — Conquers Indecis- 
ion. 

North. * * 
As the wretch, whose fever -weaken'd 

joints, 
Like stringless hinges, buckle under life, 
Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire, 
Out of his keeper's arms ; even so my limbs, 
Weaken'd with grief, being now enrag'd 

with grief, 
Are thrice themselves : hence, therefore, 

thou nice crutch ; 
A scaly gauntlet now, with joints of steel, 
Must glove this hand : and hence, thou sick- 
ly quoif ; 
Thou art a guard too wanton for the head, 
Which princes, flesh'd with conquest, aim 

to hit. 
Now bind my brows with iron ; and approach 
The ragged'st hour that time and spite dare 

bring, 
To frown upon the enrag'd Northumberland ! 
Let heaven kiss earth ! Now let not nature's 

hand 



DESPERATION. 



159 



DETERMINATION. 



Keep the Avild flood confin'd ! let order die, 
And let this world no longer be a stage, 
To feed contention in a lingering act; 
But let one spirit of the first-born Cain 
Reign in all bosoms, that, each heart being 

set 
On bloody courses, the rude scene may end, 
And darkness be the burier of the dead ! 

IT. IV, 2 pt., 1 : 1. 775. 

— Hard Usage Leads to. 

Ant. * * The next time I do fight, 
I '11 make death love me ; for I will contend 
Even with his pestilent scythe. 

A. C, III: 11. 1567. 

Orl. I beseech you, punish me not with 
your hard thoughts, wherein I confess me 
much guilty to deny so fair and excellent 
ladies anything. But let your fair eyes and 
gentle wishes go with me to my trial : where- 
in if I be foil'd, there is but one sham'd that 
was never gracious ; if kill'd, but one dead 
that is willing to be so. I shall do my friends 
no wrong, for I have none to lament me ; 
the world no injury, for in it I have nothing ; 
only in the world I fill up a place, which 
may be better supplied when I have made 
it empty. 

A. Y., 1 : 2. 411. 

DESTINY. 

Ham. * * 
There 's a divinity that shapes our ends, 
Rough-hew them how we will. 

//., V : 2. 1433. 

K. John.- * * 
Think you, I bear the shears of destiny? 
Have I commandment on the pulse of life? 
K. J., IV : 2. 666. 

— Compels Greatness. 

K. Hen. * * 
But that necessity so bow'd the state, 
That I and greatness were compell'd to kiss. 
R. IV., 2pt., HI: 2. 790. 

— Dependent on an Act. 

Iago. * * 
It makes us, or it mars us ; think on that, 
And fix most firm thy resolution. 

0., V : 1. 1526. 

— Must be Fulfilled. 

Sal. Be of good comfort, prince ; for 
you are born 



To set a form upon that indigest 
Which he hath left so shapeless and so rude. 
K. J., V : 7. 676. 

— Not to be Defeated. 

Gon. I '11 warrant him for drowning, 
though the ship were no stronger than a 
nut-shell. 

ST., I: 1. 7. 

— Ours Reflected in Others'. 

Mec. When such a spacious mirror 's set 
before him, 
He needs must see himself. 

A. O.yV: 1. 1577. 

DETERMINATION— Aimed at Suc- 
cess. 
K. Hen. * * 
France being ours, we '11 bend it to our awe, 
Or break it all to pieces : Or there we '11 

sit, 
Ruling, in large and ample empery, 
O'er France, and all her almost kingly duke- 
doms ; 
Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, 
Tombless, with no remembrance over them. 
H. V., 1 : 2. 823. 

— Dauntless. 

K. Lew. Whate'er it be, be thou still like 
thyself, 
And sit thee by our side : yield not thy neck 
To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless 

mind 
Still ride in triumph over all mischance. 

H. VI, 3pt.,III: 3. 975. 

Lew. Outside or inside, I will not return 
Till my attempt so much be glorified 
As to my ample hope was promised 
Before I drew this gallant head of war, 
And cull'd these fiery spirits from the world. 
X.J.,Y: 2. 673. 

— Invincible. 

Ham. If it assume my noble father's 
person, 
I '11 speak to it, though hell itself should 

gape, 
And bid me hold my peace. 

IT., 1 : 2. 1396. 



DETERMINATION. 



1 60 



DEVOTION. 



— Peremptory. 

1 at. * * 

The sea enraged is not half so deaf, 
Lions more confident, mountains and rocks 
More free from motion ; no, not death her- 
self 
In mortal fury half so peremptory, 
As we to keep this city. 

' K. J., II : 2. 654. 

— Takes its Risks. 

Scar. We '11 beat 'em into bench-holes ; 
I have yet 
Room for six scotches more. 

A. C, IV : 7. 1571. 

DETHRONED. — Abjectness of the. 

K. Hen. * * 
No, Harry, Harry, 't is no land of thine ; 
Thy place is fill'd, thy sceptre wrung from 

thee, 
Thy balm wash'd off, wherewith thou wast 

anointed : 
No bending knee will call thee Caesar now, 
No humble suitors press to speak for right. 
No, not a man comes for redress of thee ; 
For how can I help them, and not myself? 
H. VI., 3 pt., in: 1. 971. 

DETRACTION.— Its Cant. 

Cleo. I do not like "but yet," it does 
allay 
The good precedence ; fie upon " but yet : " 
"But yet'' is a gaoler to bring forth 
Some monstrous malefactor. 

. A. C., II : 5. 1552. 

DETRACTIONS.— Should Improve 
by Them. 

Bene. * * Happy are they that hear 
their detractions, and can put them to mend- 
ing. 

M.A.,II: 3. 237. 

DEVLL. — To be Shamed. 

Glend. Why, I can teach you, cousin, 
to command 
The devil. 

Hot. And I can teach thee, coz, to 
shame the devil, 
By telling truth : Tell truth, and shame 
the devil. 

H. IV., 1 pt., Ill : 1. 745. 



DEVILS.— "When Greatest Tempters. 

Biron. Devils soonest tempt, resembling 
spirits of light. 

L. L., IV: 3. 290. 

DEVOTION— A Source of Trouble. 

Dun. See, see ! our honour'd hostess ! 
The love that follows us, sometime is our 

trouble, 
Which still we thank as love. Herein I 

teach you, 
How you shall bid God yield us for your 

pains, 
And thank us for your trouble. 

M., 1 : 6. 1362. 

—A Wife's. 

Cor. * * 
If you had been the wife of Hercules, 
Six of his labours you 'd have done and sav'd 
Your husband so much sweat. 

C, IV: 1. 1177. 

— Clownish. 

Cal. I '11 show thee the best springs ; 

I '11 pluck thee berries ; 
I '11 fish for thee, and get thee wood enough. 
A plague upon the tyrant that I serve ! 
I '11 bear him no more sticks, but follow 

thee, 
Thou wondrous man ! 
* * 

I prithee let me bring thee where crabs 
grow, 

And I with my long nails will dig thee pig- 
nuts ; 

Show thee a jay's nest, and instruct thee 
how 

To snare the nimble marmozet ; I '11 bring 
thee 

To clust'ring filberts, and sometimes I '11 
get thee 

Young scamels from the rock. 

T., 11:2. 21. 

— Complete. 

Port. Hang there like fruit, my soul. 
Till the tree die. 

Gym., V: 5. 1629. 

— Deserves Recompense. 

Boling. I thank thee, gentle Percy ; and 
be sure, 



DEVOTION. l6l DEVOTION. 


I count myself in nothing else so happy, 
As in a soul rememb'ring my good friends ; 
And, as my fortune ripens with thy love, 
It shall be still thy true love's recompense. 
R. II., II : 3. 698. 


As if we were God's spies : And we '11 wear 

out, 
In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great 

ones 
That ebb and flow by the moon. 


— Eros's Heroic. 

Ant. * * Thou art sworn, Eros, 
That when the exigent should come, (which 


* * Upon such sacrifices 

The gods themselves throw incense. 

K. L., V : 3. 1481. 


now 


— Rare. 


Is come, indeed,) when I should see behind 


Ai~th. * * When your head did but 


me 
The inevitable prosecution of disgrace 
And horror, that, on my command, thou 


ache, 
I knit my handkerchief about your brows, 
* * 


then 


And with my hand at midnight held your 


Would'st kill me : do 't; the time is come : 


head; 


Thou strik'st not me, 't is Caesar thou de- 


And, like the watchful minutes to the hour, 


feat'st. 


Still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time. 


Put colour in thy cheek. 

Eros. The gods withhold me ! 


K. J., IV : 1. 664. 


Shall I do that, which all the Parthian darts, 


Orl. good old man, how well in thee 


Though enemy, lost aim, and could not? 


appears 


A. C, IV : 12. 1574. 


The constant service of the antique world, 


— Ignores Self. 


When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! 
Thou art not for the fashion of these times. 


Orl. Then, but forbear your food a lit- 
tle while, 


* * 
Adam. Master, go on : and I will follow 


Whiles, like a doe, I go to find my fawn. 
And give it food. There is an old poor 
man, 


. thee, 
To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty. — 
From seventeen years till now almost four- 


Who after me hath many a weary step 
Limp'd in pure love ; till he be first suffic'd, 
Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and 
hunger, 


score 
Here lived I, but now live here no more. 
At seventeen years many their fortunes seek, 
But at fourscore, it is too late a week : 


I will not touch a bit. 

A. Y, II: 7. 419. 


Yet fortune cannot recompense me better, 
Than to die well, and not my master's debtor. 


— In Misfortune. 


A. Y, 11 : 3. 416. 


Lear. No, no, no, no ! Come, let 's away 


— Secret. 


to prison ; 
We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage : 


Groom. What my tongue dares not, that 
my heart shall say. 


When thou dost ask me blessing, I '11 kneel 


R. II., V: 5. 717. 


down, 
And ask of thee forgiveness : So we '11 live, 


— Shown by Action. 


And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and 


Rich. * * 


laugh 


But, in this troublous time, what 's to be 


At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues 
Talk of court news ; and we '11 talk with 


done? 
Shall we go throw away our coats of steel, 


them too, — 


And wrap our bodies in black mourning 


Who loses, and who wins ; who 's in, who 's 


gowns, 


out; — 


Numb 'ring our Ave-Maries with our beads? 


And take upon us the mystery of things, 


Or shall we on the helmets of our foes 



DEVOTION. 



l62 



DEVOTIONS. 



Tell our devotion with revengeful arms? 
If for the last, say — Ay, and to it, lords. 

//. VI, 3 pt., II : 1. 964. 

— Silent, Disinherited. 

Lear. * * 
Here I disclaim all my paternal care, 
Propinquity and property of blood, 
And as a stranger to my heart and me 
Hold thee, from this, for ever. The barba- 
rous Scythian, 
Or he that makes his generation messes 
To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom 
Be as well neighour'd, pitied, and reliev'd, 
As thou my sometime daughter. 

K. L., I: 1. 1444. 

— Sugars over the Devil. 

Pol. * * We are oft to blame in this, — 
'T is too much prov'd, — that, with devotion's 

visage, 
And pious action, we do sugar o'er 
The devil himself. 

//., Ill: 1.1410. 

— Superlative. 

Eno. But he loves Caesar best ; — Yet he 
loves Antony : 
Ho ! hearts, tongues, figures, scribes, bards, 

poets, cannot 
Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number, ho, 

his love to Antony. 
But as for Caesar, kneel down, kneel down, 
and wonder. 

A. a, III: 2. 1558. 

— To Beauty. 

Biron. * * 
Vouchsafe to show the sunshine of your 

face, 
That we, like savages, may worship it. 

L.L.,Y: 2. 295. 

Por. * * 
From the four corners of the earth they come 
To kiss this shrine, this mortal breathing 
saint. 

M. V., n : 7. 372. 

— True and Constant. 

1 Sen. Then, worthy Marcius, 
Attend upon Cominius to these wars. 



Com. It is your former promise. 
Mar. Sir, it is ; 

And I am constant. — Titus Lartius, thou 
Shalt see me once more strike at Tullus' 

face : 
What, art thou stiff? stand'st out? 

Tit. No, Caius Marcius ; 

I '11 lean upon one crutch, and fight with 

the other, 
Ere stay behind this business. 
Men. O, true bred ! 

tf., I: 1. 1152 

— True, of a Lover. 

Her. Now I but chide, but I should use 

thee worse ; 
For thou, I fear, hast given me cause to 

curse. 
If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep, 
Being o'er shoes in blood, plunge in the 

deep, 
And kill me too. 

The sun was not so true unto the day, 
As he to me. 

31. N., III : 2. 333. 

— Woman's, to a Child. 

Tita. Set your heart at rest ; 

The fairy land buys not the child of me. 
His mother was a vot'ress of my order : 
* * 

But she, being mortal, of that boy did die ; 
And, for her sake, I do rear up her boy : 
And, for her sake, I will not part with him. 
31. N.,11: 1. 326. 

— Youthful, Modest. 
Percy. My gracious lord, I tender you 
my service, 
Such as it is, being tender, raw, and young; 
Which elder days shall ripen, and confirm 
To more approved service and desert. 

R. II, II : 3. 698. 

DEVOTIONS. — Public. 

3 Gent. At length her grace rose, and 
with modest paces 
Came to the altar ; where she kneel'd, and, 

saint-like, 
Cast her fair eyes to heaven, and pray'd de- 
voutly. 

H. VIII., IV : 1. 1084. 



DEW. 



163 



DIMINUTI VENESS . 



DEW. — Pearls on Flowers. 

Obe. * * 
And the same dew, which sometime on the 

buds 
"Was wont to swell like round and orient 

pearls, 
Stood now within the pretty flow 'rets' eyes, 
Like tears that did their own disgrace be- 
wail. 

M. X., IV : 1. 338. 

DIFFERENCE.— Iii all Things. 

Men. There is differency between a 
grub, and a butterfly; yet your butterfly 
was a grub. This Marcius is grown from 
man to dragon : he has wings ; he 's more 
than a creeping thing. 

#., V: 4. 1191. 

DIFFERENCES.— Danger of Discuss- 
ing. 
Lep. * * 
May it be gently heard : When we debate 
Our trivial difference loud, we do commit 
Murder in healing wounds : Then, noble 

partners, 
(The rather, for I earnestly beseech,) 
Touch you the sourest points with sweetest 

terms. 

A. C, II: 2. 1548. 

—Wide. 

Salar. There is more difference between 
thy flesh and hers, than between jet and 
ivory ; more between your bloods, than there 
is between red wine and Rhenish. 

21. V., Ill : 1. 375. 

DIFFICULTIES.— Between Friends. 

Bru. Cassius, be content, 

Speak your griefs softly, — I do know you 

well : — 
Before the eyes of both our armies here, 
Which should perceive nothing but love 

from us, 
Let us not wrangle : Bid them move away ; 
Then in my tent, Cassius, enlarge your 

griefs, 
And I will give you audience. 

J. C, IV : 2. 1343. 

DIFFICULTY. — Superlative. 

K. Rich. * * 
" It is as hard to come, as for a camel 
To thread the postern of a needle's eye." 

E. II, V : 5. 716. 



DIGNITY.— Not to be Assumed. 

Ar. * * 
Without the stamp of merit? Let none 

presume 
To wear an undeserved dignity. 
0, that estates, degrees and offices, 
Were not deriv'd corruptly ! and that clear 

honour 
Were purchas'd by the merit of the wearer! 
II. V., II : 9. 374. 

— Shame at Home. 

2 Lord. * * The great dignity that 
his valour hath here acquir'd for him, shall 
at home be encount'redwitha shame as am- 
ple. 

A. W., IV i.3. 520. 

DILEMMA.— After Dilemma. 

Pro. Thus have I shunn'd the fire, for 
fear of burning, 
And drench'd me in the sea, where I am 
drown'd. 

T. G.,I: 3.51. 

DILIGENCE.— Excited by Things We 
Love. 

Ant. * * 
To business that we love, we rise betime, 
And go to it with delight. 

A. C, IV : 4. 156?. 

DIMINUTIVENESS.— No Bar to 

Greatness. 

Chor. * * 

England ! — model to thy inward great- 

ness, 
Like little body with a mighty heart, — 
What might'st thou do, that honour would 

thee do, 
Were all thy children kind and natural ! 

H. V., II : C. 824. 

— Ridiculed. 

Fal. * * If the prince put thee into 
my service for any other reason than to set 
me off, why then I have no judgment. 
Thou * *. mandrake, thou art fitter to 
be worn in my cap than to wait at my heels. 

1 was never manned with an agate till now : 
but I will set you neither in gold nor silver, 
but in vile apparel, and send you back again 
to your master, for a jewel ; the juvenal, the 
prince your master, whose chin is not yet 
fledged. 

H. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 2. 776. 



DINNER. 



164 



DISAPPOINTMENT. 



DINNER. — Katherine's. 

Pet. * * 
Here, love ; thou see'st how diligent I am, 
To dress thy meat myself, and bring it thee : 
I am sure, sweet Kate, this kindness merits 

thanks. 
"What, not a word? Nay, then thou lov'st 

it not, 
And all my pains are sorted to no proof: 
Here, take away this dish. 

Kath. I pray you, let it stand. 

Pet. The poorest service is repaid with 
thanks : 
And so shall mine, before you touch the 
meat. 
Kath. I thank you, sir. 

T. S.,IV: 3. 475. 

— Spoilt by Delay. 

Pro. E. * * 
The capon burns, the pig falls from the 

spit; 
The clock hath strucken twelve upon the 

bell, 
My mistress made it one upon my cheek : 
She is so hot, because the meat is cold ; 
The meat is cold, because you come not 

home ; 
You come not home, because you have no 

stomach ; 
You have no stomach, having broke your 

fast; 
But we, that know what 't is to fast and 

pray, 
Are penitent for your default to-day. 

G.E.,I: 2. 194. 

DIRTINESS. — Incurable. 

Ant. S. What complexion is she of? 

Pro. S. Swart, like my shoe, but her 
face nothing like so clean kept. For why? 
she sweats ; a man may go over shoes in the 
grime of it. 

Ant. S. That 's a fault that water will 
mend. 

Pro. S. No, sir, 't is in grain ; Noah's 
flood could not do it. 

C. E., Ill : 2. 202. 

DISABILITIES.— Civil, a Wrong. 

Poling. * * 
Will you permit that I shall stand condemn'd 
A wand'ring vagabond ; my rights and roy- 
alties 



Pluck'd from my arms perforce, and given 
away 

To upstart unthrifts? Wherefore was I 
born? 

If that my cousin king be king of England, 

It must be granted, I am duke of Lancaster. 

You have a son, Aumerle, my noble kins- 
man ; 

Had you first died, and he been thus trod 
down, 

He should have found his uncle Gaunt a 
father, 

To rouse his wrongs, and chase them to the 
bay. 

I am denied to sue my livery here, 

And yet my letters-patent give me leave : 

My father's goods are all distrain'd, and sold ; 

And these, and all, are all amiss employ'd. 

What would you have me do ? I am a sub- 
ject, 

And challenge law : Attornies are denied 
me. 

R. II, II : 3. 699. 

DISAPPOINTMENT. — Bitter. 

Shep. I cannot speak, nor think, 

Nor dare to know that which I know. — O, 

sir, 
You have undone a man of fourscore three, 
That thought to fill his grave in quiet ; yea, 
To die upon the bed my father died, 
To lie close by his honest bones : but now 
Some hangman must put on my shroud, 

and lay me 
Where no priest shovels in dust, — O cursed 

wretch ! 

W. T., IV : 3. 606. 

Imo. * * 
How I would think on him, at certain hours, 
Such thoughts, and such ; or I could make 

him sAvear 
The shes of Italy should not betray 
Mine interest, and his honour ; or have 

charg'd him, 
At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at mid- 
night, 
To encounter me with orisons, for then 
I am in heaven for him ; or ere I could 
Give him that parting kiss, which I had set 
Betwixt two charming words, comes in my 
father 



DISAPPOINTMENT. 



165 



DISCOMFORT. 



And, like the tyrannous breathing of the 

north, 
Shakes all our buds from growing. 

Cym., 1 : 4. 1592. 

— Complete. 

Ther. * * 'A were as good crack a 
fusty nut with no kernel. 

T. C, II : 1. 1113. 

— Of Ambition. 

Hel. Where most it promises ; and oft 
it hits, 
Where hope is coldest, and despair most 



shifts. 



A. W., II : 1. 504. 



Lew. * * 
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. 

K. J., Ill : 4. 663. 

York. Cold news for me ; for I had hope 
of Erance, 
As firmly as I hope for fertile England. 
Thus are my blossoms blasted in the bud, 
And caterpillars eat my leaves away. 

H. YL, 2 pt., Ill : 1. 923. 

— Result of Choice. 

Mor. O hell ! what have we here? 
A carrion death, within whose empty eye 
There is a written scroll? I '11 read the 
writing. 

" All that glisters is not gold ; 
Often have you heard that told : 
Many a man his life hath sold 
But my outside to hehold : 
Gilded tombs do worms infold. 
Had you been as wise as bold, 
Young in limbs, in judgment old, 
Your ailswer had not been inscroll'd : 
Fare your well; your suit is cold." 

M. F.,II: 7. 373. 

DISAPPOINTMENTS. — Killing. 

Wol. * * 
This candle burns not clear : 't is I must 

snuff it : 
Then, out it goes. — What though I know 

her virtuous, 
And well-deserving? yet I know her for 
A spleeny Lutheran ; and not wholesome to 
Our cause, that she should lie i' the bosom of 
Our hard-rul'd king. Again, there is sprung 

up 



An heretic, an arch one, Cranmer ; one 
Hath crawl'd into the favour of the king, 
And is his oracle. 
_Nor. He is vex'd at something. 

Suf. I would, 't were something that 
would fret the string, 
The master-cord of his heart ! 

H. VIII., Ill: 2.1078. 

DISCERNMENT — A Good Man's. 

Friar. * * 
By noting of the lady. I have mark'd 
A thousand blushing apparitions start 
Into her face ; a thousand innocent shames 
In angel whiteness bear away those blushes ; 
And in her eye there hath appear'd a fire, 
To burn the errors that these princes hold 
Against her maiden truth. Call me a fool ; 
Trust not my reading, nor my observations, 
Which with experimental seal doth warrant 
The tenour of my book ; trust not my age, 
My reverence, calling, nor divinity, 
If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here 
Under some biting error. 

M.A.,1V: 1. 246. 

— Claimed. 

lach. Thanks, fairest lady. — 

What! are men mad? Hath nature given 

them eyes 
To see this vaulted arch, and the rich crop 
Of sea and land, which can distinguish 

'twixt 

The fiery orbs above, and the twinn'd stones 

Upon the number'd beach? and can we not 

Partition make with spectacles so precious 

'Twixt fair and foul? 

Cym., 1 : 7. 1590. 

DISCLOSURE— Self, Dangerous. 

Cres. * * 
Why have I blabb'd? who shall be true to us, 
When we are so unsecret to ourselves? 

T. C, III : 2. 1122. 

DISCOMFORT— Swells out of Com- 
fort. 

Sold. As whence the sun 'gins his re- 
flection 
Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders 

break ; 
So from that spring, whence comfort seem'd 
to come. 

31., I: 2. 1357. 



DISCONTENT. 



166 



DISCRETION. 



DISCONTENT.— Cynical. 

D. John. I had rather he a canker in a 
hedge than a rose in his grace ; and it better 
fits my blood to be disdain'd of all, than to 
fashion a carriage to rob love from any. In 
this, though I cannot be said to be a flatter- 
ing honest man, it must not be denied but I 
am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted 
with a muzzle, and enfranchised with a clog ; 
therefore I have decreed not to sing in my 
cage. If I had my mouth I would bite; if 
I had my liberty I would do my liking : in 
the mean time, let me be that I am, and seek 
not to alter me. 

Con. Can you make no use of your dis- 
content? 

D. John. I make all use of it, for I use 
it only. 

AT. A., I: 3. 229. 

— Destruction. 

Lady M. Nought 's had, all 's spent, 

Where our desire is got without content : 
'T is safer to be that which we destroy, 
Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy. 

M., Ill : 2. 1370. 

— Its "Winter. 

Glo. Now is the winter of our discon- 
tent 
Made glorious summer by this sun of York ; 
And all the clouds, that lower'd upon our 

house, 
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. 

R. III., 1 : 1. looi. 

—With Everything. 

Ham. * * 
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd 
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter ! God ! 

OGod! 
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable 
Seem to me all the uses of this world ! 
Fie on 't ! fie ! 't is an unweeded garden, 
That grows to seed ; things rank, and gross 

in nature, 
Possess it merely. 

//., 1 : 2. 1395. 

DISCORD. — How Caused. 

Ulyss. * * 
Take but degree away, untune that string, 
And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing 

meets 
In mere oppugnancy. 

T. C.,I : 3. 1108. 



DISCORDS.— Private. 

Lucy. * * 
Keep off aloof with worthless emulation. 
Let not your private discord keep away 
The levied succours that should lend him aid 
While he, renowned noble gentleman, 
Yields up his life unto a world of odds. 

H. VI, 1 pt.,IV: 4. 888. 

DISCOURAGEMENT.— Its Effect 

Mor. * * 
For from his metal was his party steePd ; 
Which once in him abated, all the rest 
Turn'd on themselves, like dull and heavy 

lead. 
And as the thing that 's heavy in itself, 
Upon enforcement, flies with greatest speed ; 
So did our men, heavy in Hotspur's loss. 

H. IV, 2 pt., 1 : 1. 775. 

DISCRETION — A Firm. 

Mar. Nay, either tell me where thou 
hast been, or I will not open my lips so wide 
as a bristle may enter. 

T. JST., 1 : 5. 543. 

—A Little Hole. 

Arm. For mine own part, I breathe 
free breath : I have seen the day of wrong 
through the little hole of discretion. 

L. L., V : 2. 302. 
— Delays. 

Mont. * * We thought not good to 
bruise an injury, till it were full ripe. 

//. V., Ill : 6. 837. 

— Disguised. 

Con. * * 
Covering discretion with a coat of folly ; 
As gardeners do with ordure hide those 

roots 
That shall first spring, and be most delicate. 
IT. V., II : 4. 829. 

— Prudently Submits. 

York. So triumph thieves upon their 
conquer'd booty ; 
So true men yield, with robbers so o'er- 
match'd. 

H. VI, 3 pt., 1 : 4. 960. 



— Relation to Valor. 

Fal. * * The better part of valour is 
discretion ; in which better part I have 



DISCRETION. 



167 



DISGUISE. 



saved my life, 'Zounds, I am afraid of this 
gunpowder Percy, though he he dead : 
How, if he should counterfeit too, and 
rise? I am afraid, he would prove the bet- 
ter counterfeit. Therefore I '11 make him 
sure: — yea, and I '11 swear I killed him. 
"Why may not he rise, as well as I? Nothing 
confutes me but eyes, and nobody sees me. 
Therefore, sirrah, [Stabbing him,'] with a 
new wound in your thigh, come you along 
with me. 

//. IV, 1 pt., V : 4. 761. 

DISCRIMINATION.— Protects the 
Innocent. 

1 Sent. * * Like a shepherd, 
Approach the fold, and cull the infected 

forth, 
But kill not all together. 

T. A., V : 5. 1316. 

— Winnows. 

Agam. * * 
But, in the wind and tempest of her frown, 
Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan, 
Puffing at all, winnows the light away ; 
And what hath mass, or matter, by itself 
Lies, rich in virtue, and unmingled. 

T. C, I: 8. 1107. 

DISCUSSIONS.— Vain and Trifling. 

Pol. This business is well ended. 

My liege, and madam, to expostulate 
What majesty should be, what duty is, 
Why day is day, night, night, and time is 

time, 
Were nothing but to waste night, day, and 
time. 

//., II : 2. 1404. 

DISDAIN— At Inferiors. 

Old Ath. This fellow here, lord Timon, 
this thy creature, 
By night frequents my house. I am a man 
That from my first have been inclin'd to 

thrift ; 
And my estate deserves an heir more rais'd, 
Than one which holds a trencher. 

T. A., I: 1. 1287. 

DISENCHANTMENT— Of Light. 

Pro. * * The charm dissolves apace ; 
And as the morning steals upon the night, 
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses 



Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that 

mantle 
Their clearer reason. 

T. V., 1. 30. 

DISGUISE. — A Wickedness. 

Vio. * * 
Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness, 
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much. 

T. 2T., II : 2. 548. 

— Greatness in. 

Auf. I know thee not : — Thy name? 
Cor. My name is Caius Marcius, who 
hath done 
To thee particularly, and to all the Voices, 
Great hurt and mischief; thereto witness 

may 
My surname, Coriolanus : The painful ser- 
vice, 
The extreme dangers, and the drops of 

blood 
Shed for my thankless country, are re- 
quited 
But with that surname ; a good memory, 
And witness of the malice and displeasure 
Which thou should'st bear me : only that 

name remains ; 
The cruelty and envy of the people, 
Permitted by our dastard nobles, who 
Have all forsook me, hath devour'd the rest ; 
And suffered me by the voice of slaves to be 
Whoop'd out of Rome. 

C, IV : 5. 1180. 

— Nobility in. 

Suf. Stay, Whitmore ; for thy prisoner 
is a prince, 
The duke of Suffolk, William de la Pole. 
Whit. The duke of Suffolk, mufiied up 

in rags ! 
Suf. Ay, but these rags are no part of 
the duke ; 
Jove sometimes went disguis'd, And why 
not I? 

H. VI, 2 pt., IV : 1. 932. 

— Of Purpose. 

Luc'io. * * 
His givi^g-out was of an infinite distance 
From his true-meant design. 

M. M., 1 : 4. 147. 



DISGUISES. 



168 



DISMISSION. 



DISGUISES. — Abandoned. 

K. Hen. * * 
But tell the Dauphin, — I will keep my state ; 
Be like a king, and show my soul of great- 
ness, 
When I do rouse me in my throne of 

France : 
For that I have laid by my majesty, 
And plodded like a man for working-days ; 

//. T., 1 : 2. 823. 

— Strange Fancy for. 

D. Pedro. There is no appearance of 
fancy in him, unless it be a fancy that he 
hath to strange disguises ; as, to be a Dutch- 
man to-day ; a Frenchman to-morrow ; or in 
the shape of two countries at once, as, a 
German from the waist downward, all slops ; 
and a Spaniard from the hip upward, no 
doublet. 

M.A.,II1: 2.239. 

DISGUST. 

Iago. * * The food that to him now is 
as luscious as locusts, shall be to him short- 
ly as bitter as coloquintida. 

0., 1 : 3. 1499. 

— At Persistence. 

Vio. My lord would speak, my duty 

hushes me. 

OH. If it be aught to the old tune, my 

lord, 

It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear 

As howling after music. 

T. iV r ., V : 1. 566. 

DISHONESTY.— Complete. 

Lucio. Cucullus non facit mo?iachum: 
honest in nothing, but in his clothes. 

M.M.,V: 1. 173. 

DISHONOR.— How Wiped out 

Nur. * * 
Here is the babe, as loathsome as a toad 
Amongst the fairest burdens of our clime. 
The empress sends it thee, thy stamp, tin- 
seal, 
And bids thee christen it with thy dagger's 

point. 

Tit. And., IV : 2. 1221. 

DISLOYALTY.— Hideous in Old Age. 

K. lien. * * O, where is loyalty? 
If it be banish'd from the frosty head, 
Where shall it find a harbour in the earth? — 
"Wilt thou go dig a grave to find out war, 



And shame thine honourable age with 

blood? 
Why art thou old, and want'st experience? 
Or Avherefore dost abuse it, if thou hast it? 
For shame ! in duty bend thy knee to me, 
That bows unto the grave with mickle age. 
//. F/.,2pt.,V: 1. 943. 

DISMAY. — Never Disarms the Brave. 

Dun. Dismay'd not this 

Our captains, Macbeth and Banquo? 

Sold. Yes ; 

As sparrows, eagles ; or the hare, the lion. 
If I say sooth, I must report they were 
As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks, 
So they 
Doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe. 

Jr., 1 : 2. 1357. 

DISMISSION— A Boon. 

Boling. Yet ask. 
K. Rich. And shall I have? 
Boling. You shall. 
K. Rich. Then give me leave to go. 
Boling. Whither? 

K. Rich. "Whither you will, so I were 
from your sights. 

R. II., IV: 1. 710. 

— Contemptuous. 

Fist. * * 
The grave doth gape, and doting death is 

near; 
Therefore exhale. 

H. F.,II: 1. 825. 

— Emphatic. 

Fa I. * * 
Bogues, hence, avaunt ! vanish like hail- 
stones ! go ; 
Trudge, plod away i' the hoof; seek shelter, 
pack ! 

M. W., 1 : 3. 92. 

— Peremptory. 

Duke. * * 

Go, base intruder ! overweening slave ! 

Bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates ; 

And think my patience, more than thy de- 
sert, 

Is privilege for thy departure hence : 

Thank me for this, more than for all the fa- 
vours, 



DISMISSION. 



169 



DISSENSION. 



Which, all too much, I have bestowed on 

thee. 
But if thou linger in my territories, 
Longer than swiftest expedition 
Will give thee time to leave our royal court, 
By heaven, my wrath shall far exceed the 

love 
I ever bore my daughter, or thyself. 
Be gone ! I will not hear thy vain excuse ; 
But, as thou lov'st thy life, make speed from 

hence. 

T. G., Ill: 1. 61. 

— Reluctant. 

Oth. * * Cassio, I love thee ; 
But never more be officer of mine. 

0., II : 3. 1506. 

— Silent. 

Com. * * 
"T was very faintly he said, "Rise;" dis- 
missal me 
Thus, with his speechless hand. 

C, V : 1. 1187. 

DISORDER. — In War. 

Luc. Away, boy, from the troops, and 
save thyself: 
For friends kill friends, and the disorder 's 

such 
As war were hoodwink'd. 

Cym., V : 2. 1622. 

DISPARAGEMENT.— Love never 
Guilty of. 

Lucio. Sir, I know him, and I love him. 

Duke. Love talks with better knowledge, 
and knowledge with dearer love. 

Lucio. Come, sir, I know what I knoAv. 

Duke. I can hardly believe that, since 
you know not what you speak. 

3L JL, Ill : 2. 161. 

DISPLAY. — In Jewels. 

Pria . * * 
A lady wall'd about with diamonds ! 

L.L.,V: 2. 293. 

DISPOSITION.— Changed by Clothes. 

Per. * * Sure, this robe of mine 
Does change my disposition. 

W. T.,TV: 3. 602. 



— Mildness of. 

K. Hen. * * 
Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as 
young down. 

II. IV., 1 pt., 1 : 3. 730. 

DISPRAISE. — Of Things We Want. 
Par. Fair Diomed, you do as chapmen 
do, 
Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy : 
But we in silence hold this virtue well, — 
We '11 not commend what Ave intend to sell. 
T. C, IV : 1 1128. 

DISPUTATIONS. — Foolish. 

Essex. My liege, here is the strangest 

controversy, 

Come from the country to be judg'd by you, 

That e'er I heard 

K. J., I : I. 646. 

DISSEMBLING— Before the Victim. 

L. Macb. * * 
Your face, my thane, is a book, where men 
May read strange matters : — To beguile the 

time, 
Look like the time ; bear welcome in your 

Your hand, your tongue : look like the inno- 
cent floAver, 
But be the serpent under it. 

31, 1 : 5. 1361. 

— Perfect, Invoked. 

Gleo. So Fulvia told me. 

I pr'ythee, turn aside, and weep for her ; 

Then bid adieu to me, and say, the tears 

Belong to Egypt : Good now, play one scene 

Of excellent dissembling ; and let it look 

Like perfect honour. 

A. C, 1 : 3. 1544. 

— Unsuccessful. 
K. Hen. * * 
Came he right noAv to sing a raven's note, 
Whose dismal tune bereft my vital poAvers ; 
And thinks he, that the chirping of a Avren, 
By crying comfort from a hollow breast, 
Can chase away the first-conceived sound? 
H. VI., 2 pt., Ill : 2. 927. 

DISSENSION — Civil, Dangerous. 

K. Hen. * * 
O, Avhat a scandal is it to our crown, 



DISSENSION. 



I70 



DISSIMULATION. 



That two such noble peers as ye, should jar ! 
Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell, 
Civil dissension is a viperous worm, 
That gnaws the bowels of the common- 
wealth. 

H. VI., lpt., Ill: 1. 878. 

DISSENSIONS.— Calamitous. 

Mess. * * 

Among the soldiers this is muttered, — 

That here you maintain several factions ; 

And, whilst a field should be despatch'd and 

fought, 

You are disputing of your generals. 

One would have ling'ring wars, with little 

cost; 

Another would fly swift but wanteth wings ; 

A third man thinks, without expense at all, 

By guileful fair words peace may be ob- 

tain'd. 

H. VI., lpt., I: 1. 865. 

— Civil, Implacable. 

May. 0, my good lords, — and virtuous 
Henry, — 
Pity the city of London, pity us ! 
The bishop and the duke of Gloster's men, 
Forbidden late to carry any weapon, 
Have fill'd their pockets full of pebble- 
stones ; 
And, banding themselves in contrary parts, 
Do pelt so fast at one another's pate, 
That many have their giddy brains knock'd 

out : 
Our Avindows are broke down in every 

street, 
And we, for fear, compell'd to shut our 

shops. 

* * 

2 Serv. Ay, and the very parings of our 
nails 
Shall pitch a field, when we are dead. 

H. VI., lpt., Ill: 1. 879. 

— Smoldering. 

Ext. * * 
This late dissension, grown betwixt the 

peers, 
Burns under feigned ashes of forg'd love, 
And will at last break out into a flame : 
As fester'd members rot but by degrees, 
Till bones, and flesh, and sinews, fall away, 
So will this base and envious discord breed. 
H. VI., lpt., Ill: 1. 880. 



DISSIMDLARITY. — Extreme. 

Fool. * * She 's as like this as a crab 
is like an apple. 

K. Z.,1: 5. 1453. 

Ulyss. * * 
That's done; — as near as the extremest 

ends 
Of parallels ; as like as Vulcan and his wife. 
T. (7., I: 3. 1109. 

DISSIMULATION— A Plea for. 

Vol. * * It lies on you to speak 
To the people ; not by your own instruction, 
Nor by the matter which your heart prompts 

you to, 
But with such words that are but roted in 
Your tongue, though but bastards, and syl- 
lables 
Of no allowance, to your bosom's truth. 
Now, this no more dishonours you at all, 
Than to take in a town with gentle words, 
Which else would put you to your fortune, 

and 
The hazard of much blood. — 
I would dissemble with my nature, where 
My fortunes, and my friends, at stake, re- 

quir'd, 
I should do so in honour : I am in this, 
Your wife, your son, these - senators, the 

nobles ; 
And you will rather show our general louts 
How you can frown, than spend a fawn upon 

them. 
* * 

Vol. I pr'ythee now, my son, 

Go to them, with this bonnet in thy hand, 

And thus far having stretch'd it, (here be 

with them,) 
Thy knee bussing the stones, (for in such 

business 
Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ig- 
norant 
More learned than the ears,) waving thy 

head, 
Which often, thus, correcting thy stout 

heart, 
That humble, as the ripest mulberry, 
Now will not hold the handling : Or, say 

to them, 
Thou art their soldier, and being bred in 

broils, 
Hast not the soft way, which, thou dost con- 



DISSIMULATION. 171 DISSIMULATION. 


Were fit for thee to use, as they to claim, 


Commend me to my wife. I '11 return 


In asking their good loves ; but thou wilt 


consul; 


frame 


Or never trust to what my tongue can do 


Thyself, forsooth, hereafter theirs, so far 
As thou hast power, and person. 


I' the way of flattery, further. 

C7., Ill: 2. 1175. 


C, III : 2. 1174. 

— A Protest against. 


— An Aid to Revenge. 

King. * * 


Cor. Must I go show them my unbarh'd 


The harlot's cheek, beautied with plast'ring 


sconce? Must I, 


art, 


With my base tongue, give to my noble 


Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it 


heart 


Than is my deed to my most painted word. 


A lie, that it must bear? Well, I will do 't : 


//"..Ill: 1. 1410. 


Yet were there but this single plot to lose, 




This mould of Marcius, they to dust should 

grind it, 
And throw it against the wind. — To the 

market-place : — 
You have put me now to such a part, which 

never 
I shall discharge to the life. 
* * 


Tarn. * * 
Dissemble all your griefs and discontents : 


You are but newly planted in your throne ; 
Lest then the people, and patricians too, 
Upon a just survey, take Titus' part, 
And so supplant us for ingratitude, 
(Which Rome reputes to be a heinous sin,) 
Yield at entreats, and then let me alone : 


Away, my disposition, and possess me 
Some harlot's spirit ! My throat of war be 


I '11 find a day to massacre them all, 
And raze their faction, and their family. 


turn'd, 


Til. And., 1 : 2. 1206. 


Which quired with my drum, into a pipe 
Small as an eunuch, or the virgin voice 


— Compared. 


-That babies lulls asleep! The smiles of 


Leon. * * But were they false 


knaves 


As o'er-did blacks, as wind, as waters ; false 


Tent in my cheeks ; and school-boys' tears 
take lip 


As dice are to be wish'd, by one that fixes 
No bourn 'twixt his and mine. 


The glasses of my sight ! A beggar's 


W. T.,I: 2. 582. 


tongue 

Make motion through my lips ; and my 


— Grows -with Use. 


armM knees, 
Who bow'd but in my stirrup, bend like hia 
That hath receiv'd an alms! — I will not 


Duke. 0, thou dissembling cub ! what 
wilt thou be, 
When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case? 


do 't; 
Lest I surcease to honour mine own truth, 


Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow, 
That thine own trip shall be thine over- 


And, by my body's action, teach my mind 
A most inherent baseness. 


throw ? 

T. IT., V: 1. 567. 


C, III: 2. 1174. 




— Adopted as a Policy. 
Cor. Pray, be content ; 
Mother, I am going to the market-place ; 
Chicle me no more. I '11 mountebank their 


-Impossible to the Noble. 

Cor. The fires i' the lowest hell fold in 
the people ! 
Call me their traitor! — Thou injurious 
tribune ! 


loves, 
Cog their hearts from them, and come home 


Within thine eyes sat twenty thousand 
deaths, 


belov'd 


In thy hands clutch 'd as many millions, in 


Of all the trades in Home. Look, I am 


Thy lying tongue both numbers, I would 


going ; 


say, 



DISSIMULATION. 



172 



DISTINCTIONS. 



Thou liest, unto thee, with a voice as free 
As I do pray the gods. 

* * 

Let them pronounce the steep Tarpeian 

death. 
Vagabond exile, flaying : Pent to linger 
But with a grain a day, I would not buy 
Their mercy at the price of one fair word ; 
Nor check my courage for what they can 

give, 
To have 't with saying, Good morrow. 

C, III : 3. 1176. 
— Recommended. 
Luc. * * 
Let not my sister read it in your eye ; 

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's ora- 
tor ; 
Look sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty ; 

Apparel vice like virtue's harbinger : 
Bear a fair presence, though your heart be 
tainted ; 

Teach sin the carriage of a holy saint. 

* * 

'T is holy sport to be a little vain, 

When the sweet breath of flattery con- 
quers strife. 

G. E., III : 2. 201. 

— Tickles as it "Wounds. 

Tmo. 

Dissembling courtesy ! How fine this tyrant 
Can tickle where she wounds ! 

Cym., 1 : 2. 1590. 

DISSOLUTION. — Of all Things. 

Pro. * * 
Our revels now are ended. These our act- 
ors. 
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and 
Are melted into air, into thin air : 
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, 
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous pal- 
aces, 
The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve ; 
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, 

Leave not a wreck behind. 

T., IV: 1. 28. 

DISTANCE.— Diminishes and Changes. 
Dem. These things seem small and un- 
distinguishable, 
Like far-off mountains turned into ciouas. 
M. JN~.,1V: 2. 340. 



— Increases to the Wretched. 

Imo. I see, a man's life is a tedious one : 
I have tir'd myself; and for two nights to- 
gether 
Have made the ground my bed. I should 

be sick, 
But that my resolution helps me. Milford, 
When from the mountain-top Pisanio show'd 

thee, 
Thou wast within a ken : O Jove ! I think, 
Foundations fly the wretched : such, I mean, 
Where they should be reliev'd. 

Cym., Ill : 6. 1612. 

— Wildness Increases. 

North. Believe me, noble lord, 
I am a stranger here in Glostershire. 
These high wild hills, and rough uneven 

ways, 
Draw out our miles, and make them weari- 
some. 

R. II, II : 3. 697. 

DISTINCTION — Unworthily Worn. 

Blanch. 0, well did he become that 
lion's robe ! 
That did disrobe the lion of that robe ! 
Bast. It lies as sightly oh the back of 
him, 
As great Alcides' shoes upon an ass : — 
But, ass, I '11 take that burden from your 

back; 
Or lay on that, shall make your shoulders 
crack. 

K. J., II : 1. 651. 

DISTINCTIONS. —Abolition, Danger- 
ous. 

Ulyss. * * 
Take but degree away, untune that string, 
And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing 

meets 
In meer oppugnancy : The bounded waters 
Should lift their bosoms higher than the 

shores, 
And make a sop of all this solid globe. 

T. C.,I: 3. 1108. 

— Broken Down. 

Ham. * * By the lord, Horatio, these 
three years I have taken note of it ; the age 
is grown so picked, that the toe of the peas- 



DISTINCTIONS. 



173 



DISTINGUISHED. 



ant comes so near the heel of the courtier, 
he galls his kibe. — How long hast thou been 
a grave-maker? 

£T.,V:1. 1430. 

— Class, Breaking Down. 

Ulyss. * * 
Strength should be lord of imbecility, 
And the rude son should strike his father 

dead : 
Force should be right ; or, rather, right and 

wrong, 
(Between whose endless jar justice resides,) 
Should lose their names, and so should 

justice too. 

* * The general 's disdain'd 

By him one step below; he, by the next; 

That next, by him beneath ; so every step, 

Exampled by the first pace that is sick 

Of his superior. 

T. C., I: 3. 1108. 

— Class, why Mentioned. 

Ulyss. * * 
The heavens themselves, the planets, and 

this centre, 
Observe degree, priority, and place, 
Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, 
Office, and custom, in all line of order : 
And therefore is the glorious planet, Sol, 
In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd 
Amidst the other ; whose med'cinable eye 
Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, 
And posts, like the commandment of a king, 
Sans check, to good and bad : But, when 

the planets, 
In evil mixture, to disorder wander, 
"What plagues, and what portents? what 

mutiny ? 
What raging of the sea? shaking of earth? 
Commotion in the winds? frights, changes, 

horrors, 
Divert and crack, rend and deracinate 
The unity and married calm of states 
Quite from their fixture? O, when decree 

is shak*d, 
Which is the ladder of all high designs, 
The enterprise is sick! How could com- 
munities, 
Degrees in schools, and brotherhoods in 

cities, 
Peaceful commerce from dividable shores, 
The primogenitive and due of birth, 



Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, lau- 
rels, 
But by degree, stand in authentic place? 

T. C., 1 : 3. 1108. 
—False. 
Agam. * * 
Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan, 
Puffing at all, winnows the light away. 

T. C 1 : 3. 1107. 

King. * * If she be 
All that is virtuous (save what thou dislik'st, 
A poor physician's daughter), thou dislik'st 
Of virtue for the name : but do not so : 
From lowest place when virtuous things 

proceed, 
The place is dignified by th' doer's deed : 
Where great additions swell, and virtue 

none, 
It is a dropsied honour : good alone 
Is good without a name ; vileness is so : 
The property by what it is should go, 
Not by the title. She is young, wise, fair ; 
In these to nature she 's immediate heir, 
And these breed honour : that is honour's 

scorn 
Which challenges itself as honour's born, 
And is not like the sire. 

A. W., II : 3. 507. 

— Merged in Blood. 

. Mont. * * Great king, 
I come to thee for charitable licence, 
That we may wander o'er this bloody field, 
To book our dead, and then to bury them ; 
To sort our nobles from our common men ; 
For many of our princes (woe the while !) 
Lie drown'd and soak'd in mercenary blood ; 
(So do our vulgar drench their peasant 

limbs 
In blood of princes;) and their wounded 

steeds 
Fret fetlock deep in gore, and, with wild 

rage, 
Yerk out their armed heels at their dead 

masters, 
Killing them twice. 

If. V., IV : 7. 848. 

DISTINGUISHED.— The, Easily Dis- 
cerned. 

Ilect. The worthiest of them tell me 
name by name ; 



DISTINGUISHED. 



J 74 



DIVISION. 



But for Achilles, my own searching eyes 
Shall find him hy his large and portly size. 

T. C, IV : 5. 1133. 
DISTRACTION.— In Death, Deplored. 

Jlel. * * I pray you, bear me hence 
From forth the noise and rumour of the 

field; 
Where I may think the remnant of my 

thoughts 
In peace, and part this body and my soul 
With contemplation and devout desires. 

K. J., V : 4. 674. 

— Of Divided Love. 

Octa. * * A more unhappy lady, 
If this division chance, ne'er stood between, 
Praying for both parts : 

And the good gods will mock me presently, 
When I shall pray, " O, bless my lord and 

husband !" 
Undo that prayer, by crying out as loud, 
"0, bless my brother!" Husband win, 

win brother, 
Prays, and destroys the prayer ; no midway 
'Twixt these extremes at all. 

A. C, III : 4. 1560. 
— Universal. 
Ulyss. * * 
Should lift their bosoms higher than the 

shores, 
And make a sop of all this solid globe. 

T. C, 1 : 3. 1108. 
DISTRIBUTION.— Equality in. 

Glo. * * For equalities are so weighed, 
that curiosity in neither can make choice of 
either's moiety. 

K. I., I: 1. 1443. 

— Undoes Excess. 

Glo. * * 
Let the superfluous, and lust-dieted man, 
That slaves your ordinance, that will not 

see 
Because he doth not feel, feel your power 

quickly : 
So distribution should undo excess, 
And each man have enough. 

K. L., IV: 1. 1471. 

DIVERSIONS. — No Cure for Woe. 

Queen. What sport shall we devise here 
in this garden, 



To drive away the heavy thought of care? 
1 Lady. Madam, we '11 play at bowls. 
Queen. 'T will make me think 

The world is full of rubs, and that my for- 
tune 
Runs 'gainst the bias. 

1 Lady. Madam, we will dance. 

Queen. My legs can keep no measure in 
delight, 
When my poor heart no measure keeps in 

grief : 
Therefore, no dancing, girl ; some other 
sport. 
1 Lady. Madam, we '11 tell tales. 
Queen. Of sorrow, or of joy? 

1 Lady. Of either, madam. 
Queen. Of neither, girl : 

For if of joy, being altogether wanting, 
It doth remember me the more of sorrow ; 
Or if of grief, being altogether had, 
It adds more sorrow to my want of joy : 
For what I have, I need not to repeat ; 
And what I want, it boots not to complain. 
1 Lady. Madam, I '11 sing. 
Queen. 'T is well that thou hast cause, 

But thou should'st please me better, would'st 
thou weep. 
1 Lady. I could weep, madam, would it 

do you good. 
Queen. And I could weep, would weep- 
ing do me good, 
And never borrow any tear of thee. 

R. II, III: 4. 705. 

DIVINITY. — Shapes our Ends. 

Ham. * * 
Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, 
When our dear plots do fail : and that should 

teach us, 
There 's a divinity that shapes our ends, 
Rough-hew them how we will. 

If., V: 2. 1433. 

DIVISION — An Element of Weak- 



Hast. * * 
For his divisions, as the times do brawl, 
Are in three heads : one power against the 

French. 
And one against Glendower; perforce, a 

third 
Must take up us : So is the unfirm king 



DIVISION. 



175 



DOTING. 



In three divided ; and his coffers found 
With hollow poverty and emptiness. 

H. IV., 2pt., I: 3. 779. 

— Equality in. 
Mort. The archdeacon hath divided it 
Into three limits, very equally : 
England, from Trent and Severn hitherto, 
By south and east, is to my part assign'd : 
All westward, AVales beyond the Severn 

shore, 
And all the fertile land within that bound, 
To Owen Glendower : — and, dear coz, to 



Trent, 
And our indentures tripartite are drawn. 

H. /r.,lpt.,III: 1. 745. 

— Quarrels Over. 
Hot. Methinks, my moiety, north from 

Burton here, 
In quantity equals not one of yours : 
See, how this river comes me cranking in, 
And cuts me, from the best of all my land, 
A huge half moon, a monstrous cantle out. 
I '11 have the current in this place damm'd 

up; 
And here the smug and silver Trent shall 

run, 
In a new channel, fair and evenly : 
It shall not wind with such a deep indent, 
To rob me of so rich a bottom here. 

H. IV., 1 pt., Ill : 1. 745. 

DIVORCE.— A Wicked, Deplored. 

Cham. It seems, the marriage with his 
brothers wife 
Has crept too near his conscience. 

Suf. Xo, his conscience 

Has crept too near another lady. 

Nor. * * 
He counsels a divorce : a loss of her, 
That, like a jewel, has hung twenty years 
About his neck, yet never lost her lustre ; 
Of her, that loves him with that excellence 
That angels love good men with. 

H. VIII. ,11: 2. 1067. 

DOG. — Launce's. 

Laun. When a man's servant shall play 
the cur with him, look you, it goes hard : 
one that I brought up of a puppy ; one that 



I sav'd from drowning, when three or four 
of his blind brothers and sisters went to it ! 
I have taught him — even as one would say 
precisely, Thus I would teach a dog. I was 
sent to deliver him, as a present to mistress 
Silvia, from my master; and I came no 
sooner into the dining-chamber, but he steps 
me to her trencher, and steals her capon's 
leg. O, 't is a foul thing when a cur cannot 
keep himself in all companies ! I would 
have, as one should say, one that takes upon 
him to be a dog indeed, to be, as it were, a 
dog at all things. It* I had not had more 
wit than he, to take a fault upon me that he 
did, I think verily he had been hang'd for 't ; 
sure as I live he had suffer'd for 't : you 
shall judge. * * "Friend," quoth I, 
"you mean to whip the dog?" 'Ay. 
marry, do I," quoth he. "You do him the 
more wrong," quoth I; " 't was I did the 
thing you wot of." He makes me no more 
ado, but whips me out of the chamber. 
How many masters would do this for his 
servant? Nay, I '11 be sworn, I have sat in 
the stocks for puddings he hath stol'n, oth- 
erwise he had been executed : I have stood 
on the pillory for geese he hath kill'd, oth- 
erwise he had suffer'd for 't : thou think'st 
not of this now. 

T. £., IV: 2. 68. 

DOGS.— Perfection in. 

The. My hounds are bred out of the 

Spartan kind, 
So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are 

hung 
With ears that sweep away the morning 

dew; 
Crook-knee'd and dew-lapp'd like Thessa- 

lian bulls ; 
Slow in pursuit, but match' d in mouth like 

bells, 
Each under each. 

M. X., IV : 1. 339. 

DOOMED. — Sneering at the. 

Glo. Go, tread the path that thou shalt 

ne'er return, 

Simple, plain Clarence ! — I do love thee so, 

That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven, 

If heaven will take the present at our hands. 

li. Ill, 1 : 1. 1002. 

D OTJNG. — Unworthily. 

Lys. * * She, sweet lady, dotes, 
Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry, 
Upon this spotted and inconstant man. 

J/. X, 1 : 1. 322. 



DOUBLES. 



176 



DREAM. 



DOUBLES.— The Dromios. 

Adr. I see two husbands, or mine eyes 

deceive me. 

Duke. One of these men is genius to 

the other ; 

And so of these : Which is the natural man, 

And which the spirit? Who deciphers them? 

Dro. S. I, sir, am Dromio ; command 

him away. 

Dro. E. I, sir, am Dromio ; pray, let me 

stay. 

0. E., V : 1. 213. 

DOUBT. — The Beacon of the "Wise. 

fleet. * * The wound of peace is 
surety, 
Surety secure ; but modest doubt is call'd 
The beacon of the wise, the tent that 

searches 
To the bottom of the worst. 

T. G.,11: 2. 1113. 

DOUBTS. — Cleared by Time. 

Pis. * * 
All other doubts, by time let them be clear'd : 
Fortune brings in some boats, that are not 
steer'd. 

Cym., IV : 3. 1620. 

— Traitorous. 

Lucio. Assay the power you have. 

Isab. My power ! alas, I doubt. — 
Lucio. Our doubts are traitors, 
•And make us lose the good we oft might 

win, 
By fearing to attempt. 

jr.Jf.,1: 4. 147. 

DOWER. — Boasting of a Great. 

Bap. * * And he, of both, 
That can assure my daughter greatest dower, 
Shall have my Bianca's love. 
Say, signior Gremio, what can you assure 

her? 
Gre. First, as you know, my house 

within the city 
Is richly furnished with plate and gold ; 
Basins, and ewers, to lave her dainty hands ; 
My hangings all of Tyrian tapestry : 
In ivory coffers I have stuffd my crowns ; 
In cypress chests my-arras, counterpoints, 
Costly apparel, tents, and canopies, 
Fine linen, Turkey cushions boss'd with 

pearl, 



Valance of Venice gold in needlework, 
Pewter, and brass, and all things that belong 
To house, or housekeeping : then, at my 

farm, 
I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail, 
Six score fat oxen standing in my stalls, 
And all things answerable to this portion. 

Tra. * * 
If I may have your daughter to my wife, 
I '11 leave her houses three or four as good, 
Within rich Pisa walls, as any one 
Old signior Gremio has in Padua ; 
Besides two thousand ducats by the year, 
Of fruitful land, all which shall be her 

jointure. 
Gre. Two thousand ducats by the year 

of land ! 
My land amounts not to so much in all : 
That she shall have ; besides an argosy 
That now U lying in Marseilles' road. 
* * 

Tra. Gremio, 't is known my father 

hath no less 
Than three great argosies ; besides two gal- 

liasses, 
And twelve tight galleys : these I will as- 
sure her, 
And twice as much, whate'ex thou offer 'st 

next. 
Gre. Nay, I have offer'd all; I have no 

more ; 
And she can have no more than all I have. 
If you like me, she shall have me and mine. 
T. £., II: 1. 465. 

— Degrades Marriage. 

Suf. A dower, my lords ! disgrace not so 

your king, 
That he should be so abject, base, and poor, 
To choose for wealth, and not for perfect 

love. 
Henry is able to enrich his queen, 
And not to seek a queen to make him rich : 
So worthless peasants bargain for their 

wives, 
As market-men for oxen, sheep, or horse. 

//. FL, lpt., V: 5. 897. 

DREAM.— Almost a Reality. 

Ant. * * 
I have heard, (but not believ'd,) the spirits 
o' th' dead 



DREAM. 



177 



DREAMS. 



May walk again : if such thing be, thy 

mother 
Appear 'rl to me last night; for ne'er was 

dream 
So like a waking. * * Dreams are toys. 
W. T., Ill : 3. 596. 

— Bottom's. 

Bot. * * I have had a most rare 
vision. I have had a dream, — past the wit 
of man to say what dream it was : — Man is 
but an ass, if he go about to expound this 
dream. Methought I was — there is no man 
can tell what. Methought I was, and me- 
thought I had, — but man is but a patch 'd 
fool if he will offer to say what methought 
I had. The eye of man hath not heard, the 
ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not 
able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his 
heart to report, what my dream was. I will 
get Peter Quince to write a ballad of this 
dream : it shall be called Bottom's Dream, 
because it hath no bottom ; and I will sing 
it in the latter end of a play, before the 
duke. Peradventure, to make it the more 
gracious, I shall sing it at her death. 

M. N., IV : 1. 340. 

— Clarence's Fearful. (See Con- 
science.) 

— Waking. 

Post. * * 
'T is still a dream ; or else such stuff as 

madmen 
Tongue, and brain not : either both, or 

nothing : 

Or senseless speaking, or a speaking such 

As sense cannot untie. 

Cym., V : 4. 1625. 

DREAMS. —Admonitory. 

Pri. Come, Hector, come, go back : 

Thy wife hath dream'd ; thy mother hath 

had visions ; 
Cassandra doth foresee ; and I myself 
Am like a prophet suddenly enrapt. 

T. C, V: 3. 1140. 

— Disappointment in. 

Post. * * Poor wretches that depend 
On greatness' favour, dream as I have done ; 
Wake, and find nothing. 

Cym., V : 4. 1625. 

— Fantastic. 
Mer. O then, I see, Queen Mab hath 
been with you. 
She is the fairies' midwife; and she comes 



In shape no bigger than an agate-stone 
On the forefinger of an alderman. 
Drawn with a team of little atomies 
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : 
Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners' 

legs ; 
The cover, of the wings of grasshoppers ; 
The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; 
The collars, of the moonshine's wat'ry 

beams : 
Her whip, of cricket's bone ; the lash, of 

film; 
Her waggoner, a small grey-coated gnat, 
Not half so big as a round little worm 
Prick 'd from the lazy finger of a maid : 
Her chariot is an empty hazel nut, 
Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, 
Time out of mind the fairies' coach-makers. 
And in this state she gallops night by night 
Through lovers' brains, and then they dream 

of love : 
On courtiers' knees, that dream on court'sies 

straight ; 
O'er lawyers' fingers, who straight dream 

on fees : 
O'er ladies' lips, who straight on kisses 

dream ; 
Which oft the angry Mab with blisters 

plagues, 
Because their breaths with sweet-meats 

tainted are. 
Sometimes she gallops o'er a courtier's nose, 
And then dreams he of smelling out a suit : 
And sometimes comes she with a tithe-pig's 

tail, 
Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep, 
Then dreams he of another benefice : 
Sometimes she driveth o'er a soldier's neck, 
And then dreams he of cutting foreign 

throats, 
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, 
Of healths five fathom deep ; and then 

anon 
Drums in his ear; at which he starts, and 

wakes ; 
And, being thus frighted, swears a prayer 

or two 
And sleeps again. 

B. J., 1 : 4. 1247. 

— Foretell Danger. 

Mess. And then he sends you word, he 
dreamt 



DREAMS, 



178 



DRESS. 



To-night the boar had rased off his helm : 
Besides, he says, there are two councils 

held ; 
And that may be determin'd at the one, 
Which may make you and him to rue at 

the other. 
Therefore he sends to know your lordship's 

pleasure, — 
If presently, you will take horse with him, 
And with all speed post with him toward 

the north, 
To shun the danger that his soul divines. 

Hast. * * 
Tell him, his fears are shallow, wanting in- 
stance : 
And for his dreams — I wonder he 's so fond 
To trust the mockery of unquiet slumbers : 
To fly the boar, before the boar pursues, 
"Were to incense the boar to follow us, 
And make pursuit, where he did mean no 

chase. 

R. III., Ill : 2. 1022. 

— Of Divine Interpretation. 

Cess. * * 
Calphurnia here, my wife, stays me at home : 
She dreamt to-night she saw my statue, 
Which like a fountain, with a hundred 

spouts, 
Did run pure blood ; and many lusty Ro- 
mans 
Came smiling, and did bathe their hands in 

it. 
And these does she apply for warnings, por- 
tents, 
And evils imminent ; and on her knee 
Hath begg'd, that I will stay at home to-day. 
Dec. This dream is all amiss interpreted ; 
It was a vision fair and fortunate : 
Your statue spouting blood in many pipes, 
In which so many smiling Romans bath'd, 
Signifies that from you great Rome shall 

suck 
Reviving blood ; and that great men shall 

press 
For tinctures, stains, relics, and cognizance. 
This by Calphurnia's dream is signified. 

J. C, II: 2. 1333. 

— Of What Made. 

Mer. True, I talk of dreams ; 

Which are the children of an idle brain, 
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, 



Which is as thin of substance as the air ; 
And more inconstant than the wind, who 

wooes 
Even now the frozen bosom of the north, 
And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, 
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south. 
R.J.,1: 4. 1248. 

DRESS.— Bad Taste in. 

Hab. Here is the cap your worship did 

bespeak. 
Pet. Why, this was moulded on a por- 
ringer ; 
A velvet dish; — fie, fie! 't is lewd and 

filthy ; 
Why, 't is a cockle, or a walnut-shell, 
A knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap ; 
Away with it ; come, let me have a bigger. 
Kath. I '11 have no bigger ; this doth fit 
the time, 
And gentlewomen wear such caps as these. 

* * 

Pet. Why thou say'st true ; it is a paltry 
cap, 
A custard-coffin, a bauble, a silken pie : 
I love thee well, in that thou lik'st it not. 

T. S.,TV: 3. 476. 

—Costly, Recommended. 

Pol. * * 
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 
But not express 'd in fancy ; rich, not gaudy : 
For the apparel oft proclaims the man. 

H., 1 : 3. 1397. 

— Fastidious, a Bad Sign. 

Laf. * * There can be no kernel in 
this light nut; the soul of this man is his 
clothes ; trust him not in matter of heavy 
consequence. 

A. W.,II: 5. 510. 

—Katharine's Gown. 

Pet. Thy gown? why, ay.— Come, tailor, 
let us see 't. 

O mercy, God ! what masking stuff is here ! 

What's this? a sleeve? 'tis like a demi- 
cannon : 

What ! up and down, carv'd like an apple- 
tart? 

Here 's snip, and nip, and cut, and slish, 
and slash, 

Like to a censer in a barber's shop : 

* * 



DRESS. 



179 



DRINKING. 



Tai. Your worship is deceiv'd ; the gown 
is made 
Just as my master had direction : 
Grumio gave order how it should be done. 

Grit. I gave him no order : I gave him 
the stuff. 

Tai. But how did you desire it should 
be made? 

Gru. Marry, sir, with needle and thread. 

Tat. But did you not request to have it 
cut? 

Gru. Thou hast fac'd many things. 

Tat. I have. 

Gru. Face not me. Thou hast brav'd 
many men ; brave not me. I will neither 
be fac'd nor brav'd. I say unto thee — I bid 
thy master cut out the gown ; but I did not 
bid him cut it to pieces : — ergo, thou liest. 

Tat. Why, here is the note of the 
fashion to testify. 

Pet. Read it. 

Gru. The note lies in 's throat, if he 
say I said so. 

Tat. Imprimis, "a loose-bodied gown : " 

Gru. Master, if ever I said loose-bodied 
gown, sew me in the skirts of it, and beat 
me to deatli with a bottom of brown thread : 
I said, a gown. 

Pet. Proceed. 

Tai. "With a small compassed cape;" 

Gru. I confess the cape. 

Tai. " With a trunk sleeve ; " 

Gru. I confess two sleeves. 

Tai. "The sleeves curiously cut." 

Pet. Ay, there 's the villany. 

Gru. Error i' the bill, sir ; error i' the 
bill ! I commanded the sleeves should be 
cut out, and sew'd up again : and that I '11 
prove upon thee, though thy little finger be 
armed in a thimble. 

T. S., IV : 3. 476. 

— Neglect of, a Sign of Devotion. 

Dol. By my troth thou 'It set me a 
weeping, an thou sayest so : prove that ever 
I dress myself handsome till thy return. 

H. IV., 2 pt., II : 4. 788. 

DRIFTING.— In Character. 

Cces. I should have known no less : — 

It hath been taught us from the primal 

state, 
That he, which is, was wish'd, until he 

were ; 



And the ebb'd man, ne'er lov'd, till ne'er 
worth love, 

Comes dear'd, by being lack'd. This com- 
mon body, 

Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, 

Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, 

To rot itself with motion. 

A. C., I: 4. 1545. 

DRINK. — The Cause of Quarrels. 
Iago. If I can fasten but one cup upon 
him, 
With that which he hath drunk to-night 

already, 
He '11 be as full of quarrel and offence 
As my young mistress' dog. Now, my sick 

fool, Roderigo. 
Whom love has turn'd almost the wrong 

side out, 
To Desdemona hath to-night carous'd 
Potations pottle deep ; and he 's to watch : 
Three lads of Cyprus, — noble swelling- 
spirits, 
That hold their honours in a wary distance, 
The very elements of this warlike isle, — 
Have I to-night fluster'd with flowing cups, 
And they watch too. Now, 'mongst this 

flock of drunkards, 
Am I to put our Cassio in some action. 

0., II : 3. 1504. 

— The Temptation. 

Por. Therefore, for fear of the worst, I 
pray thee set a deep glass of Rhenish wine 
on the contrary casket : for, if the devil be 
within, and that temptation without, I know 
he will choose it. I will do anything, Ne- 
rissa, ere I will be married to a sponge. 

M. V., I: 2. 364. 

DRINKING.— Excuse for. 

Fal. Come, let me pour in some sack to 
the Thames water; for my belly 's as cold 
as if I had swallow'd snowballs for pills to 
cool the reins. 

31. W., Ill : 5. 108. 

— Persistent. 

Mar. They that add, moreover, he 's 
drunk nightly in your company. 

Sir. To. With drinking healths to my 
niece : I '11 drink to her as long as there is 
a passage in my throat, and drink in Illyria ! 
He 's a coward, and a coystril, that will not 
drink to my niece till his brains turn o' the 
toe like a parish top. 

T. N., 1 : 3. 542. 



DRINKING 



1 80 



DRUNKARD. 



— Provokes Quarrels. 

Ari. I told you, sir, they were red-hot 
with drinking : 
So full of valour, that they smote the air 
For breathing in their faces ; beat the ground 
For kissing of their feet. 

T., IV: 1.28. 

DRONE.— Used to Destroy. 

Shy. * * A huge feeder, 
Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day 
More than the wild cat : drones hive not 

with me ; 
Therefore I part with him, and part with 

him 
To one that I would have him help to waste 
His borrow'd purse. 

M. F., II: 5. 371. 

DRONES. — Thieves. 

Suf. * * 
Drones suck not eagles' blood, but rob bee- 
hives. 

H. VI., 2pt.,IV: 1. 933. 

DROWNING. — Deprecated. 

Gon. Now would I give a thousand fur- 
longs of sea for an acre of barren ground ; 
long heath, brown furze, anything : The 
wills above be done ! but I would fain die a 
dry death. 

T., I: 1. 8. 

— Of Ophelia. 

Queen. * * Your sister 's drown'd, 

Laertes. 
Laer. Drown'd! O, where? 
Queen. There is a willow grows aslant a 

brook, 
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy 

stream ; 
There, with fantastic garlands did she come, 
Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long 

purples, 
That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, 
But our cold maids do dead men's fingers 

call them : 
There on the pendent boughs her coronet 

weods 
Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke ; 
When down her weedy trophies, and herself, 
Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes 

spread wide ; 



And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her 

up: 
Which time, she chanted snatches of old 

tunes ; 
As one incapable of her own distress, 
Or like a creature native and indu'd 
Unto that element : but long it could not be, 
Till that her garments, heavy with their 

drink, 
Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious 

lay 
To muddy death. 

Laer. Alas, then, she is drown'd? 

Queen. Drown'd, drown'd. 

Laer. Too much of water hast thou, 

poor Ophelia, 
And therefore I forbid my tears : But yet 
It is our trick ; nature her custom holds, 
Let shame say what it will. 

ff.,IV: 7. 1428. 

DRUMS.— The Sign of War. 

Lew. * * 
Strike up the drums ; and let the tongue of 

war 
Plead for our interest. 

K. J., V : 2. 673. 

DRUNKARD. — A Beast. 

Lord. O monstrous beast ! how like a 
swine he lies ! 
Grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine 

image ! 
Sirs, I will practice on this drunken man. 

T. S., Ind. 451. 

—What He is Like. 

Oli. What's a drunken man like, fool? 

Clo. Like a drown'd man, a fool, and a 

madman ; one draught above heat makes 

him a fool; the second mads him; and a 

third drowns him. 

T. IT., 1 : 5. 545. 

—Without His Bottle. 

Cal. What a pi'd ninny 's this ! Thou 
scurvy patch ! — 
I do beseech thy greatness, give him blows, 
And take his bottle from him : when that 's 

gone, 
He shall drink nought but brine ; for I '11 

not show him 
Where the quick freshes are. 

T., Ill : 2. 23. 



DRUNKARDS. 



I«I 



DULLNESS. 



DRUNKARDS. — Love One Another. 

Biron. One drunkard loves another of 
the name. 

L. L., IV: 3. 287. 

DRUNKENNESS. — A Disturber. 

Bra. * * 
Being full of supper, and distempering 

draughts, 
Upon malicious bravery, dost thou come 
To start my quiet. 



0., 1 : 1. 1492. 



— Bemoaned. 



Cas. I will ask him for my place again ; 
he shall tell me, I am a drunkard ! Had I 
as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer 
would stop them all. To be now a sensible 
man, by and by a fool, and presently a 
beast! O strange! — Every inordinate cup 
is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. 

Iago. Come, come, good wine is a good 
familiar creature, if it be well used ; ex- 
claim no more against it. And, good lieu- 
tenant, I think, you think I love you. 

Cas. I have well approved it, sir. — I 
drunk ! 

Iago. You, or any man living, may be 
drunk at some time, man. 

0., II : 3. 1507. 

— Its Vileness. 

Cas. I remember a mass of things, but 
nothing distinctly ; a quarrel, but nothing 
wherefore. — O, that men should put an 
enemy in their mouths, to steal away their 
brains ! that we should, with joy, revel, 
pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves 
into beasts ! 

Iago. Why, but you are now well 
enough: How came you thus recovered? 

Cas. It hath pleased the devil, drunken- 
ness, to give place to the devil, wrath : one 
unperfectness shows me another, to make 
me frankly despise myself. 

0., II: 3. 1507. 

DRYNESS.— The Extreme of 

Jaq. * * His brain, — 

Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit 

After a voyage. 

A. Y., II : 7. 418. 

DUALITY.— In Man. 

Cleo. * * 
Though he be painted one way like a Gor- 
gon, 
T' other way he 's a Mars. 

A. C.,II: 5. 1553. 



DUELING. — Its Absurdity. 

Dum. Hector will challenge him. 

Biron. Ay, if 'a have no more man's 
blood in 's belly than will sup a flea. 

Arm. By the north pole, I do challenge 
thee. 

Cost. I will not fight with a pole, like 
a northern man ; I '11 slash ; I '11 do it by 
the sword. — I pray you, let me borrow my 
arms again. 

Dum. Room for the incensed Worthies. 

Cost. I '11 do it in my shirt. 

Dum. Most resolute Pompey ! 

Moth. Master, let me take you a button- 
hole lower. Do you n'ot see, Pompey is 
uncasing forthe-combat? What mean you? 
you will lose your reputation. 

Arm. Gentlemen, and soldiers, pardori 
me ; I will not combat in my shirt. 

Dum. You may not deny it; Pompey 
hath made the challenge. 

Arm. Sweet bloods, I both may and will. 
L.L.yY: 2. 302. 
DUELIST. — Professional. 

Sir To. He is a knight, dubbed with un- 
backed rapier, and on carpet consideration ; 
but he is a devil in private brawl ; souls and 
bodies hath he divorced three; and his in- 
censement at this moment is so implacable, 
that satisfaction can be none but by pangs 
of death and sepulchre : hob-nob is his 
word ; give 't, or take 't. 

T.N., III: 4. 560. 

DULLNESS.— Instances of 

Seb. Look ; he 's winding up the watch 
of his wit; by and by it will strike. 

T., II : 1. 15 

Bene. * * She told me, not thinking 
I had been myself, that I was the prince's 
jester, and that I was duller than a great 
thaw. 

3f. A., II: 1. 232. 

Fat. He a good wit? hang him, baboon ! 
his wit is as thick as Tewksbury mustard ; 
there is no more conceit in him, than is in 
a mullet. 

H. IV., 2pt., II: 4. 787. 

Titer. * * Whose wit was mouldy 
ere your grandsires had nails on their toes. 

T. C.,II: 1. 1113. 

— Not Improved by Beating. 

1 Clo. Cudgel thy brains no more about 
it for your dull ass will not mend his pace 
with beating. 

F.,V:1. 1429. 



DUNNING. 



l82 



EARNESTNESS, 



DUNNING. — Unreasonableness of. 

Tim. What, are my doors oppos'd 
against my passage? 
Have I ever been free, and must my house 
Be my retentive enemy, my gaol? 
The place, which I have feasted, does it 

now, 
Like all mankind, show me an iron heart? 
Luc. Serv. Put in now, Titus. 
Tit. My lord, here is my bill. 
Luc. Serv. Here 's mine. 
Hor. Serv. And mine, my lord. 
Both Var. Serv. And ours, my lord. 
Phi. All our bills. 

Tim. Knock me down with 'em : cleave 
me to the girdle. 

Luc. Serv. Alas ! my lord, 

Tim. Cut my heart in sums. 
Tit. Mine, fifty talents. 
Tim. Tell out my blood. 
Luc. Serv. Five thousand crowns, my 
lord. 

Tim. Five thousand drops pays that. 

What yours ? — and yours ? 

T. A., Ill: 4. 1300. 

DUTY.— All Embracing. 

K. Hen. Every subject's duty is the 
King's ; but every subject's soul is his own. 

H. V., IV : 1. 842. 

Macb. The service and the loyalty I 

owe, 
In doing it, pays itself. Your highness' 

part 
Is to receive our duties : and our duties 



Are to your throne and state, children, and 

servants ; 
Which do but what they should, by doing 

every thing 
Safe toward your love and honour. 

jr., I: 4. 1360. 
— Unshaken. 
K. Hen. * * Yet my duty, 
As doth a rock against the chiding flood, 
Should the approach of this wild river 

break, 
And stand unshaken yours. 

H. VIII., III : 2. 1079. 
D WELLING. — Good. 

Fal. 'Fore God, you have here a goodly 
dwelling, and a rich. 

H. IV., 2pt., V: 3. 807. 

DYING — Celerity in. 

Eno. * * Cleopatra, catching but the 
least noise of this, dies instantly : I have 
seen her die twenty times upon far poorer 
moment; I do think, there is mettle in 
death, which commits some loving act upon 
her, she hath such a celerity in dying. 

% A. C., I: 2. 1543. 

K. Rich. The ripest fruit first falls, and 

so doth he. 

E. II, II: 1. 693. 

— Demands Attention. 

Gaunt. O, but they say, the tongues of 
dying men 
Enforce attention, like deep harmony. 

R. II., II : 1. 692. 



E 



EAGLE. — A Royal Bird. 

Sici. He came in thunder ; his celestial 

breath 
Was sulphurous to smell : the holy eagle 
Stoop'd, as to foot us : his ascension is 
More sweet than our bless'd fields : his 

royal bird 
Prunes the immortal wing, and cloys his 

beak, 
As when his god is pleas'd. 

Cym., V: 4. 1625. 



EARNESTNESS.— Makes Sacrifices. 

Chor. Now all the youth of England are 

on fire, 
And silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies ; 
Now thrive the armourers, and honour's 

thought 
Reigns solely in the breast of every man : 
They sell the pasture now, to buy the horse ; 
Following the mirror of all Christian kings, 
With winged heels, as English Mercuries. 

H. V., II: C. 824. 



EARTH. 



183 



EDUCATION. 



EARTH. — Conquered an Ally. 

K. Rich. * * 
Dear earth, I do salute thee with my hand, 
Though rebels wound thee with their horses' 

hoofs : 
As a long parted mother, with her child 
Plays fondly with her tears and smiles, in 

meeting; 
So, weeping, smiling, greet I thee, my earth, 
And do thee favour with my royal hands. 
Feed not thy sovereign's foe, my gentle 

earth, 
Nor with thy sweets comfort his rav'nous 

sense : 
But let thy spiders, that suck up thy venom, 
And heavy-gaited toads lie in their way ; 
Doing annoyance to the treacherous feet, 
Which with usurping steps do trample thee. 
Yield stinging nettles to mine enemies : 
And when they from thy bosom pluck a 

flower, 
Guard it, I pray thee, with a lurking adder ; 
Whose double tongue may with a mortal 

touch 
Throw death upon thy sovereign's enemies. 
Mock not my senseless conjuration, lords ; 
This earth shall have a feeling, and these 

stones 
Prove arm'd soldiers, ere her native king 
Shall falter under foul rebellious arms. 

R. II, Ill : 2. 700. 

EASE. — In Winning. 

Pro. Soft, sir ! one word more. — 

They are both in either's pow'rs ; but this 

swift business 

I must uneasy make, lest too light winning 

Make the prize light. 

T.,1: 2. 14. 

ECHO. 

Tarn. * * 
And — whilst the babbling echo mocks the 

hounds, 
Replying shrilly to the well-tun'd horns, 
As if a double hunt were heard at once. 

Tit. And., II : 3. 1209. 

— Invoked. 

Vio. * * 

Holla your name to the reverberate hills, 

And make the babbling gossip of the air 

Crv out, Olivia ! 

T. N., 1 : 5. 546. 



Lord. * * 
Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer 

them, 
And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow 
earth. 

T. S., Ind., II : 453. 

ECONOMY. — Frugal. 

Fal. * * An old cloak makes a new 
jerkin; a wither'd servingman a fresh tap- 
ster. 

M. W.,I: 3. 92. 

EDUCATION. — Hated by Dema- 
gogues. 

Cade. * * Be it known unto thee by 
these presence, even the presence of lord 
Mortimer, that I am the besom that must 
sweep the court clean of such filth as thou 
art. Thou hast most traitorously corrupted 
the youth of the realm, in erecting a gram- 
mar-school : and Avhereas, before, our fore- 
fathers had no other books but the score 
and the tally, thou hast caused printing to 
be used ; and, contrary to the king, his 
crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper- 
mill. It will be proved to thy face, that 
thou hast men about thee, that usually talk 
of a noun, and a verb ; and such abomina- 
ble words, as no Christian ear can endure 
to hear. Thou hast appointed justices of 
peace, to call poor men before them about 
matters they were not able to answer. 
Moreover, thou hast put them in prison ; 
and because they could not read, thou hast 
hanged them ; when, indeed, only for that 
cause they have been most worthy to live. 

H. VI, 2pt., IV: 7. 938. 

— Popular Hatred of. 

Smith. The clerk of Chatham : he can 
write and read, and cast accompt. 

Cade. O monstrous ! 

Smith. We took him setting of boys' 
copies. 

Cade. Here 's a villain ! 

Smith. H 'as a book in his pocket, with 
red letters in 't. 

Cade. Nay, then he is a conjurer. 

Dick. Nay, he can make obligations, 
and write court-hand. 

Cade. I am sorry for 't : the man is a 
proper man, on mine honour ; unless I find 
him guilty, he shall not die, — Come hither, 
sirrah, I must examine thee : What is thy 
name ? ' 

Clerk. Emmanuel. 

Dick. They use to write it on the top of 
letters ; — 'T will go hard with you. 



EDUCATION. 



184 



EMBARRASSMENTS . 



Cade. Let me alone : Dost thou use to 
write thy name? or hast thou a mark to 
thyself, like an honest plain-dealing man? 

Clerk. Sir, I thank God, I have been so 
■well brought up, that I can write my name. 

All. He hath confessed : away with him ; 
he 's a villain, and a traitor. 

Cade. Away with him, I say : hang him 
with his pen and inkhorn about his neck. 

//. FX,2pt.,rV: 2. 934. 

EFFORT. — Joy in Persistent. 

Cres. * * 

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the 

doing : 

That she belov'd knows nought, that knows 

not this, — 

Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it 

is. 

T. 6., I: 2. 1107. 

EGOTISM.— Female, Fatal to Affec- 
tion. 

Hero. * * 
But Nature never fram'd a woman's heart 
Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice : 
Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her 

eyes, 
Misprising Avhat they look on ; and her wit 
Values itself so highly, that to her 
All matter else seems weak : she cannot 

love, 
Nor take no shape nor project of affection, 
She is so self-endeared. 

M. X, III: 1. 238. 

ELOQUENCE. — Duly Estimated. 

Ulyss. * * 
I give to both your speeches, — which were 

such, 
As Agamemnon and the hand of Greece 
Should hold up high in brass ; and such 

again, 
As venerable Nestor, hatch'd in silver, 
Should with a bond of air (strong as the 

axletree 
On which heaven rides,) knit all the Greek- 

ish ears 
To his experienced tongue. 

T. 0., 1 : 3. 1108. 

— Of the Reformed. 
Cant. Hear him but reason in divinity, 
And, all-admiring, with an inward wish 



You would desire, the king were made a 

prelate : 
Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs. 
You would say, — it hath been all-in-all his 

study : 
List his discourse of war, and you shall 

hear 
A fearful battle render'd you in music : 
Turn him to 'any cause of policy, 
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, 
Familiar as his garter ; that, when he 

speaks, 
The air, a charter'd libertine, is still, 
And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, 
To steal his sweet and honeyed sentences ; 
So that the art and practic part of life 
Must be the mistress to this theoric : 
Which is a wonder, how his grace should 

glean it, 
Since his addiction was to courses vain : 
His companies unletter'd, rude, and shal- 
low ; 
His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets, 

sports ; 
And never noted in him any study, 
Any retirement, any sequestration 
From open haunts and popularity. 

H. V., 1 : 1. 820. 

EMBARRASSMENTS.— Of Debt. 

Caph. My lord, here is a note of certain 
dues. 

Tim. Dues? Whence are you? 

Caph. Of Athens here, my lord. 

Tim. Go to my steward. 

Caph. Please it your lordship, he hath 
put me off 
To the succession of new days this month : 
My master is awak'd by great occasion, 
To call upon his own : and humbly prays 

you, 
That with your noble parts you '11 suit, 
In giving him his right. 

Tim. Mine honest friend, 

I pry'thee, but repair to me next morning. 

Caph. Nay, good my lord, 

Tim. Contain thyself, good friend. 

Var. Serv. One Varro's servant, my 
good lord, — 

Isid. Serv. From Isidore ; 

He humbly prays your speedy payment, — 



EMBARRASSMENTS. 



185 



EMULATION. 



Caph. If you did know, my lord, my 

master's wants, 

Var. Sew. "T was due on forfeiture, my 
lord, six weeks, 

And past, 

Isid. Serv. Your steward puts me off, 
my lord, 
And I am sent expressly to your lordship. 

Tim. Give me breath : 

I do beseech you, good my lords, keep on; 
I '11 wait upon you instantly. — Come hither, 

pray you, 
How goes the world, that I am thus en- 

counter'd 
With clamorous demands of date-broke 

bonds, 
And the detention of long-since-due debts, 
Against my honour? 

Flav. Please you, gentlemen, 

The time is unagreeable to this business : 
Your importunacy cease, till after dinner ; 
That I may make his lordship understand 
Wherefore you are not paid. 

T. A., II : 2. 1294. 

EMBRACING. — Tender and Com- 
plete. 

Tit a. Sleep thou, and I will wind thee 
in my arms. 
Fairies, be gone, and be all ways away. 
So doth the woodbine the sweet honey- 
suckle 
Gently entwist ; the female ivy so 
Enrings the barky fingers of the elm. 

M. 2T., IV : l. 338. 

EMERGENCIES.— Great, Condone 
Errors. 

Brio. He greets me well. — Your master, 
Pindarus, 
In his own change, or by ill officers, 
Hath given me some worthy cause to wish 
Things done, undone : But if he be at hand, 
I shall be satisfied. 

J. C IV : 2. 1343. 

EMINENCE— Its Dangers. 

Q. Mar. Peace, master marquis, you are 

malapert : 
Your fire-new stamp of honour is scarce 

current : 
0, that your young nobility could judge, 



What 't Avere to lose it, and be miserable ! 

They that stand high, have many blasts to 

shake them ; 

And, if they fall, they dash themselves to 

pieces. 

R. III., J: 3. 1509. 

EMOTIONS. — Alternating. 

Count. * * 
I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief, 
That the first face of neither, on the start, 
Can woman me unto 't. 

A. W., Ill : 2. 512. 

EMPIRICS.— Not to be Trusted. 

King. * * 
When our most learned doctors leave us ; 

and 
The congregated college have concluded 
That labouring art can never ransom Na- 
ture 
From her inaidable estate, — I say we must 

not 
So stain our judgment, or corrupt our hope, 
To prostitute our past-cure malady 

To empirics. 

A. W., II: 1. 503. 

EMULATION — A Source of Life. 

Ulyss. * * Grows to an envious fever 
Of pale and bloodless emulation : 
And 't is this fever that keeps Troy on foot, 
Not her own sinews. 

T. C., 1 : 3. 1109. 

— Deprecated. 

Art. * * 
My heart laments, that virtue cannot live 
Out of the teeth of emulation. 

J. C., II : 3. 1334. 

— Heroic. 

Luc. Stay, father ; for that noble hand 
of thine, 
That hath thrown down so many enemies, 
Shall not be sent : my hand will serve the 

turn : 
My youth can better spare my blood than 

you ; 
And therefore mine shall save my brothers' 
• lives. 

Mar. Which of your hands hath not de- 
fended Rome, 
And rear'd aloft the bloody battle-axe, 



EMULATION. 



186 



ENDURANCE. 



Writing destruction on the enemy's castle? 

0, none of both but are of high desert : 

My hand hath been but idle ; let it serve 

To ransom my two nephews from their 

death ; 

Then have I kept it to a worthy end. 

Aar. Nay, come agree, whose hand shall 

go along, 

For fear they die before their pardon come. 

Mar. My hand shall go. 

Luc. By heaven, it shall not go. 

Tit. Sirs, strive no more ; such wither'd 

herbs as these 

Are meet for plucking up, and therefore 

mine. 

Luc. Sweet father, if I shall be thought 

thy son, 

Let me redeem my brothers both from death. 

Mar. And, for our father's sake, and 

mother's care, 

Now let me show a brother's love to thee. 

Tit. Agree between you; I will spare 

my hand. 

Luc. Then I '11 go fetch an axe. 

Mar. But I will use the axe. 

Tit. Come hither, Aaron ; I '11 deceive 

them both, 

Lend me thy hand, and I will give thee 

mine. 

Aar. If that be call'd deceit, I will be 

honest, 

And never, whilst I live, deceive men so : — 

But I '11 deceive you in another sort, 

And that you '11 say, ere half an hour can 

pass. 

Tit. And., Ill : 1. 1216. 

ENCOURAGEMENT. — Strengthens. 

Ham. * * 
And do not spread the compost on the weeds, 
To make them ranker. 

2T.,III:4. 1420. 

ENDOWMENTS. — Inadequate. 

War. Thou art no Atlas for so great a 

weight : » 

And, weakling, Warwick takes his gift 

again. 

//. VI., 3pt., V: 1. 986. 

— Shine only by Reflection. 

Ulyss. A strange fellow here 

Writes me, That man — how dearly ever 
parted, 



How much in having, or without, or in, — 
Cannot make boast to have that which he 

hath, 
Nor feels not what he owes, but by reflec- 
tion; 
As when his virtues shining upon others 
Heat them, and they retort that heat again 
To the first giver. 

T. C, III : 3. 1124. 

ENDURANCE— Heroic 

York. * * 
And fought so long, till that his thighs with 

darts 
Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porcupine. 
H. VI, 2pt., Ill: 1. 926. 

— Its Limits. 
Leon. * * 
For there was never yet philosopher 
That could endure the tooth-ach patiently. 
JI.A.,V: 1. 249. 

Bast. Withhold thine indignation, mighty 
heaven, 
And tempt us not to bear above our power ! 

K.J.,V: 6. 67c. 

— No Sign of Choice. 

Natli. * ■* 
Many can brook the weather, that love not 
the wind. 

L.L.,YV: 2. 285. 

— Patient. 

Bast. * * 
Now happy he, whose cloak and cincture 

can 
Hold out this tempest. 

K.J.,1V: 3. 670. 

Jul. A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary 

To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps ; 

Much less shall she that hath Love's wings 

to fly. 

T. G., II : 7. 58. 

— Secret. 

Mon. * * 
So far from sounding and discovery, 
As is the bud bit with an envious worm, 
Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the 

air, 
Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. 

R.J.,1 : 1. 1243. 



ENEMIES. 



187 



ENEMIES. 



ENEMIES. — Bitterly Execrated. 

Q. Mar. * * 
Hast thou not spirit to curse thine enemies? 
Suf. A plague upon them ! wherefore 

should I curse them? 
Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's 

groan, 
I would invent as bitter-searching terms. 
As curst, as harsh, and horrible to hear, 
Deliver'd strongly through my fixed teeth, 
With full as many signs of deadly hate, 
As lean-fac'd Envy in her loathsome cave : 
My tongue should stumble in mine earnest 

words : 
Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten 

flint ; 
My hair be fix'd on end, as one distract; 
Ay, every joint should seem to curse and 

ban : 
And even now my burden'd heart would 

break, 
Should I not curse them. Poison be their 

drink ! 
Gall, worse than gall, the daintiest that they 

taste ! 
Their sweetest shade, a grove of cypress 

trees ! 
Their chiefest prospect, murdering basil- 
isks ! 
Their softest touch, as smart as lizards' 

stings ! 
Their music, frightful as the serpent's hiss ; 
And boding screech-owls make the concert 

full! 

All the foul terrors in dark-seated hell 

Q. Mar. Enough, sweet Suffolk. * * 
Suf. You bade me ban, and will you bid 

me leave? 
Now, by the ground that I am banish'd from, 
Well could I curse away a winter's night, 
Though standing naked on a mountain top, 
Where biting cold Avould never let grass 

grow, 
And think it but a minute spent in sport. 

//. VI., 2pt.,HI: 2. 930. 

— Magnanimously Treated. 

P. Hen. Then, brother John of Lancas- 
ter to you 
This honourable bounty shall belong : 
Go to the Douglas, and deliver him 
Up to his pleasure, ransomless, and free : 



His valour, shown upon our crests to-day, 
Hath taught us how to cherish such high 

deeds, 
Even in the bosom of our adversaries. 

H. IV., 1 pt., V : 5. 762. 

— Our Out-ward Consciences. 
K. Hen. •■* * 

For our bad neighbour makes us early stir- 
rers, 

Which is both healthful, and good hus- 
bandry : 

Besides, they are our outward consciences, 

And preachers to us all. 

//. V., IV : 1. 840. 

— Ruthless. 

Rut. So looks the pent-up lion o'er the 
wretch 
That trembles under his devouring paws : 
And so he walks, insulting o'er his prey ; 
And so he comes to rend his limbs asunder. 
R. VI, 3 pt., 1 : 3. 959. 

Q. Mar. * * 
And what is Edward, but a ruthless sea? 
What Clarence, but a quicksand of deceit? 
And Richard, but a ragged fatal rock? 
All these the enemies to our poor bark. 

//. F/.,3pt., V: 4. 989. 

— Smiling, Dangerous. 

Oct. Let us do so : for we are at the 

stake, 
And bay'd about with many enemies ; 
And some, that smile, have in their hearts, 

I fear, 

Millions of mischief. 

J. C, IV : 1. 1343. 

— Strengthened by a Child. 

K. Hen. For all the world, 

As thou art to this hour, was Richard then 
When I from France set foot at Ravenspurg ; 
And even as I was then, is Percy now. 
Now by my sceptre, and my soul to boot, 
He hath more worthy interest to the state, 
Than thou, the shadow of succession : 
For, of no right, nor colour like to right, 
He doth fill fields with harness in the realm ; 
Turns head against the lion's armed jaws ; 
And, being no more in debt to years than 

thou, 
Leads ancient lords, and reverend bishops 



ENEMIES. 



ENGLAND. 



To bloody battles, and to bruising arms. 
What never-dying honour hath he got 
Against renowned Douglas ; whose high 

deeds, 
Whose hot incursions, and great name in 

arms, 
Holds from all soldiers chief majority, 
And military title capital, 
Through all the kingdoms that acknowledge 

Christ? 
Thrice hath this Hotspur Mars in swarthing 

clothes, 

This infant warrior, in his enterprises 

Discomfited great Douglas : ta'enhim once, 

Enlarged him, and made a friend of him, 

To fill the mouth of deep defiance up, 

And shake the peace and safety of our 

throne. 

//. IV., lpt., Ill: 2. 748. 

— Striking, Endangers Friends. 

Arch. * * Like an offensive wife, 
That hath enrag'd him on to offer strokes ; 
As he u striking, holds his infant up, 
And hangs resolv'd correction in the arm 
That was uprear'd to execution. 

II. IV., 2 pt., IV : 1. 797. 

— Their Destruction. 

Tim. You had rather be at a breakfast 
of enemies, than a dinner of friends. 
• Alcib. So they were bleeding-new, my 
lord, there's no meat like them; I could 
wish my best friend at such a feast. 

T. A., 1 : 2. 1291. 

— Torments They Deserve. 

Pro. * * 
Go, charge my goblins that they grind their 

joints 
With dry convulsions ; shorten up their 

sinews 
With aged cramps ; and more pinch-spotted 

make them, 
Than pard or cat o' mountain. 

7\, IV: 1. 29. 

ENEMY. — A Dangerous. 

Nor. 'Like it your grace, 

The state takes notice of the private differ- 
ence 
Betwixt you and the cardinal. I advise you, 
(And take it from a heart that wishes to- 
Avards you 



Honour and plenteous safety,) that you 

read 
The cardinal's malice and his potency 
Together : to consider further, that 
What his high hatred would effect, wants 

not 
A minister in his power : You know his na- 
ture, 
That he 's revengeful ; and I know, his 

sword 
Hath a sharp edge : it 's long, and, it may 

be said, 
It reaches far ; and where 'twill not extend, 
Thither he darts it. Bosom up my counsel, 
You '11 find it wholesome. Lo, where comes 

that rock, 
That I advise your shunning. 

H. VIII., I: 1. 1058. 

— Forbearance towards. 

Boling. Carlisle, this is your doom : 
Choose out some secret place, some rever- 
end room. 
More than thou hast, and with it joy thy 

life; 
So, as thou liv'st in peace, die free from 

strife : 
For though mine enemy tliou hast ever been, 
High sparks of honour in thee have I seen. 

R. II., V: 6. 717. 

ENGLAND. — Disgraced. 

Gaunt. * * 
This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, 
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, 
This other Eden, demi-paradise ; 
This fortress, built by nature for herself, 
Against infection, and the hand of war ; 
This happy breed of men, this little world ; 
This precious stone set in the silver sea, 
Which serves it in the office of a wall, 
Or as a moat defensive to a house, 
Against the envy of less happier lands ; 
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this 

England, 
This nurse, this teeming womb of royal 

kings, 
Fear'd by their breed, and famous by their 

birth, 
Renowned for their deeds as far from home. 



ENGLAND. 



189 



ENNUI. 



This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear 

land, 
Dear for her reputation through the world, 
Is now leas'd out (I die pronouncing it,) 
Like to a tenement, or pelting farm : 
England, hound in with the triumphant sea, 
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious 

siege 
Of watery Neptune, is now bound in with 

shame, 
With inky blots, and rotten parchment 

bonds ; 
That England, that was wont to conquer 

others, 
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself. 

R. II, II: 1. 692. 
— Frenchman's Contempt of. 
Bour. * * 
Mort de ma vie ! if they march along 
Unfought withal, but I will sell my duke- 
dom, 
To buy a slobbery and a dirty farm 
In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. 

II. V., Ill: 5. 835 
— Its Insularity. 
Aust. * * That pale, that white-fac'd 

shore, 
Whose foot spurns back the ocean's roaring 

tides, 
And coops from other lands her islanders, 
Even till that England, hedg'd in with the 

main, 
That water-walled bulwark, still secure 
And confident from foreign purposes, 
Even till that utmost corner of the west 
Salute thee for her king. 

K. J., II : 1. 649. 

ENGLISH. — Their Persistence. 

Alen. Froissard, a countryman of ours, 

records 
England all Olivers and Rowlands bred, 
During the time Edward the Third did reign. 
More truly now may this be verified ; 
For none but Samsons, and Goliasses, 
It sendeth forth to skirmish. One to ten ! 
Lean raw-bon'd rascals ! who would e'er 

suppose 
They had such courage and audacity? 

Char. Let 's leave this town ; for they 

are hair-brain'd slaves, 



And hunger will enforce them to be more 

eager : 
Of old I know them ; rather with their teeth 
The walls they '11 tear down, than forsake 

the siege. 
Reig. I think, by some odd gimmals, or 

device 
Their arms are set, like clocks, still to 

strike on ; 
Else ne'er could they hold out so, as they 

do. 
By my consent, we '11 e'en let them alone. 
H. VI, 1 pt., 1 : 2. 866. 

ENGLISHMEN.— Whence Their 

Valor. (See Courage.) 
Con. Dieu de battailes ! where have they 

this mettle? 
Is not their climate foggy, raw, and dull? 
On whom, as in despite, the sun looks pale, 
Killing their fruit with frowns ? Can sodden 

water, 
A drench for sur-rein"d jades, their barley 

broth, 
Decoct their cold blood to such valiant 

heat? 
And shall our quick blood, spirited with 

wine, 

Seem frosty? 

H. V., Ill : 5. 835. 

ENMITIES.— Lesser, Swallowed. 
Pom. I know not, Menas, 

How lesser enmities may give way to 
greater. 

Were 't not that we stand up against them 
all, 

'T were pregnant they should square be- 
tween themselves ; 

For they have entertained cause enough 

To draw their swords : but how the fear of 
us 

May cement their divisions, and bind up 

The petty difference, we yet not know. 

A. C, II : 1. 1547. 

ENNUI. — A King's. 

Lew. There 's nothing in this world can 
make me joy : 
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. 

K. J., Ill : 4. 663. 



ENNUI. 



I9O 



ENVY. 



— Its Language. 

Ham. * * 

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable 

Seem to me all the uses of this world ! 

Fie on 't ! O fie ! 't is an unweeded garden, 

That grows to seed ; things rank, and gross 

in nature, 

Possess it merely- 

H., 1 : 2. 1395. 

ENTERPRISES. — Dangerous. 

Bel. No single soul 

Can Ave set eye on ; but in all safe reason 
He must have some attendants. Though 

his humour 
"Was nothing but mutation, — ay, and that 
From one bad thing to worse, — not frenzy, 

not 
Absolute madness could so far have rav'd, 
To bring him here alone : although, perhaps, 
It may be heard at court, that such as we 
Cave here, hunt here, are outlaws, and in 

time 
May make some stronger head ; the which 

he hearing, 
(As it is like him,) might break out, and 

swear 
He 'd fetch us in ; yet is 't not probable 
To come alone, either he so undertaking, 
Or they so suffering : then, on good ground 

we fear, 
If we do fear this body hath a tail 
More perilous than the head. 

Cym.,lV: 2. 1616. 

ENTHUSIASM. — Great Events Ex- 
cite. 
Hot. * * • ! the blood more stirs, 
To rouse a lion, than to start a hare. 

If. IV., lpt., I: 3. 732. 

ENVY. — A Monster. 

Gow. * * 

That monster envy, oft the wreck 

Of earned praise. 

P., IV: 2. 1659. 

— Cause of Grumbling. 

Ther. Thou grumblest and railest every 
hour on Archilles ; and thou art as full of 
envy at his greatness, as Cerberus is at 
Proserpina's beauty, ay, that thou barkest 
at him. 

T. a, II: 1. 1112. 



— Embitters. 

Adam. * * 

0, what a world is this, when what is comely 
Envenoms him that bears it ! 

A. r., II: 3. 415. 

— Has a Memory. 
Cas. I know that virtue to be in you, 

Brutus, 
As well as I do know your outward favour. 
Well, honour is the subject of my story. — 
I cannot tell, what you and other men 
Think of this life : but, for my single self, 
I had as lief not be, as live to be 
In awe of such a thing as I myself. 
I was born free as Caesar : so were you : 
AVe both have fed as well ; and we can both 
Endure the winter's cold, as well as he. 
For once, upon a raw and gusty day, 
The troubled Tyber chafing with her shores, 
Caesar said to me, "Dar'st thou, Cassius, 

now 
Leap in with me into this angry flood, 
And swim to yonder point?" Upon the 

word, 
Accouter'd as I was, I plunged in, 
And bade him follow : so, indeed, he did. 
The torrent roar'd ; and we did buffet it 
With lusty sinews ; throwing it aside 
And stemming it w r ith hearts of controversy. 
But ere we could arrive the point propos'd, 
Caesar cried, "Help me, Cassius, or I sink." 

1, as iEneas, our great ancestor, 

Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoul- 
der 
The old Anchises bear, so, from the weaves 

of Tyber 
Did I the tired Caesar : And this man 
Is now become a god ; and Cassius is 
A wretched creature, and must bend his 

body, 
If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. 
He had a fever when he was in Spain, 
And, when the fit was on him, I did mark 
How he did shake : 't is true, this god did 

shake : 
His coward lips did from their colour fly ; 
And that same eye, whose bend doth awe 

the world, 
Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : 
Ay, and that tongue of his, that bade the 
Romans 



ENVY. 



I 9 I 



EPITAPH. 



Mark him, and "write his speeches in their 

books, 
Alas! it cried, "Give me some drink, Ti- 

tinius," 
As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me, 
A man of such a feeble temper should 
So get the start of the majestic world, 
And bear the palm alone. 

J. a, I: 2. 1324. 

— Its Bitterness. 

Orl. * * But, 0, how bitter a thing it 
is to look into happiness through another 
man's eyes ! 

A. Y., V : 2. 434. 

Var. Serv. * * Who can speak broad- 
er than he that has no house to put his head 
in? such may rail against great buildings. 

T. A., Ill : 4. 1300. 

— National. 

Fr. King, Take her, fair son ; and from 
her blood raise up 
Issue to me : that the contending kingdoms 
Of France and England, whose very shores 

look pale 
With envy of each other's happiness. 

R. V.,V: 2. 856. 

— Of Beauty. 

Iago. * * 
He hath a daily beauty in his life, 
That makes me ugly. 

0., V : 1. 1526 

— Sharper than Steel. 

Gra. Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, 
harsh Jew. 
Thou mak'st thy knife keen ; but no metal 

can, 
No, not the hangman's axe, bear half the 

keenness 
Of thy sharp envy. Can no prayers pierce 
thee? 

M. V., IV : 1. 383. 

— Sometimes Noble. 

Mar. They have a leader, 

Tullus Aufidius, that will put you to 't. 
I sin in envying his nobility : 
And were I anything but what I am, 
I would wish me only he. 

C, 1 : 1. 1152. 



— "Weeded Out. 

Auf. Marcius, Maricus, 

Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded 

from my heart 

A root of ancient envy. 

C, IV: 5.1181. 

— Wishes Death. 

Sat. Romans, do me right ; — 

Patricians, draw your swords, and sheath 

them not 
Till Saturninus be Rome's emperor : — 
Andronicus, 'would thou wert shipp'd to hell, 
Rather than rob me of the people's hearts. 
Tit. And., 1 : 2. 1203. 

EPILEPSY. 

Iago. My lord is fallen into an epilepsy ; 
This is his second fit ; he had one yesterday. 

Cas. Rub him about the temples. 

Iago. No, forbear : 

The lethargy must have his quiet cour.se : 
If not, he foams at mouth ; and, by and by, 
Breaks out to savage madness. Look, he 

stirs : 
Do you withdraw yourself a little while, 

He will recover straight. 

O., IV: 1. 1518. 

EPITAPH. — A Cynic's. 

Sold. My noble general, Timon is dead ; 
Entomb'd upon the very hem o' the sea : 
And, on his grave-stone, this insculpture ; 

which 
With wax I brought away, whose soft im- 
pression 
Interprets for my poor ignorance. 

Alcib. [Reads.] 
Here lies a wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft : 
Seek not my name : A plague consume you wicked 

caitiffs left ! 
Here lie I Timon; who, alive, all living men did 

hate: 
Pass by, and curse thy fill; but pass, and stay not 
here thy gait. 

T. A., V : 5. 1316. 

— Claudio's. 

Claud. [Reads.] 
" Done to death by slanderous tongues 
Was the Hero that here lies : 
Death, in guerdon of her wrongs, 
Gives her fame which never dies : 
So the life that died with shame 
Lives in death with glorious fame. 
Hang thou there upon the tomb, 
Praising her when I am dumb." 

M. A., V: 3. 254. 



EPITHETS. 



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EVASION. 



EPITHETS. — Abundant. 

Ilel. * * 
His humble ambition, proud humility, 
His jarring concord, and his discord dulcet, 
His faith, his sweet disaster : with a world 
Of pretty, fond, adoptious Christendoms, 
That blinking Cupid gossips. 

A. W., 1 : 1. 497. 

— Varied. 

Naih. True, master Holofernes, the ep- 
ithets are sweetly varied, like a scholar at 
the least. 

L. L., IV: 2. 285. 

EQUALITY. — Inevitable. 

Gui. Thersites' body is as good as Ajax, 
When neither are alive. 

Cym., IV : 2. 1618. 

K. Hen. No ; nor it is not meet he 
should. For, though I speak it to you, I 
think, the king is but a man, as I am : the 
violet smells to him, as it doth to me ; the 
element shows to him, as it doth to me ; all 
his senses have but human conditions ; his 
ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he ap- 
pears but a man ; and though his affections 
are higher mounted than ours, yet, when 
they stoop, they stoop with the like wing. 

H. V., IV : 1. 841. 

EQUIVOCATOR.— Requires Care. 

Ham. How absolute the knave is ! we 
must speak by the card, or equivocation 
will undo us. 

H., V : 1. 1430. 

— Taunted. 

Port. * * Faith, here 's an equivo- 
cator, that could swear in both the scales 
against either scale. 

M., II : 3. 1365. 

ERROR. — Fatal. 

Mes. * * 
O hateful error, melancholy's child! 
Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of 

men 
The things that are not? O error, soon 

conceiv'd, 
Thou never com'st unto a happy birth. 

J. C, V : 3. 1350. 

— Supported by Text. 

Bass. * * In religion, 
What damned error, but some sober brow 



Will bless it, and approve it with a text, 
Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? 

M. V., Ill : 2. 377. 

ESSENTIALS.— First, Details Next. 

Leon. Come, friar Francis, be brief; 
only to the plain form of marriage, and you 
shall recount their particular duties after- 
wards. 

31. A., IV : 1. 244. 

EUPHEMISM. — Commended. 

Shal. * * Good phrases are surely, 
and ever were, very commendable. Ac- 
commodated ! — it comes from accommodo : 
very good ; a good phrase. 

Bard. Pardon me, sir ; I have heard the 
word. Phrase, call you it? By this good 
day, I know not the phrase : but I will 
maintain the word with my sword to be a 
soldier-like word, and a word of exceeding 
good command. Accommodated : That is, 
when a man is, as they say, accommodated : 
or, when a man is, — being, — whereby, — 
he may be thought to be accommodated ; 
which is an excellent thing. 

II. IV., 2 pt., Ill : 2. 791. 

— For Crimes. 

Fal. Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou 
art king, let not us, that are squires of the 
night's body, be called thieves of the day's 
beauty; let us be — Diana's foresters, gen- 
tlemen of the shade, minions of the moon : 
And let men say, we be men of good gov- 
ernment ; being governed as the sea is, by 
our noble and chaste mistress the moon, 
under whose countenance we — steal. 

P. Hen. Thou say'stwell; and it holds 

well too : for the fortune of us, that are the 

moon's men, doth ebb and flow like the sea ; 

being governed as the sea is, by the moon. 

H. IV., 1 pt., 1 : 2. 728. 

— For Illegitimacy. 

Glo. * * Had, indeed, sir, a son for 
her cradle, ere she had a husband for her 
bed. 

A'. L., 1 : 1. 1443. 

EVASION — Safety Sought in. 

Wor. * * 
For. well you know, we of the offering side 
Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement ; 
And stop all sight holes, every loop, from 

whence 
The eye of reason may pry in upon us. 

//. JF.,lpt.,IV: 1. 752. 



EVASION. 



J 93 



EVILS. 



— "Worn Out. 

Clo. * * "0 Lord, sir:" I see things 
may serve long, but not serve ever. 

A. W., II : 2. 505. 

EVENING.— Described. 

1 Mur. * * 

The west yet glimmers with some streaks 

of day : 

Now spurs the lated traveller apace, 

To gain the timely inn. 

M., Ill : 3. 1371 

EVENTS.— Those Who Make Them. 

Cces. * * High events as these 

Strike those that make them : and their 

story is 

No less in pity, than his glory, which 

Brought them to be lamented. 

A. G.,Y: 2. 1582. 

— Unnatural. 

Alon. These are not natural events ; 

they strengthen 

From strange to stranger. 

T., V : l. 33. 

— Worthy of a Holiday. 

K. Phi. * * 
To solemnize this day, the glorious sun 
Stays in his course, and plays the alche- 
mist ; 
Turning, with splendour of his precious 

eye, 
The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold : 
The yearly course, that brings this day 

about, 
Shall never see it but a holiday. 

K. </., Ill : 1. 657. 
EVIDENCE. — Circumstantial. 

Sal. If that it be the work of any 
hand ? — 
We had a kind of light, what would ensue : 
It is the shameful work of Hubert's hand. 
K. J., IV: 3. 669. 

EVDL. — Aggravated by Words. 

Hero. * * One doth not know 
How much an ill word may empoison liking. 
M.A.,III: 1. 238. 

— Doubled. 

Luc. * * 
111 deeds are doubled with an evil word. 

C.E.,JX1: 2. 201. 



— Enduring. 

! Ant. * * 
The evil, that men do, lives after them. 

J. C, III : 2. 1339. 

! 

— Good in. 

K. Hen. * * God Almighty ! 
; There is some soul of goodness in things 
evil, 
Would men observingly distil it out ; 
For our bad neigbour makes us early stir- 
rers, 
Which is both healthful and good husbandry : 
Besides, they are our outward consciences, 
And preachers to us all ; admonishing 
That we should dress us fairly for our end. 
Thus may we gather honey from the weed, 
And make a moral of the devil himself. 

H. V., IV : 1. 840. 
— Its Loss never Bewailed. 
Luc. * * 
No evil lost is wail'd when it is gone. 

C. E., IV : 2. 205. 

— Out of Good. 

Pro. * * And my trust, 

| Like a good parent, did beget of him 

j A falsehood, in its contrary as great 

As mv trust was. 

T., I: 2. 9. 

— Proclivity to. 

Claud. * * Our natures do pursue 
| (Like rats that ravin down their proper 
bane) 
A thirsty evil ; and when we drink, we die. 
31. 31. , I: 2. 14.3. 

— Worst in Woman. 
All. See thyself, devil ! 

Proper deformity seems not in the fiend 
So horrid, as in woman. 

K. L., IV: 2. 1472, 

EVILS.— But Little Choice of. 

Fal. To wake a wolf, is as bad as to 
smell a fox. 

//. IV., 2pt.,I: 2. 777. 

— Departing. 

Pand. Before the curing of a strong 
disease, 
Even in the instant of repair and health, 
The fit is strongest ; evils, that take leave, 



EVILS. 



I 94 



EXAGGERATION. 



On their departure most of all show evil : 
What have you lost by losing of this day? 
K.J.,111: 4. 663. 

— Great, Their Remedies. 

Gar. Which reformation must be sud- 
den too, 
My noble lords : for those, that tame wild 

horses, 
Pace them not in their hands to make them 

gentle ; 
But stop their mouths with stubborn bits, 

and spur them, 
Till they obey the manage. If we suffer 
(Out of our easiness, and childish pity 
To one man's honour) this contagious sick- 
ness, 
Farewell all physic : And what follows 

then? 
Commotions, uproars, with a general taint 
Of the whole state : as, of late days, our 

neighbours, 
The upper Germany, can dearly witness, 
Yet freshly pitied in our memories. 

//. VIIL, V : 2. 1090. 

— Lesser, not Thought of. 

Lear. Thou think 'st 't is much, that this 

contentious storm 
Invades us to the skin : so 't is to thee ; 
But where the greater malady is fix'd, 
The lesser is scarce felt. Thoud'st shun a 

bear ; 
But if thy flight lay toward the raging sea, 
Thoud'st meet the bear i' the mouth. When 

the mind 's free, 
The body 's delicate ; the tempest in my 

mind 
Doth from my senses take all feeling else, 
Save what beats there. — Filial ingratitude ! 
Is it not as this mouth should tear this 

hand, 
For lifting food to 't? — But I will punish 

home : — 
No, I will weep no more. — In such a night 
To shut me out ! — Pour on ; I will endure : 
In such a night as this ! Regan, Gone- 

ril! — 
Your old kind father, whose frank heart 

gave all, — 
O, that way madness lies ; let me shun that; 
No more of that. 

K. L., Ill : 4. 1464. 



— Unavoidable. 
Cas. I did not think, you could have 

been so angry. 
Bru. O Cassius, I am sick of many 

griefs. 
Cas. Of your philosophy you make no 

use, 
If you give place to accidental evils. 

Bru. No man bears sorrow better : — 

Portia is dead. 
Cas. Ha! Portia? 
Bru. She is dead. 
Cas. How scap'd I killing, when I 

cross'd you so? — 

insupportable and touching loss ! 

J. C, IV : 3. 1345. 
EXAGGERATION.— Bombastic. 

Pol. * * And therefore, like a cipher, 
Yet standing in rich place, I multiply, 
With one we-thank-you, many thousands 
more 

That go before it. 

W. T., I: 2. 581. 

Sold. * * 
If I say sooth, I must report they were 
As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks. 
, JT., I: 1. 1357. 

Fal. I am a rogue, if I were not at half- 
sword with a dozen of • them two hours 
together. I have 'scap'd by miracle. I am 
eight times thrust through th£ doublet; 
four, through the hose ; my buckler cut 
through and through ; my sword hacked 
like a hand-saw, ecce signum. I never 
dealt better since I was a man : all would 
not do. A plague of all cowards ! 
* * 

Fal. Nay, that 's past praying for : for I 
have peppered two of them : two, I am 
sure, I have paid ; two rogues in buckram 
suits. I tell thee what, Hal, — if I tell thee 
a lie, spit in my face, call me horse. Thou 
knowest my old ward ; — here I lay, and thus 

1 bore my point. Four rogues in buckram 
let drive at me, 

P. lien. What, four? thou said'st but 
two, even now. 

Fal. Four, Hal ; I told thee four. 

Poins. Ay, ay, he said four. 

Fal. These four came all a-front, and 
mainly thrust at me. I made me no more 
ado, but took all their seven points in my 
target, thus. 

P. Hen. Seven? why, there were but 
four even now. 



EXAGGERATION. 



195 



EXCELLENCY. 



FaL In buckram? 

Poins. Ay, four, in buckram suits. 

FaL Seven, by these hilts, or I am a 
villain else. 

P. Hen. Pr'ythee, let him alone; we 
shall have more anon. 

FaL Dost thou hear me, Hal? 

P. Hen. Ay, and mark thee too, Jack. 

FaL Do so, for it is worth the listening 
to. These nine in buckram, that I told 
thee of, 

P. Hen. So, two more already. 

FaL Their points being broken, 

Poins. Down fell their hose. 

FaL Began to give me ground : but I 
followed me close, came in foot and hand ; 
and, with a thought, seven of the eleven I 
paid. 

P. Hen. monstrous ! eleven buckram 
men grown out of two ! 

H. IV., 1 pt., II: 4. 740. 

— Of Grief. 

Path. How will my wife, for slaughter 
of my son, 
Shed seas of tears, and ne'er be satisfied! 
II VI, 3pt., II: 5. 968. 

EXAMPLE. — Bad, in War. 

Post. * * 
But by example, (0, a sin in war 
Damn'd in the first beginners !) 'gan to look 
The way that they did, and to grin like lions 
Upon the pikes o' the hunters. 

Cym., V : 3. 1622. 

— Followed. 

1 Goth. * * 
Be bold in us : we '11 follow where thou 

lead'st, — 
Like stinging bees in hottest summer's day, 
Led by their master to the flower'd fields. 

Tit. And., V: 1. 1225. 

— Influence oL 

FaL I '11 follow you, good master Robert 
Shallow. Bardolph, look to our horses. If 
I were sawed into quantities, I should make 
four dozen of such bearded hermit's-staves 
as master Shallow. It is a wonderful thing 
to see the semblable coherence of his men's 
spirits and his : They, by observing him, do 
bear themselves like foolish justices ; he, 
by conversing with them, is turned into a 
justice-like serving-man ; their spirits are so 
married in conjunction with the participa- 
tion of society, that they flock together in 
consent, like so many wild-geese. If I had 



a suit to master Shallow, I would humour 
his men, with the imputation of being near 
their master : if to his men, I would curry 
with master Shallow, that no man could 
better command his servants. It is certain, 
that either wise bearing, or ignorant car- 
riage, is caught, as men take diseases, one 
of another : therefore, let men take heed of 
their company. 

H. IV., 2pt., V: 1. 805. 

Ham. * * 
Here is your husband ; like a mildew 'd ear, 
Blasting his wholesome brother. 

II, III: 4. 1419. 

— Inspires. 
Bast. * * 

Be stirring as the time ; be fire with fire ; 
Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the 

brow 
Of bragging horror : so shall inferior eyes, 
That borrow their behaviours from the 

great. 
Grow great by your example, and put on 
The dauntless spirit of resolution. 
Away ; and glister like the god of war, 
When he intendeth to become the field. 

K.J.,V: 1. 671. 
EXCELLENCE. — Incomparable. 

Ham. He was a man, take him for all in 

all, 
I shall not look upon his like again. 

II, I: 2. 1395. 

lack. Some dozen Romans of us, and 
your lord, 
(The best feather of our wing.) 

. Cym., I: 7. 1598. 

— Of Character. 

Mer. A most incomparable man ; breath'd 
as it were, 
To an untirable and continuate goodness. 

T.A.,1: 1. 1286. 

EXCELLENCY.— It Paragons Descrip- 
tion. 

Cas. Most fortunately : hehathachiev'd 
a maid 
That paragons description, and wild fame ; 
One that excels the quirks of blazoning 

pens, 
And in the essential vesture of creation, 
Does bear all excellency. 

0..II: 1. 1500. 



EXCELSIOR. 



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EXPECTATIONS. 



EXCELSIOR.— Sign of Nobleness. 

Glo. My lord, 't is but a base ignoble 
mind 
That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. 
//. VI. , 2pt.,II: 1. 915. 

Glo. And fearless minds climb soonest 
unto crowns. 

H. VI., 3 pt., V : 7. 984. 

EXCESS. 

King. * * 
For goodness, growing to a pleurisy, 
Dies in his own too-much. 

H., IV: 7. 1428. 

— Dangerous. 

Iago. If I can fasten but one cup upon 
him, 
With that which he hath drunk to-night 

already, 
He '11 be as full of quarrel and offence 
As my young mistress' dog. 

0., II : 3. 1504. 

— Ridiculous. 

Sal. * * 
To guard a title that was rich before, 
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 
To throw a perfume on the violet, 
To smooth the ice, or add another hue 
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light 
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to 

garnish, 
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. 

K. J., IV: 2. 665. 

Claud. * * 
So every scope, by the immoderate use, 
Turns to restraint. 

M. M., 1 : 2. 145. 

EXCUSE.— Early Found. 

Bru. * * And, since the quarrel 
"Will bear no colour for the thing he is. 
Fashion it thus ; that what he is, augmented, 
"Would run to these, and these extremities : 
And therefore think him as a serpent's egg, 
"Which, hatch'd, would as his kind grow 

mischievous ; 
And kill him in the shell. 

J. C, II: 1. 1329. 



EXCUSES. — How Patched. 

Cobs. You praise yourself 

By laying defects of judgment to me ; but 
You patch 'd up your excuses. 

A. C, II : 2. 1548. 

— Vain When all are Dead. 

The. No epilogue, I pray you ; for your 
play needs no excuse. Never excuse ; for 
when the players are all dead, there need 
none to be blamed. 

M. X., V : 1. 345. 

EXPECTATION.— Alive and Eager. 

3 Gent. * * 
For every minute is expectancy 
Of more arrivance. 

0., II: 1. 1500. 

— Bewildering Power. 

Tro. * * I do fear besides, 
That I shall lose distinction in my joys ; 
As doth a battle, when they charge on heaps 
The enemy flying. 

T. C, III : 2. 1121. 

EXPECTATIONS. — False. 

Biron. Allons! Allons! — Sow'd cockle, 
reap'd no corn ; 
And justice always whirls in equal measure. 
L.L..IV: 3. 291. 

— Impatient. 

The. * * She lingers my desires, 
Like to a step-dame, or a dowager, 
Long withering out a young man's revenue. 
M. y.,I: 1. 321. 

— Unfounded. 
Bard. * * A cause on foot 
Lives so in hope, as in an early spring 
We see the appearing buds ; which, to prove 

fruit, 
Hope gives not so much warrant, as de- 
spair 
That frosts will bite them. When we mean 

to build, 
We first survey the plot, then draw the 

model ; 
And when we see the figure of the house, 
Then must we rate the cost of the erection : 
Which if we find outweighs ability, 
What do we then, but draw anew the model 
In fewer offices ; or, at least, desist 



EXPECTATIONS. 



I 9 7 



EXPOSTULATION. 



To build at all? Much more in this great 

work, 
(Which is, almost, to pluck a kingdom 

down, 
And set another up,) should we survey 
The plot of situation, and the model ; 
Consent upon a sure foundation ; 
Question surveyors ; know our own estate, 
How able such a work to undergo, 
To weigh against his opposite ; or else, 
We fortify in paper, and in figures, 
Using the names of men, instead of men : 
Like one that draws the model of a house 
Beyond his power to build it, who, half 

through, 
Gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost 
A naked subject to the weeping clouds, 
And waste for churlish winter's tyranny. 

H. IV., 2pt., I: 3. 779. 

—Why Hidden. 

King Hen. * * 
For now sits Expectation in the air ; 
And hides a sword, from hilts unto the point. 
H. V., II: C. 824. 

EXPEDIENTS. — Base. 

Isab. * * 
Thou art too noble to conserve a life 
In base appliances. 

M. M., Ill : 1. 157. 

— Fertility in. 

Quin. Well, it shall be so. But there 
is two things ; that is, to bring the moon- 
light into a chamber : for you know Pyra- 
mus and Thisby meet by moonlight. 

Snug. Doth the moon shine that night 
we play our play? 

Bot A calendar, a calendar ! look in 
the almanac ; find out moonshine, find out 
moonshine. 

Quin. Yes, it doth shine that night. 

Bot. Why, then may you leave a case- 
ment of the great chamber-window, where 
we play, open ; and the moon may shine in 
at the casement. 

Quin. Ay; or else one must come in 
with a bush of thorns and a lantern, and say, 
he comes to disfigure, or to present, the 
person of moonshine. Then there is another 
thing : we must have a wall in the great 
chamber ; for Pyramus and Thisby, says 
the story, did talk through the chink of a 
wall. 



Snug. You can never bring in a wall. — 
What say you, Bottom? 

Bot. Some man or other must present 
wall : and let him have some plaster, or 
some loam, or some rough-cast about him, 
to signify wall : or let him hold his fingers 
thus, and through that cranny shall Pyra- 
mus and Thisby whisper. 

M. N., Ill : 1. 330. 

— In Extremity. 

Mar. Sit down, sweet niece; — brother, 
sit down by me. — 
Apollo, Palas, Jove, or Mercury, 
Inspire me, that I may this treason find ! — 
My lord, look here; — Look here, Lavinia : 
This sandy plot is plain; guide, if thou 

canst, 
This after me, when I have writ my name 
Without the help of any hand at all. 

Tit. And., IV ': 1, 1219. 

EXPERIENCE— A Costly Jewel. 

Ford. * * Unless experience be a 
jewel ; that I have purchased at an infinite 
rate. 

M. IF., II: 2. 99. 

— Disproves Report. 

Imo. * * 
Experience, O, thou disprov'st report ! 
The imperious seas breed monsters ; for the 

dish, 
Poor tributary rivers as sweet fish. 

Gym., IV : 2. 1615. 
— Perfected by Time. 
Ant. * * 
Experience is by industry achiev'd, 
And perfected by the swift course of time. 

T. G., 1 : 3. 51. 

EXPLANATION. — Offered. 

Des. * * 
To my unfolding lend a gracious ear ; 
And let me find a charter in your voice, 
To assist my simpleness. 

O., 1 : 3. 1497. 

EXPOSTULATION— From those We 
Love. 

Const. If thou, that bidd'st me be con- 
tent, wert grim, 
Ugly, and sland'rous to thy mother's womb, 
Eull of unpleasing blots, and sightless stains, 
Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious, 



EXPOSTULATION. 



I98 



EXTREMITIES. 



Patch'd with foul moles, and eye-offending 

marks, 
I would not care. I then would be content;- 
For then I should not love thee ; no, nor 

thou 
Become thy great birth, nor deserve a 

crown. 

K. J., Ill : l. 657. 

EXPULSION. — Ignominious. 

Ant. * * I cannot tell, good sir, for 
which of his virtues it was, but he was cer- 
tainly whipped out of the court. 

W. T.,IV: 2. 600. 

EXTENUATION.— -Sometimes Aggra- 
vates. 

Pern. * * 
And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault, 
Doth make the fault the worse by the ex- 
cuse ; 
As patches, set upon a little breach, 
Discredit more in hiding of the fault, 
Than did the fault before it was so patch'd. 
K. J., IV: 2. 666. 

Isab. 0, pardon me, my lord ; it oft falls 
out 
To have what we would have, we speak not 

what we mean : 
I something do excuse the thing I hate, 
For his advantage that I dearly love. 

M. M.,TL: 4. 155. 
EXTERMINATION. — Utter. 

Char. For prisoners ask'st thou? hell 
our prison is. 

H. VI, lpt.,IV: 7. 890. 

EXTRAVAGANCE.— In Rulers Worse 

than War. 
Willo. And daily new exactions are de- 

vis'd ; 
As blanks, benevolences, and I Avot not 

what : 
But what, o' God's name, doth become of 

this? 
North. Wars have not wasted it, for 

warr'd he hath not, 
But basely yielded upon compromise 
That which his ancestors achiev'd with 

blows : 
More hath he spent in peace, than they in 

wars. 

R. II, II : 1. 695. 



— Must be Checked. 

Flav. No care, no stop ! so senseless of 
expense, 

That he will neither know how to maintain 
it, 

Nor cease his flow of riot : Takes no ac- 
count 

How things go from him ; no reserve, no 
care 

Of what is to continue : Never mind 

Was to be so unwise, to be so kind. 

What shall be done? He will not hear, till 
feel: 

I must be round with him, now he comes 

from hunting. 

T. A., II : 2. 1294. 

— Of a Lover. 

Dem, O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, 

divine ! 
To what, my love, shall I compare thine 

eyne? 
Crystal is muddy. 0, how ripe in show 
Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting 

grow ! 
That pure congealed white, high Taurus' 

snow, 
Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a 

crow, 
When thou hold'st up thy hand. O, let me 

kiss 
This princess of pure white, this seal of 

bliss ! 

M.m,in: 2. 334. 

EXTREMITIES.— Presage of Deliver- 
ance. 

No?~th. Not so ; even through the hol- 
low eyes of death, 
I spy life peering ; but I dare not say 
How near the tidings of our comfort is. 
Willo. Nay, let us share thy thoughts, 

as thou dost ours. 
Ross. Be confident to speak, Northum- 
berland : 
We three are but thyself; and, speaking so, 
Thy words are but as thoughts ; therefore, 
be bold. 
North. * * 
Kedeem from broking pawn the blemish'd 

crown, 
Wipe off the dust that hides our sceptre's 
guilt, 



EXTREMITIES. 



I 99 



EXTREMITY. 



And make high majesty look like itself, 
Away, with me, in post to Ravenspurg : 
But if you faint, as fearing to do so, 
Stay, and be secret, and myself will go. 

R. II, II : 1. 695. 

— Should Blend Policy with Honor 
Vol. You are too absolute ; 

Though therein you can never be too noble, 
But when extremities speak. I have heard 

you say, 
Honour and policy, like unsever'd friends, 
I' the war do grow together : Grant that, 

and tell me, 
In peace, what each of them by th' other 

lose, 
That they combine not there. 
* * 

If it be honour, in your wars, to seem 
The same you are not, (which, for your 

best ends 
You adopt your policy,) how is it less, or 

worse, 

That it shall hold companionship in peace 

With honour, as in war ; since that to both 

It stands in like request? 

C., III : 2. 1173. 

EXTREMITY. — D emands Courage. 

Q. Mar. * * 
What though the mast be now blown over- 
board, 
The cable broke, the holding anchor lost, 
And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood? 
Yet lives our pilot still : Is 't meet, that he 
Should leave the helm, and, like a fearful 

lad, 
With tearful eyes add water to the sea, 
And give more strength to that which hath 

too much? 

H. 77.,3pt., V: 4. 989. 

— Frantic Ravings in. 

K. Rich. A horse ! a horse ! my king- 
dom for a horse ! 
Cate. Withdraw, my lord, I '11 help you 

to a horse. 
K. Rich. Slave, I have set my life upon 
a cast, 
And I will stand the hazard of the die : 
I think, there be six Richmonds in the field ; 
Five have I slain to-day, instead of him : — 
A horse ! a horse ! my kingdom for a horse ! 
R.III.,V: 4. 1047. 



— Help in, Implored. 

Mart. * * 
O brother, help me with thy fainting hand, — 
If fear hath made thee faint, as me it hath, — 
Out of this fell devouring receptacle, 
As hateful as Cocytus' misty mouth. 

Tit. And., II : 4. 1212. 

— Its Resources. 

Q. Mar. * * 

Say, Warwick was our anchor : What of 
that? 

And Montague our top-mast : What of him? 

Our slaughter'd friends the tackles : What 
of these? 

Why, is not Oxford here another anchor? 

And Somerset another goodly mast? 

The friends of France our shrouds and tack- 
lings? 

And, though unskilful, why not Ned and I 

For once allow'd the skilful pilot's charge? 
If. VI, 3pt., V: 4. 989. 

Tit. * * 
For now I stand as one upon a rock, 
Environ'd with a wilderness of sea ; 
Who marks the waxing tide grow wave by 

wave, 
Expecting ever when some envious surge 
Will in his brinish bowels swallow him. 

Tit. And., Ill: 1. 1215. 

— Seldom Reached. 

Old Man. 'T is poor mad Tom. 

Edg. And worse I may be yet : The 

worst is not, 

So long as we can say, "This is the worst." 

K. L., IV: 1. 1471. 

— The True Test. 

Cor. Come, leave your tears ; a brief 

farewell : — the beast 
With many heads butts me away — Nay, 

mother, 
Where is your ancient courage? you were 

us'd 
To say, extremity was the trier of spirits ; 
That common chances common men couW 

bear ; 
That, when the sea was calm, all boats alike 
Show'd mastership in floating : fortune's 

blows, 



EXTREMITY. 



200 



EYE. 



When most struck home, being gentle-mind- 
ed, craves 
A noble cunning : you were us'd to load me 
With precepts, that would make invincible 
The heart that conn'd them. 

C, IV : 1. 1177. 

EYE. — A Leering. 

Biron. * * 
You leer upon me, do you? there 's an eye, 
Wounds like a leaden sword. 

L.L., V: 2. 299. 

— All the Senses in. 

Boyet. Why, all his behaviours do make 
their retire 

To the court of his eye, peeping thorough 
desire : 

His heart, like an agate, with your print 
impressed, 

Proud with his form, in his eye pride ex- 
pressed : 

His tongue, all impatient to speak and not 
see, 

Did stumble with haste in his eye-sight to 
be; 

All senses to that sense did make their re- 
pair, 

To feel only looking on fairest of fair : 

Methought all his senses were lock'd in his 
eye, 

As jewels in crystal for some prince to buy ; 

Who, tend'ring their own worth, from 
whence they were glass'd, 

Did point out to buy them, along as 3-ou 

pass'd. 

L.L., II: 1. 279. 

K. Rich. Uncle, even in the glasses of 
thine eyes 
I see thy grieved heart. 

R. II, 1 : 3. 690. 

— Emulating a Diamond. 

Fal. Let the court of France show me 
such another. I see how thine eye would 
emulate the diamond. 

M. W., TIT: ?>. 105. 

— Its Power. 

Iago. What an eye she has ! methinks it 
sounds a parley of provocation. 

Cas. An inviting eye ; and } T et methinks 
right modest. 



Iago. And, when she speaks, is it not an 
alarm to love? 

0., II: 3. 1504. 

— Its Power not Known. 
Acliil. This is not strange, Ulysses. 

The beauty that is borne here in the face 
The bearer knows not, but commends itself 
To others' eyes : nor doth the eye itself 
(That most pure spirit of sense) behold it- 
self, 
Not going from itself; but eye to eye op- 

pos'd 
Salutes each other with each other's form. 
For speculation turns not to itself, 
Till it hath travell'd, and is mirror'd there 
Where it may see itself: this is not strange 

at all. 

T. C, III : 3. 1124. 

— More Perilous than Sword. 

Rom,. Alack ! there lies more peril in 
thine eye, 
Than twenty of their swords ; look thou but 

sweet, 
And I am proof against their enmity. 

R.J.,II: 2. 1251. 

EYEBROWS. — Blue. 

Mam. * * 
What colour are your eyebrows 9 
1 Lady. Blue, my lord. 

Mam. Nay, that's a mock; I have seen 
a lady's nose 
That has been blue, but not her eyebrows. 
W. T., II :' 1. 587. 

EYES. — A Sign of Rage. 

Suf. * * 
Mine eyes should sparkle like the beaten 

flint. 

H. VI., 2pt., Ill: 2. 930. 

— And Ears. 

Hect. * * 
My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, 
Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous 

shores 
Of will and judgment. 

T. C., H : 2. 1114. 

— Closed with Tears. 

Fal. * * 
For tears do stop the flood-gate of her eyes. 
//. IV., lpt.,11: 4. 742. 



EYES. 20I EYES. 


— Dimmed in Death. 


— Of Fire. 


War. * * 


Mowb. * * 


These eyes, that now are dimm'd with 


Their eyes of fire sparkling through sights 


death's black veil, 


of steel, 


Have been as piercing as the mid day-sun, 


And the loud trumpet blowing them to- 


To search the secret treasons of the world. 


gether. 


H. VI, 3 pt., V : 2. 988. 


H. IV., 2 pt., IV : 1796. 


— Evil. 


—Red. 


Pol. How caught of me? 


Bast. * * 


Make me not sighted like the basilisk. 


(With eyes as red as new-enkindled fire,) 


W. T.,I: 2. 585. 


K. J., IV: 2. 667. 


— Fiery. 






— Their Power. 


Q. Mar. * * 




Edward and Richard, like a brace of grey- 


Ham. * * 


hounds 


An eye like Mars, to threaten and com- 


Having the fearful flying hare in sight, 


mand. 


With fiery eyes, sparkling for very wrath, 


//., Ill : 4. 1419. 


And bloody steel grasp 'd in their ireful 


Men. * * 


hands, 


He is able to pierce a corslet with his eye. 


Are at our backs ; and therefore hence 


G.,V: 5. 1191. 


amain. 




H. VI., 3pt., II: 5. 969. 


Hel. * * 




Your eves are load-stars. 


— G-reen. 






M. JH., 1 : 1. 323. 


This. * * 




His eyes were green as leeks. 


Phe. I would not be thy executioner ; 


M. N., V: 1. 345. 


I fly thee, for I would not injure thee. 


— Killing. 


Thou tell'st me, there is murther in mine 


K. Hen. * * Come, basilisk, 


eye; 


And kill the innocent gazer with thy sight. 


'T is pretty sure, and very probable, 




That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest 


//. VI., lpt., Ill: 2. 927. 






things, 


— Made to Look. 


Who shut their coward gates on atomies, 


Mer. Men's eyes were made to look, 


Should be call'd tyrants, butchers, mur- 


and let them gaze ; 


therers ! 


I will not budge for no man's pleasure, I. 


Now I do frown on thee with all my heart ; 


R. J., Ill : 1. 1259. 


And, if mine eyes can wound, now let them 




kill thee : 


— More than the Tongue. 


Now counterfeit to swound ; why, now fall 


Arth. Hubert, the utterance of a brace 


down ; 


of tongues 


Or, if thou can'st not, 0, for shame, for 


Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes : 


shame ! 


Let me not hold my tongue ; let me not, 


Lie not, to say mine eyes are murtherers. 


Hubert ! 


Now show the wound mine eye hath made 


Or, Hubert, if you will, cut out my tongue, 


in thee : 


So I may keep mine eyes ; 0, spare mine 


Scratch thee but with a pin, and there re- 


eyes; 


mains 


Though to no use, but still to look on you ! 


Some scar- of it; lean upon a rush, 


Lo, by my troth, the instrument is cold, 


The cicatrice and capable impressure 


And would not harm me. 


Thy palm some moment keeps ; but now 


K.J.,TV: 1. 665. 


mine eyes, 



EYES. 



202 



FACE. 



Which I have darted at thee, hurt thee not ; 
Nor, I am sure, there is no force in eyes 
That can do hurt. 

A. Y., Ill : 5. 427. 

— Waxing Dim. 

Mor. * * 

These eyes, — like lamps whose wasting oil 

is spent, — 

Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent : 

Weak shoulders, overborne with burd'ning 

grief; 

And pithless arms, like to a wither'd vine 

That droops his sapless branches to the 

ground. 

//. VI, lpt., II: 5. 876. 

— Woman's. 
Biron. * * 
Now, for not looking on a woman's face, 



You have in that forsworn the use of eyes ; 
And study too, the causer of your vow : 
For where is any author in the world, 
Teaches such learning as a woman's eye? 
Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, 
And where we are, our learning likewise is. 
Then, when ourselves we see in ladies' eyes, 
With ourselves 

Do we not likewise see our learning there? 
* * 

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive : 
They sparkle till the right Promethean fire ; 
They are the books, the arts,f the academes, 
That show, contain, and nourish all the 

world ; 
Else, none at all in aught proves excellent : 
Then fools you were these women to for- 
swear. 

L. L., IV : 3. 290. 



FACE. 

Lady M. * * 
Your face, my thane, is as 

men 
May read strange matters. 



a book, where 



M.,I: 5. 1361. 



— A February. 

D. Pedro. Good morrow, Benedick : 
Why, what 's the matter, 
That you have such a February face, 
So full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness? 
M.A.,V: 4. 255. 

— A Good. 

K. Hen. * * 
Ah, uncle Humphrey ! in thy face I see 
The map of honour, truth, and loyalty. 

H. VI., 2 pt., Ill : 1. 924. 

— A Hairy. 

Bot. * * I must to the barber's, mon- 
sieur; for, methinks, I am marvellous hairy 
about the face ; and I am such a tender ass, 
if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch. 
M. IT., IV: 1. 338. 



—A Red. 

Fal. * * If thou wert any way given 
to virtue, I would swear by thy face ; my 
oath should be, By this fire : but thou art 
altogther given over ; and wert indeed, but 
for the light in thy face, the son of utter 
darkness. When thou ran'st up, Gads-hill 
in the night to catch my horse, if I did not 
think thou hadst been an ignis fatuus, or a 
ball of wildfire, there 's no purchase in 
money. O, thou art a perpetual triumph, 
an everlasting bonfire-light ! Thou hast 
saved me a thousand marks in links and 
torches, walking with thee in the night be- 
twixt tavern and tavern : but the sack that 
thou hast drunk me, would have bought me 
lights as good cheap, at the dearest chand- 
ler's in Europe. I have maintained that sala- 
mander of yours with fire, any time this 
two-and-thirty years : Heaven reward me 
for it ! 

H. IV., 1 pt., Ill : 3. 249. 



— A Tell-Tale. 

Des. * * 
For, if he be not one that truly loves you, 
That errs in ignorance, and not in cunning, 
I have no judgment in an honest face. 

0., Ill : 3. 1510. 



FACE. 



203 



FAILURE. 



North. Yea, this man's brow, like to a 
title-leaf, 
Foretels the nature of a tragic volume : 
So looks the strand, whereon the imperious 

flood 
Hath left a witness'd usurpation. 

H. /F.,2pt., I: 1. 774. 

— An Index to the Mind. 

North. * * And the whiteness in thy 
cheek 
Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand. 
H. IV., 2pt., I: 1. 774. 

Dun. There 's no art, 

To find the mind's construction in the face : 
He was a gentleman on whom I built 
An absolute trust. 

31., I: 4. 1360. 

— Cannot Express Great Sorrow. 

K. Rich. * * 
Give me that glass, and therein will I read. 
No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow 

struck 
So many blows upon this face of mine, 
And made no deeper wounds? — O, flatter- 
ing glass, 
Like to my followers in prosperity, 
Thou dost beguile me ! Was this face the 

face, 
That every day under his household roof 
Did keep ten thousand men? Was this the 

face, 
That, like the sun, did make beholders 

wink? 
Was this the face, that fac'd so many follies, 
And was at last out-fac'd by Bolingbroke? 
A brittle glory shineth in this face : 
As brittle as the glory is the face ; 

[Dashes the Glass against the ground. 
For there it is, crack'd in a hundred shivers. 
Mark, silent king, the moral of this sport, — 
How soon my sorrow hath destroy 'd my 

face. 
Doling. The shadow of your sorrow 

hath destroy'd 
The shadow of your face. 

K. Rich. Say that again. 

The shadow of my sorrow? Ha ! let 's see ; 
'T is very true, my grief lies all within ; 
And these external manners of lament 



Are merely shadows to the unseen grief, 
That swells with silence in the tortur'd soul ; 
There lies the substance ; and I thank thee, 

king, 
For thy great bounty, that not only giv'st 
Me cause to wail, but teachest me the way 
How to lament the cause. 

R. II, IV : 1. 710. 

— Hides "Wrong Doing. 

Macb. I am settled, and bend up 

Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. 
Away, and mock the time with fairest show : 
False face must hide what the false heart 
doth know. 

31., 1 : 7. 1363 

— Its Value. 
Dast. Brother, take you my land, I '11 
take my chance : 
Your face hath got five hundred pounds a 
year. 

K.J.,1: 1. 648. 

FACES.— Of Criminals. 

Macb. * * 
Let your remembrance apply |o Banquo ; 
Present him eminence, both with eye and 

tongue : 
Unsafe the while, that we 
Must lave our honours in these flattering 

streams ; 
And make our faces vizards to our hearts, 
Disguising what they are. 

31., Ill: 2. 1370. 

— Women's, False. 

Men. All men's faces are true, whatso- 
e'er their hands are. 

Eno. But there is never a fair woman 
has a true face. 

A. C, II : 6. 1555. 

FAILURE.— No Ground for Distrust. 
Char. We have been guided by thee 
hitherto, 
And of thy cunning had no diffidence ; 
One sudden foil shall never breed distrust. 
H. F/.,lpt., Ill: 3. 882. 

— Sweeping. 
Dass. * * 

Have all his ventures fail'd? What, not one 

hit? 



FAILURE. 



204 



FAIRIES. 



From Tripolis, from Mexico, and England, 
From Lisbon, Barbary, and India? 
And not one vessel 'scape the dreadful touch 
Of merchant-marring rocks? 

M. V., ni : 2. 379. 

FAIRIES.— Laid under Tribute. 

Tit a. Be kind and courteous to this 
gentleman ; 

Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes ; 

Feed him with apricocks, and dewberries ; 

With purple grapes, green figs, and mul- 
berries ; 

The honey bags steal from the humble-bees, 

And, for night-tapers, crop their waxen 
thighs, 

And light them at the fiery glow-worm's 
eyes, 

To have my love to bed, and to arise ; 

And jduck the wings from painted butter- 
flies, 

To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping 
eyes : 

Nod to him, elves, and do him courtesies. 

M. N., Ill : 1. 332. 

— Their Business. 

Pro. Thou dost ! and think'st it much to 
tread the ooze 
Of the salt deep; 

To run upon the sharp wind of the north ; 
To do me business in the veins o' th' earth, 
When it is bak'd with frost. 

T., 1 : 2. 11. 

— Their Homes. 

Ari. 

Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; 
In a cowslip's bell I lie; 
There I couch when owls do cry ; 
On the bat's back I do fly 
After summer merrily : 
Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, 
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. 
T.,V: 1. 31. 

— Their Vocation. 
Anne. Fairies, black, grey, green, and 
white, 
You moonshine revellers, and shades of 

night, 
You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, 
Attend your office and your quality. 
Crier Hobgoblin, make the fairy oyes. 



Pist. Elves, list your names ; silence, 

you airy toys. 
Cricket, to Windsor chimneys shalt thou 

leap : 
Where fires thou find'st unrak'd, and 

hearths unswept, 
There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry : 
Our radiant queen hates sluts and sluttery. 
Fal. They are fairies ; he that speaks to 

them shall die : 
I '11 wink and couch : no man their works 

must eye. 
Eva. Where 's Bead ? — Go you, and 

where you find a maid, 
That, ere she sleep, has thrice her prayers 

said, 
Raise up the organs of her fantasy, 
Sleep she as sound as careless infancy ; 
But those as sleep and think not on their 

sins, 
Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, 

sides, and shins. 
Anne. About, about; 
Search Windsor-castle, elves, within and 

out: 
Strew good luck, ouphes, on every sacred 

room ; 
That it may stand till the perpetual doom, 
In state as wholesome, as in state 'tis fit; 
Worthy the owner, and the owner it. 
The several chairs of order look you scour 
With juice of balm, and every precious 

flower : 
Each fair instalment, coat, and sev'ral crest, 
With loyal blazon evermore be bless'd ! 
And nightly, meadow-fairies, look, you sing, 
Like to the Garter's compass, in a ring: 
Th' expressure that it bears, green let it be, 
More fertile-fresh than all the field to see ; 
And, Hony soil qui mal y pense, write, 
In emrold tuffs, flowers purple, blue, and 

white : 
Like sapphire, pearl, and rich embroidery, 
Buckled below fair knighthood's bending 

knee : 
Fairies use flowers for their charactery. 

M. W.,V: 5. 118. 

— Their Wanderings. 

Puck. How now, spirit! whither wander 

you? 
Fai. Over hill, over dale, 



FAIRIES. 



205 



FALSEHOOD. 



Thorough bush, thorough brier, 
Over park, over pale, 

Thorough flood, thorough fire, 
I do wander everywhere, 
Swifter than the moon's sphere ; 
And I serve the fairy queen, 
To dew her orbs upon the green : 
The cowslips tall her pensioners be ; 
In their gold coats spots you see ; 
Those be rubies, fairy favours, 
In those freckles live their savours : 

I must go seek some dew-drops here, 

And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. 

Farewell, thou lob of spirits ; I '11 be gone ; 

Our queen and all her elves come here anon. 
M. JST.,1: 2. 325. 

FAIRY.— A Mischievous One. 

Fat. * * Are you not he, 
That frights the maidens of the villageree ; — 
Skim milk ; and sometimes labour in the 

quern ; 
And bootless make the breathless housewife 

churn ; 
And sometime make the drink to bear no 

barm ; 
Mislead night- wanderers, laughing at their 

harm? 
Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet 

Puck, 
You do their work, and they shall have good 

luck : 

Are you not he? 

Puck. Thou speak'st aright ; 

I am that merry wanderer of the night. 
I jest to Oberon, and make him smile, 
When I a fat and bean-fed horse beguile, 
Neighing in likeness of a filly foal : 
And sometime lurk I in a gossip's bowl, 
In very likeness of a roasted crab ; 
And, when she drinks, against her lips I 

bob, 
And on her wither'd dewlap pour the ale. 
The wisest aunt, telling the saddest tale, 
Sometime for three-foot stool mistaketh me ; 
Then slip I from her bum, down topples she ; 
And "Tailor" cries, and falls into a cough ; 
And then the whole quire hold their hips and 

loffe, 
And waxen in their mirth, and neeze, and 

swear 
A merrier hour was never wasted there. 

31. N., II : 1. 325. 



FAITH. — Broken, Ground of Distrust. 

Q. Eliz. * * 
But, to prevent the tyrant's violence, 
(For trust not him that hath once broken 

faith,) 
I '11 hence forthwith unto the sanctuary, 
To save at least the heir of Edward's right ; 
There shall I rest secure from force, and 
fraud. 

H. VI., 3pt.,IV: 4. 982. 

— Inviolable. 

Flo. It cannot fail, but by 

The violation of my faith : And then 
Let nature crush the sides o' the earth to- 
gether, 
And mar the seeds within ! 

W. T., IV : C. GOG. 

— Relation to Need. 

Const. 0, if thou grant my need, 

Which only lives but by the death of faith, 
That need must needs infer this principle, — 
That faith would live again by death of 

need; 
O, then, tread down my need, and faith 

mounts up ; 

Keep my need up, and faith is trodden 

down. 

K.J.,111: I. 659. 

FAITHLESS.— Not to be Trusted. 

Ther. That same Diomed 's a false- 
hearted rogue, a most unjust knave ; I 
will no more trust him when he leers, than 
I will a serpent when he hisses : he will 
spend his mouth, and promise, like Brabler 
the hound ; but when he performs, astrono- 
mers foretell it : it is prodigious, there will 
come some change ; the sun borrows of the 
moon, when Diomed keeps his word. 

T. C.,V: 1. 1136. 

FALLS. — Some Fortunate. 

Luc. * * Be cheerful ; wipe thine eyes ; 
Some falls are means the happier to arise. 
Cym., TV : 2. 1619. 

FALSEHOOD.— Cured by Falsehood. 

Pand. * * 
And falsehood falsehood cures ; as fire cools 

fire, 
Within the scorched veins of one new 
burn'd. 

K. J., in : 1. 659. 



FALSEHOOD. 2o6 FAME. 


— Defending. 


The flash and out-break of a fiery mind ; 


War. Can Oxford, that did ever "fence 


A savageness in unreclaimed blood, 


the right, 


Of general assault. 


Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree? 


* * 




Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of 


H. F7.,3pt., Ill: 3. 976. 




truth : 


— Shameless. 


And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, 


Leon. * * As you were past all shame, 


With Avindlaces, and with assays of bias, 


(Those of your fact are so,) so past all 


By indirections find directions out. 


truth. 


27., II: 1. 1401. 


W. T., Ill : 2. 594. 






— With Goodly Outside. 


—The Heart of. 


Ant. * * 


Ores. * * When they have said — as 


A goodly apple rotten at the heart ; 


false 


0, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! 


As air, as water, wind, or sandy earth, 


M. V., I : 3. 366. 


As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf, 




Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son ; 


FAME. — Date Outlived. 


Yea, let them say, to stick the heart of 


Tit. * * 


falsehood, 


Lavinia, live ; outlive thy father's days, 


As false as Cressid. 


And fame's eternal date, for virtue's praise ! 


T. G., III : 3. 1123. 


Tit. And., 1 : 2. 1203. 


— Used as Bait. 


— Deeds "Worthy of. 


Pol. * * Look you, sir, 


Fal. * * To the which course if I be 


Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris ; 


enforced, if you do not all show like gilt 


And how, and who, what means, and where 


two-penees to me ; and I, in the clear sky 


they keep. 


of fame, o'ershine you as much as the full 


moon doth the cinders of the element. 


What company, at what expense ; and find- 




ing, 


27. IV., 2 pt., IV : 3. 799. 


By this encompassment and drift of ques- 


Com. If I should tell thee o'er this thy 


tion, 


day's work, 


That they do know my son, come you more 


Thou 'It not believe thy deeds ; but I '11 re- 


nearer 


port it, 


Than your particular demands will touch it : 


Where senators shall mingle tears with 


Take you, as 't were, some distant knowl- 


smiles ; 


edge of him; 


Where great patricians shall attend, and 


As thus, — "I know his father, and his 


shrug, 


friends, 


I' the end, admire ; where ladies shall be 


And, in part, him." * * 


frighted, 


"And, in part him; — but," you may say, 


And, gladly quak'd, hear more ; where the 


" not well : 


dull Tribunes, 


But, if 't be he I mean, he 's very wild ; 


That, with the fusty plebeians, hate thine 


Addicted so and so;" — and there put on 


honours. 


him 


Shall say, against their hearts, — "We thank 


What forgeries you please ; marry, none so 


the gods, 


rank 


Our Rome hath such a soldier ! " 


As may dishonour him ; take heed of that ; 


C, 1 : 9. 1158. 


But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips, 




As are companions noted and most known 


— Demands no Tears. 


To youth and liberty. 


All. * * 


* * But breathe his faults so quaintly, 


He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause. 


That they may seem the taints of liberty, 


Tit. And., 1 : 2. 1206. 



FAME. 



207 



FAMINE. 



— Dependent on Achievement. 

Ulyss. * * 
When fame shall in our islands sound her 

trump ; 
And all the Greekish girls shall tripping 

sing, — 
"Great Hector's sister did Achilles win; 
But our great Ajax bravely beat down him." 
T. 0., III : 3. 1125. 
— Eternal. 
Prince. * * 
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror ; 
For now he lives in fame, though not in life. 
B. III., Ill : 1. 1020. 

Luc. * * Julius Caesar (whose re- 
membrance yet 
Lives in men's eyes ; and will to ears, and 

tongues, 
Be theme and hearing ever.) 

Cym., Ill : 1. 1604. 

— Not Posthumous. 

Bene. * * If a man do not erect in 
this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall 
live no longer in monuments than the. bells 
ring, and the widow weeps. 

M. A.,V: 2. 253. 

— Posthumous. 

King. Let fame, that all hunt after in 

their lives, 
Live register'd upon our brazen tombs, 
And then grace us in the disgrace of death ; 
When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, 
Th' endeavour of this present breath may 

buy 
That honour, which shall bate his scythe's 

keen edge, 
And make us heirs of all eternity. 

L.Z., I: 1. 271. 

— Should be Unlimited. 
K. Hen. * * 

Either our history shall, with full mouth, 
Speak freely of our acts ; or else our grave, 
Like Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless 

mouth, 
Not worshipp'd with a waxen epitaph. 

H. V., I: 2. 823. 

— Undesirable. 

1 Sen. Sit, Coriolanus ; never shame to 
hear 
What you have nobly done. 



Cor. Your honours' pardon 

I had rather have my wounds to heal again, 
Than hear say how I got them. 
Bru. Sir, I hope, 

My words dis-bench'd you not. 

Cor. No, sir : yet oft, 

When blows have made me stay, I fled from 

words. 
You sooth'd not, therefore hurt not : But, 

your people, 
I love them as they weigh. 

Men. Pray now, sit down. 

Cor. I had rather have one scratch my 
head i' the sun, 
When the alarum were struck, than idly sit 
To hear my nothings monster'd. 

Men. Masters o' the people, 

Your multiplying spawn how can he flatter, 
(That 's thousand to one good one,) when 

you now see, 
He had rather venture all his limbs for 

honour, 
Than one of his ears to hear it? 

C., II : 2. 1163. 

FAMILIARITY. — Should not be 
Vulgar. 

Pol. Be thou familiar, but by no means 

vulgar. 

H.,I: 3. 1397. 

—With Horror. 

Macb. I have almost forgot the taste of 

fears : 
The time has been, my senses would have 

cool'd 
To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell of hair 
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir 
As life were in 't : I have supp'd full with 

horrors ; 
Direness, familiar to my slaught'rous 

thoughts, 
Cannot once start me. 

M., V : 5. 1383. 

FAMINE.— Creates Valor. 

Imo. * * Yet famine, 

Ere clean it o'erthrow nature, makes it 

valiant. 

Cym., Ill : 6. 1612. 

— Its Conquering Power. 

Alen. * * 
Either they must be dieted like mules, 



FAMINE. 



208 



FASHION. 



And have their provender tied to their 

mouths, 

Or piteous they will look, like drowned 

mice. 

H. VI., 1 pt., 1 : 2. 866. 

— Its Horrors. 

Cle. * * 
Those palates, who not yet two summers 

younger, 
Must have inventions to delight the taste, 
Would now be glad of bread, and beg for it ; 
Those mothers who, to nousle up their 

babes. 
Thought nought too curious, are ready now, 
To eat those little darlings whom they lov'd. 
So sharp are hunger's teeth, that man and 

wife 
Draw lots, who first shall die to lengthen 

life: 
Here stands a lord, and there a lady weep- 
ing; 
Here many sink, yet those which see them 

fall, 
Have scarce strength left to give them 

burial. 

Is not this true? 

Dio. Our cheeks and hollow eyes do 

witness it. 

P., 1 : 4. 1647. 

FANCY. — Fantastical. 

Duke. * * So full of shapes is fancy, 
That it alone is high-fantastical. 

T. 2K, 1 : 1. 540. 

— Its Source. 

SOXG. 
Tell me where is fancy bred, 
Or in the heart, or in the head? 
How begot, how nourished? 
Reply, reply. 

It is engender'd in the eyes, 
With gazing fed ; and fancy dies 
In the cradle where it lies : 
Let us all ring fancy's knell ; 
I '11 begin it, — Ding, dong, bell. 
Ding, dong, bell. 

M. V., Ill : 2. 377. 

— Overleaps Impediments. 

Ber. * * 
As all impediments in fancy's course 
Are motives of more fancy. 

A. W., V: 3. 528. 



— Wavering. 

Duke. * * 

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, 

More longing, wavering, sooner lost and 

worn, 

Than women's are. 

T. N., II: 4. 550. 

F ARE WEIjIj.— Between Brutus and 
Cassius. 

Bru. No, Cassius, no : think not, thou 

noble Roman, 
That ever Brutus Avill go bound to Rome : 
He bears too great a mind. But this same 

day 
Must end that work, the ides of March 

begun ; 
And whether we shall meet again, I know 

not. 
Therefore our everlasting farewell take : — 
For ever, and for ever, farewell, Cassius ! 
If Ave do meet again, why we shall smile ; 
If not, why then this parting was well made. 
J. C.,V: 1. 1349. 

FASCINATION. — Of Danger. 

Hor. What, if it tempt you toward the 

flood, my lord, 
Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff, 
That beetles o'er his base into the sea, 
And there assume some other horrible form, 
Which might deprive your sovereignty of 

reason, 
And draw you into madness? think of it: 
The very place puts toys of desperation, 
Without more motive, into every brain, 
That looks so many fathoms to the sea, 
And hears it roar beneath. 

H., I: 4. 1399. 

FASHION— Its Knight. 

Biron. Armado is a most illustrious 
wight, 
A man of fire-new words, fashion's own 
knight. 



L. L., 1 : 1. 27 



— Its Power. 



Bora. Tush ! I may as well say, the 
fool 's the fool. But seest thou not what a 
deformed thief this fashion is? 
* * How giddily 'a turns about all the 
hot bloods, between fourteen and five-and- 
thirty. 

Jf. A., ILL: 3. 241. 



FASHION. 



209 



FATHER. 



— Men Take no Interest in. 

Bora. That shows thou art unconfirm'd. 
Thou knowest that the fashion of a doublet, 
or a hat, or a cloak, is nothing to a man. 

Con. Yes, it is apparel. 

Bora. I mean, the fashion. 

Con. Yes, the fashion is the fashion. 



M. A., Ill 



241. 



— Wearisome in its Changes. 

Bora. * * Sometime, fashioning them 
like Pharaoh's soldiers in the reechy paint- 
ing; sometime, like- god Bel's priests in 
the old church-window; sometime, like the 
shaven Hercules in the smirch'd worm- 
eaten tapestry. * * 

Con. All this I see ; and see that the fash- 
ion wears out more apparel than the man. 

31. A., Ill: 3. 241. 

FASHIONS. — Influence of French. 

Cham. Is it possible, tlie spells of Prance 
should juggle 
Men into such strange mysteries? 

Sands. New customs, 

Though they be never so ridiculous, 
Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are follow'd. 
Cham. As far as I see, all the good our 
English 
Have got by the late voyage, is but merely 
A fit or two o' the face ; but they are shrewd 

ones ; 
For when they hold them, you would swear 

directly, 
Their very noses had been counsellors 
To Pepin, or Clotharius, they keep state so. 
Sands. They have all new legs, and 
lame ones ; one would take it, 
That never saw them pace before, the 

spavin, 
A springhalt reign'd among them. 

Cham. Death ! my lord, 

Their clothes are after such a pagan cut 

too, 
That, sure, they have worn out Christen- 
dom. 

H. VIII., 1 : 3. 1062. 

FASTING.— Engenders Maladies. 

Biron. * * 
Say, can you fast? your stomachs are too 

young, 
And abstinence engenders maladies. 

L.L.,IV: 3. 290. 



FATE. — In Our Own Hands. 

Cas. * * 
Men at some time are masters of their fates : 
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, 
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. 

J. C, 1 : 2. 1324. 

— Not to be Resisted. 

Ham. * * 
Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, 
When our dear plots do fail : and that 

should teach us, 
There 's a divinity that shapes our ends, 
Rough-hew them how we will. 

//., V : 2. 1432. 

OIL * * 
Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not 

owe ; 
What is decreed must be ; and be this so ! 

T. JST., 1 : 5. 547. 

K. Edw. What fates impose, that men 
must needs abide ; 
It boots not to resist both wind and tide. 

H. VI.', 3 pit., IV : 3. 981. 

— Read in the Destiny of Others, 

Gon. I have great comfort from this fel- 
Ioav : methinks he hath no drowning mark 
upon him ; his complexion is perfect gal- 
lows. Stand fast, good fate, to his hang- 
ing! make the rope of his destiny our ca- 
ble, for our o\rn doth little advantage ! If 
he be not born to be hang'd, our case is 
miserable. 

T.,I: 1. 7. 

FATHER— A God to a Daughter. 
The. What say you, Hermia? Be ad- 

vis'd, fair maid : 
To you your father should be as a god ; 
One that compos 'd your beauties ; yea, and 

one 
To whom you are but as a form in wax, 
By him imprinted, and within his power 
To leave the figure, or disfigure it. 

31. A r ., 1 : 1. 321. 

— Anxiety of His Sons. 

Tal. O young John Talbot ! I did send 
for thee, 
To tutor thee in stratagems of war ; 
That Talbot's name might be in thee reviv'd, 
When sapless age, and weak unable limbs, 



FATHER. 



2IO 



FATNESS. 



Should bring thy father to his drooping chair. 
But, — malignant and ill-boding stars! — 
Now thou art come unto a feast of death, 
A terrible and unavoided danger : 
Therefore, dear boy, mount on my swiftest 

horse, 
And I '11 direct thee how thou shalt escape 
By sudden flight : come, dally not, begone. 
II. VI, 1 pt., IV : 5. 888. 

— Curse of a. 

Shep. * * 
Wilt thou not stoop? Now cursed be the 

time 
Of thy nativity ! I would, the milk 
Thy mother gave thee, when thou suck'dst 

her breast, 
Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake ! 
Or else, when thou didst keep my lambs-a- 

field, 
I wish some ravenous wolf had eaten thee ! 
Dost thou deny thy father, cursed drab? 
O, burn her, burn her ; hanging is too good. 
//. VI, lpt., V: 4. 895. 

— Disowned. 

Shep. Ah, Joan ! this kills thy father's 

heart outright ! 
Have I sought every country far and near, 
And, now it is my chance to find thee out, 
Must I behold thy timeless cruel death? 
Ah, Joan ! sweet daughter Joan, I '11 die 

with thee ! 
Puc. Decrepit miser ! base ignoble 

wretch ! 
I am descended of a gentler blood ; 
Thou art no father, nor no friend, of mine. 
* * 

Shep. Fie, Joan ! that thou wilt be so 
obstacle ! 
God knows, thou art a collop of my flesh; 
And for thy sake have I shed many a tear : 
Deny me not, I pr'ythee, gentle Joan. 

Puc. Peasant, avaunt! — You have sub- 
orn'd this man, 
Of purpose to obscure my noble birth. 

H. IV., 1 pt., V : 4. 895. 

—The Care of. 

Cor. * * I know you what you are ; 
And, like a sister, am most loath to call 
Your faults, as they are nam'd. Use well 
our father : 



To your professed bosoms I commit him : 
But yet, alas ! stood I within his grace. 

K.L.,1: 1. 1446. 

— The most Honored Guest. 
Pol. Methinks, a father 

Is, at the nuptial of his son, a guest 

That best becomes the table. 

* * 

The father (all whose joy is nothing else 

But fair posterity) should hold some counsel 

In such a business. 

W. T.,1V: 3. 605. 

FATNESS. — Admired. 

Her. * * Cram 's with praise, and 

make 's 

As fat as tame things. 

W. T.,1: 2. 582. 

Coes. Let me have men about me that 
are fat ; 
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' 

nights : 
Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; 
He thinks too much : such men are danger- 
ous. 

J. C, 1 : 2. 1325. 

— Cannot Rob Death. 

P. Hen. * * 
What ! old acquaintance ! could not all this 

flesh 
Keep in a little life? Poor Jack, farewell ! 
I could have better spared a better man. 
O, I should have a heavy miss of thee, 
If I were much in love with vanity. 
Death hath not struck so fat a deer to-day, 
Though many dearer, in this bloody fray : — 
Embowell'd will I see thee by and by ; 
Till then, in blood by noble Percy lie. 

II. IV.,1 pt., V: 4. 761. 
— In a Kitchen Wench. 

Dro. S. Marry, sir, she 's the kitchen- 
wench, and all grease ; and I know not what 
use to put her to, but to make a lamp of her, 
and run from her by her own light. I war- 
rant, her rags, and the tallow in them, will 
burn a Poland winter : if she lives till dooms- 
day, she '11 burn a week longer than the 
Avhole world. 

C. E., Ill : 2. 202. 

— Lards the Earth. 

P. Hen. * * Falstaff sweats to death, 

And lards the lean earth as he walks along. 

H. IV., 1 pt., II : 2. 736. 



FAULT. 



211 



FEAR. 



FAULT.— Men Moulded out of. 

Mart. Isabel, 

Sweet Isabel ! do yet but kneel by me ; 
Hold up your bands, say nothing, I '11 speak 

all. 
They say best men are moulded out of 

faults ; 
And, for the most, become much more the 

better 
For being a little bad: so may my husband. 
M. M., V : 1. 175. 

FAULTS.— Abstract of All. 

Caes. You may see, Lepidus, and hence- 
forth know, 
It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate 
One great competitor : From Alexandria 
This is the news : He fishes, drinks, and 

wastes 
The lamps of night in revel : is not more 

manlike 
Than Cleopatra ; nor the queen of Ptolemy 
More womanly than he : hardly gave au- 
dience, or 
Vouchsaf d to think he had partners : You 

shall find there 
A man, who is the abstract of all faults 
That all men follow. 

A. C, 1 : 4. 1545. 

— Freedom from. 

lago. * * I confess, it is my nature's 
plague 
To spy into abuses; and, oft, my jealousy 
Shapes faults that are not. 

0., Ill: 3. 1511. 
Duke. That we were all, as some would 
seem to be, 
From our faults, as faults from seeming, 
free! 

3f. Jf., Ill: 2. 160. 

— Hereditary. 

Lep. I must not think, there 

are 
Evils enough to darken all his goodness : 
His faults, in him, seem as the spots of 

heaven, 
More fiery by night's blackness ; hereditary, 
Rather than purchaVd ; what he cannot 

change, 
Than what he chooses. 

A. C, I: 4.1545. 



— Increased by Mending. 
Pern. When workmen strive to do better 
than well, 
They do confound their skill in covetous- 

ness : 
And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault, 
Doth make the fault the worse by the ex- 
cuse ; 
As patches, set upon a little breach, 
Discredit more in hiding of the fault, 
Than did the fault before it was so patch'd. 
K. J., IV : 2. 666. 

— Lead to Shame. 

Cor. Time shall unfold what plaited cun- 
ning hides ; 
Who cover faults, at last shame them de- 
rides. 

K.L.,I\ 1. 1446. 

FAWNING.— Fatal with the Noble. 

Jlfet. Most high, most mighty, and most 
puissant Caesar, 

Metellus Cimber throws before thy seat 

An humble heart : — 

Coes. I must prevent thee, Cimber. 

These crouchings, and these lowly court- 
esies, 

Might fire the blood of ordinary men ; 

And turn pre-ordinance, and first decree, 

Into the law of children. Be not fond, 

To think that Caasar bears such rebel blood, 

That will be thaw'd from the true quality 

With that which melteth fools ; I mean, 
sweet Avords, 

Low-crooked curt'sies, and base spaniel 
fawning. 

Thy brother by decree is banished ; 

If thou dost bend, and pray, and fawn for 
him, 

I spurn thee like a cur out of my way. 

J. C, III : 1. 1335. 

FEAR. — A Fat Man's. 

P. Hen. Got with much ease. ISiow 

merrily to horse : 
The thieves are scatter'd, and possess'd 

with fear 
So strongly, that they dare not meet each 

other ; 
Each takes his fellow for an officer. 
Away, good Ned. Falstaff sweats to death, 



FEAR. 



212 



FEAR. 



And lards the lean earth as he walks along : 
Wer 't not for laughing, I should pity him. 
H. /F.,l.pt.,II: 2. 736. 

—A Hell. 
lack. * * I lodge in fear ; 
Though this a heavenly angel, hell is here. 
Cym.,ll: 2. 1599. 

—A Violent Sea. 

Rosse. * * I dare not speak much 

further : 
But 'cruel are the times, when we are 

traitors, 
And do not know ourselves ; when we hold 

rumour 
From what we fear, yet know not what we 

fear; 
But float upon a wild and violent sea, 
Each way, and move. 

M., IV : 2. 1377. 

— An Accursed Passion. 

Bur. I trust, the ghost of Talbot is not 
there ; 
Now he is gone, my lord, you need not fear. 
Puc. Of all base passions, fear is most 
accurs'd. 

//. VI., lpt., V: 2. 892. 

— Betrays Itself. 
Lady M. O proper stuff! 

This is the very painting of your fear : - 
This 'is the air-drawn dagger, which, you 

said, 
Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws, and 

starts, 
(Impostors to true fear,) would well become 
A woman's story, at a winter's fire, 
Authoriz'd by her grandam. 

M., Ill : 4. 1372. 

— Buried in Death. 

Exton. Great king, within this coffin I 
present 
Thy buried fear ; herein all breathless lies 
The mightiest of thy greatest enemies. 

R. II, V : 6. 718. 

— Causes Defeat and Death. 

Car. My lord, wise men ne'er wail their 
present woes, 
But presently prevent the ways to wail. 



To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth 

strength, 
Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your 

foe, 
And so your follies fight against yourself. 
Fear, and be slain ; no worse can come, to 

fight; 

And fight and die, is death destroying death ; 

Where fearing dying, pays death servile 

breath. 

R. II., Ill : 2. 702. 

— Cowardly . 

Macb. Go, prick thy face, and over-red 
thy fear, 
Thou lily-liver'd boy. What soldiers, patch ? 
Death of thy soul ! those linen cheeks of 

thine 
Are counsellors to fear. What soldiers, 
whey-face? 

M., V: 3. 1382. 

— Disclaimed. 

Ham. Why, what should be the fear? 

I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; 
And, for my soul, what can it do to that, 
Being a thing immortal as itself? 

H., 1 : 4. 1399. 

Macb. * * Then fly, false' thanes, 

And mingle with the English epicures : 

The mind I sway by, and the heart I bear, 

Shall never sag with doubt, nor shake with 

fear. 

M., V: 3. 1382. 

— Disowned. 

Cess. * * 
I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd, 
Than what I fear, for always I am Caesar. 

J. C.,l: 2. 1325. 

—Distills to Jelly. 

Hor. Two nights together had these gen- 
tlemen, 
Marcellus and Bernardo, on their watch, 
In the dead waist and middle of the night, 
Been thus encounter'd. A figure like your 

father, 
Armed at point, exactly, cap-a-pe, 
Appears before them, and, with solemn 

march, 
Goes slow and stately by them : thrice he 
walk'd, 



FEAR. 



213 



FEAR. 



By their oppress 'd and fear-surprised eyes, 
Within his truncheon's length ; whilst they, 

distill'd 
Almost to jelly with the act of fear, 
Stand dumh, and speak not to him. 

//., 1 : 2. 1395. 

— Fed by Rumors. 

Bast. How I have sped among the cler- 
gymen, 
The sums I have collected shall express. 
But, as I travelled hither through the land, 
I find the people strangely fantasied ; 
Possess'd with rumors, full of idle dreams ; 
Not knowing what they fear, but full of fear. 
K. J., IV : 2. 667. 

-How to Inspire. 
Con. This becomes the great. 

Sorry am I, his numbers are so few, 
His soldiers sick, and famish'd in their 

march ; 
For, I am sure, when he shall see our army, 
He '11 drop his heart into the sink of fear, 
And for achievement, offer us his ransom. 
//. F., Ill: 5. 835. 

— Inseparable from Wrong. 

Dion. Be one of those, that think 

The petty wrens of Tharsus will fly hence, 
And open this to Pericles. I do shame 
To think of what a noble strain you are, 
And of how cow'd a spirit. 

P., IV: 4. 1662. 

— Inspiration in Flight. 

Tro. * * 
Who marvels then, when Helenus beholds 
A Grecian and his sword, if he do set 
The very wings of reason to his heels ; 
And fly like chidden Mercury from Jove, 
Or like a star dis-orb'd? 

T. C, II : 2. 1114. 

— Its Blanching Power. 

K. Hen. * * Why, how now, gentle- 
men, 
What see you in those papers, that you lose 
So much complexion? — look ye, how they 

change ! 
Their cheeks are paper. — Why, what read 
you there, 



That hath so cowarded and chas'd your 

blood 
Out of appearance? 

H. F., II : 2. 827. 

— Its Blinding Power. 

Tro. Fears make devils cherubims ; they 
never see truly. 

Ores. Blind fear that seeing reason leads, 
finds safer footing than blind reason stum- 
bling without fear : To fear the worst, oft 
cures the worst. 

T. C, III: 2. 1121. 

Char. Tempt him not so too far : I wish, 
forbear ; 
In time we hate that which we often fear. 

A. C, 1 : 3. 1543. 

— Its Rooting Power. 

Wal. * * If we shall stand still, 
In fear our motion will be mock'd or carp'd 

at, 
We should take root here where we sit, or 

sit 
State statues only. 

H. VIir.,I: 2. 1060. 

— Its Sign. 

Queen. * * 
Your bedded hair, like life in excrements, 
Starts up, and stands on end. 

H., Ill : 4. 1419. 

— Kills with its Look. 

Sir To. * * This will so fright them 
both, that they will kill one another by the 
look, like cockatrices. 

T. N., Ill : 4. 560. 

— Makes the Heart Beat. 

Tro. * * 
My heart beats thicker than a feverous 

pulse ; 
And all my powers do their bestowing lose, 
Like vassalage at unawares encount'ring 
The eye of majesty. 

T. C., III : 2. 1121. 

—Of Death. 

Her. * * 
Tell me what blessings I have here alive, 
That I should fear to die? 

W. T., Ill : 2. 594. 



FEAR. 



214 



FEARS. 



— Of the Reputed Brave. 

lied. * * 
There is no lady of more softer bowels, 
More spungy to suck in the sense of fear, 
More ready to cry out — "Who knows what 

follows?" 
Than Hector is. 

T. C, II : 2. 1113. 

— Reads Results in the Eyes. 

North. * * 
He, that but fears the thins? he would not 

know, 
Hath,, by instinct, knowledge from others' 

eyes, 
That what he fear'd is chanced. 

H. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 1. 774. 

— Some never Inspire it. 

Bot. * * Ladies, or fair ladies, I 
would wish you, or I would request you, 
or I would entreat you, not to fear, not to 
tremble : my life for yours. It you think 
I come hither as a lion, it were pity of my 
life : No, I am no such thing ; I am a man 
as other men are : and there, indeed, let 
him name his name, and tell them plainly 
he is Snug the joiner. 

M. N., III: 1. 330. 

— Transient. 

K. Rich. * * 

This ague-fit of fear is over-blown ; 

An easy task it is, to win our own. 

Say, Scroop, where lies our uncle with his 

power? 

Speak sweetly, man, although thy looks be 

sour. 

R. II, Ill : 2. 702. 

— Troops Defeated by. 

Tal. My thoughts are whirled like a 

potter's wheel ; 
I know not where I am, nor what I do : 
A witch, by fear, not force, like Hannibal, 
Drives back our troops, and conquers as 

she lists : 
So bees with smoke, and doves with noisome 

stench, 
Are from their hives, and houses, driven 

away. 



//. VI, 1 pt., 1 : 5. 871. 



Unkingly. 



Bast. * * 
Be great in act, as you have been in thought ; 



Let not the world see fear and sad distrust. 
Govern the motion of a kingly eye. 

K. J., V : I. 671. 

— Unknown in Scotland. 
Doug. As heart can think : there is not 
such a word 
Spoke of in Scotland, as this term of fear. 
H. IV., 1 pt., IV : 1. 753. 

FEARLESSNESS.— Unconquerable. 

Aar. * * 
Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things, 
As willingly as one would kill a fly ; 
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed, 
But that I cannot do ten thousand more. 

Tit. And., V: 2. 1227. 

FEARS. — Horrible Imaginings "Worse. 

Macb. * * 
This supernatural soliciting 
Cannot be ill ; cannot be good : — If ill, 
Why hath it given me earnest of success, 
Commencing in a truth? I am thane of 

Cawdor : 
If good, why do I yield to that suggestion 
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, 
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, 
Against the use of nature? Present fears 
Are less than horrible imaginings : 
My thought, whose murder yet is but fan- 
tastical, 
Shakes so my single state of man, that 

function 
Is smother'd in surmise ; and nothing is, 
But what is not. 

J/., 1 : 3. 1360. 

—Traitors to Us. 

Bel. Stand, stand ! We have the advan- 
tage of the ground ; 
The lane is guarded : nothing routs us, but ' 
The villany of our fears. 

Cym., V : 2. 1622. 

L. Macd. What had he done to make 

him fly the land? 
Rosse. You must have patience, madam. 
L. Macd. He had none : 

His flight was madness : when our actions 

do not, 
Our fears do make us traitors. 

M., IV : 2. 1376. 



FEAST. 



215 



FEUDS. 



FEAST. — A Costly one. 

Eno. Upon her landing, Antony sent to 
her, 

Invited her to supper : she replied, 

It should be better, he became her guest ; 

Which she entreated : Our courteous An- 
tony, 

Whom ne'er the word of "No" woman 
heard speak, 

Being barber 'd ten times o'er, goes to the 
feast ; 

And, for his ordinary, pays his heart, 

For what his eyes eat' only. 

A. C, II : 2. 1550. 

FEIGNING. — An Actor's, Perfect. 

Glo. Come, cousin, canst thou quake, 

and change thy colour? 
Murder thy breath in middle of a word, — 
And then again begin, and stop again, 
As if thou wert distraught, and mad with 

terror? 
Buck. Tut, I can counterfeit the deep 

tragedian ; 
Speak, and look back, and pry on every side, 
Tremble and start at wagging of a straw, 
Intending deep suspicion : ghastly looks 
Are at my service, like enforced smiles ; 
And both are ready in their offices, 
At any time, to grace my stratagems. 

R. III., Ill : 5. 1025. 

FELLOW.— Somethings Have no. 

Lov. * * 
A French song, and a fiddle, has no fellow. 
//. VIII., 1 : 3. 1063. 

FEROCITY.— Woman's, in War. 

West. My liege, this haste was hot in 
question, 
And many limits of the charge set down 
But yesternight : when, all athwart, there 

came 
A post from Wales, loaden with heavy news ; 
Whose worst was — that the noble Mortimer, 
Leading the men of Herefordshire to fight 
Against the irregular and wild Glendower, 
Was by the rude hands of that Welshman 

taken, 
And a thousand of his people butchered ; 
Upon whose dead corps there was such mis- 
use, 



Such beastly, shameless transformation, 
By those Welshwomen done, as may not be, 
Without much shame, re-told or spoken of. 
//. IV., lpt.,I: 1. 727. 

FEUDS.— Family, Condemned. 

Prin. * * 
Three civil broils, bred of an airy word, 
By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, 
Have thrice disturb'd the quiet of our 

streets ; 
And made Verona's ancient citizens 
Cast by their grave beseeming ornaments, 
To wield old partizans, in hands as old, 
Canker'd with peace, to part your canker'd 

hate : 
If ever you disturb our streets again, 
Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace. 
For this time, all the rest depart away : 
You, Capulet, shall go along with me ; 
And, Montague, come you this afternoon, 
To know our further pleasure in this case, 
To old Free-town, our common judgment- 
place. 
Once more, on pain of death, all men depart. 
R.J.,I: l. 1242. 

— International, Healed. 

K. Hen. * * Give me your daughter. 
Fr. King. Take her, fair son ; and from 
her blood raise up 

Issue to me : that the contending kingdoms 

Of France and England, whose very shores 
look pale 

With envy of each other's happiness, 

May cease their hatred ; and this dear con- 
junction 

Plant neighbourhood and christian-like ac- 
cord 

In their sweet bosoms, that never war ad- 
vance 

His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair 
France. 

H. V.,Y : 2. 856. 

— Opposition to. 

1 Cit. Clubs, bills, and partizans ! strike ! 
heat them down ! 
Down with the Capulets ! down with the 
Montagues ! 

R. J., 1 : 1. 1242. 



FICKLENESS, 



2l6 



FIDELITY. 



FICKLENESS.— In Love. (See Chas- 
tity.) 

Beat. * * He wears his faith but as 
the fashion of his hat ; it ever changes with 
the next block. 

M. A., I: 1. 226. 

Fri. Holy Saint Francis ! what a change 
is here ! 
Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, 
So soon forsaken? young men's love then 

lies 
Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes. 
Jesu Maria! what a deal of brine 
Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for Rosaline ! 
How much salt water thrown away in waste, 
To season love, that of it doth not taste ! 
The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven 

clears, 
Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears ; 
Lo, here upon thy cheek the stain doth sit 
Of an old tear that is not wash'd off yet : 
If e'er thou wast thyself, and these woes 

thine, 
Thou and these woes were all for Rosaline ; 
And art thou chang'd? pronounce this sen- 
tence then — 
Woman may fall, when there 's no strength 
in men. 

R.J., II: 3. 1254. 

Pro. * * 
O, how this spring of love resembleth 

The uncertain glory of an April day ; 
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, 

And by and by a cloud takes all away ! 

T. G., 1 : 3. 51. 

FIDELITY.— Asks no Reward. (See 

Constancy.) 
Art. I prithee 

Remember I have clone thee worthy service, 
Told thee no lies, made thee no mistakings, 

serv'd 
Without or grudge, or grumblings : thou 

didst promise 
To bate me a full year. 

v T.,l: 2. 11. 

— Avowed. 
Wol. I do profess, 

That for your highness' good I ever labour'd 
More than mine own ; that am, have, and 
will be. 



Though all the world should crack their 

duty to you, 
And throw it from their soul ; though perils 

did 
Abound, as thick as thought could make 

them, and 
Appear in forms more horrid ; yet my duty, 
As doth a rock against the chiding flood, 
Should the approach of this wild river break, 
And stand unshaken yours. 

H. VIII., Ill: 2. 1079. 

— Conjugal. 

Bru. You are my true and honourable 
wife ; 
As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops 
That visit my sad heart. 

J. C., II: 1. 1332. 

— Has Memory. 

Lady P. * * So came I a widow ; 

And never shall have length of life enough, 

To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes, 

That it may grow and sprout as high as 

heaven, 
For recordation to my noble husband. 

H. IV., 2 pt., II : 3. 785. 

— In Misfortune. 

K. Rich. Thanks, noble peer, 

The cheapest of us is ten groats too dear. 
What art thou ? and how comest thou hither, 
Where no man never comes, but that sad 

dog 
That brings me food, to make misfortune 
live? 
Groom. I was a poor groom of thy sta- 
ble, king, 
When thou wert king; who, travelling to- 
wards York, 
With much ado, at length have gotten leave 
To look upon my sometime master's face. 
O, how it yern'd my heart, when I beheld, 
In London streets, that coronation day, 
When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary ! 
That horse, that thou so often hast bestrid ; 
That horse, that I so carefully have dress'd ! 
R. II., V: 5. 716. 

— In Servants. 

Flav. All broken implements of a ruin'd 
house. 



FIDELITY. 



217 



FIGHTING. 



3 Sent. Yet do our hearts Avear Timon's 

livery, 

That see I by our faces ; we are fellows still, 

Serving alike in sorrow : Leak'd is our bark ; 

And we, poor mates, stand on the dying 

deck, 
Hearing the surges threat : we must all part 
Into this sea of air. 

T.A., TV: 1. 1304. 

—Its Sacrifices. 

Cal. * * 
I have abandon 'd Troy, left my possession, 
Incurr'd a traitor's name ; expos'd myself, 
From certain and possess'd conveniences, 
To doubtful fortunes ; sequest'ringfrom me 

all 
That time, acquaintance, custom, and con- 
dition, 
Made tame and most familiar to my nature ; 
And here, to do you service, am become 
As neAv into the world, strange, unac- 
quainted. 

T. C, III : 3. 1123. 

— Made Powerless. 

Car. My liege, his railing is intolerable : 
If those that care to keep your royal person 
From treason's secret knife, and traitors' 

rage. 
Be thus upbraided, chid, and rated at, 
And the offender granted scope of speech, 
'T will make them cool in zeal unto your 
grace. 

//. F/.,2pt., Ill: 1. 924. 

— Not Alarmed. 

Per. Thou know'st I have power 

To take thy life. 

Hel. I have ground the axe myself: 
Do you but strike the blow. 

Per. Rise, pr'ythee, rise ; 

Sit down, sit down ; thou art no flatterer : 
I thank thee for it ; and high heaven forbid, 
That kings should let their ears hear their 

faults hid ! 
Fit counsellor, and servant for a prince, 
Who by thy wisdom mak'st a prince thy 

servant, 
What would'stthou have me do? 

Hel. With patience bear 

Such griefs as you do lay upon- yourself. 

P.. I: 2. 1645. 



— Of Friends. 

War. * * 
In Oxfordshire shalt muster up thy friends. 
My sovereign, with the loving citizens, — 
Like to his island, girt in with the ocean, 
Or modest Dian, circled with her nymphs, — 
Shall rest in London, till Ave come to him. 
//. VI., 3 pt., IV : 8. 985. 

— The best Defence. 

Bast. O, let us pay the time but needful 

Avoe, 
Since it hath been beforehand with our 

griefs. — 
This England never did, (nor never shall.) 
Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, 
But Avhen it first did help to Avound itself. 
Xoa\- these her princes are come home again, 
Come the three corners of the world in arms, 
And Ave shall shock them : Nought shall 

make us rue, 
If England to itself do rest but true. 

K. J., V : 7. 677. 

— To a Friend. 

Ant. * * 
Had I as many eyes as thou hast wounds, 
Weeping as fast as they stream forth thy 

blood. 
It Avould become me better, than to close 
In terms of friendship with thine enemies. 
J.C.,m.:l. 1337. 

— To Friends. 
Pol. * * 

The friends thou hast, and their adoption 

tried, 
Grapple them to thy soul Avith hoops of steel. 

if., I: 3. 1397. 
— Trusted Everywhere. 
Cor. * * My mother, you wot Avell, 
My hazards still have been your solace : and 
Believe 't not lightly, (though I go alone, 
Like to a lonely dragon, that his fen 
Makes fear'd, and talk'd of more than seen,) 

your son 
Will, or exceed the common, or be caught 
With cautelous baits and practice. 

CIV: 1. 1177. 

FIGHTING— Its Folly 

Bard. * * We must to France togeth- 
er : Why, the devil, should Ave keep knives 
to cut one another's throats? 

H. Y., II: 1. 826. 



FIGHTING. 



2l8 



FLATTERERS. 



— Of Rebels, a Shadow. 

Mor. * * 
My lord your son had only but the corps, 
But shadows, and the shows of men, to fight : 
For that same word, rebellion, did divide 
The action of their bodies from their souls ; 
And they did fight with queasiness, con- 
straint, 
As men drink potions ; that their weapons 

only 
Seem'd on our side, but, for their spirits 

and souls, 
This word, rebellion, it hath froze them up, 
As fish are in a pond. 

H. iT".,2pt., I: 1. 776. 

FINGERS. — A good Cook Licks. 

2 Serv. You shall have none ill, sir ; for 
I '11 try if they can lick their fingers. 

Cap. How canst thou try them so? 

2 Serv. Marry, sir, 't is an ill cook that 
cannot lick his own fingers : therefore he, 
that cannot lick his fingers, goes not with 
me. 

B. J., IV : 2. 1269. 



FIRMNESS.— Caesar's. 

Ccbs. I could be well mov'd, if I were as 
you; 
If I could pray to move, prayers would 

move me : 
But I am constant as the northern star, 
Of whose true-fixed, and resting quality, 
There is no fellow in the firmament. 
The skies are painted with unnuinber'd 

sparks, 
They are all fire, and every one doth shine ; 
But there 's but one in all doth hold his 

place ; 
So. in the world : 'T is furnish'd well with 

men, 
And men are flesh and blood, and appre- 
hensive ; 
Yet, in the number, I do know bat one 
That unassailable holds on his rank, 
Unshak'd of motion : and, that I am he, 
Let me a little show it, even in this ; 
That I was constant, Cimber should be ban- 
is h'd, 
And constant do remain to keep him so. 

J. C III : 1. 1336. 



— Invoked. 

Cor. The god of soldiers, 

With the consent of supreme Jove, inform 
Thy thoughts with nobleness ; that thou 

may'st prove 
To shame unvulnerable, and stick i' the 

wars 
Like a great sea-mark, standing every flaw, 
And saving those that eye thee ! 

C., V : 3. 1189. 
FISHING.— Tricks in. 

Cleo. * * 
Give me mine angle, — We '11 to the river : 

there, 
My music playing far off, I will betray 
Tawny-finn'd fishes ; my bended hook shall 

pierce 
Their slimy jaws ; and, as I draw them up, 
I '11 think them every one an Antony, 
And say, Ah, ah ! you 're caught. 

Char. 'T was merry, when 

You wager' d on your angling ; when your 

diver 
Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he 

With fervency drew up. 

A. C, II : 5. 1552. 

FITNESS. — Of Cowards to Feasts. 

Fal. Well, 
To the latter end of a fray, and the begin- 
ning of a feast, 
Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest. 

H. IV., lpt., IV: 2. 754. 

FLATTERER.— Relation to the Flat- 
tered. 

Apem. Yes, he is worthy of thee, and 
to pay thee for thy labour : He, that loves 
to be flattered, is worthy o' the flatterer. 
Heavens, that I were a lord ! 

T. A., 1 : 1. 1289. 

FLATTERERS.— Led by Those Who 
Hate Them. 

Dec. Never fear that : If he be so re- 
solv'd, 
I can o'ersway him : for he loves to hear, 
That unicorns may be betray'd with trees, 
And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, 
Lions with toils, and men with flatterers : 
But, when I tell him, he hates flatterers, 
He says, he does ; being then most flattered.* 
J. C., II : 1. 1331. 



FLATTERIES. 



219 



FLATTERY, 



FLATTERIES. — Wrong. 

A'. Rich. He does me double wrong, 

That wounds me with the flatteries of his 
tongue. 

R. II, Ill: 2. 703. 

FLATTERY.— A Sin. (See Unction.) 

Glo. Good day, my lord! What, at your 

book so hard? 

K. Hen. Ay, my good lord : My lord, I 

should say rather; 

'T is sin to flatter, good was little better : 

Good Gloster, and good devil, were alike, 

And both preposterous ; therefore, not good 

lord. 

H. VI, 3pt., V: 6. 991. 

— Blind. 

Bru. I do not like your faults. 

Cas. A friendly eye could never see such 

faults. 
Bru. A flatterer's would not, though 
they do appear 
As huge as high Olympus. 

J. C, IV : 3. 1345. 

— Bought, soon G-one. 

Flav. * * 
Ah ! when the means are gone, that buy 

this praise, 
The breath is gone whereof this praise is 

made : 
Feast-one, fast-lost ; one cloud of winter 

showers, 
These flies are couch'd. 

T. A., II :. 2. 1296. 

— Cruel After-wards. 

Ant. Villains, you did not so, j^hen your 

vile daggers 
Hack'd one another in the sides of Caesar : 
You show'd your teeth like apes, and fawn'd 

like hounds, 

And bow'd like bondmen, kissing Caesar's 

feet. 

J. G.,V: 1. 1348. 

— Deafens Counsel. 

Apem. * * 
If I should be brib'd too, there would be 

none left 
To rail upon thee ; and then thou would 'st 

sin the faster. 
Thou giv'st so long, Timon, I fear me thou 



Wilt give away thyself in paper shortly ; 
What need these feasts, pomps, and vain 
glories? 
Tim. Nay, 

An you begin to rail on society once, 
I am sworn, not to give regard to you. 
Farewell ; and come with better music. 

Apem. So ; — 

Thou 'It not hear me now, — thou shalt not 

then, I '11 lock 
Thy heaven from thee, O, that men's ears 

should be 
To counsel deaf, but not to flattery ! 

T. A., 1 : 2. 1298. 

— Disclaimed. 

Hot. Well said, my noble Scot : If speak- 
ing truth, 
In this fine age, were not thought flattery, 
Such attribution should the Douglas have, 
As not a soldier of this season's stamp 
Should go so general current through the 

world. 
By heaven, I cannot flatter ; I defy 
The tongues of soothers ; but a braver place 
In my heart's love, hath no man than your- 
self: 
Nay, task me to the word ; approve me, lord. 
H. IV., lpt., IV: 1. 752. 

— Distasteful. 

Mar. Sir, praise me not : 

My work hath yet not warm'd me : Fare you 

well. 
The blood I drop is rather physical 
Than dangerous to me : To Aufidiu3 thus 
I will appear, and fight. 

C, 1 : 5. 1156. 

— Fulsome. 

Nor. Each day still better other's happi- 
ness : 
Until the heavens, envying earth's good hap, 
Add an immortal title to your crown ! 

R. II, 1 : 1. 684. 

Auf. * * 

He water'd his new plants with dews of 

flattery. 

C.,Y: 5. 1192. 

— Lovers'. 

Bom. It is my soul, that calls upon my 



FLATTERY. 



2 20 



FLATTERY, 



How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by 

night, 
Like softest music to attending ears ! 

R. J., II : 2. 1253. 

—Met by Flattery. 

Apem. I was directed hither : Men re- 
port, 

Thou dost affect my manners, and dost use 
them. 
Tim. 'T is then, because thou dost not 
keep a dog 

Whom I would imitate : Consumption catch 
thee ! 
Apem. This is in thee a nature but af- 
fected ; 

A poor unmanly melancholy, sprung 

From change of fortune. Why this spade? 
this place? 

This slave-like habit? and these looks of 
care? 

Thy flatterers yet wear silk, drink wine, lie 
soft; 

Hug there diseas'd perfumes, and have for- 
got 

That ever Timon was. Shame not these 
woods, 

By putting on the cunning of a carper, 

Be thou a flatterer now, and seek to thrive 

By that which has undone thee : hinge thy 
knee, 

And let his very breath, whom thou 'It ob- 
serve, 

Blow off thy cap ; praise his most vicious 
strain, 

And call it excellent : Thou wast told thus ; 

Thou gav'st thine ears, like tapsters, that 
bid welcome, 

To knaves, and all approachers : 'T is most 
just, 

That thou turn rascal ; had'st thou wealth 
again, 

Rascals should have 't. Do not assume my 
likeness. 

T. A., IV: 3. 1307. 

— No Sign of Love. 

Pom. * * Lepidus natters both, 
Of both is flatter'd; but he neither loves, 
Nor either cares for him. 

A. C II : 1. 1547. 



—Not for the Poor. 

Ham. Nay, do not think I flatter : 

For what advancement may I hope from 

thee, 
That no revenue hast, but thy good spirits, 
To feed and clothe thee ? Why should the 

poor be flatter'd? 
No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp ; 
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, 
Where thrift may follow fawning. 

If., Ill : 2. 1413. 

— Rebuked. 
K. Hen. You were ever good at sudden 
commendations, 

Bishop of Winchester. But know, I come 
not 

To hear such flattery now, and in my pres- 
ence ; 

They are too thin and bare to hide offences. 

To me you cannot reach, you play the 
spaniel, 

And think with wagging of your tongue to 
win me ; 

But. whatso'er thou tak'st me for, I am sure, 

Thou hast a cruel nature, and a bloody. 

H. VIII., V: 2. 1091. 

— Reproof better. 

Hel. * * 
They do abuse the king, that flatter him : 
For flattery is the bellows blows up sin ; 
The thing the which is flatter'd, but a spark, 
To which that breath gives heat and stronger 

glowing ; 
Whereas reproof, obedient, and in order, 
Fits kings, as they are men, for they may 

err. 

P., 1 : 2. 1645. 

— Resented. 

Prin. Good lord Boyet, my beauty, 

though but mean, 
Needs not the painted flourish of your praise. 
Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, 
Nor utter'd by base sale .of chapmen's 

tongues : 
I am less proud to hear you tell my worth, 
Than you much willing to be counted wise 
In spending your wit in the praise of mine. 
L. L., II: 1. 277. 



FLATTERY. 



221 



FLIGHT. 



—The Devil Sugared with. 

Pol. * * 
'T is too much prov'd, — that, with devo- 
tion's visage, 
And pious action, we do sugar o'er 
The devil himself. 

B.,UI: 1. 1410. 

— Visor of Villainy. 

Gow. * * 
No visor does become black villany, 
So well as soft and tender flattery. 

P., IV: 4. 1663. 

FLEET. — At Sea. 

Choru^. * * Suppose, that you have 
seen 
The well-appointed king at Hampton pier 
Embark his royalty ; and his brave fleet 
With silken streamers the young Phoebus 

fanning. 
Play with your fancies ; and in them behold, 
Upon the hempen tackle, ship-boys climb- 
ing : 
Hear the shrill whistle, which doth order 

give 
To sounds confus'd : behold the threaden 

sails, 
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind, 
Draw the huge bottoms through the fur- 
row 'd sea, 
Breasting the lofty surge : O, do but think, 
You stand upon the rivage, and behold 
A city on the inconstant billows dancing ; 
For so appears this fleet majestical, 
Holding due course to Harfleur. 

//. F.,111: C. 831. 

FLESH.— Its Tyranny. 

Clo. My poor body, madam, requires it : 
I am driven on by the flesh ; and he must 
needs go that, the devil drives. 

A. W., 1 : 3. 499. 

FLIGHT.— A Family Dishonor. 

John. Is my name Talbot? and am I 

your son? 
And shall I fly? O, if you love my mother, 
Dishonour not her honourable name, 
To make a bastard, and a slave of me : 
The world will say — He is not Talbot's 

blood, 
That basely fled, Avhen noble Talbot stood. 



Tal. Fly, to revenge my death, if I be 

slain. 
John. He, that flies so, will ne'er return 

again. 
Tal. If we both stay, we both are sure 

to die. 
John. Then let me stay; and, father, do 
you fly : 
Your loss is great, so your regard should be ; 
My worth unknown, no loss is known in me. 
Upon my death the French can little boast ; 
In yours they will, in you all hopes are lost. 
Flight cannot stain the honour you have 

won; 
But mine it will, that no exploit have uone : 
You fled for vantage every one will swear ; 
But, if I bow, they '11 say — it was for fear. 
There is no hope that ever I will stay, 
If, the first hour, I shrink, and run away. 
Here, on my knee, I beg mortality, 
Rather than life preserv'd with infamy. 

H. VI., 1 pt., IV : 5. 8S8. 

— Called a Retreat. 

Tro. Fly not; for, shouidst thou take 
the river Styx, 
I would swim after. 

Dio. Thou dost miscall retire : 

I do not fly ; but advantageous care 

Withdrew me from the odds of multitude : 

Have at thee ! 

T. C., V: 4. 1141. 

— Cowardly. 

Rosse. You know not, 

Whether it was his wisdom, or his fear. 
L. Macd. Wisdom ! to leave his wife, 

to leave his babes, 
His mansion, and his titles, in a place 
From whence himself does fly? He loves 

us not ; 
He wants the natural touch : for the poor 

wren, 
The most diminutive of birds, will fight, 
Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. 
All is the fear, and nothing is the love ; 
As little is the wisdom, where the flight 
So runs against all reason. 

M., IV: 2. 1376. 

— From Vengeance. 

Q. Mar. Mount you, my lord, towards 
Berwick post amain : 



FLIGHT. 



222 



FLOODS. 



Edward and Richard, like a brace of grey- 
hounds 

Having the fearful flying hare in sight, 

With fiery eyes, sparkling for very wrath, 

And bloody steel grasp'd in their ireful 
hands, 

Are at our backs ; and therefore hence 
amain. 
Exe. Away ! for vengeance comes along 
with them : 

Nay, stay not to expostulate, make speed ; 

Or else come after, I '11 away before. 

//. VI., 3pt., II: 5. 969. 

— Hastened by Fear. 

Mor. * * As the thing that 's heavy in 

itself, 
Upon enforcement, flies with greatest speed ; 
So did our men, heavy in Hotspur's loss, 
Lend to this weight such lightness with 

their fear, 
That arrows fled not swifter toward their 

aim, 
Than did our soldiers, aiming at their safety, 
Fly from the field : Then was that noble 

Worcester 
Too soon ta'en prisoner. 
* * And did grace the shame 
Of those that turn'd their backs ; and in his 

flight, 
Stumbling in fear, was took. 

H. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 1. 775. 

— Hasty. 

Fal. * * A rascal bragging slave ! 
the rogue fled from me like quicksilver. 

//. IV., 2pt.,II: 4. 787. 

— Manly and Wise. 

Q. Mar. What are you made of? you '11 
not fight, nor fly : 
Now is it manhood, wisdom, and defence, 
To give the enemy way ; and to secure us 
By what we can, which can no more but fly. 
If you be ta'en, we then should see the bot- 
tom 
Of all our fortunes : but if we haply scape, 
(As well we may, if not through your neg- 
lect,) 
We shall to London get ; where you are 
lov'd; 



And where this breach, now in our fortunes 

made, 
May readily be stopp'd. 

H. VI, 2 pt., V : 2. 945. 

— Rapid on Compulsion. 

K. Hen. * * 
And make them skim away, as swift as 

stones 
Enforced from the old Assyrian slings. 

H. F..IV: 7. 848. 

FLIPPANCY.— Mixes Death and Bar- 
gains. 

Sil. We shall all follow, cousin. 

Shal. Certain, 't is certain; very sure, 
very sure : death, as the Psalmist saith, is 
certain to all ; all shall die. How a good 
yoke of bullocks at Stamford fair? 

Sil. Truly, cousin, I was not there. 

Shal. Death is certain. — Is old Double 
of your town living yet? 

Sil. Dead, sir. 

Shal. Dead! — see, see! — he drew a 
good bow; —And dead! — he shot a fine 
shoot : — John of Gaunt loved him well, and 
betted much money on his head. Dead! — 
he would have clapped i' the clout at twelve 
score ; and carried you a forehand shaft a 
fourteen and fourteen and-a-half, that it 
would have done a man's heart good to see. 
How a score of ewes now? 

Sil. . Thereafter as they be : a score of 
good ewes may be worth ten pounds. 

Shal. And is old Double dead ! 

H. 7F.,2pt., Ill: 2. 791. 

FLOODS. — Accompanying Disaster. 

Tita. * * The green corn 
Hath rotted, ere his youth attain'd a beard : 
The fold stands empty in the drowned field, 
And crows are fatted with the murrain flock ; 
The nine men's morris is fill'd up with mud ; 
And the quaint mazes in the wanton green, 
For lack of tread, are undistinguishable ; 
The human mortals want their winter cheer ; 
No night is now with hymn or carol bless'd : 
Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, 
Pale in her anger, washes all the air, 
That rheumatic diseases do abound. 

M. N.,11'. 1. 326. 

— Destroy Husbandry. 

Tita. * * 
Therefore the winds, piping to us in vain, 
As in revenge, have suck'd up from the sea 



FLOODS. 



223 



FOE, 



Contagious fogs ; which, falling in the land, 
Have every pelting river made so proud, 
That they have overborne their continents : 
The ox hath therefore stretch'd his yoke in 

vain, 
The ploughman lost his sweat. 

W M.Jf., II: 1. 326. 

FLOWERS.— Allusions to. 

York. * * Sweet flowers are slow, and 
weeds make haste. 

R. III., II : 4. 1018. 

Hel. How dare the plants look up to 
heaven, from whence 
They have their nourishment? 

P., 1 : 2. 1645. 

— For the Grave. 

Arv. * * 
I '11 sweeten thy sad grave : Thou shalt not 

lack 
The flower, that 's like thy face, pale prim- 
rose ; nor 
The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins ; no, nor 
The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, 
Out-sweeten'd not thy breath. 

Cym., IV : 2. 1617. 

Bel. Here's a few flowers; but about 
midnight, more : 
The herbs, that have on them cold dew o' 

the night, 
Are strewings fitt'st for graves. 

Cym., IV: 2. 1618. 

Queen. Sweets to the sweet : Farewell! 
I hop'd, thou should'st have been my Ham- 
let's wife ; 
I thought, thy bride-bed to have deck'd, 

sweet maid, 
And not have strew'd thy grave. 

II., V: 1. 1432. 

— Of Spring. 

Per. * * 0, Proserpina, 
For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou 

let'st fall 
From Dis's waggon! daffodils, 
That come before the swallow dares, and 

take 
The winds of March with beauty ; violets, 

dim, 



But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, 
Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, 
That die unmarried, ere they can behold 
Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady 
Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips, and 
The crown-imperial ; lilies of all kinds, 
The flower-de-luce being one ! 

W. T.,IV: 3. 602. 

— Of Summer, for the Middle- 
Aged. 
Per. * * Here 's flowers for you ; 
Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram ; 
The marigold, that goes to bed with th' sun, 
And with him rises weeping; these are 

flowers 
Of middle summer, and, I think, they are 

given 
To men of middle age : Y' are very welcome. 
WT., IV: 3. 602. 

FLY. — Type of Innocence. 

Tit. * * 
What dost thou strike at, Marcus, with thy 
knife? 
Mar. At that that I have kill'd, my lord ; 

a fly. 
Tit. Out on thee, murderer ! thou kill'st 
my heart ; 
Mine eyes are cloy'd with view of tyranny : 
A deed of death, done on the innocent, 
Becomes not Titus' brother : Get thee gone ; 
I see, thou art not for my company. 

Mar. Alas, my lord, I have but kill'd a 

fly- 

Tit. But how, if that fly had a father and 

mother? 
How would he hang his slender gilded 

wings, 
And buzz lamenting doings in the air? 
Poor harmless fly ! 

That with his pretty buzzing melody, 
Came here to make us merry ; and thou 

hast kill'd him. 

Tit. And., Ill : 2. 1218. 

FOE. — A Treacherous. 

Val. Thou common friend, that 's with- 
out faith or love ; 
(For such is a friend now;) treacherous 
man ! 



FOE. 



224 



FOOL. 



Thou hast beguil'd my hopes ; nought but 
mine eye 

Could have persuaded me : Now I dare not 
say 

I have one friend alive; thou would 'st dis- 
prove me. 

Who should be trusted, when one's right 
hand 

Is perjured to the bosom? Proteus, 

I am sorry I must never trust thee more, 

But count the world a stranger for thy sake. 

The private wound is deepest : O time most 
accurs'd ! 

'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the 

worst. 

T. G.,V: 4. 72. 

— His Rank Respected in Death. 

Bel. * * Though mean and mighty, 
rotting 

Together, have one dust ; yet reverence, 

(That angel of the world.) doth make dis- 
tinction 

Of place 'tween high and low. Our foe was 
princely : 

And though you took his life, as being our 
foe, 

Yet bury him as a prince. 

Cym.,lV: 2. 1618. 

— Noble Treatment of. 

Agam. Fair lord iEneas, let me touch 
your hand ; 
To our pavilion shall I lead you, sir. 
Achilles shall have word of this intent ; 
So shall each lord of Greece, from tent to 

tent: 
Yourself shall feast with us before you go, 
And find the welcome of a noble foe. 

T. C, I: 3. 1110. 

FOEMAN.-A Noble one. 

Mar. Were half to half the world by the 
ears, .and he 
Upon my party, I 'd revolt, to make 
Only my wars with him : he is a lion 
That I am proud to hunt. 

a, I: 1. 1152. 

FOES.— Our greatest Friends. 

Clo. * * Now my foes tell me plainly 
I am an ass : so that by my foes, sir, I profit 
in the knowledge of myself. 

T. m, V : 1. 565. 



FOLLOWERS. — Cast off, their Use. 

War. * * So, like gross terms, 
The prince will, in the perfectness of time, 
Cast off his followers : and their memory 
Shall as a pattern or a measure live, 
By which his grace must mete the lives of 

others ; 
Turning past evils to advantages. 

H. IV., 2 pt., IV : 4. 801. 

FOLLY.— Better than Sad Experience. 

Ros. And your experience makes you 
sad : I had rather have a fool to make me 
merry, than experience to make me sad ; 
and to travel for it too ! 

A. F., IV : 1. 429. 

— Of the Wise. 

Q. Mar. * * 
Why strew'st thou sugar on that bottle-spi- 
der, 
Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about? 

R. III., I: 3. 1009. 

Touch. The more pity, that fools may 
not speak wisely, what wise men do foolishly. 

Cel. By my troth, thou say'st true ; for 
since the little wit that fools have was 
silenced, the little foolery that wise men 
have makes a great show. 

A. Y.,I: 2. 410. 

— Reproved by the Wise. 

P. Hen. Well, thus we play the fools 
with the time ; and the spirits of the wise 
sit in the clouds, and mock us. 

H.IY.,2 pt.,II: 2. 784. 

— Wisdom's Disguise. 

Jaq. Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? 
he 's as good at anything, and yet a fool. 

Duke S. He uses his folly like a stalk- 
ing-horse, and under the presentation of 
that, he shoots his wit. 

A. Y., V: 4. 437. 

— Youthful, Punished. 

D. Pedro. To be whipped ! what 's his 
fault? 

Bene. The flat transgression of a school- 
boy; who, being overjoyed with finding a 
bird's nest, shows it his companion, and he 
steals it. 

J/. A., II : 1. 232. 

FOOL. — A Complete. 

Ther. * * Here 's Agamemnon, — an 
honest fellow enough, and one that loves 



FOOL. 



225 



FOOL. 



quails : but he has not so much brain as ear- 
wax. 

T. C, V : 1. 1136. 

— A* Corrupter of Words. 

Vio. Art thou not the lady Olivia's fool? 

Clo. No, indeed, sir ; the lady Olivia has 
no folly : she will keep no fool, sir, till she 
be married ; and fools are as like husbands 
as pilchards are to herrings, the husband 's 
the bigger; I am, indeed, not her fool, but 
her corrupter of words. 

T. JV"., Ill : 1. 554. 

— A Mean Spirited. 

Ant. Octavius, I have seen more days 

than you : 
And though we lay these honours on this 

man, 
To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads, 
He shall but bear them as the ass bears 

gold, 
To groan and sweat under the business, 
Either led or driven, as we point the way ; 
And having brought our treasure where we 

will, 
Then take we down his load, and turn him 

off, 
Like to the empty ass, to shake his ears, 
And graze in commons. 

Oct. You may do your will ; 

But he 's a tried and valiant soldier. 

Ant. So is my horse, Octavius ; and, for 

that, 
I do appoint him store of provender. 
It is a creature that I teach to fight, . 
To wind, to stop, to run directly on ; 
His corporal motion govern'd by my spirit. 
And, in some taste, is Lepidus but so ; 
He must be taught, and train'd, and bid go 

forth : 
A barren-spirited fellow ; one that feeds 
On objects, arts, and imitations : 
Which, out of use, and stal'd by other men, 
Begin his fashion : Do not talk of him, 
But as a property. 

J. C, IV : 1. 1343. 

— A Wise. 

Var. Serv. Thou art not altogether a 
fool. 

Fool. Nor thou altogether a wise man : 
as much foolery as I have, so much wit thou 
lackest. 

T. A., II : 2. 1295. 



— A wise Man one. 

Touch. Why, thou say'st well. I do now 
remember a saying ; "The fool doth think 
he is wise, but the wise man knows himself 
to be a fool." 

A. Y., V : 1. 433. 

Jaq. Is not this a rare fellow, my lord? 
he 's as good at anything, and yet a fool. 

A. Y.,V: 4. 437. 

— Confession of a. 

Bod. I do follow here in the chase, not 
like a hound that hunts, but one that fills up 
the cry. My money is almost spent ; I have 
been to-night exceedingly well cudgelled ; 
and, I think, the issue will be — I shall have 
so much experience for my pains : and so, 
with no money at all, and a little more wit, 
return to Venice. 

0:, II : 3. 1508. 

— Less Wit than a Sparrow. 

Ther. Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of 
wit he utters ! his evasions have ears thus 
long. I have bobbed his brain, more than 
he has beat my bones : I will buy nine spar- 
rows for a penny, and his pia mater is not 
worth the ninth part of a sparrow. 

T. C, II: 2. 1112. 

— Not to be Feared. 

Orl. * * A fool's bolt is soon shot. 

//. V., Ill : 7. 838. 

— Playing the. 

Vio. This fellow is wise enough to play 
the fool ; 
And to do that well craves a kind of wit : 
He must observe their mood on whom he 

jests, 
The quality of persons, and the time ; 
And, like the haggard, check at every feather 
That comes before his eye. This is a prac- 
tice 
As full of labour as a wise man's art : 
For folly, that he wisely shows, is fit ; 
But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their 
wit. 

T. m, III : 1. 555. 

— Self-Confessed. 

Fal. Have I laid my brain in the sun, 
and dried it, that it wants matter to prevent 
so gross o'erreaching as this? Am I ridden 
with a Welch goat too? Shall I have a cox- 



FOOL, 



226 



FOOLS. 



comb of frize? 'T is time I were chok'd 
with a piece of toasted cheese. 

M. W., V: 5. 119. 
— Sodden-Witted. 

Ajax. Thou stool for a witch ! 

Ther. Ay, do, do ; thou sodden-witted 
lord ! thou hast no more brain than I have 
in mine elbows ; an assinego may tutor thee. 

T. C, II: 1. 1112. 
— Wisdom from a. 

Jaq. A fool ! a, fool ! I met a fool i' the 

forest, 
A motley fool ; (a miserable world !) 
As I do live by food, I met a fool, 
Who laid him down and bask'd him in the 

sun, 
And rail'd on lady Fortune in good terms, 
In good set terms, — and yet a motley fool. 
"Good morrow, fool," quoth I. "No, sir," 

quoth he, 
" Call me not fool, till Heaven hath sent me 

fortune : " 
And then he drew a dial from his poke, 
And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, 
Says, very wisely, "It is ten o'clock : 
Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the 

world wags : 
T'is but an hour ago, since it was nine; 
And after one hour more, 't will be eleven ; 
And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, 
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; 
And thereby hangs a tale." 

A. Y., II : 7. 418. 

FO OLER Y. — Universal. 

Vio. I saw thee late at the count Orsino's. 

Clo. Foolery, sir, does walk about the 
orb, like the sun; it shines everywhere. I 
would be sorry, sir, but the fool should be 
as oft with your master, as with my mistress : 
I think I saw your wisdom there. 

T. N~., III : 1. 554. 
FOOLHARDINESS.— Not Valor. 

North. * * 

What valour were it, when a cur doth grin, 

For one to thrust his hand between his teeth, 

When he might spurn him with his foot 

away? 

H. F/.,3pt., I: 4. 960. 

Ccbs. * * 'T is to be chid 
As we rate boys ; who, being mature in 
knowledge, 



Pawn their experience to their present 

pleasure, 
And so rebel to judgment. 

A. a, la 4. 1545. 

— Resists Odds. 

Com. But now 't is odds beyond arith- 
metic ; 

And manhood is call'd foolery, when it 
stands 

Against a falling fabrick. — Will you hence, 

Before the tag return? whose rage doth 
rend 

Like interrupted waters, and o'erbear 

What they are used to bear. 

O., III : 1. 1172. 

FOOLS. — Betray Themselves. 

Ros. * * 

I dare not call them fools ; but this I think, 

When they are thirsty, fools would fain 

have drink. 

L.L.,Y: 2. 298. 

— Lucky. 

Ulyss. * * 
The fool slides o'er the ice that you should 

break. 

T. C, III : 3. 1125. 

— Of various Kinds. 

Ther. Agamemnon is a fool ; Achilles is 
a fool ; and, as aforesaid, Patroclus is a fool. 

Achil. Derive this ; come. 

Ther. Agamemnon is a fool to offer to 
command Achilles ; Achilles is a fool to be 
commanded of Agamemnon ; Thersites is a 
fool to serve such a fool ; and Patroclus is 
a fool positive. 

Pair. Why am I a fool? 

Ther. Make that demand of the plover. 
— It suffices me, thou art. 

T. C, II : 3. 1116. 

— Should Use their Talents. 

Clo. Well, God give them wisdom that 
have it; and those that are fools, let them 
use their talents. 

T. N., 1 : 5. 543. 

— To be Retained. 

Ham. * * 
Where 's your father? 

Oph. At home, my lord. 

Ham. Let the doors be shut upon him ; 
that he may play the fool no where but in 's 
own house. 

R., Ill : 1. 1411. 



FOOT. 



227 



FORBEARANCE. 



FOOT.— A Firm. 

Fal. * * The firm fixture of thy foot 
would give an excellent motion to thy gait, 
in a semicircled farthingale. I see what 
thou Avert, if Fortune thy foe were not, Na- 
ture thy friend : Come, thou canst not hide 
it. 

M. W., III: 3. 105. 

FOPPERY. — Rebuked. 

Hot. My liege, I did deny no prisoners. 
But, I remember, when the fight was done, 
When I was dry with rage, and extreme 

toil, 
Breathless and faint, leaning upon my 

sword, 
Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly 

dress'd, 
Fresh as a bridegroom ; and his chin, new 

reap'd, 
Show'd like a stubble-land at harvest-home ; 
He was perfumed like a milliner ; 
And 'twixt his finger and his thumb he held 
A pouncet-box, which ever and anon 
He gave his nose, and took 't away again ; — 
Who, therewith angry, when it next came 

there, 
Took it in snuff: — and still he smil'd, and 

talk'd ; 
And, as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, 
He calPd them — untaught knaves, unman- 
nerly, 
To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse 
Betwixt the wind and his nobility. 
With many holiday and lady terms - 
He question'd me ; among the rest demanded 
My prisoners, in your majesty's behalf. 
I then, all smarting, with my wounds being 

cold, 
To be so pester'd with a popinjay, 
Out of my grief and my impatience, 
Answer'd neglectingly, I know not what; 
He should, or he should not; — for he made 

me mad, 
To see him shine so brisk, and smell so 

sweet, 
And talk so like a waiting-gentlewoman, 
Of guns, and drums, and wounds, (God 

save the mark!) 
And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on 

earth 
Was parmaciti, for an inward bruise ; 
And that it was great pity, so it was, 



That villanous salt-petre should be digg'd 
Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, 
Which many a good tall fellow had de- 
stroy 'd 
So cowardly ; and, but for these vile guns, 
He would himself have been a soldier. 

H. IV., 1 pt., 1 : 3. 731. 

FORBEARANCE.— A Quality of 
Greatness. 

Tarn. * * 
Is the sun dimm'd, that gnats do fly in it? 
The eagle suffers little birds to sing, 
And is not careful what they mean thereby ; 
Knowing that with the shadow of his wing, 
He can at pleasure stint their melody : 
Even so may'st thou the giddy men of Rome. 
Then cheer thy spirit : for know, thou em- 
peror, 
I will enchant the old Andronicus, 
With words more sweet, and yet more dan- 
gerous, 
Than baits to fish, or honey-stalks to sheep ; 
When as the one is wounded with the bait, 
The other rotted with delicious feed. 

Tit. And., IV: 4. 1224. 

— A Virtue. 

Cham. * * 
Press not a falling man too far ; 't is virtue. 
H. Till., Ill : 2. 1081. 

— Invoked. 

P. Hen. Content; — and the argument 
shall be, thy running away. 

Fal. Ah ! no more of that, Hal, an thou 
lovest me. 

//. 7F.,lpt.,II: 4. 741. 

— Its binding Power. 

Km Hen. * * 
For he is gracious, if he be observ'd; 
He hath a tear for pity, and a hand 
Open as day for melting charity : 
Yet notwithstanding, being incens'd, he 's 

flint ; 
As humorous as winter, and as sudden 
As flaws congealed in the spring of day. 
His temper, therefore, must be well ob- 
serv'd : 
Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, 
When you perceive his blood inclin'd to 
mirth : 



FORBEARANCE. 



228 



FORECASTING. 



But, being moody, give him line and scope ; 
Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, 
Confound themselves with working. Learn 

this, Thomas, 
And thou shalt prove a shelter to thy friends ; 
A hoop of gold, to bind thy brothers in ; 
That the united vessel of their blood, 
Mingled with venom of suggestion, 
(As, force perforce, the age will pour it in,) 
Shall never leak, though it do work as strong 
As aconitum, or rash gunpowder. 

H. IV., 2 pt., IV : 4. 800. 

— Knowledge should Teach. 

Imo. * * I pray you, spare me : i' 
faith, 
I shall unfold equal discourtesy 
To your best kindness ; one of your great 

knowing 
Should learn, being taught, forbearance. 

Cym.,11: 3. 1601. 

— Mistaken. 

Lear. O me, my heart, my rising heart ! 
but, down. 

Fool. Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney 
did to the eels, when she put them i' the 
paste alive ; she rapp'd 'em o' the coxcombs 
with a stick, and cry'd, "Down, wantons, 
down : " 'T was her brother, that, in pure 
kindness to his horse, buttered his hay. 

K. L.,H: 4. 1460. 
—Not to be Trifled with. 
Ham. Thou pray'st not well. 
I pry'thee, take thy fingers from my throat, 
For, though I am not splenetive and rash, 
Yet have I in me something dangerous, 
Which let thy wisdom fear. 

H., V: 1. 1432. 

— Undermines Respect. 

K. Hen. My blood hath been too cold 

and temperate, 
Unapt to stir at these indignities, 
And you have found me ; for, accordingly, 
You tread upon my patience : but, be sure, 
I will from henceforth rather be myself, 
Mighty, and to be fear'd, than my condition ; 
Which hath been smooth as oil, soft as 

young down, 
And therefore lost that title of respect, 
Which the proud soul ne'er pays, but to the 

proud. 

//. IV., lpt.,1: 3. 730. 



FOREBODING.— Of Misfortune. (See 

Fear.) 
Q. Eliz. Ah me, I see the ruin of my 

house ! 
The tiger now hath seiz'd the gentle hind ; 
Insulting tyranny begins to jet 
Upon the innocent and awless throne : — 
Welcome, destruction, blood, and massacre, 
I see, as in a map, the end of all. 

R. Ill, II: 4. 1019. 

FOREBODINGS. — Call for Defense. 

War. Indeed, I think, the young king 

loves you not. 
Ch. Just. I know, he doth not ; and do 
arm myself, 
To welcome the condition of the time ; 
Which cannot look more hideously upon 

me 
Than I have drawn it in my fantasy. 

//. IV, 2 pt., V : 2. 806. 

— Excited. 

Mar. * * The skies look grimly, 
And threaten present blusters. In my con- 
science, 
The Heavens with that we have in hand are 

angry, 
And frown upon 's. 

W. T., Ill : 3. 596. 

FORECAST— An Instinct. 

3 Cit. Before the days of change, still is 
it so : 
By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust 
Ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see 
The water swell before a boist'rous storm. 
But leave it all to God. 

R. III., II: 3. 1018. 

Arch. * * 
We see which way the stream of time doth 

run, 
And are enforc'd from our most quiet sphere 
By the rough torrent of occasion. 

If. IV.,2-pt., IV: 1. 795. 

FORECASTING.— Of great Events. 

Ant. * * Our slippery people 
(Whose love is never link'd to the deserver, 
Till his deserts are past,) begin to throw 
Pompey the Great, and all his dignities, 
Upon his son ; who, high in name and power, 



FORECASTING. 



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FORGIVENESS. 



Higher than both in blood and life, stands 
up 

For the main soldier : whose quality, going 
on, 

The sides o' the world may danger : Much 
is breeding, 

Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but 
life, 

And not a serpent's poison. Say, our pleas- 
ure, 

To such whose place is under us, requires 

Our quick remove from hence. 

A. C, 1 : 2. 1543. 

FOREKNOWLEDGE.-A Source of 
Gloom. 

K. Hen. heaven ! that one might read 

the book of fate ; 
And see the revolution of the times 
Make mountains level, and the continent 
(Weary of solid firmness,) melt itselt 
Into the sea ! and, other times, to see 
The beachy girdle of the ocean 
Two wide for Neptune's hips ; how chances 

mock, 
And changes fill the cup of alteration 
With divers liquors ! 0, if this were seen, 
The happiest youth, — viewing his progress 

through, 

What perils past, what crosses to ensue, — 

Would shut the book, and sit him down and 

die. 

H. IV., 2 pt., Ill : l. 790. 

FORFEITURE.— An Unprofitable. 

Shy. O father Abram ! what these Chris- 
tians are, 

Whose own hard dealings teaches them sus- 
pect 

The thoughts of others ! Pray you, tell me 
this ; 

If he should break his day, what should I 
gain 

By the exaction of the forfeiture? 

A pound of man's flesh, taken from a man, 

Is not so estimable, profitable neither, 

As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats. 

M. V., 1 : 3. 366. 

FORGETFULNESS. — Complete. 

Cor. Like a dull actor now, 

I have forgot my part, and I am out, 
Even to a full disgrace. 

C, V : 3. 1188. 



— Not always Possible. 

Jul. * * I would forget fain ; 
But, O ! it presses to my memory, 
Like damned guilty deeds to sinners' minds. 
R. J., Ill : 2. 1262. 

— Not Possible. 

Macd. I shall do so ; 

But I must also feel it as a man : 
I cannot but remember such things were, 
That were most precious to me. 

M., IV : 3. 1389. 

— Of the Best. (See Memory.) 
Iago. * * 

But men are men ; the best sometimes for- 
get. 

0..II: 3. 1506. 

— Of the Loved, Impossible. 

Ben. Be rul'd by me, forget to think of 

her. 
Rom. 0, teach me how I should forget to 

think. 
Ben. By giving libert} T unto thine eyes ; 
Examine other beauties. 
* * 

He, that is strucken blind, cannot forget. 
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost : 
Show me a mistress that is passing fair, 
What doth her beauty serve, but as a note 
Where I may read, who pass'd that passing 

fair? 
Farewell; thou canst not teach me to for- 
get. 

R. J., 1 : 1. 1244. 

FORGIVENESS. — A Favor. 

King. * * Let him not ask our pardon ; 
The nature of his great offence is dead, 
And deeper than oblivion we do bury 
Th' incensing relics of it ; let him approach, 
A. stranger, no offender ; and inform him 
So 't is our will he should. 

A. W.,V: 3. 526. 

— Divine to be Sought. 

Oth. If you bethink yourself of any 
crime, 
Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, 
Solicit for it straight. 

0., V : 2. 1523. 



FORGIVENESS. 



23O 



FORTITUDE. 



— Generous. 

Buck. Sir Thomas Lovell, I as free for- 
give you, 
As I would be forgiven ; I forgive all ; 
There cannot be those numberless offences 
'Gainst me, L can't take peace with: no 

black envy- 
Shall make my grave. — Commend me to 

his grace ; 
And, if he speak of Buckingham, pray, tell 

him, 
You met him half in heaven : my vows and 

prayers 
Yet are the king's ; and, till my soul forsake 

me, 
Shall cry for blessings on him : May he live 
Longer than I have time to tell his years ! 
Ever belov'd, and loving, may his rule be ! 
And, when old time shall lead him to his 

end, 
Goodness and he fill up one monument ! 

H. VII L, II: 1. 1066. 

— Insincere. 

Wor. * * 
He will suspect us still, and find a time 
To punish this offence in other faults : 
Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes : 
For treason is but trusted like the fox ; 
Who, ne'er so tame, so cherish'd, and lock'd 

up, 
Will have a Avild trick of his ancestors. 
Look how we can, or sad, or merrily, 
Interpretation will misquote our looks ; 
And we shall feed like oxen at a stall, 
The better cherish'd, still the nearer death. 
H. IV., 1 pt., V : 2. 758. 

— Magnanimous. 

Cess. Take to you no hard thoughts ; 

The record of what injuries you did us, 
Though written in our flesh, we shall re- 
member 
As things but done by chance. 

A. C., V : 2. 1579 

Pro. * * The rarer action is 
In virtue than in vengeance : they being 

penitent, 
The sole drift of my purpose doth extend 
Not a frown further. 

T.,V: 1. 30. 



— Undeserved. 

Pro. * * 
For you, most wicked sir, whom to call 

brother 
Would ever infect my mouth, I do forgive 
Thy rankest fault; all of them; and require 
My dukedom of thee, which, perforce, I 

know 
Thou must restore. 

T., V : 1. 31. 

FORTITUDE. —Exalts. 

Ant. * * Bid that welcome 
Which comes to punish us, and we punish it 
Seeming to bear it lightly. 

A. C, IV : 12. 1575. 

— Exulted in. 
Ham. * * Bless'd are those, 
Whose blood and judgment are so well co- 
mingled, 
That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger 
To sound what stop she please. 

//., Ill : 2. 1413. 

Ham. My fate cries out, 

And makes each petty artery in this body 
As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. 

ff.,I: 4. 1399. 

— In physical Anguish. 

Arth. Alas, what need you be so boist'- 

rous-rough? 
I will not struggle, I will stand stone-still. 
For heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be 

bound ! 
Nay, hear me, Hubert! drive these men 

away, 
And I will sit as quiet as a lamb : 
I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word, 
Nor look upon the iron angerly: 
Thrust but these men away, and I '11 forgive 

you, 

Whatever torment you do put me to. 

K. J., IV : 1. 665. 

— Mocks in Defeat. 

Wol. * * I am able now, methinks, 
(Out of a fortitude of soul I feel.) 
To endure more miseries, and greater far, 
Than my weak-hearted enemies dare offer. 
What news abroad? 



FORTITUDE. 



231 



FORTUNE. 



Crom. The heaviest, and the worst, 

Is your displeasure with the kiny. 
Wol. God bless him. 

Crom. The next is, that sir Thomas 
More is chosen 
Lord chancellor in your place. 

Wol. That 's somewhat sudden : 

But he 's a learned man. May he continue 
Long in his highness' favour, and do justice 
For truth's sake, and his conscience; that 

his bones, 
When he has run his course, and sleeps in 

blessings, 
May have a tomb of orphans' tears -wept on 

'em ! 
What more? 

Crom. That Cranmer is return 'd with 
welcome, 
Install'd lord archbishop of Canterbury. 
Wol. That 's news indeed. 
Crom. Last, that the Lady Anne, 

Whom the king hath in secrecy long mar- 
ried, 
This day was view'd in open, as his queen, 
Going to chapel ; and the voice is now 
Only about her coronation. 

Wol. There was the weight that pull'd 
me down. O Cromwell, 
The king has gone beyond me, all my glories 
In that one woman I have lost for ever : 
No sun shall ever usher forth mine honours, 
Or gild again the noble troops that waited 
Upon my smiles. 

H. VIII., Ill : 2. 10S1. 

FORTUNE. — A Strumpet. 

1 Play. * * 
Out, out, thou strumpet Fortune ! All you 

gods, 
In general synod, take away her power ; 
Break all the spokes and fellies from her 

wheel, 
And bowl the round nave down the hill of 

heaven, 
As low as to the fiends ! 

H., II: 2. 1408. 

—Bad, a Relief. 

Edg. Yet better thus, and known to be 
contemn'd, 
Than still contemn'd and flatter'd. To be 
worst, 



The lowest, and most dejected thing of for- 
tune, 

Stands still in esperance, lives not in fear : 

The lamentable change is from the best ; 

The worst returns to laughter. Welcome 
then, 

Thou unsubstantial air, that I embrace ! 

The wretch, that thou hast blown unto the 
worst, 

Owes nothing to thy blasts. 

K.L.,1\: 1. 1470. 

— Borne "with. Patience. 
Wor. What I have done, my safety urg'd 
me to ; 
And I embrace this fortune patiently, 
Since not to be avoided it falls on me. 

H. IV., lpt.,V: 5. 762. 

— Conquered by Submission. 
Hen. * * 

He was the author, thou the instrument. 
Therefore, that I may conquer fortune's 

spite, 
By living low, where fortune cannot hurt 

me; 
And that the people of this blessed land 
May not be punish'd with my thwarting 

stars ; 
Warwick, although my head still wear the 

crown, 
I here resign my government to thee, 
For thou art fortunate in all thy deeds. 

H. VI., 3 pt., IV : 6. 982. 

— Contends -with Nature. 

Cel. No ! When Nature hath made a 
fair creature, may she not by Fortune fall 
into the fire? Though Nature hath given 
us Avit to flout at Fortune, hath not Fortune 
sent in this fool to cut otfthe argument? 

Ros. Indeed, there is a Fortune too hard 
for Nature, when Fortune makes Nature's 
natural the cutter off of Nature's wit. 

Cel. Peradventure, this is not Fortune's 
work neither, but Nature's ; who, perceiv- 
ing our natural wits too dull to reason of 
such goddesses, hath sent this natural for 
our whetstone : for always the dulness of 
the fool is the whetstone of the wits. 

A. Y., 1 : 2. 409. 

— Defied. 

Pom. Well, I know not 

What counts harsh fortune casts upon my 
face, 



FORTUNE. 



FORTUNE, 



But in my bosom shall she never come, 
To make my heart her vassal. 

A. C, II: 6. 1554. 

— Fickle. (See Greatness.) 

Wbr, * * But, in short space, 

It rain'd down fortune showering on your 

head. 

H. IV., lpt., V: 1. 757. 

Jul. fortune, fortune! all men call 
thee fickle ! 
If thou art fickle, what dost thou with him 
That is renown'd for faith? Be fickle, for- 
tune ; 
For then, I hope, thou wilt not keep him 
long, 

But send him back. 

R. J., Ill: 5. 1265. 

— Has strange Freaks. 

Old L. Why, this it is ; see, see ! 
I have been begging sixteen years in court. 
(Am yet a courtier beggarly,) nor could 
Come pat betwixt too early and too late, 
For any suit of pounds : and you, (0 fate !) 
A very fresh-fish here, (fie, fie upon 
This compell'd fortune !) have your mouth 

fill'd up, 
Before you open it. 

H. VIII., II : 3. 1070. 

— Her Mistakes. 

Cel. Let us sit and mock the good house- 
wife, Fortune, from her wheel, that her gifts 
may henceforth be bestowed equally. 

* * 

Ros. Nay, now thou goest from Fortune's 
office to Nature's : Forhine reigns in gifts of 
the world, not in the lineaments of Nature. 

A. Y., 1 : 2. 409. 

— In our own Hands. 

Hel. Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 

Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky 

Gives us free scope ; only, doth backward 

pull 
Our slow designs, Avhen we ourselves are 

dull. 

* * 

Impossible be strange attempts to those 
That weigh their pains in sense ; and do sup- 
pose 
What hath been cannot be. Who ever strove 
To show her merit, that did miss her love? 
A. W., 1 : 2. 497. 



— Invoked. 

Lart. Now the fair goddess, Fortune, 
Fall deep in love with thee ; and great 

charms 
Misguide thy opposers' swords? Bold gen- 
tleman, 
Prosperity be thy page ! 

a, I: 5. 1156 

— Its Favorite. 

Poet. Sir, I have upon a high and pleas- 
ant hill, 
Feign'd Fortune to be thron'd : The base o' 

the mount 
Is rank'd with all deserts, all kind of natures, 
That labour on the bosom of this sphere 
To propagate their states : amongst them all, 
Whose eyes are on this sovereign lady fix'd, 
One do I personate of lord Timon's frame, 
Whom Fortune with her ivory hand wafts 
to her. 

T.A.,1: 1. 1287. 

— Its Fickleness. 

K. Hen. * * 
Will fortune neA r er come with both hands 

full, 
But write her fair words still in foulest let- 
ters? 
She either gives a stomach, and no food, — 
Such are the poor, in health ; or else a feast, 
And takes away the stomach, — such are the, 

rich, 
That have abundance, and enjoy it not. 

H. IV., 2 pt., IV : 4. 801. 

— Its Frown, a Test 

Agam. * * 
But, in the wind and tempest of her frown, 
Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan, 
Puffing at all, winnows the light away; 
And what hath mass, or matter, by itself 
Lies, rich in virtue, and unmingled. 

T. C 1 : 3. 1107. 

— Its Instability. 
Poet. When Fortune, in her shift and 
change of mood, 
Spurns down her late belov'd, all his de- 
pendants, 
Which labour'd after him to the mountain's 
top, 



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233 



FORTUNE. 



Even on their knees and hands, let him slip 

down, 
Not one accompanying his declining foot. 

Pain. T is common : 
A thousand moral paintings I can show, 
That shall demonstrate these quick blows of 

fortune 
More pregnantly than words. Yet you do 

well, 
To show lord Timon, that mean eyes have 

seen 
The foot above the head. 

T.A.,1: 1. 1287. 

— Its Yoke not for All. 
K. Lew. Whate'er it be, be thou, still 
like thyself, 
And sit thee by our side ; yield not thy neck 
To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless 

mind 
Still ride in triumph over all mischance. 

H. VI., 3 pt., Ill : 3. 975. 
— Kings, Ministers of. 
Cleo. * * 'T is paltry to be Caesar : 
Not being fortune, he 's but fortune's knave, 

A minister of her will. 

A. C, V : 2. 1577. 

—Like the Tide. 

Bru. * * 
There is a tide in. the affairs of men, 
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to for- 
tune ; 
Omitted, all the voyage of their life 
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. 

J. C, IV : 3. ir45. 

— Mind Superior to. 
K. Edw. * * 

Edward will always bear himself as king : 
Though fortune's malice overthrow my state, 
My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. 
//. VI., 3 pt., IV : 3. 981. 

— Mutations Lead to Hate. 
Edg. * * 'World, world, O world ! 

But that thy strange mutations make us hate 

thee, 
Life would not yield to age. 

K. Z..IV: 1. 1470. 

—No Power over the Heart. 

Pom. Well, I know not 

What counts harsh fortune casts upon my 
face, 



But in my bosom shall she never come, 
To make my heart her vassal. 

A. C., II: 6.. 1554. 

— Scorned when She Frowns. 
Ant. * * Fortune knows, 
We scorn her most, when most she offers 



blows. 



A. C III : 9. 1564. 



— Scratches the Cowardly. 

Pa?: My lord, I am a man whom For- 
tune hath cruelly scratch'd. 

Laf. And what would you have me to 
do? 't is too late to pare her nails now. 
Wherein have you played the knave with 
Fortune, that she should scratch you, who 
of herself is a good lady, and would not 
have knaves thrive long under her? 

A. W., V : 2. 525. 

— Threatens when Leaving. 

Pand. * * 
No, no ; when fortune means to men most 

good, 
She looks upon them with a threatening eye. 
K. J., Ill : 4. 663. 

—To be Endured. 

Glo. * * 
Since you will buckle fortune on my back, 
To bear her burden, whe'r I will, or no, 
I must have patience to endure the load. 

. R. III., Ill : 7. 1029. 

— Turns on Use. 

Pro. * * 
I find my zenith doth depend upon 
A most auspicious star ; whose influence 
If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes 
Will ever after droop. 

T., 1 : 2. 10. 

— Variable and Blind. 

Flu. By your patience, ancient Pistol. 
Fortune is painted plind, with a muffler be- 
fore her eyes, to signify to you, that fortune 
is plind : And she is painted also with a 
wheel ; to signify * * that she is turn- 
ing, and inconstant, and variations, and 
mutabilities : and her foot, look you, is fixed 
upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, 
and rolls : — In good truth, the poet is make 
a most excellent description of fortune : for- 
tune, look you, is an excellent moral. 

H. V., Hi: 6. 836. 



FRAILTY. 



234 



FRENCHMEN. 



FRAILTY.— Its Name, Woman. 

Ham. * * That it should come to this ! 
But two months dead ! — Nay, not so much, 

not two : 
So excellent a king; that was, to this, 
Hyperion to a satyr : so loving to my mother, 
That he might not beteem the winds of 

heaven 
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and 

earth ! 
Must I remember? why, she would hang on 

him, 
As if increase of appetite had grown 
By what it fed on : and yet, within a 

month, — 
Let me not think on 't ; — Frailty, thy name 

is woman ! — 
A little month ; or ere those shoes were old, 
With which she follow 'd my poor father's 

body, 
Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, — 
O heaven ! a beast, that wants discourse of 

reason, 
Would have mourn'd longer, — married with 

my uncle, 
My father's brother; but no more like my 

father. 
Than I to Hercules : Within a month ; 
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears 
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, 
She married : — O most wicked speed, to post 
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets ! 
It is not, nor it cannot come to, good. 

If., 1 : 2. 1395. 

— Woman's 

Ang. Nay, women are frail too. 

Isab. Ay, as the glasses where they view 
themselves ; 
Which are as easy broke as they make 

forms. 
Women! — Help heaven! men their crea- 
tion mar 
In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times 

frail ; 
For we are soft as our complexions are, 
And credulous to false prints. 

M. M., II : 4. 155. 

FRANCE.. — Contempt for. 

Par. France is a dog-hole, and it no 
more merits 
The tread of a man's foot : to th' wars ! 

A. IF., II: 3. 508. 



FRANKNESS.- Soldierly. 

Cas. He speaks home, madam ; you may 
relish him more in the soldier, than in the 
scholar. 

0., II: 1. 1502. 

FREEDOM. — Contingent on Obedi- 
ence. 

Pro. Thou shalt be as free 
As mountain winds : but then exactly do 
All points of my command. 

T., 1 : 2. 14. 

FREEZING.— The Diminutive Escape. 

Gru. * * I am sent before to make a 
fire, and they are coming after to warm 
them. Now, were not I a little pot, and 
soon hot, my very lips might freeze to my 
teeth, my tongue to the roof of my mouth, 
my heart in my belly, ere I should come by 
a fire to thaw me: — But, I, with blowing 
the fire, shall warm myself; for, consider- 
ing the weather, a taller man than I will 
take cold. 

T. S., IV : l. 471. 

FRENCHMAN— A Valiant. 

Beat. You had musty victual, and he 
hath holp to eat it : he 's a very valiant 
trencherman ; he hath an excellent stomach. 

M. A., 1 : 1. 225. 

FRENCHMEN— English Opinion of. 

Pour. They bid us — to the English 
dancing-schools, 
And teach lavoltas high, and swift corantos ; 
Saying, our grace is only in our heels, 
And that we are most lofty runaways. 

H. V. Ill: 5. 835. 

— Englishman's Contempt for. 

K. Men. * * 
My people are with sickness much en- 
feebled ; 
My numbers lessen'd ; and those few I have, 
Almost no better than so many French ; 
Who when they were in health, I tell thee, 

herald, 
I thought, upon one pair of English legs 
Did march three Frenchmen. — Yet, forgive 

me, God, 
That I do brag thus ! this your air of France 
Hath blown that vice in me ; I must repent. 
Go, therefore, tell thy master, here I am : 
My ransom, is this frail, inconstant trunk ; 



FRENCHMEN. 



235 



FRIENDS. 



My army, but a weak and sickly guard ; 

Yet, God before, tell him we will come on, 

Though France himself, and such another 

neighbour, 

Stand in our way. 

H. V., Ill: 6. 837. 

FRIEND. — A false, Anathematized. 

Flam. May these add to the number 

that may scald thee ! 
Let molten coin be thy damnation, 
Thou disease of a friend, and not himself! 
Has friendship such a faint and milky heart, 
It turns in less than two nights? O you 

gods, 
I feel my master's passion ! This slave 
Unto his honour, has my lord's meat in him : 
Why should it thrive, and turn to nutriment, 
When he is turn'd to poison? 
O, may diseases only work upon 't ! 
And, when he is sick to death, let not that 

part of nature 
Which my lord paid for, be of any power 
To expel sickness, but prolong his hour ! 

T. A., Ill : 1. 1297. 

— A perfect. (See Infirmities.) 

Ulyss. The amity that wisdom knits not, 
folly may easily untie. 

T. C, II: 3. 1117. 

Bass. The dearest friend to me, the 
kindest man, 
The best condition'd and unwearied 'st spirit 
In doing courtesies ; and one in whom 
The ancient Roman honour more appears, 
Than any that draws breath in Italy. 

M. V., Ill: 2. 379. 

— Hamlet's Picture of a. 

Ham. * * Why should the poor be 

natter 'd? 
No, let the candied tongue lick absurd 

pomp ; 
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, 
Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost 

thou hear? 
Since my dear soul was mistress of her 

choice, 
And could of men distinguish her election, 
She hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou 

hast been 
As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing ; 
A man, that fortune's buffets and rewards 



Has ta'en with equal thanks : and bless'd are 

those, 
Whose blood and judgment are so well 

co-mingled, 
That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger 
To sound what stop she please : Give me 

that man 
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear 

him 

In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of hearts, 

As I do thee. 

H.,I1I: 2. 1413. 

— More than Money. 

Shal. Yes, Davy. I will use him well : 
A friend i' the court is better than a penny 
in purse. 

//. IV., 2 pt., V : 1. 805. 

— Transformed into a Foe. 

War. I came from Edward as ambassa- 
dor, 
But I return his sworn and mortal foe : 
Matter of marriage was the charge he gave 

me, 
But dreadful war shall answer his demand. 
Had he none else to make a stale, but me? 
Then none but I shall turn his jest to sorrow. 
I was the chief that rais'd him to the crown, 
And I '11 be chief to bring him down again : 
Not that I pity Henry's misery, 
But seek revenge on Edward's mockery. 

H. F/.,3pt., Ill: 3. 978. 

FRIENDS. — Abundant. 

Tim. * * Canst thou the conscience 
lack, 

To think I shall lack friends? Secure thy 
heai't ; 

If I would broach the vessels of my love, 

And try the argument of hearts by borrow- 
ing, 

Men, and men's fortunes, could I frankly 

use, 

As I can bid thee speak. 

T. A., II : 2. 1296. 

— Bewailing their Loss. 

King. * * 
Let not the cloud of sorrow justle it 
From what it purpos'd ; since, to wail friends 

lost, 
Is hot by much so wholesome, profitable, 
As to rejoice at friends but newly found. 

L.L.,Y: 2. 302. 



FRIENDS. 



236 



FRIENDS. 



— Blind Estimate of. 

Tim. 0, no doubt, my good friends, but 
tbe gods themselves have provided that I 
shall have much help from you : How had 
you been my friends else? why have you that 
charitable title from thousands, did you not 
chiefly belong to my heart? I have told 
more of you to myself, than you can with 
modesty speak in your own behalf; and thus 
far I confirm you. O, you gods, think I, 
what need we have any friends, if we should 
never have need of them? they were the 
most needless creatures living, should we 
ne'er have use for them : and would most re- 
semble sweet instruments hung up in cases, 
that kept their sounds to themselves. Why, 
I have often wished myself poorer, that I 
might come nearer to you. We are born 
to do benefits : and what better or properer 
can we call our own, than the riches of our 
friends? O, what a precious comfort 'tis, 
to have so -many, like brothers, command- 
ing one another's fortunes ! 

T. A., 1 : 2. 1291. 

— Faithful. 

K. Hen. * * 
We carry not a heart with us from hence, 
That grows not in a fair consent with ours ; 
Nor leave not one behind, that doth not 

wish 
Success and conquest to attend on us. 

n. V., II: 2. 826. 

— False, their Vileness. 
Flav. * * 

What viler thing upon the earth, than friends, 
Who can bring noblest minds to basest ends ? 
How rarely does it meet with this time's 

guise, 
When man was wish'd to love his enemies : 
Grant, I may ever love, and rather woo 
Those that would mischief me, than those 

that do ! 



T. A., IV 



1310. 



— Fearful. 

Blunt. He hath no friends, but who are 

friends for fear ; 

Which, in his dearest need, will fly from 

him. 

R. III., V : 2. 1042. 

—Fidelity to. 

Pol. * * 
The friends thou hast, and their adoption 

tried, 
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel. 

ff.,I: 3. 1397. 



— Hollow. 
K. Fdw. * 



* You twain, of all the 



Are near to Warwick, by blood, and by alli- 
ance ; 

Tell me, if you love Warwick more than 
me? 

If it be so, then both depart to him ; 

I rather wish you foes, than hollow friends ; 

But if you mind to hold your true obe- 
dience, 

Give me assurance with some friendly vow, 

That I may never have you in suspect. 

//. VI, 3pt.,IV: 1. 980. 
— Inconstancy of. 
Buck. * * 

Be sure, you be not loose ; for those you 
make friends, 

And give your hearts to, when they once 
perceive 

The least rub in your fortunes, fall away 

Like water from ye, never found again 

But where they mean to sink ye. 

H. VIZI, II: 1. 1067. 

— Mouth, Rebuked. 

Tim. * * 
Such summer-birds are men. 

T. A., Ill : 6. 1302. 

Tim. May you a better feast never be- 
hold, 

You knot of mouth-friends ! smoke, and 
lukewarm water 

Is your perfection. This is Timon's last ; 

Who stuck and spangled you with flatteries, 

Washes it off, and sprinkles in your faces 

[ Throwing Water in their Faces. 

Your reeking villany. Live loath'd, and 
long, 

Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, 

Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek 
bears, 

You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time's 
flies, 

Cap and knee slaves, vapours, and minute- 
jacks ! 

Of man, and beast, the infinite malady 

Crust you quite o'er ! — What, dost thou go? 

Soft, take thy physic first — thou too — and 
thou. 

[Throws the Dishes at them, and 
drives them out. 

T.A.,UI: 6. 1303. 



FRIENDS. 



237 



FRIENDSHIP. 



— Mutation of. 
Apem. Hey day, what a sweep of vanity 
comes this way ! 
They dance ! they are mad women. 
Like madness is the glory of this life, 
As this pomp shows to a little oil, and root. 
We make ourselves fools, to disport our- 
selves ; 
And spend our flatteries, to drink those men, 
Upon whose age we void it up again, 
With poisonous spite, and envy. Who lives, 

that 's not 
Depraved, or depraves? who dies, that bears 
Not one spurn to their graves of their 

friend's gift? 
I should fear, those, that dance before me 

now, 
Would one day stamp upon me : It has 

been done ; 
Men shut their doors against a setting sun. 
T.A.,I: 2. 1291. 

— Recognition in Heaven. 

Const. * * 
And, father cardinal, I have heard you say, 
That we shall see and know our friends in 

heaven : 
If that be true, I shall see my boy again ; 
For, since the birth of Cain, the first male 

child, 
To him that did but yesterday suspire, 
There was not such a gracious creature 

born. 
But now will canker sorrow eat my bud, 
And chase the native beauty from his cheek, 
And he will look as hollow as a ghost ; 
As dim and meagre as an ague's fit ; 
And so he '11 die ; and, rising so again, 
When I shall meet him in the court of 

heaven 
I shall not know him : therefore never, 

never 
Must I behold my pretty Arthur more. 

K. J.,\ll: 4. 662. 

FRIENDSHIP.— Continuance Desired. 

Cces. I do not much dislike the matter, 
but 
The manner of his speech : for it cannot be, 
We shall remain in friendship, our condi- 
tions 



So differing in their acts. Yet, if I knew 
What hoop should hold us staunch, from 

edge to edge 
O' the world I would pursue it. 

A. C, II : 2. 1549. 

— Covetous. 

Stan. * * 

Farewell : The leisure and the fearful time 

Cuts off the ceremonious vows of love, 

And ample interchange of sweet discourse, 

Which so long sunder'd friends should dwell 

upon; 

God give us leisure for these rites of love ! 

Once more, adieu : — Be valiant, and speed 

well! 

R. TIL, V : 3. 1043. 

— Dependent on Fortune. 

P. King. * * 'T is a question left us 
yet to prove, 

Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune 
love. 

The great man down, you mark his favour- 
ite flies ; 

The poor advanc'd makes friends of enemies. 

And hitherto doth love on fortune tend : 

For who not needs, shall never lack a friend ; 

And who in want a hollow friend doth try, 

Directly seasons him his enemy. 

H., in: 2. 1414. 

— Disinterested, a Dream. 
Flav. * * 

O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings 
us ! 

Who would not wish to be from wealth ex- 
empt, 

Since riches point to misery and contempt? 

Who 'd be so mock'd with glory? or to live 

But in a dream of friendship? 

To have his pomp, and all what state com- 
pounds, 

But only painted, like his varnish'd friends? 

Poor honest lord, brought low by his own 
heart ; 

Undone by goodness ! Strange, unusual 
blood, 

When man's worst sin is, he does too much 
good! 

Who then dares to be half so kind again? 

For bounty, that makes gods, does still mar 
men. 



FRIENDSHIP. 



2 3 8 



FRIENDSHIP. 



My dearest lord, — bless 'd, to be most ac- 

curs'd, 
Rich, only to be wretched ; thy great foi*- 

tunes 
Are made thy chief afflictions. Alas, kind 

lord! 
He 's flung in rage from this ungrateful seat 
Of monstrous friends : nor has he with him 

to 
Supply his life, or that which can command 

it. 

T. A., IV : 2. 1305. 

— Flatters. 

Con. I will cap that proverb with — There 
is flattery in friendship. 

H. V., Ill: 7. 838. 

— Has its Dregs. 

Apem. * * Friendship 's full of dregs : 
Me thinks, false hearts should never have 

sound legs. 
Thus honest fools lay out their wealth on 
court'sies. 

T. A., 1 : 2. 1293. 

— Impotent. 

Men. I tell thee, fellow, 

Thy general is my lover : I have been 
The book of his good acts, whence men 

have read 
His fame unparallel'd, haply, amplified ; 
For I have ever magnified my friends, 
(Of whom he 's chief.) with all the size that 

verity 
Would without lapsing suffer : nay, some- 
times, 
Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground, 
I have tumbled past the throw ; and in his 

praise 
Have, almost, stamp'd the leasing : There- 
fore, fellow, 
I must have leave to pass. 

1 G. 'Faith, sir, if you had told as many 
lies in his behalf, as you have uttered words 
in your own, you should not pass here : no, 
though it were as virtuous to lie, as to live 
chastely. Therefore, go back. 

Men. Pr'ythee, fellow, remember my 
name is Menenius, always factionary on the 
party of your general. 

2 G. Howsoever you have been his liar, 
(as you say, you have,) I am one that, tell- 
ing true under him, must say, you cannot 
pass. Therefore, go back. 



Men. Has he dined, can'st thou tell? for 
I would not speak with him till after dinner. 

1 G. You are a Roman, are you? 

Men. I am as thy general is. 

1 G. Then you should hate Rome, as he 
does. Can you, when you have pushed out 
your gates the very defender of them, and, 
in a violent popular ignorance, given your 
enemy your shield, think to front his re- 
venges with the queasy groans of old wo- 
men, the virginial palms of your daughters, 
or with the palsied intercession of such a 
decayed dotant as you seem to be? Can 
you think to blow out the intended fire your 
city is ready to flame in, with such weak 
breath as this ? No, you are deceived ; 
therefore, back to Rome, and prepare for 
your execution ; you are condemned, our 
general has sworn you out of reprieve and 
pardon. 

C, V : 2. 1187. 

— Inconstant in Matters of Love. 

Claud. * * The prince woes for him- 
self; 
Friendship is constant in all other things, 
Save in the office and affairs of love : 
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own 

tongues ; 
Let every eye negotiate for itself, 
And trust no agent : for beauty is a witch, 
Against whose charms faith melteth into 
blood. 

Jf.A.,11: 1. 231. 

— Of two Girls. 
Bel. * * O, and is all forgot? 
All school-days' friendship, childhood inno- 
cence? 
We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, 
Have with our needles created both one 

flower, 
Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, 
Both w r arbling of one song, both in one key ; 
As if our hands, our sides, voices and minds, 
Had been incorporate. So we grew together, 
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, 
But yet an union in partition, 
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : 
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart, 
Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, 
Due but to one, and crowned with one crest. 
And will you rend our ancient love asunder, 
To join with men in scorning your poor 
friend? 

M. 2?., Ill : 2. 334. 



FRIENDSHIP. 



239 



FROLICSOMENESS. 



— Requires a Pledge. 

Stan. Most mighty sovereign, 

You have no cause to hold my friendship 

doubtful ; 
I never was, nor never will be false. 

K. Rich. Well, go, muster men. But, 
hear you, leave behind 
Your son, George Stanley ; look your heart 

be firm, 
Or else his head's assurance is but frail. 
Stan. So deal with him, as I prove true 
to you. 

R. III., IV : 4. 1040. 

— Stronger than Death. 

Ant. * * 
Repent not you that you shall lose your 

friend, 
And he repents not that he pays your debt ; 
For, if the Jew do cut but deep enough, 
I '11 pay it instantly with all my heart. 

Bass. Antonio, I am married to a wife, 
Which is as dear to me as life itself; 
But life itself, my wife, and all the world, 
Are not with me esteem'd above thy life ; 
I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all - 
Here to this devil, to deliver you. 

M. V., IV : 1. 385. 

— True, its Wisdom. 

Cor. ' * * Thou old and true Menenius, 
Thy tears are salter than a younger man's, 
And venomous to thine eyes. — My some- 
time general, 
I have seen thee stern, and thou hast oft be- 
held 
Heart-hard'ning spectacles ; tell these sad 

women, 
'T is fond to wail inevitable strokes, 
As 't is to laugh at them. 

C, IV : 1. 1177. 

— True, unselfish. 

OH. O, you are sick of self-love, Malvo- 
lio, and taste with a distemper'd appetite. 
To be generous, guiltless, and of free dis- 
position, is to take those things for bird- 
bolts that you deem cannon-bullets. There 
is no slander in an allow'd fool, though he 
do nothing but rail; nor no railing in a 
known discreet man, though he do nothing 
but reprove. 

T. jr.. I: 5. 544. 



— Unlocks all Resources. 

Ant. I pray you, good Bassanio, let me 
know it ; 
And, if it stand, as you yourself still do, 
Within the eye of honour, be assur'd 
My purse, my person, my extremest means, 
Lie all unlock'd to your occasions. 

M. V., I: 1. 362. 

FRIVOLITY. — Excessive. 

Eos. * * I will be * * more new- 
fangled than ape ; more giddy in my desires 
than a monkev. 



A. Y., IV 



430. 



— Life too short for. 

Mess. My lord, here are letters for you. 
Hoi. I cannot read them now. — 

gentlemen, the time of life is short ; 

To spend that shortness basely, were' too 

long, 
If life did ride upon a dial's point, 
Still ending at the arrival of an hour. 
An if we live, we live to tread on kings ; 
If die, brave death, when princes die with 

us ! 
Now for our conscience, — the arms are fair, 
When the intent of bearing them is just. 

H. IV., 1 pt., V : 2. 758. 

FROLICSOMENESS.— Boasted of in 
Age. 

Shal. He must then to the inns of court 
shortly : I was once of Clement's inn ; where, 

1 think, they will talk of mad Shallow yet. 

Sil. You were called — lusty Shallow, 
then, cousin. 

Shal. By the mass, I was called any 
thing; and I would have done any thing, 
indeed, and roundly too. There was I, and 
little John Doit of Staffordshire, and black 
George Bare, and Francis Pickbone, and 
Will Squele a Cotswold man, — you had not 
four such swinge-bucklers in all the inns of 
court again : and, I may say to you, we 
knew where the bona-robas were ; and had 
the best of them all at commandment. Then 
was Jack Falstaff now sir John, a boy ; and 
page to Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk. 

Sil. This sir John, cousin, that comes 
hither anon about soldiers? 

Shal. The same sir John, the very same. 
I saw him break Skogan's head at the court 
gate, when he was a crack, not thus high : 
and the very same day did I fight with 
one Sampson Stockfish, a fruiterer, behind 



FROWNING. 



24O 



FUTURE. 



Gray's-inn. O, the mad days that I have 
spent ! and to see how many of mine old 
acquaintance are dead ! 

H. IV., 2 pt., Ill : 2. 791. 

FROWNING.— An Honor to be Cause 
of. 

Queen. He goes hence frowning: but it 
honours us, 
That we have given him cause. 

Cym., Ill: 5. 1610. 

FRUIT. — Ripest, falls first 

K. Rich. The ripest fruit first falls, and 
so doth he. 

It. II., II : 1. 693. 

FUNCTION. — Smothered. 

Macb. * * 
Shakes so my single state of man, that func- 
tion 
Is smother'd in surmise. 

31., 1 : 3. 1360. 

FUNERAL. — Sorrow. 

Oph. I hope, all will be well. We must 
be patient : but I cannot choose but weep, 
to think they should lay him i' the cold 
ground. 

H. IV., 1 pt., 5. 1424. 

FURY. — Crowned with Snakes. 

Cleo. * * Why so tart a favour 
To trumpet such good tidings ? If not well, 
Thou should 'st come like a fury crown'd 

% with snakes, 
Not like a formal man. 

A. C, II : 5. 1552. 

Ant. * * He hath fought to-day, 
As if a god, in hate of mankind, had 
Destroy'd in such a shape. 

A. C, IV : 8. 1571. 



— Unreasonable. 

1 Serv. He was too hard for him di- 
rectly, to say the truth on 't : before Corioli, 
he scotched him and notched him like a car- 
bonado. 

C, IV: 5. 1182. 

York. Scarce can I speak, my choler is 
so great. 
O, I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint, 
I am so angry at these abject terms ; 
And now, like Ajax Telamonius, 
On sheep or oxen could I spend my fury ! 
H. VI, 2 pt., V : 1. 942. 

FUTURE.— Interpreted by the Past. 

War. There is a history in all men's 
lives, 
Figuring the nature of the times deceas'd : 
The which observed, a man may prophesy, 
With a near aim, of the main chance of 

things 
As yet not come to life ; which in their seeds 
And weak beginnings lie intreasured. 
Such things become the hatch and brood of 

time : 
And, by the necessary form of this, 
King Richard might create a perfect guess, 
That great Northumberland, then false to 

him, 
Would, of that seed, grow to a greater false- 
ness, 
Which should not find a ground to root 

upon, 
Unless on you. 

H. IV., 2 pt., Ill : 1. 790. 

— Knowledge of the. (See Fore- 
knowledge.) 
Bru. * * O, that a man might know 
The end of this day's business, ere it come ! 
But it sufliceth, that the day will end, 
And then the end is known. 

J. a, V : 1. 1349. 



GAIT. 



24I 



GAUNTNESS. 



G 



GAIT.— A Betrayer. 

Agam. Is not yon Diomed, with Cal- 

chas' daughter? 
Ulyss. 'T is he, I ken the manner of his 
gait; . 
He rises on the toe : that spirit of his 
In aspiration lifts him from the earth. 

T. C, IV: 5. 1131. 

GALLANT.— An Accomplished. 

Biron. This fellow picks up wit, as 

pigeons peas, 
And utters it again when Jove doth please. 
He is wit's peddler, and retails his wares 
At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, 

fairs : 
And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth 

know, 
Hath not the grace to grace it with such 

show. 
This gallant pins the wenches on his sleeve ; 
Had he been Adam, he had tempted Eve : 
He can carve too, and lisp : Why, this is he, 
That kiss'd away his hand in courtesy ; 
This is the ape of form, Monsieur the Nice, 
That, when he plays at tables, chides the 

dice 
In honourable terms ; nay, he can sing 
A mean most meanly ; and, in ushering, 
Mend him who can : the ladies call him, 

sweet ; 
The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his 

feet; 
This is the flower that smiles on every one, 
To show his teeth as white as whales' bone : 
And consciences, that will not die in debt, 
Pay him the due of honey-tongued Boyet. 

L.L.,V: 2. 297. 

— Disgust at an Old. 

Mrs. Page. * * O wicked, wicked 
world! — one that is well nigh worn to 
pieces with age, to show himself a young 
gallant! * * I'll exhibit a bill in the 
parliament for the putting down of men. 

M. W., II : 1. 95. 



GALLANTS.— Travelled. 

Lov. * * Our travell'd gallants, 
That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and 
tailors. 

H. VIII., 1 : 3. 1062. 

GARTER. — Order of, a Reward. 

Tal. When first this order was ordain'd, 
my lords, 
Knights of the garter were of noble birth ; 
Valiant, and virtuous, full of haughty cour- 
age, 
Such as were grown to credit by the wars ; 
Not fearing death, nor shrinking for dis- 
tress, 
But always resolute in worst extremes. 
He then, that is not furnish 'd in this sort, 
Doth but usurp the sacred name of knight, 
Profaning this most honourable order ; 
And should (if I were worthy to be judge,) 
Be quite degraded, like a hedge-born swain 
That doth presume to boast of gentle blood. 
H. VI, lpt., IV: 1. 884. 

GAUNTNESS.— Bred of Watching. 
Gaunt. O, how that name befits my 

composition ! 
Old Gaunt, indeed ; and gaunt in being old : 
Within me grief hath kept a tedious fast ; 
And who abstains from meat, that is not 

gaunt? 
For sleeping England long time have I 

watch 'd; 
Watching breeds leanness, leanness is all 

gaunt ; 
The pleasure, that some fathers feed upon, 
Is my strict fast, I mean — my children's 

looks ; 
And, therein fasting, hast thou made me 

gaunt : 
Gaunt am I for the grave, gaunt as a grave, 
Whose hollow womb inherits nought but 

bones. 

R. II, II : 1. 693. 



GENERALSHIP. 



242 



GENEROSITY. 



GENERALSHIP.— Above rude Force. 

Ulyss. * * The still and mental parts, 
That do contrive how many hands shall 

strike, 
When fitness calls them on ; and know, by 

measure 
Of their observant toil, the enemies' weight, 
Why, this hath not a finger's dignity : 
They call this — bed-work, mappery, closet- 
war; 
So that the ram, that batters down the wall, 
For the great swing and rudeness o' his 

poize, 
They place before his hand that made the 

engine ; 
Or those, that with the fineness of their 

souls 
By reason guide his execution. 

T. C, I: 3. 1109. 

GENEROSITY.— Easily Paid. 

Por. He is well paid that is well satis- 
fied : 
And I, delivering you, am satisfied, 
And therein do account myself well paid ; 
My mind was never yet more mercenary. 

M. V. t IV : 1. 387. 

— Exhausted and Empty. 

Flav. What will this come to ? 

He commands us to provide, and give great 

gifts, 
And all out of an empty coffer. — 
Nor will he know his purse ; or yield me 

this, 
To show him what a beggar his heart is, 
Being of no power to make his wishes good : 
His promises fly so beyond his state, 
That what he speaks is all in debt, he owes 
For every word ; he is so kind, that he now 
Pays interest for 't ; his land 's put to their 

books. 
Well, 'would I were gently put out of office, 
Before I were forc'd out! 
Happier is he that has no friend to feed, 
Than such as do even enemies exceed. 
I bleed inwardly for my lord. 

T. A., 1 : 2. 1292. 

—Lavish. 

Flav. my good lord, the world is but 
a word: 



Were it all yours to give it in a breath, 
How quickly were it gone ! 

T.A.,II: 2. 1295. 

2 Lord. He pours it out : Plutus, the 
god of gold, 
Is but his steward : no meed, but he repays 
Sevenfold above itself; no gift to him, 
But breeds the giver a return exceeding 
All use of quittance. 

T. A., 1 : 1. 1289. 

— Maintains the Feeble. 

Tim. Imprison'd is he, say you? 

Ven. Serv. Ay, my good lord : five tal- 
ents is his debt ; 
His means most short, his creditors most 

strait : 
Your honourable letter he desires 
To those have shut him up ; which failing 

to him, 
Periods his comfort. 

Tim. Noble Ventidius ! Well ; 

I am not of that feather, to shake off 
My friend when he must need me. I do 

know him 
A gentleman, that well deserves a help, 
Which he shall have : I '11 pay the debt, 
and free him. 

T. A., I: 1. 1287. 

— Manly, easily Deceived. 

Iago. * * 
The Moor is of a free and open nature, 
That thinks men honest, that but seem to 

be so; 
And will as tenderly be led by the nose, 
As asses are. 

0., 1 : 3. 1499. 

— Of Others' Property, easy. 

York. * * 

Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of 
their pillage, 

And purchase friends, and give to courte- 
zans, 

Still revelling, like lords, till all be gone : 

While as the silly owner of the goods 

Weeps over them, and wrings his hapless 
hands, 

And shakes his head, and trembling stands 
aloof, 

While all is shar'd, and all is borne away ; 



GENEROSITY. 



243 



GHOST. 



Ready to starve, and dare not touch his own. 
So York must sit, and fret, and bite his 

tongue, 
While his own lands are bargain'd for, and 

sold. 

H. VI., 2 pt., 1 : 1. 909. 

— Worthy of Praise. 

Prin. * * 
A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair 
praise. 

L. Z., IV: 1. 283. 

GENIUS. — Universal. 

Cant. * * 
Turn him to any cause of policy, 
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, 
Familiar as his garter. 

H. V.,1: 1. 820. 

GENTLEMAN. — An Experienced. 

Pol. * * Camillo — 
As you are certainly a gentleman ; thereto 
Clerk-like, experienc'd, which no less adorns 
Our gentry, than our parents' noble names, 
In whose success we are gentle. 

W. T., 1 : 2. 585. 

— His Rights. 

Clo. You are well met, sir : You deny'd 
to fight with me this other day, because 
I was no gentleman born : See you these 
clothes? say, you see them not, and think 
me still no gentleman born : you were best 
say these robes are not gentlemen born. 
Give me the lie ; do ; and try whether I am 
not now a gentleman born. 

Aut. I know you are now, sir, a gentle- 
man born. 

Clo. Ay, and have been so any time these 
four hours. 

Shep. And so have I, boy. 

Clo. So you have : — but I was a gentle- 
man born before my father : for the king's 
son took me by the hand, and call'd me, 
brother : and then the two kings call'd my 
father, brother; and then the prince, my 
brother, and the princess, my sister, call'd 
my father, father; and so we wept: and 
there was the first gentlemanlike tears that 
ever we shed. 

W. T., V : 2. 615. 

— True, chivalrous. 

Sil. O Eglamour, thou art a gentleman. 
* * 
I do desire thy worthy company, 



Upon whose faith and honour I repose. 
Urge not my father's anger, Eglamour, 
But think upon my grief, — a lady's grief, — 
And on the justice of my flying hence, 
To keep me from a most unholy match, 
Which heaven and fortune still reward with 
plagues. 

T. G., IV : 2. 67. 

GENTLEMEN— Neither Envy nor 
Despise. 

1 Knight. Contend not, sir ; for we are 
gentlemen, 
That neither in our hearts, nor outward 

eyes, 
Envy the great, nor do the low despise. 

P., II: 3. 1651. 

GENTLENESS.— Its Ppwer. (See 

Pity.) 
Duke S. What would you have? Your 
gentleness shall force, 
More than your force move us to gentleness. 

Orl. * * 
Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. 

A. Y., II : 7. 419. 

GERMAN— Effect of Drink on. 

Ner. How like you the young German, 
the duke of Saxony's nephew? 

Por. Very vildly in the morning, when 
he is sober ; and most vildly in the after- 
noon, when he is drunk: when he is best, 
he is a little worse than a man ; and when 
he is worse, he is little better than a beast. 

M. V., 1 : 3. 364. 

GERMANS.— Honest Men. 

Bard. * * For so soon as I came be- 
yond Eton, they threw me off, from behind 
one of them, in a slough of mire ; and set 
spurs and away, like three German devils, 
three doctor Faustuses. 

Host. They are gone but to met the 
duke, villain : do not say they be fled ; Ger- 
mans are honest men. 

M. W., IV : 5. 115. 

GHOST. — Admonitory. 

Bru. Why, this, Volumnius : 

The ghost of Caesar hath appear 'd to me 
Two several times by night : at Sardis, once ; 
And, this last night, here in Philippi' fields. 
I know, my hour is come. 

J. C, V : 5. 1352. 



GHOST. 



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GHOST. 



— A Hero's, invoked. 

Bed. * * 

Henry the Fifth ! thy ghost I invocate ; 

Prosper this realm, keep it from civil broils ! 

Combat with adverse planets in the heavens ! 

A far more glorious star thy soul will make, 

Than Julius Caesar. 

H. VI., lpt.,1: 1. 865. 

— Caesar's, startles Brutus. 

Bru. * * 
How ill this taper burns ! — Ha ! who comes 

here? 
I think, it is the weakness of mine eyes, 
That shapes this monstrous apparition. 
It comes upon me : — Art thou anything? 
Art thou some god, some angel, or some 

devil, 
That mak'st my blood cold, and my hair to 

stare? 
Speak to me, what thou art. 

J. C IV : 3. 1347. 

— King of Denmark's, interrogated. 

Ham. Angels and ministers of grace de- 
fend us ! — 
Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd, 
Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts 

from hell, 
Be thy intents wicked, or charitable, 
Thou com'st in such a questionable shape, 
That I will speak to thee ; I '11 call thee 

Hamlet, 
King, father, royal Dane : O, answer me : 
Let me not burst in ignorance ! but tell, 
Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, 
Have burst their cerements ! why the sep- 
ulchre, 
Wherein we saw thee quietly in-urn'd, 
Hast open'd his ponderous and marble jaws, 
To cast thee up again! What may this 
mean, . 

That thou, dead corse, again, in complete 

steel, 
Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, 
Making night hideous ; and we fools of na- 
ture, 
So horridly to shake our disposition, 
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our 

souls? 
Say, why is this? wherefore? what should 

we do? 

H., I: 4. 1398. 



— King of Denmark's, invoked to 
speak. (See Fear.) 

Ber. In the same figure, like the king 

that 's dead. 
Mar. Thou art a scholar, speak to it, 

Horatio. 
Ber. Looks it not like the king? mark 

it, Horatio. 
Hor. Most like: — it harrows me with 

fear, and wonder. 
Ber. It would be spoken to. 
Mar. Speak to it, Horatio. 

Hor. What art thou, that usurp'st this 

time of night, 
Together with that fair and Avarlike form 
In which the majesty of buried Denmark 
Did sometimes march? by heaven I charge 

thee, speak. 
Mar. It is offended. 
Ber. See ! it stalks away. 

Hor. Stay; speak: speak I charge thee, 

speak. [Exit Ghost. 

H., 1 : 1. 1391. 

— Not needed. 

Ham. There 's ne'er a villain, dwelling 

in all Denmark, 
But he 's an arrant knave. 

Hor. There needs no ghost, my lord, 

come from the grave, 

To tell us this. 

n., 1 : 5. 1400. 

— Not to be struck at. 
Mar. 'T is gone. 
We do it wrong, being so majestical, 
To offer it the show of violence ; 
For it is, as the air, invulnerable, 
And our vain blows malicious mockery. 

H., 1 : 1. 1393. 

— Of Banquo, its Effect 

Len. * * What is 't that moves your 

highness? 
Macb. Which of you have done this? 
Lords. What, my good lord? 

Macb. Thou canst not say, I did it : never 

shake 
Thy gory locks at me. 

Rosse. Gentlemen, rise; his highness is 

not well. 
Lady M. Sit, worthy friends : — my lord 

is often thus, 



GHOST. 



2 45 



GIFTS. 



And hath been from his youth : 'pray you, 

' keep seat ; 
The fit is momentary ; upon a thought 
He will again be well : If much you note 

him, 
You shall offend him, and extend his pas- 
sion ; 
Feed, and regard him not. — Are you a 

man? 
Macb. Ay, and a bold one, that dare look 

on that 
"Which might appal the devil. 

Lady M. O proper stuff! 

This is the very painting of your fear : 
This is the air-drawn dagger, which, you 

said, 
Led you to Duncan. O, these flaws, and 

starts, 
(Impostors to true fear,) would well become 
A woman's story, at a winter's fire, 
Authoriz'd by her grandam. Shame itself! 
Why do you make such faces? Wlien all 's 

done, 
You look but on a stool. 

Macb. Pr'ythee, see there ! behold ! look ! 

lo : hoAv say you ? 

"Why, what care I? If thou canst nod, speak 

too. 

If charnel-houses, and our graves, must 

send 
Those that we bury, back, our monuments 
Shall be the maws of kites. 

M.,I1I: 4. 1372. 

— Of Banquo, second Appearance. 

Macb. Avaunt ! and quit my sight ! Let 
the earth hide thee ! 
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is 

cold; 
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes 
Which thou dost glare with ! 

Lady M. Think of this, good peers, 

But as a thing of custom : 't is no other ; 
Only it spoils the pleasure of the time. 

Macb. What man dare, I dare : 
Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, 
The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger, 
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves 
Shall never tremble : Or, be alive again, 
And dare me to the desert with thy sword ; 
If trembling I inhibit thee, protest me 
The baby of a girl. Hence, horrible shadow ! 



Unreal mockery, hence! — Why, so; — be- 
ing gone, 
I am a man again. — Pray you, sit still. 

H., Ill : 4. 1372. 

GHOSTS. — A Tradition. 

Ant. * * 
I have heard, (but not believ'd,) the spirits 

o' th' dead 
May walk again. 

W. T., Ill : 3. 596. 

GIFT. — Excelled. 

Iach. Sir, (I thank her,) that: 

She stripp'd it from her arm ; I see her yet ; 
Her pretty action did outsell her gift. 
And yet enrich'd it too : She gave it me, 

and said, 
She priz'd it once. 

Cym., II : 4. 1603. 

— Of Absurdity. 

Hoi. This is a gift that I have, simple, 
simple ; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of 
forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, appre- 
hensions, motions, revolutions : these are 
begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished 
in the womb of pia mater, and delivered 
upon the mellowing of occasion : But the 
gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and 
I am thankful for it. 

L.L.,IV: 2. 285. 

— Of Things not Prized, easy. 

Lear. * * Sir, there she stands ; 
If aught within that little, seeming substance, 
Or all of it, with our displeasure piec'd, 
And nothing more, may fitly like your grace, 
She 's there, and she is yours. 

K. L., 1 : 1. 1445. 

GIFTS. — Common, Despised. 

Flo. Old sir, I know 

She prizes not such trifles as these are : 
The gifts she looks from me are pack'd and 

lock'd 
Up in my heart ; which I have given already, 
But not deliver'd. 

W. T., TV : 3. 604. 

— From "Women, Impudence. 

Thai. * * 
He may my proffer take for an offence, 
Since men take women's gifts for impudence. 

P., II : 3. 1652. 



GIFTS. 



246 



GLOOM. 



— Good. 

Eva. Seven hundred pounds and possi- 
bilities, is good gifts. 

M. W., 1 : 1. 89. 

— Natural, a Trust. 

Duke. * * Nature never lends 
The smallest scruple of her excellence, 
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines 
Herself the glory of a creditor, 
Both thanks and use. 

M.M., I: 1. 143. 

— Nature's, to her Favorites. 

Const. * * 
But thou art fair ; and at thy birth, dear 

boy! 
Nature and fortune join'd to make thee 

great : 
Of nature's gifts thou may'st with lilies 

boast, 
And with the half-blown rose- 

K. J., Ill : 1. 657. 

— Of Fortune Delayed. 

Jup. * * 
Whom best I love, I cross ; to make my gift 
The more delay'd, delighted. 

Cym.,V: 4. 1624. 

— Recalled by the gods. 

Per. you gods ! 
Why do you make us lore your goodly 

gifts, 
And snatch them straight away? We, here 

below, 
Recall not what we give, and therein may 
Use honour with yourselves. 

P., Ill : 1. 1655. 

— When to be Returned. 

Oph. My lord, I have remembrances of 
yours, 
That I have longed long to re-deliver : 
I pray you, now receive them. 

Ham. No, not I ; 

I never gave you aught. 

Oph. My honoured lord, you know right 
well, you did; 
And, with them, words of so sweet breath 

compos'd 
As made the things more rich : their per- 
fume lost, 



Take these again ; for to the noble mind 
Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove un- 
kind. 

H., Ill : 1. 1411. 

GIVERS.— Careless, poorly Rewarded. 

Clo. By my troth, thou hast an open 
hand: — These wise men that give fools 
money get themselves a good report after 
fourteen years purchase. 

T. N., IV : 1. 562. 

GIVING— Enriches the Giver. 

Ulyss. * * No man is the lord of any 
thing, 
(Though in and of him there be much con- 
sisting,) 
Till he communicate his parts to others : 
Nor doth he of himself know them for 

aught 
Till he behold them form'd in the applause 
Where they are extended; which, like an 

arch, reverberates 
The voice again ; or like a gate of steel 
Fronting the sun, receives and renders back 
His figure and his heat. 

T. a, III : 3. 1124. 

— Readiness in. 

King. * * What would'st thou beg, 
Laertes, 
That shall not be my offer, not thy asking? 
The head is not more native to the heart, 
The hand more instrumental to the mouth, 
Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. 
What would'st thou have, Laertes? 

R., I: 2. 1394. 

GLADNESS.— Seeming, Covers Sor- 
rows. 

Tro. * * 
I have, (as when the sun doth light a storm,) 
Buried this sigh in wrinkle of a smile. 

J. C., 1 : 1. 1103. 

GLOOM. 

K. Rich. * * 

For heaven's sake, let us sit upon the 
ground, 

And tell sad stories of the death of kings : — 

How some have been depos'd, some slain in 
war ; 

Some haunted by the ghosts they have de- 
pos'd ; 



GLOOM. 247 GOD. 


Some poison 'd by their wives, some sleep- 


— Short-Live d. 


ing kill'd ; 


Wo I. * * I have ventur'd, 


All murder'd. 


Like little wanton boys that swim on blad- 


R. II., Ill : 2. 702. 


ders, 


— Its Language. 


This many summers in a sea of glory ; 


K. Rich. No matter where ; of comfort 


But far beyond my depth : my high-blown 


no man speak : 


pride 


Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epi- 


At length broke under me ; and now has left 


taphs ; 


me, 


Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes 


Weary, and old with service, to the mercy 


Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. 


Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide 


R. II., Ill : 2. 702. 


me. 




H. VIII., Ill: 2, 1081. 


— Of Countenance. 




Queen. Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted 


— Superlative. 


colour off, 


Nor. Then you lost 


And let thine eye look like a friend on Den- 


The view of earthly glory : Men might say, 


mark. 


Till this time, pomp was single ; but now 


Do not, for ever, with thy vailed lids 


married 


Seek for thy noble father in the dust : 


To one above itself. Each following day 


Thou know'st, 'tis common; all, that live, 


Became the next day's master, till the last, 


must die, 


Made former wonders it's : To-day, the 


Passing through nature to eternity. 


French, 


27"., I: 2. 1394. 


All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods, 




Shone down the English ; and, to-morrow, 


GLORY. 


they 


Apem. * * 


Made Britain, India : every man that stood, 


Like madness is the glory of this life, 


Show'd like a mine. 


As this pomp shows to a little oil, and root. 


H. VIII., 1:1. 1057. 


T.A.,I:2. 1291. 


— Vanisheth. 


— Departure of, Foreseen. 


Puc. * * 


Sal. Ah, Richard ! with the eyes of heavy 


Glory is like a circle in the water, 


mind, 


Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, 


I see thy glory, like a shooting star, 


Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to 


Fall to the base earth from the firmament ! 


nought. 


Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west, 


H. F/.,lpt., I: 2. 868. 


Witnessing storms to come, woe, and un- 


GOD. — Acknowledgment of. 


rest. 

R. II., II : 4. 699. 


K. Hen. Come, go we in procession to 




the village : 


— Human, painful. 


And be it death proclaimed through our 


P. Hen. * * majesty! 


host, 


When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost 


To boast of this, or take that praise from 


sit 


God, 


Like a rich armour worn in heat of day, 


Which is his only. 


That scalds with safety. 


Flu. Is it not lawful, and please your 


H. IV., 2pt., IV: 4. 802. 


majesty, to tell how many is killed? 




K. Hen. Yes, captain; but with this ac- 


— Leads to Crime. 


knowledgment, 


Prin. * * 


That God fought for us. 


Glory grows guilty of detested crimes. 


Flu. Yes, my conscience, he did us 


Z. Z..IV: 1. 283. 


great goot. 



GOLD. 



248 



GOLD. 



K. Hen. Do we all holy rites ; 
Let there be sung Non nobis, and Te Deum. 
II. V., IV: 8. 851. 

GOLD. — Causes Nature to Revolt. 

K. Hen. * * 
How quickly nature falls into revolt, 
When gold becomes her object ! 

R. IV., 2 pt., IV : 4. 802. 

— For Corruption. 

K. Rich. * * 

Boy, 

Page. My lord. 

K. Rich. Know'st thou not any, whom 

corrupting gold 

Would tempt unto a close exploit of death? 

Page. I know a discontented gentleman, 

Whose humble means match not his haughty 

mind : 
Gold were as good as twenty orators, 
And will, no doubt, tempt him to any thing. 
R. III., IV: 2. 1032. 

— Given to Insure Destruction. 

Tim. Consumptions sow 
In hollow bones of man ; strike their sharp 

shins, 
And mar men's spurring. Crack the law- 
yer's voice, 
That he may never more false title plead, 
Nor sound his quillets shrilly : hoar the 

flamen, 
That scolds against the quality of flesh, 
And not believes himself: down with the 

nose, 
Down with it flat ; take the bridge quite 

away 
Of him, that his particular to foresee, 
Smells from the general weal : make curl'd- 

pate ruffians bald ; 
And let the unscarr'd braggarts of the war 
Derive some pain from you : Plague all ; 
That your activity may defeat and quell 
The source of all erection. — There 's 

more gold : — 
Do you damn others, and let this damn you, 
And ditches grave you all ! 

T. A., IV: 3. 1307. 

— Its Omnipotence. (See Money.) 

Gru. Nay, look you sir, he tells you 
flatly what his mind is. Why, give him 



gold enough and marry him to a puppet, 
or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with ne'er 
a tooth in her head, though she have as 
many diseases as two-and-fifty horses : why, 
nothing comes amiss, so money comes 
withal. 

T. S.,1 : 2. 458. 

Tim. * * 

thou sweet king-killer, and dear divorce 
'Twixt natural son and sire ! thou bright de- 
filer 

Of Hymen's purest bed ! thou valiant Mars ! 
Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate 

wooer 
AVhose blush doth thaw the consecrated 

snow 
That lies on Dian's lap ! thou visible god, 
That solder'st close impossibilities, 
And mak*st them kiss ! that speak'st with 

every tongue, 
To every purpose ! O thou touch of hearts ! 
Think, thy slave man rebels ; and by thy 

virtue 
Set them into confounding odds, that beasts 
May have the world in empire ! 

T. A., IV: 3. 1309. 

— Its Power. 
Rom,. * * Saint seducing gold. 

R. J., 1 : 1. 1244. 

Anne. O, what a world of vild ill-favour'd 
faults 
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds 
a-year ! 

M. TF.,111: 4. 107. 

Tim. * * 
Gold? yellow, glittering, precious gold? 
No, gods, 

1 am no idle votarist. Roots, you clear 

heavens ! 
Thus much of this, will make black, white; 

foul, fair; 
Wrong, right; base, noble; old, young; 

cowards, valiant. 
Ha, you gods! why this? What this, you 

gods? Why this 
Will lug your priests and servants from 

your sides ; 
Pluck stout men's pillows from below their 

heads : 
This yellow slave 



GOLD. 



2 49 



GOOD. 



Will knit and break religions ; bless the ac- 

curs'd ; 
Make the hoar leprosy ador'd ; place thieves, 
And give them title, knee and approbation, 
With senators on the bench : this is it, 
That makes the wappen'd widow wed again ; 
She, whom the spital-house, and ulcerous 

sores 
Would cast the gorge at, this embalms and 

spices 
To the April day again. 

T. A., IV : 3. 1305. 

— Its Slavery. 

K. Hen. * * 

How quickly nature falls into revolt, 

When gold becomes her object ! 

For this the foolish over-careful fathers 

Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their 
brains with care ; 

Their bones with industry ; 

For this they have engrossed and pil'd up 

The canker'd heaps of strange-achieved 
gold; 

For this they have been thoughtful to in- 
vest 

Their sons with arts, and martial exercises ! 

When like the bee toiling from every flower 

The virtuous sweets ! 

Our thighs pack'd with wax, our mouths 
with honey, 

We bring it to the hive ; and, like the bees, 

Are murder'd for our pains. 

H. IV. t 2pt., IV: 4. 802. 

—What it will Bring. 

Clo. * * 'T is gold 
That buys admittance ; oft it doth ; yea, and 

makes 
Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up 
Their deer to the stand of the stealer ; and 

'tis gold 
Which makes the true man kill'd, and saves 

the thief; 
Nay, sometime, hangs both thief and true 

man : What 
Can it not do, and undo? 

Cym., II : 3. 1600. 

— Worse than Poison. 

Rom. There is thy gold ; worse poison 
to men's souls, 
Doing more murders in this loathsome world, 



Than these poor compounds that thou may'st 

not sell : 
I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none. 
JR.J.,V: 1. 1274. 

— Worshiped as a God. 

Tim. * * What a god 's gold, 
That he is worshipp'd in a baser temple 
Than where swine feed ! 
'T is thou that rigg'st the bark, and plough'st 

the foam ; 
Settlest admired reverence in a slave : 
To thee be worship ! and thy saints for aye 
Be crown'd with plagues, that thee alone 

obey ! 

T. A., V: 1. 1312. 

GOOD. — And Evil in Everything. 

Fri. * * 
O, mickle is the powerful grace, that lies 
In herbs, plants, stones, and their true quali- 
ties : 
For nought so vile that on the earth doth 

live, 
But to the earth some special good doth 

give; 
Nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that 

fair use, 
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse : 
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied : 
And vice sometime 's by action dignified. 
AVithin the infant rind of this small flower 
Poison hath residence, and med'cine power : 
For this, being smelt, with that part cheers 

each part ; 
Being tasted, slays all senses with the heart. 
Two such opposed foes encamp them still 
In man as well as herbs, grace and rude will ; 
And, where the worser is predominant, 
Full soon the canker death eats up that 
plant. 

R. J., II: 3. 1253. 

— Out of Evil. 

Kent. I cannot wish the fault undone, 
the issue of it being so proper. 

K.L.,1: 1. 1443. 

— Too, for Working-days. 

D. Pedro. Will you have me, lady? 

Beat. No, ray lord, unless I might have 
another for working-days ; your grace is 
too costly to wear every day. 

If. A., II: 1. 233. 



GOODNESS. 



25O 



GOODNESS. 



GOODNESS. — Courageous. 

Isab. * * I have spirit to do anything 
that appears not foul in the truth of my 
spirit. 

M. M., Ill : 1. 159. 

— Dignified. 

King. * * 
From lowest place when virtuous things 

proceed, 
The place is dignified by th' doer's deed : 
Where great additions swell, and virtue 

none, 
It is a dropsied honour : good alone 
Is good without a name ; vileness is so : 
The property by what it is should go, 
Not by the title. 

A. W..II: 3. 507. 

— Excessive. 

King. * * 
For goodness, growing to a pleurisy, 
Dies in his own too-much. 

R.,1Y:1. 1428. 

— Extraordinary, Dangerous. 

Car. * * 

Look to it, lords ; let not his smoothing 
words 

Bewitch your hearts ; be wise, and circum- 
spect. 

What though the common people favour 
him, 

Calling him — "Humphrey, the good duke 
of Gloster ; " 

Clapping their hands, and crying with loud 
voice — 

" Jesu maintain your royal excellence ! " 

With — "God preserve the good duke 
Humphrey ! " 

I fear me, lords, for all this flattering gloss, 

He will be found a dangerous protector. 

//. VI., 2 pt., 1 : 1. 909. 

— Influence on the Masses. 

K. Hen. That 's not my fear, my meed 
hath got me fame. 

I have not stopp'd mine ears to their de- 
mands, 

Nor posted off their suits with slow delays ; 

My pity hath been balm to heal their 
wounds, 

My mildness hath allay 'd their swelling griefs, 



My mercy dry'd their bitter-flowing tears : 
I have not been desirous of their wealth, 
Nor much oppress'd them with great sub- 
sidies, 
Nor forward of revenge, though they much 

err'd ; 
Then why should they love Edward more 

than me? 
No, Exeter, these graces challenge grace : 
And, when the lion fawns upon the lamb, 
The lamb will never cease to follow him. 

H. VI., 3 pt., IV : 8. 985. 

— Inspires Awe and Terror. 

Cran. * * All princely graces, 
That mold up such a mighty piece as this is, 
With all the virtues that attend the good, 
Shall still be doubled on her : truth shall 

nurse her, 
Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel her : 
She shall be lov'd, and fear'd : Her own 

shall bless her : 
Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, 
And hang their heads with sorrow : Good 

grows Math her. 

H. VIII.,V: 3. 1094. 

— Life of Beauty. 

Duke. The hand that hath made you fair 
hath made you good : the goodness that is 
cheap in beauty makes beauty brief in good- 
ness ; but grace, being the soul of your com- 
plexion, shall keep the body of it ever fair. 

M. M., Ill : 1. 158. 

— Never Fearful. 

Duke. Virtue is bold, and goodness never 

fearful. 

M.M.,IU: 1. 159. 

— No less Good because of Evil. 

Mai. * * 
Angels are bright still, though the brightest 

fell : 
Though all things foul would wear the brows 

of grace, 
Yet grace must still look so. 

M., IV: 3. 1378. 

— Shines Afar. 

Por. That light we see is burning in my 
hall. 
How far that little candle throws his beams ! 
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 
M. V., V : 1. 389. 



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— Sometimes Wearisome. 

Ang. * * The state whereon I studied 
Is like a good thing, being often read, 
Grown sear'd and tedious. 

M. M., II : 4. 154. 

— Uniform. 

Laf. * * He that so generally is at all 
times good, must of necessity hold his vir- 
tue to you. 

A. W., 1 : 1. 495. 

— Unparalleled. 

Paul. True, too true, my lord : 

If, one by one, you wedded all the world, 
Or, from the all that are took something 

good, 
To make a perfect woman, she, you kill'd, 
"Would be unparallel'd. 

W. T., V : 1. 611. 

GORMANDIZER — Cast off. 

Shy. * * Thou shalt not gormandise, 
As thou hast done with me ; — * * 
And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out. 
M. V., II : 5. 370. 

Sir And. * * But I am a great eater 
of beef, and I believe that does harm to my 
wit. 

T. N.,1 : 3. 542. 

GOSSIP.— A Lying. 

Solan. I would she were as lying a gos- 
sip in that, as ever knapped ginger, or made 
her neighbours believe she wept for the death 
of a third husband. 

M. V., Ill: 1. 375. 

— Bloody, Ends in Silence. 

Ham. I am glad of it : A knavish speech 
sleeps in a foolish ear. 

H., IV: 2. 1421. 

Aar. O, lord, sir, 't is a deed of policy : 
Shall she live to betray this guilt of ours? 
A long-tongued babbling gossip? no, lords, 

no. 
And now be it known to you my full intent. 
Not far hence Muli lives, my countryman, 
His wife but yesternight was brought to 

bed; 
His child is like to her, fair as you are : 
Go pack with him, and give the mother gold, 
And tell them both the circumstance of all ; 



And how by this their child shall be ad- 
vanced, 

And be received for the emperor's heir, 

And substituted in the place of mine, 

To calm this tempest whirling in the court ; 

And let the emperor dandle him for his own. 

Hark ye, lords ; ye see that I have given 
her physic, [Pointing to the Nurse. 

And you must needs bestow her funeral ; 

The fields are near, and you are gallant 
grooms. 

Tit. And., IV : 2. 1222. 

GOVERNMENT.— A Unit. 

Exe. * * 
While that the armed hand doth fight abroad, 
The advised head defends itself at home : 
For government, though high, and low, and 

lower, 
Put into parts, both keep in one concent, 
Congruing in a full and natural close, 
Like music. 

//. F.'.I: 2. 822. 

— Ability to Discourse on. 

Duke. Of government the properties to 
unfold, 

Would seem in me t' affect speech and dis- 
course ; 

Since I am put to know that your own sci- 
ence 

Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice 

My strength can give you. Then no more 
remains, 

Put that to your sufficiency, as your worth 
is able, 

And let them work. The nature of our 
people, 

Our city's institutions, and the terms 

For common justice, y' are as pregnant in, 

As art and practice hath enriched any 

That we remember. 

M.M.,1: 1. 143. 

— Good, almost Omniscient. 

Ulyss. * * 
The providence that 's in a watchful state, 
Knows almost every grain of Plutus' gold ; 
Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps ; 
Keeps place with thought, and almost, like 

the gods, 
Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles. 
T. C., III: 3. 1125. 



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— Good, Prunes. 

Gard. * * Oh ! what pity is it, 
That he had not so trimm'd and dress'd his 

land, 
As we this garden ! We at time of year 
Do wound the bark, the skin of our fruit- 
trees ; 
Lest, being over-proud with sap and blood, 
With too much riches it confound itself: 
Had he done so to great and growing men, 
They might have liv'd to bear, and he to 

taste 
Their fruits of duty. All superfluous 

branches 
We lop away, that bearing boughs may live : 
Had he done so, himself had borne the 

crown, 
Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown 
down. 

R. II, Ill : 4. 706. 

— Its Effect on Woman. 

York. * * 
'T is government, that makes them seem 

divine ; 
The want thereof makes thee abominable : 
//. VI, 3 pt.,1: 4. 961. 

— Not easily Overthrown. 

Men. I tell you, friends, most charitable 

care 
Have the patricians of you. For your 

wants, 
Your suffering in this dearth, you may as 

well 
Strike at the heaven with your staves, as 

lift them 
Against the Roman state ; whose course 

will on 
The way it takes, cracking ten thousand 

curbs 
Of more strong link asunder, than can ever 
Appear in your impediment : For the dearth, 
The gods, not the patricians, make it; and 
Your knees to them, not arms, must help. 

(?., I: 1.1150. 

— Popular, Rebuked. 

Cor. * * 
You that will be less fearful than discreet; 
That love the fundamental part of state, 
More than you doubt the change of 't ; that 
prefer 



A noble life before a long, and wish 

To jump a body with a dangerous physic 

That's sure of death without it, — at once 

pluck out 
The multitudinous tongue, let them not lick 
The sweet which is their poison : your dis- 
honour 
Mangles true judgment, and bereaves the 

state 
Of that integrity which should become it ; 
Not having the power to do the good it 

would, 
For the ill which doth control it. 

Bru. He has said enough. 

Sic. He has spoken like a traitor, and 

shall answer 
As traitors do. 

Cor. Thou wretch ! despite o'erwhelm 

thee ! — 
What should the people do with these bald 

tribunes? 
On whom depending, their obedience fails 
To the greater bench : In a rebellion, 
When what 's not meet, but what must be, 

was law, 
Then were they chosen ; in a better hour, 
Let Avhat is meet, be said it must be meet, 
And throw their power i' the dust. 

C.,111: l. 1170. 

— Who Should be Subject to. 

York. * * 
Let them obey, that know not how to rule. 
//. VI, 2pt., V: 1. 941. 

GRACE. — A Woman's. (See Good- 
ness.) 

Suf. * * 
Bethink thee on her virtues that surmount, 
Mid natural graces that extinguish art. 

E. VI, lpt., V: 3. 894. 

Pet. * * Kate, like the hazel-twig, 
Is straight, and slender ; and as brown in 

hue, 
As hazel-nuts, and sweeter than the kernels. 
T. S., II : 1. 464. 

Ulyss. * * 
There 's language in her eye, her cheek, her 

lip, 
Nay, her foot speaks. 

T. C, IV: 5. 1132. 



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GRANDEUR. 



— Always the same. 

Lvcio. * * 
Grace is grace, despite of all controversy. 
M. M., 1 : 2. 144. 

— Apemantus's, before Meal. 

Immortal gods, I crave no pelf; 
I pray for no man but myself: 
Grant I may never prove so fond, 
To trust man, on his oath or bond; 
Or a harlot, for her weeping; 
Or a dog, that seems a sleeping. 

T. A., 1 : 2. 1290. 

— Overflowing. 

Pro. . * * 
Make your full reference freely to my lord, 
Who is so full of grace, that it flows over 
On all that need. 

A. C., V: 2. 1578. 

—Profaned. 

York. * * Grace, 
In an ungracious mouth, is but profane. 

R. II., II : 3. 698. 

— TimoiVs, a Rebuke. 

Tim. * * Sit, sit. The gods require 

our thanks. 

You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with 
thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves 
praised : but reserve still to give, lest your deities be 
despised. Lend to each man enough, that one need 
not lend to another; for, were your godheads to bor- 
row of men, men would forsake the gods. Make the 
meat be beloved, more than the man that gives it. 
Let no assembly of twenty be without a score of 
villains : If there sit twelve women at the table, let 
a dozen of them be — as they are. — The rest of your 
fees, O gods, — the senators of Athens, together with 
the common lag of people, — what is amiss in them, 
yitu gods make suitable for destruction. For these 
my present friends, — as they are to me nothing, so 
in nothing bless them, and to nothing they are wel- 
come. 

Uncover, dogs, and lap. 

[ The dishes uncovered are full of warm 
water. 

T. A., HI : 6. 1303. 



GRACES. — King's, distasteful. 

Hal. But I have none : The king-becom- 
ing graces, 
As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, 
Bounty, perseverence, mercy, lowliness, 
Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, 
I have no relish of them. 

M., IV : 3. 1379. 



— Traitors to Us. 

Adam. * * 
Their graces serve them but as enemies? 
No more do yours ; your virtues, gentle 

master/ 
Are sanctified and holy traitors to you. 

A. Y., II : 3. 415. 

—Work Evil. 

Her. * * 
Before the time I did Lysander oee, 
Seem'd Athens like a paradise to me : 
O then, what graces in my love do dwell, 
That he hath turn'd a heaven into hell ! 

M. N., 1 : 1. 323. 

GRAFTING.— Nature's Art. 

Per. For I have heard it said, 

There is an art which, in their piedness, 

shares 
With great creating nature. 

Pol. Say, there be ; 

Yet nature is made better by no mean, 
But nature makes that mean : so, over that 

art, 
Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art 
That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, 

we marry 
A gentler scion to the wildest stock ; 
And make conceive a bark of baser kind 
By bud of nobler race : This is an art 
Which does mend nature, — change it rather : 

but 
The art itself is nature. 

W. T., TV : 3. 601. 

GRANDEUR. — Luxuriant. 

Eno. I will tell you : 
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, 
Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten 

gold; 
Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that 
The winds were love-sick with them : the 

oars were silver ; 
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and 

made 
The water, which they beat, to follow faster, 
As amorous of their strokes. 
* * 

Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, 
So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, 



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GREAT. 



And made their bends adornings: at the 

helm 
A seeming Mermaid steers ; the silken 

tackle 
Swell with the touches of those flower-soft 

hands, 
That yarely frame the office. 

A. O., II: 2. 1550. 

GRATITUDE.— Due to God. 

K. Hen. Poor soul! God's goodness 

hath been great to thee : 

Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass, 

But still remember what the Lord hath 

done. 

H. VI, 2 pt., II : 1. 916. 

— How expressed. 

Sat. Titus Adronicus, for thy favours 

done 

To us in our election this day, 

I give thee thanks in part of thy deserts, 

And will with deeds requite thy gentleness : 

And, for an onset, Titus, to advance 

Thy name, and honourable family, 

Lavinia will I make my emperess, 

Rome's royal mistress, mistress of my heart, 

And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse : 

Tell me, Andronicus, doth this motion please 

thee? 

Tit. And.. I: 2. 1204. 

— Prayer for. 

K. Hen. * * O Lord, that lends me 
life, 
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness. 
H. VI, 2 pt., 1 : 1. 907. 

— Requites. 

K. Hen. * * I '11 well requite thy kind- 
ness, 
For that it made my imprisonment a pleas- 
ure ; 
Ay, such a pleasure as incaged birds 
Conceive, when, after many moody thoughts, 
At last, by notes of household harmony, 
They quite forget their loss of liberty. 

H. VI, 3pt., IV: 6. 982. 

Laer. To his good friends thus wide I '11 
ope my arms ; 
And, like the kind life-rend'ring pelican, 
Repast them with my blood. 

H.,\Y: 5. 1425. 



— Tears, its Sign. 

P. Hen. I have a kind soul, that would 
give you thanks, 
And knows not how to do it, but with tears. 
K.J.,V: 7. 677. 

GRAVE.— By the Sea. 

Alcib. * * 
Though thou abhorr'dst in us our human 

griefs, 
Scorn'dst our brain's flow, and those our 

droplets which 
From niggard nature fall, yet rich conceit 
Taught thee to make vast Neptune weep for 

aye 
On thy low grave, on faults forgiven. 

T. A., V: 5. 1316. 

— How Marked. 

Oph. * * [Sings. 

He is dead and gone, lady, 

He is dead and gone : 
At his head a grass-green turf, 
At his heels a stone. 

H., IV: 5. 1424. 

Bel. * * 
The herbs, that have on them cold dew o' 

the night, 
Are strewiny.s fittest for graves. ' 

Cym.,TV: 2. 1618. 

— Selection of a. 

Luc. * * Let us 

Find out the prettiest daisied plot we can, 

And make him with our pikes and partisans 

A grave. 

Cym., IV : 2. 1619. 

GRAVITY. — Circumspect. 

Fal. What doth gravity out of his bed 
at midnight? 

H. IV., lpt., II: 4. 741. 

— Its Excesses. 

Ros. The blood of youth burns not with 
such excess, 
As gravity's revolt to wantonness. 

L. L.,V: 2. 294. 

GREAT. — Eat up the small. 

1 Fish. Why, as men do a-land; the 
great ones eat up the little ones : I can com- 
pare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to 
a whale ; 'a plays and tumbles, driving the 



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GREATNESS. 



poor fry before him, and at last devours 
them all at a mouthful. Such whales have 
I heard on a' the land, who never leave 
gaping, till they've swallowed the whole 
parish, church, steeple, bells and all. 

P., II: 2. 1649. 

— Represented by the Small. 

Cho. * * But pardon, gentles all. 
The flat unraised spirit, that hath dar'd, 
On this unworthy scaffold, to bring forth 
So great an object: Can this cockpit hold 
The vasty fields of France? or may we cram 
Within this wooden O, the very casques, 
That did affright the air at Agincourt? 
0, pardon ! since a crooked figure may 
Attest, in little place, a million ; 
And let us, ciphers to this great accompt, 
On your imaginary forces work : 
Suppose, within the girdle of these walls 
Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies, 
Whose high upreared and abutting fronts 
The perilous, narrow ocean parts asunder. 
//. V., 1 : C. 819. 

— Their Visits portentous. 
Q. Kath. Pray their graces 

To come near. What can be their business 
With me, a poor weak woman, fallen from 

favour? 
I do not like their coming, now I think on 't. 
They should be good men ; their affairs as 

righteous ; 
But all hoods make not monks. 

IT. VIII., Ill : 1. 1074. 

GREATNESS. — Absorbs all lesser 
Things. 
K. Edw. Seize on the shame-fac'd Henry, 
bear him hence, 

And once again proclaim us king of Eng- 
land. — 

You are the fount, that makes small brooks 
to flow ; 

Now stops thy spring; my sea shall suck 
them dry, 

And swell so much the higher by their ebb. 
R. VI, 3 pt., IV : 8. 986. 

— Apparent. 

Iach. He sits 'mongst men, like a de- 
scended god : 



He hath a kind of honour sets him off, 
More than a mortal seeming. 

Cym.,I: 7. 1597. 

Cran. * * He shall flourish, 
And, like a mountain cedar, reach his 

branches 
To all the plains about him. 

IT. VIII, V : 4. 1094. 

— Earned. 

K. Hen. * * I will keep my state ; 
Be like a king, and show my soul of great- 
ness, 
When I do rouse me in my throne of France : 
For that I have laid by my majesty, 
And plodded like a man for working-days ; 
But I will rise there with so full a glory, 
That I will dazzle all the eyes of France, 
Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us. 
R. V., I: 2. 823. 

— Envied. 

Duke. O place and greatness, millions 
of false eyes 
Are stuck upon thee ! volumes of report 
Run with these false and most contrarious 

quests 
Upon thy doings ! thousand escapes of wit 
Make thee the father of their idle dream, 
And rack thee in their fancies ! 

M. M., IV: 1. 163. 

— Ever growing. 
Cleo. I dream'd, there was an emperor 
Antony ; — 

* * 

His face was as the heavens ; and therein 

stuck 
A sun, and moon; which kept their course, 

and lighted ' 
The little O, the earth. 

* * 

His legs bestrid the ocean ; his rear'd arm 
Crested the world : his voice was propertied 
As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends ; 
But when he meant to quail and shake the 

orb, 
He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, 
There was no winter in 't ; an autumn 't was, 
That grew the more by reaping. 

A.C.,V:2. 1578. 



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GREATNESS. 



— Fallen. 

Ant. But yesterday, the word of Caesar 
might 
Have stood against the world : now lies he 

there, 
And none so poor to do him reverence. 

J. C, III : 2. 1340. 

Cleo. * * 
O, wither'd is the garland of the war, 
The soldier's pole is fallen; young boys, 

and girls, 
Are level now with men : the odds is gone, 
And there is nothing left remarkable 
Beneath the visiting moon. 

A. C, IV: 13. 1576. 

— Has its Weaknesses. 

Achil. 'Tis certain, greatness, once fallen 
out with fortune, 
Must fall out with men too. 

T. C, III : 3. 1124. 

P. Hen. Trust me, I am exceeding weary. 

Poins. Is it come to that? I had thought, 
weariness durst not have attached one of so 
high blood. 

P. Hen. 'Faith, it does me; though it 
discolours the complexion of my greatness 
to acknowledge it. Doth it not show vilely 
in me, to desire small beer? 

H. TV., 2pt., II: 2. 782. 

— In Ruins. 

Ant. * * 
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man, 
That ever lived in the tide of times. 

J. C, III: 1. 1338. 

— Its Sources. 

Mai. * * [Reads. 

Be not afraid of greatness : Some are born great, 
some achieve greatness, and some have greatness 
thrust upon them. The fates open their hands; let 
thy blood and spirit embrace them. And, to inure 
thyself to what thou art like to be, cast thy humble 
6lough, and appear fresh. Be opposite with a kins- 
man, surly with servants : let thy tongue tang ar- 
guments of state ; put thyself into the trick of singu- 
larity : she thus advises thee that sighs for thee. 

T. 2T.. II : 5. 553. 



Its Culmination. 



Wo I. 



I have touch 'd the highest point of all my 

greatness ; 
And, from that full meridian of my glory, 



I haste now to my setting : I shall fall 
Like a bright exhalation in the evening, 
And no man see me more. 

H. VTII.tlTL: 2. 1079. 

— Its Danger. 

Apem. I scorn thy meat ; 't would choke 

me, for I should 
Ne'er flatter thee. — O you gods! what a 

number 
Of men eat Timon, and he sees them not ! 
It grieves me, to see so many dip their meat 
In one man's blood ; and all the madness is, 
He cheers them up too. 
I wonder, men dare trust themselves with 

men : 
Methinks, they should invite them without 

knives ; 
Good for their meat, and safer for their 

lives. 
There 's much example for 't; the fellow, 

that 
.Sits next him now, parts bread with him, 

and pledges 
The breath of him in a divided draught, 
Is the readiest man to kill him : it has been 

prov'd. 
If I were a huge man, I should fear to drink 

at meals ; 
Lest they should spy my windpipe's dan- 
gerous notes : 
Great men should drink with harness on 

their throats. 

T. A., 1 : 2. 1290. 

— Its Fall. 

War. * * 

Thus yields the cedar to the axe's edge, 

Whose arms gave shelter to the princely 
eagle, 

Under whose shade the ramping lion slept ; 

Whose top-branch overpeer'd Jove's spread- 
ing tree, 

And kept low shrubs from winter's power- 
ful wind. 

H. VI., 3pt., V: 2. 988. 

— Not Supported. 

K. Hen. * * O, be sick, great great- 
ness, 
And bid thy ceremony give thee cure ! 



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Think'st thou, the fiery fever will go out 
With titles blown from adulation? 

H. V., IV : 1. 842. 

— Not to be Estimated. 
Tro. Fie, fie, my brother ! 

Weigh you the worth and honour of a king, 
So great as our dread father, in a scale 
O ' common ounces ? will you with counters 

sum 
The past-proportion of his infinite? 
And buckle-in a waist most fathomless, 
With spans and inches so diminutive 
As fears and reasons? fie, for godly shame ! 
T. C., II : 2. 1113. 

— Overpowering. 
Ccbs. Why, man, he doth bestride the 
narrow world, 
Like a Colossus ; and we petty men 
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about 
To find ourselves dishonourable graves. 

J. 0., 1 : 2. 1324. 

Sooth. Caesar's. 
Therefore, O Antony, stay not by his side : 
Thy daemon, that 's thy spirit which keeps 

thee, is 
Noble, courageous, high, unmatchable, 
Where Caesar's is not; but, near him, thy 

angel 
Becomes a Fear, as being o'erpower'd; 

therefore 
Make space enough between you. 
Ant. Speak this no more. 

Sooth. To none but thee ; no more, but 

when to thee. 
If thou dost play with him at any game, 
Thou art sure to lose ! and, of that natural 

luck, 
He beats thee 'gainst the odds ; thy lustre 

thickens, 
When he shines by : I say again, thy spirit 
Is all afraid to govern thee near him ; 
But, he away, 't is noble. 

A. &, II : 3. 1551. 

— That which Made it, Despised. 

Bru. * * 
The abuse of greatness is, when it disjoins 
Remorse from power : And, to speak truth 
of Caesar, 



I have not known when his affections sway'd 
More than his reason. But 't is a common 

proof, 
That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, 
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face : 
But when he once attains the upmost round, 
He then unto the ladder turns his back, 
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base de- 
grees 
By which he did ascend. 

J. C, II: 1. 1329. 

— True, Invincible. 

Auf. * * I think, he '11 be to Rome, 
As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it 
By sovereignty of nature. First he was 
A noble servant to them ; but he could not 
Carry his honours even : whether 't was 

pride, 
Which out of daily fortune ever taints 
The happy man; whether defect of judg- 
ment, 
To fail in the disposing of those chances 
Which he was lord of; or whether nature, 
Not to be other than one thing, not moving 
From the casque to the cushion, but com- 
manding peace < 
Even with the same austerity and garb 
As he controll'd the war. 
* * So our virtues 
Lie in the interpretation of the time : 
And power, unto itself most commendable. 
Hath not a tomb so evident as a chair 
To extol what it hath done. 
One fire drives out one fire ; one nail, one 

nail ; 
Rights by rights fouler, strengths by strengths 
do fail. 

C, IV : 7. 1185. 

—True, its Growth. 

Ham. * * Rightly to be great, 
Is, not to stir without great argument ; 
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, 
When honour 's at the stake. 

H., IV : 4. 1423. 

Com. * * 
That- valour is the chiefest virtue, and 
Most dignifies the haver : if it be, 
The man I speak of cannot in the world 
Be singly counterpois'd. At sixteen years, 



GREATNESS. 



2 5 8 



GRIEF. 



When Tarquin made a head for Rome, he 

fought 
Beyond the mark of others : our then dic- 
tator, 
Whom with all praise I point at, saw him 

fight, 
When with his Amazonian chin he drove 
The bristled lips before him : he bestrid 
An o'er-press'd Roman, and i' the consul's 

view 
Slew three opposers : Tarquin's self he met, 
And struck him on his knee : in that day's 

feats, 
When he might act the woman in the scene, 
He prov'd best man i' the field, and for his 

meed 
Was brow-bound with the oak. His pupil 

age 
Man-enterd thus, he waxed like a sea; 
And, in the brunt of seventeen battles since, 
He lurch'd all swords o' the garland. For 

this last, 
Before and in Corioli, let me say, 
I cannot speak him home : He stopp'd the 

fliers : 
And, by his rare example, made the coward 
Turn terror into sport : as waves before 
A vessel under sail, so men obey'd, 
And fell below his stem : his sword (death's 

stamp) 
Where it did mark, it took; from face to 

foot 
He was a thing of blood, whose every mo- 
tion 
Was timed with dying cries : alone he enter'd 
The mortal gate o' the city, which he painted 
With shunless destiny, aidless came off, 
And with a sudden re-enforcement struck 
Corioli, like a planet : Now all 's his : 
When by and by the din of war 'gan pierce 
His ready sense, then straight his doubled 

spirit 
Re-quicken'd what in flesh was fatigate, 
And to the battle came he ; where he did 
Run reeking o'er the lives of men, as if 
'T were a perpetual spoil : and, till we call'd 
Both field and city ours, he never stood 
To ease his breast with panting. 

C, II: 2. 1164. 

— True, its Vagaries. 
Lieu. I do not know what witchcraft 's 
in him, but 



Your soldiers use him as the grace 'fore 
meat, 

Their talk at table, and their thanks at end ; 

And you are darken'd in this action, sir, 

Even by your own. 

Auf. I cannot help it now ; 

Unless, by using means, I lame the foot 

Of our design. He bears himself more 
proudlier 

Even to my person, than I thought he would, 

When first I did embrace him : Yet his na- 
ture 

In that's no changeling; and I must excuse 

What cannot be amended. 

C, IV: 7. 1183. 

GRIEF.— A Solace. (See Sorrow.) 

Const. Grief fills the room up of my ab- 
sent child, 
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with 

me ; 
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, 
Remembers me of all his gracious parts, 
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form , 
Then, have I reason to be fond of grief. 

^.^.,111: 4. 662. 

—Aggravated. 

JEge. A heavier task could not have been 
impos'd, 
Than I to speak my griefs unspeakable. 

C.E.,I: 1. 192. 

Tro. I was about to tell thee, — when 
my heart, 
As wedged with a sigh, w r ould rive in twain. 
T. C, I: 1. 1103. 

Tit. * * 
What fool hath added water to the sea? 
Or brought a fagot to bright burning Troy? 
My grief was at the height before thou cam'st, 
And now, like Nilus, it disdaineth bounds : 
Give me a sword, I '11 chop off my hands too ; 
For they have fought for Rome, and all in 

vain; 
And they have nurs'd this woe, in feeding 

life ; 
In bootless prayer have they been held up, 
And they have serv'd me to effectless use. 
Now all the service I require of them 
Is that the one will help to cut the other. 

Tit. And., in : 1. 1215. 



GRIEF. 



259 



GRIEF. 



— All our Own. 

K. Rich. My crown, I am ; but still my 
griefs are mine ; 
You may my glories and my state depose, 
But not my griefs ; still am I king of those. 
It. II, IV : 1. 709. 

— Atoning. 

Eno. * * Throw my heart 
Against the flint and hardness of my fault : 
Which, being dried with grief, will break to 

powder, 
And finish all foul thoughts. 

A. C, IV: 9. 1572. 

— Disguised. 

Macd. O, I could play the woman with 
mine eyes, 
And braggart with my tongue ! 

M., IV : 3. 1380. 

— Emphatic. 

Ham. What is he, whose grief 
Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of 

sorrow 
Conjures the wand'ring stars, and makes 

them stand 
Like wonder-wounded hearers? 

ff., V : 2. 1432. 

— Entertained. 

Queen. * * 
Why should hard-favour'd grief be lodged 

in thee, 
When triumph is become an ale-house guest? 
R.II,Y: 1. 711. 

— Excessive. 

Laf. Moderate lamentation is the right 
of the dead ; excessive grief the enemy to 
the living. 

Hel. If the living be enemy to the grief, 
the excess makes it soon mortal. 

A. W., 1 : 1. 496. 

Fal. * * 

A plague of sighing and grief! it blows a 
man up like a bladder. 

//. IV., 1 pt., II : 4. 741. 

La. Cap. Evermore weeping for your 
cousin's death? 
What, wilt thou wash him from his grave 
with tears ? 



An if thou could'st, thou could'st not make 

him live ; 
Therefore, have done : Some grief shows 

much of love ; 

But much of grief shows still some want of 

wit. 

R. J., Ill : 5. 1265. 

— Extravagant. 

Queen. For love of God, forbear him. 
Ham. 'Zounds, show me what thou 'It 

do: 
Woul't weep? woul't fight? woul't fast? 

woul't tear thyself? 
Woul't drink up Esil? eat a crocodile? 
I '11 do 't. — Dost thou come here to whine? 
To outface me with leaping in her grave? 
Be buried quick with her, and so will I : 
And, if thou prate of mountains, let them 

throw 
Millions of acres on us ; till our ground, 
Singeing his pate against the burning zone, 
Make Ossa like a wart ! Nay, an thou 'It 

mouth, 
I '11 rant as well as thou. 

H., V: 1. 1432. 

Q. Mar. Oft have I heard — that grief 
softens the mind, 

And makes it fearful and degenerate ; 

Think therefore on revenge, and cease to 
weep. 

But who can cease to weep, and look on 
this? 

Here may his head lie on my throbbing 
breast : 

But where 's the body that I should em- 
brace? 

* * 

K. Hen. How now, madam? Still 
Lamenting, and mourning for Suffolk's 

death? 
I fear, my love, if that I had been dead, 
Thou wouldest not have mourn 'd so much 
for me. 
Q. Mar. No, my love, I should not 
mourn, but die for thee. 

H. VI, 1 pt., IV : 4. 936. 

— Foreshadowed. 

Queen. * * 
Why I should welcome such a guest as grief, 
Save bidding farewell to so sweet a guest 



GRIEF. 



26o 



GRIEF. 



As my sweet Richard : Yet again, methinks, 
Some unborn sorrow, ripe in iortune's 

womb, 
Is coming towards me ; and my inward soul 
With nothing trembles : at something it 

grieves, 
More than with parting from my lord the 

king. 

R. II, II : 2. 695. 

— General. 

Q. Eliz. Ah ! who shall hinder me to 
wail and weep? 
To chide my fortune, and torment myself? 
I '11 join with black despair against my soul, 
And to myself become an enemy. 

Duch. What means this scene of rude 

impatience? 
Q. Eliz. To make an act of tragic vio- 
lence : — 
Edward, my lord, thy son, our king, is dead. 
Why grow the branches, when the root is 

gone? 
Why wither not the leaves, that want their 

sap? — 
If you will live, lament; if die, be brief; 
That our swift-winged souls may catch the 

king's ; 
Or, like obedient subjects, follow him 
To his new kingdom of perpetual rest. 
Duch. Ah, so much interest have I in 
thy sorrow, 
As I had title in thy noble husband ! 
I have bewept a worthy husband's death, 
And liv'd by looking on his images : 
But now, two mirrors of his princely sem- 
blance 
Are crack'd in pieces by malignant death ; 
And I for comfort have but one false glass, 
That grieves me when I see my shame in 

him. 
Thou art a widow ; yet thou art a mother, 
And hast the comfort of thy children left 

thee : 
But death hath snatch'd my husband from 

my arms, 
And pluck'd two crutches from my feeble 

hands, 
Clarence, and Edward. O what cause have I, 
(Thine being but a moiety of my grief,) 
To over-go thy plaints, and drown thy cries? 



Duch. Was never mother had so dear a 
loss. 
Alas ! I am the mother of these griefs ; 
Their woes are parcell'd, mine are general. 
She for an Edward weeps, and so do I ; 
I for a Clarence weep, so doth not she : 
These babes for Clarence weep, and so do I : 
I for an Edward weep, so do not they : — 
Alas ! you three, on me, threefold distress'd, 
Pour all your tears, I am your sorrow's 

nurse, 
And I will pamper it with lamentations. 

R. HI, II: 2. 1016. 

— Great, an Excuse. 

Bast. Whate'er you think, good words, 
I think, were best. 

Sal. Our griefs, and not our manners, 
reason now. 

Bast. But there is little reason in your 
grief : 
Therefore, 't were reason, you had manners 
now. 

Pern. Sir, sir, impatience hath this priv- 
ilege. 

Best. 'T is true ; to hurt his master, no 
man else. 

K. J., IV: 3. 669. 

— Great, proud. 

Sal. Pardon me, madam, 

I may not go without you to the kings. 
Const. Thou may'st, thou shalt, I will 
not go with thee : 
I will instruct my sorrows to be proud ; 
For grief is proud, and makes his owner 

stout. 
To me, and to the state of my great grief, 
Let kings assemble ; for my grief's so great, 
That no supporter but the huge firm earth 
Can hold it up : here I and sorrow sit ; 
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to 
it. 

K. J., Ill: 1. 657. 



Grief boundeth where it 



— Heavy. 

Duch. * * 
falls, 
Not with the empty hollowness, but weight : 
I take my leave before I have begun ; 
For sorrow ends not when it seemeth clone. 
R. II, 1 : 2. 667. 



GRIEF. 26l GRIEF. 


— Helps Nothing. 


— Its Signs. 


Bra. * * 


Agam. Princes, 


We lose it not, so long as we can smile. 


What grief hath set the jaundice on your 


He bears the sentence well, that nothing 


cheeks? 


bears 


T. C, I: 3. 1107. 


But the free comfort which from thence he 




hears : 


— Its weakening Power. 


But he bears both the sentence and the sor- 


North. * * 


row, 


And as the wretch, whose fever-weaken'd 


That, to pay grief, must of poor patience 


joints, 


borrow 


Like strengthless hinges, buckle under life, 


These sentences, to sugar, or to gall, 


Impatient of his fit, breaks like a fire, 


Being strong on both sides, are equivocal : 


Out of his keeper's arms ; even so my limbs, 


But words are words ; I never yet did hear, 


Weaken'd with grief, being now enrag'd 


That the bruis'd heart was pierced through 


with grief, 


the ear. 


Are thrice themselves. 


0., 1 : 3. 1497. 


ff.IV.,1: 1. 775. 


— Inconsolable. 


— Lengthens Time. 


Edw. Sweet duke of York, our prop to 


Gaunt. What is six winters? they are 


lean upon ; 


quickly gone. 


Now thou art gone, we have no staff, no 


Boling. To men in joy ; but grief makes 


stay ! — 


one hour ten. 


Clifford, boist'rous Clifford, thou hast 


R. II, 1 : 3. 690. 


slain 
The flower of Europe for his chivalry ; 


— Not conducive to Humility. 


And treacherously hast thou vanquish'd him, 


Prince. * * Farewell, worthy lord, 


For hand to hand, he would have vanquish'd 


A heavy heart bears not a humble tongue : 


thee! — 


Excuse me so, coming too short of thanks 


Now my soul's palace is become a prison : 


For my great suit so easily obtain 'd. 


Ah, would she break from hence ! that this 


L.Z.,V: 2. 302. 


my body 
Might in the ground be closed up in rest : 


— Puissant. 


For never henceforth shall I joy again, 
Never, never, shall I see more joy. 

H. VI, 3pt., II: 1. 962. 


Edg. * * 
His grief grew puissant, and the strings of 

life 
Began to crack. 


— Its changing Power. 


JT.Z..V: 3. 1484. 


JEge. Oh ! grief hath chang'd me, since 


— Quenchless. 


you saw me last ; 


Fath. * * 


And careful hours, with Time's deformed 


My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell : 


hand, 
Have written strange defeatures in my face. 


And so obsequious will thy father be, 
Sad for the loss of thee, having no more, 


C.E.,V: 1. 212. 


As Priam was for all his valiant sons. 


— Its Shadows. 


H. VI, 3pt., II: 5. 969. 


Bushy. Each substance of a grief hath 


— Tearless. 


twenty shadows, 


Her. * * 


Which show like grief itself, but are not 


I am not prone to weeping, as our sex 


so. 


Commonly are ; the want of which vain dew, 


R. II, II : 2. 695. 


Perchance, shall dry your pities : but I have 



GRIEF. 



262 



GRUDGES. 



That honourable grief lodg'd here, which 

burns 
Worse than tears drown. 

W. T., II : 1. 588. 

— Unutterable. 

Sen. * * 
My heart is not compact of flint, nor steel ; 
Nor can I utter all our bitter grief, 
But floods of tears will drown my oratory, 
And break my very utterance. 

Tit. And., V : 3. 1230. 

— Who Master it. 

Bene. Well, every one can master a 
grief, but he that has it. 

M.A.,IIl: 2. 239. 

GRIEFS. — Great, Medicine the Less. 

Bel. Great griefs, I see, medicine the 
less. 

Cym.,lV: 2. 1617. 

— Not for the Past. 

Paul. * * What 's gone, and what 's 
past help, 
Should be past grief. 

W. T., Ill : 3. 596. 

— Some medicinable. 

Imo. * * 
(Some griefs are med'cinable ;) that is one 

of them, 
For it doth physic love ; — of his content, 
All but in that ! 

Cym., Ill : 2. 1606. 

GRIEVANCES. — Complained of. 

Q. Kath. I am solicited, not by a few, 
And those of true condition, that your sub- 
jects 
Are in great grievance : there have been 

commissions 
Sent down among them, which hath flaw'd 

the heart 
Of all their loyalties : — wherein, although, 
My good lord cardinal, they vent reproaches 
Most bitterly on you, as putter-on 
Of these exactions, yet the king our master, 
(Whose honour heaven shield from soil!) 

even he escapes not 
Language unmannerly ; yea, such which 
breaks 



The sides of loyalty, and almost appears 

In loud rebellion. 

H. VIII., 1 : 2. 1060. 

GROANS. — Fearful. 

Pro. * * Thy groans 
Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the 

breasts 
Of ever-angry bears : it was a torment 
To lay upon the damn'd, which Sycorax 
Could not again undo ; it was mine art, 
When I arriv'd, and heard thee, that made 

gape 
The pine, and let thee out. 

T. t 1 : 2. 11. 

GROWTH. — Of evil Things, swift. 

York. * * 
My uncle Rivers talk'd how I did grow 
More than my brother: "Ay," quoth my 

uncle Gloster, 
"Small herbs have grace, great weeds do 

grow apace ■ " 
And since, methinks, I would not grow so 

fast, 
Because sweet flowers are slow, and weeds 

make haste. 

R. Ill, II : 4. 1018. 

GRUDGES. — Private, not to be 
Avenged. 

Bas. Crossing the sea from England into 

France, 
This fellow here, with envious carping 

tongue, 
Upbraided me about the rose I wear : 
Saying, — the sanguine color of the leaves 
Did represent my master's blushing cheeks, 
When stubbornly he did repugn the truth, v 
About a certain question in the law, 
Argu'd betwixt the duke of York and him ; 
With other vile and ignominious terms : 
In confutation of which rude reproach, 
And in defence of my lord's worthiness, 
I crave the benefit of law of arms. 

Ver. And that is my petition, noble lord : 
For though he seem, with forged quaint 

conceit 
To set a gloss upon his bold intent, 
Yet know, my lord, I was provok'd by him ; 
And he first took exceptions at this badge, 
Pronouncing — that the paleness of this 

flower 



GRUDGES. 263 GUILT. 


Bewray 'd the faintness of my master's heart. 


GUILE. — Dissembling. (See Hypoc- 


York. Will not this malice, Somerset, 


risy.) 


be left? 


Glo. * * 


Som. Your private grudge, my lord of 


monstrous treachery ! Can this be so 


York, will out, 


That in alliance, amity, and oaths, 


Though ne'er so cunningly you smother it. 


There should be found such false dissem- 


H. VI., lpt., IV: 1. 885. 


bling guile? 


GUESSING. — Ability of. 


H. VI., lpt., IV: 1. 885. 


Cant. Then go we in, to know his em- 


GUILT— Enfeebles and Destroys. 


bassy : 


Iach. The heaviness and guil-t within my 


Which I could, with a ready guess, declare, 


bosom 


Before the Frenchman speak a word of it. 


Takes off my manhood : I have belied a 


H. Y., 1 : 1. 820. 


lady, 


GUEST.— A famous. 


The princess of this country, and the air 


Ulyss. The great Achilles, — whom opin- 


on 't, 


ion crowns 


Bevengingly enfeebles me ; Or could this 


The sinew and the forehand of our host. 


carl, 


T. C, I: 3. 1109. 


A very drudge of nature's, have subdu'd 


— Banquo's Invitation. 


me, 

In my profession? Knighthoods and hon- 


Macb. To-night we hold a solemn sup- 


ours, borne, 


per, sir, 


As I wear mine, are titles but of scorn. 


And I '11 request your presence. 


Cym., V : 2. 1622. 


Ban. Set your highness' 




Command upon me ; to the which, my duties 


— Expedient to Unkennel. 


Are with a most indissoluble tie 


Ham. * * 


For ever knit. 


Observe my uncle : if his occulted guilt 


M-, III : 1. 1368. 


Do not itself unkennel in one speech, 


— Urged to Delay. 


It is a damned ghost that we have seen ; 


Her. Verily ! 


And my imaginations are as foul 


You put me off with limber vows : But I, 


As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note, 


Though you would seek t' unsphere the stars 


For I mine eyes will rivet on his face ; 


with oaths, 


And, after, we will both our judgments join 


Should yet say, " Sir, no going." Verily, 


In censure of his seeming. 


You shall not go ; a lady's verily is 


H.,III: 2. 1413. 


As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet? 




Force me to keep you as a prisoner, 


— Full of Jealousy. 


Not like a guest ; so you shall pay your fees, 


Queen. * * 


When you depart, and save your thanks. 


To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is, 


How say you? 


Each toy seems prologue to some great 


My prisoner, or my guest? by your dread 


amiss : 


verily, 


So full of artless jealousy is guilt, 


One of them you shall be. 


It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. 


Pol. Your guest, then, madam : 


R.,IY: 5. 1424. 


To be your prisoner should import offend- 




ing. 


— Its Bravado. 


W. T., 1 : 2. 581. 


War. What dares not Warwick, if false 


GUESTS. —Unbidden. 


Suffolk dare him? 


Bed. * * Unbidden guests 


Q. Mar. He dares not calm his contume- 


Are often welcomest when they are gone. 


lious spirit, 


H. VI., II: 2. 873. 


Nor cease to be an arrogant controller, 



GUILT. 



264 



GUILT. 



Though Suffolk dare him twenty thousand 

times. 
War. Madam, be still ; with reverence 

may I say ; 
For every word, you speak in his behalf, 
Is slander to your royal dignity. 

Suf. Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in de- 
meanour ! 
If ever lady wrong'd her lord so much, 
Thy mother took into her blameful bed 
Some stern untutor'd churl, and noble stock 
Was graft with crab-tree slip ; whose fruit 

thou art, 
And never of the Nevils' noble race. 

War. But that the guilt of murder buck- 
lers thee, 
And I should rob the deathsman of his fee, 
Quitting thee thereby of ten thousand 

shames, 
And that my sovereign's presence makes 

me mild, 
I would, false murderous coward, on thy 

knee 
Make thee beg pardon for thy passed speech, 
And say — it was thy mother that thou 

meant'st, 
That thou thyself wast born in bastardy : 
And, after all this fearful homage done, 
Give thee thy hire, and send thy soul to 

hell, 
Pernicious bloodsucker of sleeping men ! 
Suf. Thou shalt be waking, while I shed 

thy blood, 
If from this presence thou dar'st go with 

me. 
War. Away even now, or I will drag 

thee hence : 
Unworthy though thou art, I '11 cope with 

thee, 
And do some service to duke Humphrey's 

ghost. 

H. VI., 2pt., Ill: 2. 928. 

— Cowardly. 

K. John. Why seek'st thou to possess 

me with these fears? 
Why urgest thou so oft young Arthur's 

death? 
Thy hand hath murder'd him : I had mighty 

cause 
To wish him dead, but thou hadst none to 

kill him. 
Hub. Had none, my lord ! why, did you 

notprovoke me? 



K. John. It is the curse of kings, to be 
attended 
By slaves, that take their humors for a war- 
rant 
To break within the bloody house of life : 
And, on the winking of authority, 
To understand a law ; to know the meaning 
Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it 

frowns 
More upon humor than ad vis 'd respect. 

K. J., IV : 2. 668. 

— Its Heaviness. 

Ghost of P. Ed. Let me sit heavy on 
thy soul to-morrow ! 
Think, how thou stab'dstme in my prime of 

youth 
At Tewkesbury : Despair therefore, and 
die! — 
Ghost of Hen. VI. When I was mortal 
my anointed body 
By thee was punched full of deadly holes : 
Think on the Tower, and me : Despair, and 
die. 
Ghost of Clarence. Let me sit heavy on 
thy soul to-morrow ! 
I, that was wash'd to death with fulsome 

wine, 
Poor Clarence, by thy guile betray'd to 

death ! 
To-morrow in the battle think on me, 
And fall thy edgeless sword : Despair, and 

die! 
Thou offspring of the house of Lancaster. 
Ghost of Riv. Let me sit heavy on thy 
soul to-morrow, 
Rivers, that died at Pomfret ! Despair, and 
die! 
Ghost of Grey. Think upon Grey, and 

let thy soul despair ! 
Ghost of Vangh. Think upon Vaughan ; 
and, with guilty fear, 
Let fall thy lance ! Despair, and die ! — 
Ghost of Hastings. Bloody and guilty, 
guiltily awake ; 
And in a bloody battle end thy days ! 
Think on lord Hastings ; and despair, and 
die! — 
Quiet untroubled soul, awake, awake ! 
Ghost of the two Princes. Dream on thy 
cousin i smother'd in the Tower ; 
Let us be lead within thy bosom, Richard, 



GUILT. 



265 



GUILTINESS. 



And weigh thee down to ruin, shame, and 

death ! 
Thy nephews' souls bid thee despair, and 

die. — 
Ghost of Queen Anne. Richard, thy 

wife, that wretched Anne thy wife, 
That never slept a quiet hour with thee, 
Now fills thy sleep with perturbations : 
To-morrow in the battle think on me, 
And fall thy edgeless sword : Despair, and 

die! — 
Ghost of Buckingham. The first was I, 

that help'd thee to the crown ; 
The last was I that felt thy tyranny : 
O, in the battle think on Buckingham, 
And die in terror of thy guiltiness ! 
Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and 

death ; 
Fainting, despair ; despairing, yield thy 

breath ! 

R. III., V: 3. 1043. 

Clar. O Brankenbury, I have done these 
things, — 
That now give evidence against my soul, — 
For Edward's sake ; and, see, how he re- 
quites me ! — 

God ! if my deep prayers cannot appease 

thee, 
But thou wilt be aveng'd on my misdeeds, 
Yet execute thy wrath on me alone : 
0, spare my guiltless wife, and my poor 

children ! — 

1 pray thee, gentle keeper, stay by me ; 
My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep. 

R. III., 1 : 4. 1011. 

— Self -Confessed. 

Ang. * * 
No longer session hold upon my shame, 
But let my trial be mine own confession : 
Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, 
Is all the grace I beg. 

M. 31., V: 1. 174. 

— Sometimes Defiant. 

Fitz. If that thy valour stand on sym- 
pathies, 
There is my gage, Aumerle, in gage to thine : 
By that fair sun that shows me where thou 

stand'st, 
I heard thee say, and vauntingly thou spak'st 
it, 



That thou wert cause of noble Gloster's 

death. 
If thou deny'st it, twenty times thou liest ; 
And I will turn thy falsehood to thy heart, 
Where it was forged, with my rapier's point. 
Aum. Thou dar'st not, coward, live to 

see that day. 
Fitz. Now, by my soul, I would it were 

this hour. * * 
Surrey. Dishonourable boy ! 

That lie shall lie so heavy on my sword, 
That it shall render vengeance and revenge, 
Till thou the lie-giver, and that lie, do lie 
In earth as quiet as thy father's skull. 
In proof whereof, there is my honour's 

pawn ; 
Engage it to the trial, if thou dar'st. 

Fitz. How fondly dost thou spur a for- 
ward horse. 
If I dare eat, or drink, or breathe, or live, 
I dare meet Surrey in a wilderness, 
And spit upon him, whilst I say he lies, 
And lies, and lies : there is my bond of faith, 
To tie thee to my strong correction. — 
As I intend to thrive in this new world, 
Aumerle is guilty of my true appeal : 
Besides, I heard the banish'd Norfolk say, 
That thou, Aumerle, didst send two of thy 

men 
To execute the noble duke at Calais. 

Aum. Some honest Christian trust me 

with a gage, 
That Norfolk lies ; here do I thrown down 

this, 
If he may be repeal'd to try his honour. 

R. II, IV: 1. 707. 

GUILTINESS. — Speaks without 
Tongue. 

Iago. * * 
Do you see, gentlemen? nay, guiltiness will 

speak, 
Though tongues were out of use. 

0., V : 1. 1528. 

— Suspiciously Scatters. 

Sal. The king hath dispossess'd himself 
of us ; 
We will not line his sin bestained cloak 
With our pure honours, nor attend the foot 
That leaves the print of blood where'er it 

walks ; 
Return, and tell him so ; we know the worst. 
K. J., IV : 3. 669. 



HABIT. 



266 



HAIR. 



H 



HABIT. — Gives Ease 

Hor. Custom hath made it in him a prop- 
erty of easiness. 

//., V : 1. 1430. 

— Powerful. 

Ham. * * If you have it not. 
That monster, custom, who all sense doth 

eat 
Of habit's devil, is angel yet in this ; 
That to the use of actions fair and good 
He likewise gives a frock, or livery, 
That aptly is put on : Refrain to-night ; 
And that shall lend a kind of easiness 
To the next abstinence : the next more easy : 
For use almost can change the stamp of na- 
ture, 
And either curb the devil, or throw him out 
With wondrous potency. 

H. t III : 4. 1420. 



HABITS.— Bred by Use. 

Val. How use doth breed 



habit in a 



man; 
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, 
I better brook than flourishing peopled 

towns : 
Here can I sit alone, unseen of any, 
And to the nightingale's complaining notes 
Tune my distresses, and record my woes. 
O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, 
Leave not the mansion so long tenantless ; 
Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall, 
And leave no memory of what it was ! 

T. a.,V: 4.71. 

HAIR. — Abundance of. 

K. Phi. Bind up those tresses : O, what 

love I note 
In the fair multitude of those her hairs ! 
Where but by chance a silver drop hath 

fallen, 
Even to that drop ten thousand wiry friends 
Do glew themselves in sociable grief; 
Like true, inseparable, faithful loves, 
Sticking together in calamity. 

K.J.,III: 4. 662. 



— Disheveled, a Sign of Liberty. 

K. Phi. Bind up your hairs. 

Const. Yes, that I will : And wherefore 
will I do it? 
I tore them from their bonds ; and cried 

aloud, 
"O that these hands could so redeem my 

son, 
As they have given these hairs their lib- 
erty ! " 
But now I envy at their liberty, 
And will again commit them to their bonds, 
Because my poor child is a prisoner. 

K. J., IV: 4. 662. 

—False. 
Bass. * * 
So are those crisped snaky golden locks, 
Which make such wanton gambols with the 

wind, 
Upon supposed fairness, often known 
To be the dowry of a second head, 
The skull that bred them in the sepulchre. 
M. V., Ill: 2. 377. 

— Flaxen. 

Sir To. Excellent ; it hangs like flax on 
a distaff; and I hope to see a housewife take 
thee between her legs, and spin it off. 

T. .&., 1 : 3. 542. 

— Golden. 

Bass. * * Her sunny locks 
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece. 

M. F., 1 : 1. 363. 

— Straight. 

Sir And. What is pourquoy ? do or not 
do? I would I had bestowed that time in 
the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing, 
and bear-baiting : 0, had I but followed the 
arts ! 

Sir To. Then hadst thou an excellent 
head of hair. 

Sir And. Why, would that have mended 
my hair? 

Sir To. Past question ? for thou see'st it 
will not curl by nature. 



HAIR. 



267 



HAND. 



Sir And. But it becomes me well 
enough, does 't not? 

Sir To. Excellent ; it hangs like flax on 
a distaff; and I hope to see a housewife take 
thee between her legs, and spin it off. 

T. IT., 1 : 3. 542. 

— Subject of Jest. 

Clo. Now Jove, in his next commodity 
of hair, send thee a beard ! 

Vio. By my troth, I '11 tell thee, I am 
almost sick for one ; though I would not 
have it grow on my chin. 

T. IT., Ill: 1. 554. 

— White, unbecoming. 
King. * * 

How ill white hairs become a fool, and 

jester! 

H. IV., 2 pt., V : 5. 810. 

HALF-HEARTEDNESS.— Despised. 

Q. Kath. * * The pretence for this 
Is nam'd, your wars in France : This makes 

bold mouths ; 
Tongues spit their duties out, - and cold hearts 

freeze 

Allegiance in them. 

H. VIII., I: 2. 1060. 

Hot. By heaven, methinks, it were an 

easy leap, 
To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd 

moon ; 
Or dive into the bottom of the deep, 
Where fathom-line could never touch the 

ground, 
And pluck up drowned honour by the locks ; 
So he, that doth redeem her thence, might 

wear, 
Without corrival, all her dignities : 
But out upon this half-fac'd fellowship ! 

H. IV., lpt.,1: 3. 733. 

— Fights poorly. 

War. * * 

Our soldiers, — like the night-owl's lazy 

flight, 

Or like a lazy thrasher with a flail, — 

Fall gently down, as if they struck their 

friends. 

H. VI, 3pt., II: 1. 963. 

HALLUCINATIONS. — Produced by 
Strong Drink. 

Ari. I told you, sir, they were red-hot 
with drinking : 



So full of valour, that they smote the air 
For breathing in their faces ; beat the 

ground 
For kissing of their feet ; yet always bend- 
ing 
Towards their project. Then I beat my 

tabor, 
At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd 

their ears, 
Advanc'd their eyelids, lifted up their noses, 
As they smelt music ; so I charm'd their 

ears, 
That, calf-like, they my lowing follow'd 

through % 

Tooth'd briers, sharp furzes, pricking goss 

and thorns, 
Which enter'd their frail shins : at last I 

left them 
I' the filthy mantled pool beyond your cell, 
There dancing up to the chins, that the foul 

lake 
O'erstunk their feet. 

T. t IV : 1. 28. 

HAND. — A coarse. 

Ros. * * 
I saw her hand : she has a leathern hand, 
A freestone-colour'd hand; I verily did 

think 
That her old gloves were on, but 't was her 

hands ; 
She has a housewife's hand : but that 's no 

matter : 
I say, she never did invent this letter ; 
This is a man's invention, and his hand. 

A. Y.,IV: 4. 431. 

— Cleopatra's. 

Cleo. * * A hand, that kings 
Have lipp'd, and trembled kissing. 

A. C, II: 5. 1552. 

— Superlatively White. 

This. With hands as pale as milk. 

M. X., V: 1. 345. 

Flo. * * I take thy hand ; this hand, 
As soft as dove's down, and as white as it ; 
Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fann'd snow, 
That 's bolted by the northern blasts twice 
o'er. 

W. T.,IV: 3. 604. 



HAND. 



268 



HAPPINESS. 



— White and soft. 

Tro. * * 0, that her hand, 
In whose comparison all whites are ink, 
Writing their own reproach ; to whose soft 

seizure 
The cygnet's down is harsh, and spirit of 

sense 
Hard as the palm of ploughman ! 

T. C, 1 : 1. 1103. 

HANDKERCHIEF. — Desdemona's. 

Oth. That handkerchief 
Did an Egyptian to my mother give ; 
She was a charmer, and could almost read 
The thoughts of people : she told her, while 

she kept it, 
'T would make her amiable, and subdue my 

father 
Entirely to her love ; but if she lost it, 
Or made a gift of it, my father's eye 
Should hold her loathly, and his spirits 

should hunt 
After new fancies : She, dying, gave it me ; 
And bid me, when my fate would have me 

wive, 
To give it her. I did so : and take heed of 't, 
Make it a darling like your precious eye ; 
To lose or give 't away, were such perdition, 
As nothing else could match. 
Des. Is it possible? 

Oth. 'T is true : there 's magic in the web 
of it: 
A sibyl, that had number'd in the world 
The sun to make two hundred compasses, 
In her prophetic fury sew'd the work : 
The worms were hallow'd, that did breed 

the silk; 
And it was died in mummy, which the skil- 
ful 
Conserv'd of maidens' hearts. 
* * 

Emit. Is not this man jealous? 

Des. I ne'er saw this before. 
Sure, there 's some wonder in this handker- 
chief: 
I am most unhappy in the loss of it. 

O., Ill : 4. 1516. 

HANGING.— A Destiny. 

Ner. The ancient saying is no heresy : — 
Hanging and wiving go by destiny. 

M. V., II : 9. 374. 



Pro. Go, go, be gone, to save your ship 
from wreck, 
Which cannot perish, having thee aboard, 
Being destin'd to a drier death on shore. 

T. G., 1 : 1. 49. 
— Deplored. 
Pis. * * 
Let gallows gape for dog, let man go free, 
And let no hemp his wind-pipe suffocate : 
But Exeter hath given the doom of death, 
For pix of little price. 
Therefore, go speak, the duke will hear thy 

voice ; 
And let not Bardolph's vital thread be cut 
With edge of penny cord, and vile reproach. 
H. V., Ill: 6. 836. 

— Felicities attendant upon. 

Gaol. A heavy reckoning for you, sir : 
But the comfort is, you shall be called to no 
more payments, fear no more tavern bills ; 
which are often the sadness of parting, as 
the procuring of mirth : you come in faint 
for want of meat, depart reeling with too 
much drink ; sorry that you have paid too 
much, and sorry that you are paid too much ; 
purse and brain both empty : the brain the 
heavier for being too light, the purse too 
light, being drawn of heaviness : O ! of this 
contradiction you shall now be quit. — O the 
charity of a penny cord ! it sums up thou- 
sands in a trice : you have no true debtor 
and creditor but it; of what's past, is, and 
to come, the discharge : — Your neck, sir, is 
pen, book, and counters ; so the acquit- 
tance follows. 

Cym.,V: 4. 1625. 

— Its Advantages. 

Clo. Let her hang me ; he that is well 
hang'd in this world needs to fear no 
colours. • 
* * 

Well, God give them wisdom that have 
it; and those that are fools, let them use 
their talents. 

Mar. Yet you will be hang'd, for being 
so long absent; or, to be turn'd away; is 
not that as good as a hanging to you? 

Clo. Many a good hanging prevents a 
bad marriage ; and, for turning away, let 
summer bear it out. 

T. tf., I: 5. 543. 

HAPPINESS.— Embittered. 

Or I. * * But, O, how bitter a thing it 
is to look into happiness through another 
man's eyes ! 

A. Y., V : 2. 434. 



HAPPINESS. 269 HASTE. 


— Perfect. 


— In Nature. 


Guil. Happy, in that we are not over- 


Hel. * * 


happy ; 


More tunable than lark to shepherd's ear, 


On fortune's cap we are not the very button. 


When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds 


//., II : 2. 1406. 


appear. 




M. N., 1 : 1. 323. 


Oth. * * If it were now to die, 




'T were now to be most happy ; for, I fear, 


HASTE. — Demanded. 


My soul hath her content so absolute, 


Prin. Whip to our tents, as roes run over 


That not another comfort like to this 


land. 

L.L.,Y: 2. 297. 


Succeeds in unknown fate. 


0., II : 1. 1502. 


North. * * Every minute now 




Should be the father of some stratagem. 


Claud. Silence is the perfectest herald of 


H. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 1. 774. 


joy : I were but little happy, if I could say 




how much. 


— Imperative. 


M. A., II : 1. 233. 


Duke. * * 


King. * * 


Either for her stay, or going : the affair 


The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. 


cries — haste, 


A. W., V: 3. 530. 


And speed must answer it ; you must hence 




to-night. 


Hel. How happy some o'er othersome 


0., 1:3. 1498. 


can be ! 




Through Athens I am thought as fair as she. 


— In Securing Shelter. 


But what of that? Demetrius thinks not so ; 


Mess. * * 


He Avill not know what all but he do know. 


Ne'er through an arch so hurried the blown 


M. N.,\: 1. 323. 


tide, 




As the recomforted through the gates. 


HARD-HEARTEDNESS.— Unfits for 


C.,V: 4.1191. 


Death. 






— In Time of Danger. 


Duke. Unfit to live, or die : 0, gravel 




heart ! 


K. John. Nay, but make haste : the bet- 


M. M., IV : 3. 167. 


ter foot before. 




0, let me have no subject enemies, 


HARDINESS.— Hardiness, Mother of. 


When adverse foreigners affright my towns 


Imos. * * Hardness ever 


- With dreadful pomp of stout invasion ! — 


Of hardiness is mother. 


Be Mercury, set feathers to thy heels ; 


Cym. t III : 6. 1612. 


And fly, like thought, from them to me again. 


K. J., IV : 2. 667. 


HARMONY.— In Diversity. 


— Not wise. 


Cant. * * I this infer, — 


Mai. * * Modest wisdom plucks me 


That many things, having full reference 


From over-credulous haste. 


To one concent, may work contrariously ; 


M., IV : 2. 1379. 


As many arrows, loosed several ways, 




Fly to one mark ; 


Moth. As swift as lead, sir. 


As many several ways meet in one town ; 


L. L., ttt: l. 281. 


As many fresh streams run in one self sea ; 




As many lines close in the dial's centre ; 


Rom. O, let us hence ; I stand on sud- 


So may a thousand actions, once afoot, 


den haste. 


End in one purpose, and be all well borne 


Fri. Wisely, and slow ; They stumble, 


Without defeat. 


that run fast. 


H. V., 1 : 2. 823. 


R. J. y II : 3. 1254. 



HASTE. 



270 



HAZARD. 



— Should Speak in the Eyes. 
Len. What a haste looks through his 

eyes ! So should he look, 
That comes to speak things strange. 

M., I: 2. 1358. 

—The Superlative of. 

Rum. * * 
Making the wind my post-horse. 

//. IV., 2 pt., Ind :773. 

Ari. I drink the air before me, and re- 
turn 
Or e'er your pulse twice beat. 

T., V: 1. 31. 

HATE. — Growing out of Kindness. 

Ant. Let him alone ; 

I '11 follow him no more with bootless 

prayers. 
He seeks my life ; his reason well I know : 
I oft deliver'd from his forfeitures 
Many that have at times made moan to me ; 
Therefore he hates me. 

M. V., Ill : 3, 380. 

— Of that We Fear. 

Char. Tempt him not so too far : I 
wish, forbear; 
In time we hate that which we often fear. 

A. C, 1 : 3. 1543. 

— Renounced. 

Riv. By heaven, my soul is purg'd from 
grudging hate ; 
And with my hand I seal my true heart's 
love. 

R. III., 11 : 1. 1014. 

— Superlative. 

Sir To. A false conclusion; I hate it as 



fill'd 



an unnn a can 



T. N. t II : 3. 548. 



HATRED.— Accounts for Tyranny. 

Lav. When did the tiger's young ones 
teach the dam? 
O, do not learn her wrath; she taught it 

thee : 
The milk, thou suck'dst from her, did turn 

to marble ; 
Even at thy teat thou hadst thy tyranny. 

Tit. And., II : 3. 1211. 



— An Excuse. 

Lep. I must not think, there are 

Evils enough to darken all his goodness : 
His faults, in him, seem as the spots of 

heaven, 
More fiery by night's blackness ; hereditary, 
Rather than purchas'd; what he cannot 

change, 

Than what he chooses. 

A. C.,1: 3. 1545. 

— Bitter and Undying. 

Tim. I am misanthropos, and hate man- 
kind. 

T. A., IV : 3. 1305. 

Cor. Spoke he of me ? 
Lart. He did, my lord. 

Cor. How? what? 

Lart. How often he had met you, sword 
to sword : 
That, of all things upon the earth, he hated 
Your person most : that he would pawn his 

fortunes 
To hopeless restitution, so he might 
Be call'd your vanquisher. 

C, III: 1. 1168. 

— Consequences of, Alarm. 

K. Hen. Most subject is the fattest soil 
to weeds ; 
And he, the noble image of my youth, 
Is overspread with them : Therefore my 

grief 
Stretches itself beyond the hour of death ; 
The blood weeps from my heart, when I do 

shape, 
In forms imaginary, the unguided days, 
And rotten times, that you shall look upon 
When I am sleeping with my ancestors. 
For when his headstrong riot hath no curb, 
When rage and hot blood are his counsel- 
lors, 
When means and lavish manners meet to- 
gether, 
O, with what wings shall his affections fly 
Towards fronting peril and oppos'd decay ! 
H . 7F.,2pt., IV: 4. 801. 

HAZARD.— Hope of, Advantage. 

Mor. * * 
What says this leaden casket? 

"Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he 
hath." 



HAZARD. 



271 



HEIGHTS, 



Must give — For what? for lead? hazard for 

lead? 

This casket threatens : Men that hazard all 

Do it in hope of fair advantages : 

A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross ; 

I '11 then nor give, nor hazard, ought for 

lead. 

M. V., II : 7. 372. 

HEAD-PIECES. —Heavy. 

Orl. That they lack ; for if their heads 
had any intellectual armour, they could 
never wear such heavy head-pieces. 

H. F.,111: 7. 839. 

HEALTH— Its Restoration. 

Hel. * * 
"What is infirm from your sound parts shall 

fly, 

Health shall live free, and sickness freely 

die. 

A. W., II : 1. 504. 

HEART. — A broken One. 

Edg. * * But his flaw'd heart, 

(Alack, too weak the conflict to support!) 

'Twixt two extremes of passion, joy and 

grief, 

Burst smilingly. 

K. L., V : 3. 1484. 

— A good. 

K. Hen. * * A good heart, Kate, is 
the sun and moon; or, rather the sun, and 
not the moon ; for it shines bright, and 
never changes, but keeps his course truly. 

//. V., V : 2. 854. 

— A Woman's. 
Old L. * * 

For all this spice of your hypocrisy : 

You, that have so fair parts of woman on 

you, 
Have too a woman's heart; which ever yet 
Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty. 

R. VIII, II : 3. 1070. 

Host. Why, that 's well said ; a good 
heart 's worth gold. 

R. IV., 2 pt., II : 4. 785 

— Broken. 

Pist. Nym, thou hast spoke the right; 
His heart is fracted, and corroborate. 

H. V., II: 1. 826. 



— Dancing. 

Leon. * * 
I have tremor cordis on me: — my heart 

dances ; 
But not for joy, — not joy. 

W. T., 1 : 2. 582. 

— Hard to Wring. 

Ham. * * 
Leave wringing of your hands : Peace ; sit 

you down, 
And let me wring your heart : for so I shall, 
If it be made of penetrable stuff; 
If damned custom have not braz'd it so, 
That it be proof and bulwark against sense. 
R.,IJI: 4. 1418. 

HEARTLESSNESS. — Cold. 

Lucio. * * A man whose blood 
Is very snow-broth. 

M. M., 1 : 5. 147. 

HEAVEN.— Its Sanction. 

Lew. * * 
And even there, methinks, an angel spake : 
Look, where the holy legate conies apace, 
To give us warrant from the hand of heaven, 
And on our actions set the name of right, 
With holy breath. 

K. J.,V: 2. 672. 

HEAVINESS. — A good Presage. 

Arch. Against ill chances, men are ever 
merry ; 
But heaviness foreruns the good event. 
West. Therefore be merry, coz ; since 
sudden sorrow 
Serves to say thus, — Some good thing 
comes to-morrow. 
Arch. Believe me, I am passing light in 

spirit. 
Mowb. So much the worse, if your own 
rule be true. 

R. IV., 2pt., IV: 2. 798. 

HEIGHTS.— Looking from. 

Edg. * * How fearful 

And dizzy 't is, to cast one's eyes so low ! 

The crows, and choughs, that wing the mid- 
way air, 

Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way 
down 



HEIGHTS. 



272 



HELL. 



Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful 

trade ! 
Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head : 
The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, 
Appear like mice ; and yon' tall anchoring 

bark, 
Diminish'd to her cock ; her cock, a buoy 
Almost too small for sight : The murmuring 

surge, 
That on the unnumber'd idle pebbles chafes, 
Cannot be heard so high: — I'll look no 

more ; 
Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight 
Topple down headlong. 

Glo. Set me where you stand. 

Edg. Give me your hand : You are now 

within a foot 
Of the extreme verge : for all beneath the 

moon 
Would I not leap upright. 

Glo. Let go my hand. 

Here, friend, is another purse : in it, a jewel 
Well worth a poor man's taking : Fairies, 

and gods, 
Prosper it with thee ! Go thou further off. 

K.L.,IV: 6. 1475. 

— Looking up to. 

Edg. From the dread summit of this 
chalky bourn : 
Look up a height; — the shrill-gorg'd lark 

so far 
Cannot be seen or heard : do but look up. 

K. L., IV : 6. 1475. 

HEIRLOOM.— By Testament. 

Count. * * 
Of six preceding ancestors, that gem 
Conferr'd by testament to the sequent issue, 
Hath it been ow'd and worn. 

A. W., V : 3. 528. 

Ber. It is an honour 'longing to our 

house, 
Bequeathed down from many ancestors ; 
Which were the greatest obloquy i' the 

world 

In me to lose. 

.4. W., IV : 2. 518. 

HEIRS. — Danger of numerous. 

3 Cit. Better it were, they all came 
by his father; 



Or, by his father, there were none at all : 
For emulation now, who shall be nearest, 
Will touch us all too near, if God prevent 

not; 
O, full of danger is the duke of Gloster ; 
And the queen's sons, and brotbers, haught 

and proud ; 
And were they to be rul'd, and not to rule, 
This sickly land might solace as before. 

R. III., II: 3. 1018. 

— Their Haste to Inherit. 

K. Hen. * * See, sons, what things 

you are ! 
How quickly nature falls into revolt, 
When gold becomes her object ! 
For this the foolish over careful fathers 
Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their 

brains with care, 
Their bones with industry ; 
For this they have engrossed and pil'd up 
The canker'd heaps of strange-achieved 

gold ; 
For this they have been thoughtful to invest 
Their sons with arts, and martial exercises : 
When, like the bee, tolling from every 

flower 
The virtuous sweets ; 
Our thighs pack'd with wax, Our mouths 

with honey, 
We bring it to the hive ; and, like the bees, 
Are murder'd for our pains. This bitter 

taste 
Yield his engrossments to the ending father. 
B. IV. , 2 pt., IV : 4. 803. 

HEIRSHIP. — Hereditary. 

Lear. To thee, and thine, hereditary ever, 

Remain this ample third of our fair kingdom. 

K.L.,I: 1. 1444. 

HELL. — Prison of Despair. 

Char. For prisoners ask'st thou? hell 
our prison is. 

H. VI., lpt.,IV: 7. 890. 

— Within Us. 

K. John. The salt in them is hot. — 

Within me is a hell ; and there the poison 
Is, as a fiend, confin'd to tyrannize 
On unreprievable condemned blood. 

K.J.,V: 7. 676. 



HELP. 



273 



HEREDITY. 



HELP. — Heaven's. 

Bishop. Fear not, my lord; that Power, 
that made you king, 
Hath power to keep you king, in spite of all. 
The means that heaven yields must be em- 

brae'd, 
And not neglected ; else, if heaven would, 
And we will not, heaven's offer we refuse ; 
The proffer'd means of succour and redress. 
R. II. , III: 2. 701. 

— Uncalled for. 

Buck. * * To as much end, 
As give a crutch to the dead. 

H. VIII., I: 1. 1059. 

HELPLESSNESS. 

K. Hen. * * 
And as the dam runs lowing up and down, 
Looking the way her harmless young one 

went, 
And can do nought but wail her darling's 

loss ; 
Even so myself bewails good Gloster's case, 
With sad unhelpful tears ; and with dimm'd 

eyes 
Look after him, and cannot do him good ; 
So mighty are his vowed enemies. 

//. VI, 2pt., Ill: 1. 924. 

— Inveterate. 

Fal. * * You may know by my size 
that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking ; if 
the bottom were as deep as hell, I should 
down. 

M. IF., Ill: 5. 108. 

HENFECKERY.— Ancient. 

Pet. * * 
As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd 
As Socrates' Xantippe, or worse. 

T. S., 1 : 2. 458. 

HEREDITY.— Affecting Habits. (See 
Retribution.) 

Val. O' my word, the father's son : I '11 
swear, 't is a very pretty boy. O' my troth, 
I looked upon him o' Wednesday half an 
hour together : he has such a confirmed 
countenance. I saw him run atter a gilded 
butterfly ; and when he caught it, he let it 
go again ; and after it again ; and over and 
over he comes, and up again; catched it 
again : or whether his fall enraged him, or 



how 't was, he did so set his teeth, and tear 
it; 0, I warrant, how he mammocked it! 

Vol. One of his father's moods. 

Val. Indeed la, 't is a noble child. 

a, I: 3. 1154. 
— In Personnel. 

K. Phi. * * 
Look here Upon thy brother Geffrey's face, — 
These eyes, these brows, were moulded out 

of his ; 
This little abstract doth contain that large, 
Which died in Geffrey ; and the hand of 

time 
Shall draw this brief into as huge a volume. 
K. J., II : 1. 650. 

— Inclines to Professions. 

Men. * * Yet you must be saying Marcius 
is proud ; who, in a cheap estimation is worth 
all your predecessors, since Deucalion ; 
though, peradventure, some of the best of 
them were hereditary hangmen. 

C II : 1. 1160. 
— Its Misfortune. 

Const. * * This is thy eldest son's son, 
Infortunate in nothing but in thee ; 
Thy sins are visited in this poor child ; 
The cannon of the law is laid on him, 
Being but the second generation 
Removed from thy sin-conceiving womb. 

K. J.,\l:\. 651. 

Const. I have but this to say, — 

That he 's not only plagued for her sin, 
But God hath made her sin and her the 

plague 
On this removed issue, plagu'd for her, 
And with her plague, her sin : his injury 
Her injury, — the beadle to her sin; 
All punish'd in the person of this child, 
And all for her : A plague upon her ! 

K.J.,II: 1. 651. 

— Of Blood. 
Ditch. * * 

Edward's seven sons whereof thyself art one, 

Were as seven phials of his sacred blood, 

Of seven fair branches springing from one 

root. 

R.II.,I: 2. 686. 

— Of Greatness. 

Bel. O noble strain ! 

O worthiness of nature ! breed of greatness ! 



HEREDITY. 



274 



HEREDITY. 



Cowards father cowards, and base things 

sire base : 
Nature hath meal, and bran ; contempt, and 

grace. 
I 'm not their father ; yet who this should be, 
Doth miracle itself, lov'd before me. 

Cym., IV : 2. 1614. 

Bel. thou goddess, 

Thou divine Nature, how thyself thou bla- 

zon'st 
In these two princely boys ! They are as 

gentle 
As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, 
Not wagging his sweet head ; and yet as 

rough, 
Their royal blood enchaf'd, as the rud'st 

wind, 
That by the top doth take the mountain 

pine, 
And make him stoop to the vale. 'T is 

wonderful, 
That an invisible instinct should frame them 
To royalty unlearn'd ; honour untaught ; 
Civility not seen from other; valour, 
That wildly grows in them, but yields a crop 
As if it had been sow'd ! 

Cym., IV: 2. 1616. 

— Originating. 

Nor. Surely, sir, 

There 's in him stuff that puts him to these 

ends : 
For, being not propp'd by ancestry, (whose 

grace 
Chalks successors their way,) 
* * Neither allied 
To eminent assistants, but, spider-like, 
Out of his self-drawing web, he gives us 

note. 

H. VIII., 1 : 1. 1057. 

— Relation to Acquirements. 

Count. His sole child, my lord ; and be- 
queathed to my overlooking.' I have those 
liopes of her good that her education prom- 
ises : her dispositions she inherits, which 
make fair gifts fairer; for where an unclean 
mind carries virtuous qualities, there com- 
mendations go with pity, — they are virtues 
and traitors too : in her they are the better 
for their simpleness ; she derives her honesty, 
and achieves her goodness. 

A. W., 1 : 1. 495. 



— Seen in Likeness. 

Leon. Thou want'st a rough pash, and 

the shoots that I have, 
To be full like me : — yet, they say we are 
Almost as like as eggs ; women say so, 
That will say anything : But were they false 
As o'er-di'd blacks, as wind, as waters ; false 
As dice are to be wish'd, by one that fixes 
No bourn 'twixt his and mine ; yet were it 

true 
To say this boy were like me. 

W. T., I: 2. 582. 

— Source of Faults. 

Lep . * * 
His faults, in him, seem as the spots of 

heaven, 
More fiery by night's blackness ; hereditary, 
Rather than purchas'd. 

A. C, V : 4. 1545. 

Tim. * * 
Poor rogue hereditary. Hence ! be gone ! 
T. A., IV : 3. 1308. 

Tim. * * These old fellows 
Have their ingratitude in them hereditary. 
T.A.,U: 2. 1296. 

Seb. Hereditary sloth instructs me. 

T.,II: 1. 17. 

— To be Trusted. 

Glo. * * 
The royal tree hath left us royal fruit, 
Which, mellow'd by the stealing hours of 

time, 
Will well become the seat of majesty, 
And make, no doubt, us happy by his reign. 
E. Ill, III : 7. 1029. 

— Virtuous, Desired. 

K. Hen. Full well hath Clifford play'd 

the orator, 
Inferring arguments of mighty force. 
But, Clifford, tell me, didst thou never 

hear, — 
That things ill got had ever bad success? 
And happy always was it for that son, 
Whose father for his hoarding went to hell. 
I '11 leave my son my virtuous deeds behind ; 
And 'would, my father had left me no more ! 



HEREDITY. 



275 



HEROES. 



For all the rest is held at such a rate, 

As brings a thousand-fold more care to keep, 

Than in possession any jot of pleasure. 

H. F/.,3pt., II: 2. 965. 

— When not Answerable. 

Leon. No, in good earnest. — 
How sometimes nature will betray its folly, 
Its tenderness, and makes itself a pastime 
To harder bosoms ! Looking on the lines 
Of my boy's face, my thoughts I did recoil 
Twenty-three years ; and saw myself un- 

breech'd 
In my green velvet coat ; my dagger muz- 
zled, 
Lest it should bite its master, and so prove, 
As ornaments oft do, too dangerous. 
How like, methought, I then was to this 

kernel, 
This squash, this gentleman : — Mine honest 

friend, 
Will you take eggs for money? 
Mam. No, my lord, I '11 fight. 

W. T., I : 2. 582. 

HERETIC— He who Makes the Fire. 

Paul. I care not : 

It is an heretic that makes the fire, 

Not she that burns in 't. 

W. T., II: 3. 592. 

HERO. — A Model. 

Lady P. * * By his light, 
Did all the chivalry of England move 
To do brave acts ; he was, indeed, the glass 
Wherein the noble youth did dress them- 
selves. 
He had no legs, thatpractis'd not his gait : 
And speaking thick, which nature made his 

blemish, 
Became the accents of the valiant ; 
For those that could speak low, and tardily, 
Would turn their own perfection to abuse, 
To seem like him : So that, in speech, in 

gait, 
In diet, in affections of delight, 
In military rules, humours of blood, 
He was the mark and glass, copy and book, 
That fashion'd others. 

If. IV., 2 pt., II : 3. 784. 

— A powerful Leader. 

Com. If! 

He is their god ; he leads them like a thing 



Made by some other deity than nature, 

That shapes man better : and they follow 

him, 

Against us brats, with no less confidence, 

Than boys pursuing summer butterflies, 

Or butchers killing flies. 

C, IV : 6. 1184. 

HEROES. — Compliment each Other. 
Hect. Let me embrace thee, good old 
chronicle, 
That hast so long walk'd hand in hand with 

time : — 
Most reverend Nestor, I am glad to clasp 
thee. 
Nest. I would, my arms could match 
thee in contention, 
As they contended with thee in courtesy. 
lied. I would they could. 
Nest. Ha! 
By this white beard, I 'd fight with thee to- 
morrow. 
Well, welcome, welcome ! I have seen 

the time — 
Ulyss. I wonder now how yonder city 
stands, 
When Ave have here her base and pillar by 
us. 
Hect. I know your favour, lord Ulysses, 
well. 
Ah, sir, there 's many a Greek and Trojan 

dead, 
Since first I saw yourself and Diomed 
In Ilion, on your Greekish embassy. 

Ulyss. Sir, I foretold you then what 
would ensue : 
My prophecy is but half his journey yet ; 
For yonder walls, that pertly front your 

town, 
Yon towers whose wanton tops do buss the 

clouds, 
Must kiss their own feet. 

T. a, IV : 5. 1134 

— Contemptible in Appearance. 
Count. Is this the scourge of France? 

Is this the Talbot, so much fear'd abroad, 
That with his name the mothers still their 

babes? 
I see, report is fabulous and false : 
I thought, I should have seen some Her- 
cules, 
A second Hector, for his grim aspect, 



HEROES. 



276 



HINTS. 



And large proportion of his strong-knit 

limbs. 
Alas ! this is a child, a silly dwarf: 
It cannot be, this weak and writhled shrimp 
Should strike such terror to his enemies. 

H. VI. , 1 pt., II : 3. 874. 

— Inspiration in dead. 

Lucy. Is Talbot slain; the Frenchmen's 
only scourge, 
Your kingdom's terror and black Nemesis? 
It were enough to fright the realm of 

France : 
Were but his picture left among you here, 
It would amaze the proudest of you all. 
Give me their bodies ; that I may bear them 

hence, 
And give them burial as beseems their worth. 
Puc. I think, this upstart is old Talbot's 
ghost, 
He speaks with such a proud commanding 

spirit. 
For God's sake, let him have 'em ; to keep 

them here, 
They would but stink, and putrefy the air. 
Char. Go, take their bodies hence. 
Lucy. I '11 bear them hence : 

But from their ashes shall be rear'd 
A phoenix that shall make all France afeard. 
Char. So we be rid of them, do with 
'em what thou wilt. 
And now to Paris, in this conquering vein ; 
All will be ours, now bloody Talbot 's slain. 
H. VI, 1 pt., IV : 7. 891. 

HESITATION.— On the Verge of 
Crime. 

Macb. We will, proceed no further in 

this business : 
He hath honour'd me of late ; and I have 

bought 
Golden opinions from all sorts of people, . 
Which would be worn now in their newest 

gloss, 
Not cast aside so soon. 

Lady M. Was the hope drunk, 

Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept 

since, 
And wakes it now, to look so green and 

pale 
At what it did so freely? From this time, 
Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard 



To~be the same in thine own act and valour, 
As thou art in desire? Would'st thou have 

that 
Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, 
And live a coward in thine own esteem; 
Letting "I dare not " wait upon "I would," 
Like the poor cat i' the adage? 

J/., 1 : 7. 1362. 

HINTS.— Incite to Crime. 

Exton. Didst thou not mark the king, 
what words "he spake? 
" Have I no friend will rid me of this living 

fear?" 
Was it not so? 

Serv. Those were his very words. 

Exton. "Have I no friend? " quoth he : 
he spake it twice, 
And urg'd it twice together; did he not? 
Serv. He did. 

Exton. And, speaking it, he wistfully 
look'd on me ! 
As who should say, — I would, thou wert the 

man 
That would divorce this terror from my 

heart ; 
Meaning, the king at Pomfret. Come, let 's 

go; 
I am the king's friend, and will rid his foe. 

B.II.,V: 4. 715. 

— Not to be Indulged in. 
Ham. * * 
How strange or odd soe'er I bear myself, 
As I, perchance, hereafter shall think meet 
To put an antic disposition on, — 
That you, at such times seeing me, never 

shall, 
With arms encumber'd thus, or this head- 
shake, 
Or by pronouncing of some doubtful phrase, 
As, "Well, well, we know;" — or, "We 
could, an if we would;" — or, " If we list to 



"There be, an if they might;" — 

Or such ambiguous giving out, to note 

That you know aught of me : — This do you 

swear, 
So grace and mercy at your most need help 

you! 

ff+1: 5. 1401. 



HOBBLEDEHOYS. 



277 



HONESTY. 



HOBBLEDEHOYS. — Described. 

Mai. Not yet old enough for a man, nor 
young enough for a boy ; as a squash is be- 
fore 't is a peascod, or a codling when 't is 
almost an apple : 't is with him in standing 
water, between boy and man. He is very 
well favour'd, and he speaks very shrew- 
ishly ; one would think his mother's milk 
were scarce out of him. 

T.N.,I: 5. 545. 

HOLIDAYS.— Too numerous. 

P. Hen. * * 
If all the year were playing holidays, 
To sport would be as tedious as to work. 

H. IV., 1 pt., 1 : 2. 730. 
HOMICIDE. — Guiltless. 

Oth. * * Why, any thing : 
An honourable murderer, if you will ; 
For nought I did in hate, but all in honour. 

O., V: 2. 1532. 

— In Self -Defence. 

1 Sen. You cannot make gross sins look 
clear ; 
To revenge is no valour, but to bear. 

Alcib. * * 
If wisdom be in suffering. O my lords, 
As you are great, be pitifully good : 
Who cannot condemn rashness in cold 

blood? 
To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust; 
But, in defence, by mercy, 't is most just. 
To be in anger is impiety ; 
But who is man, that is not angry? 
Weigh but the crime with this. 

T. A., Ill : 5. 1301. 

— Innocent. 

Val. * * 
I kill'd a man, whose death I much repent; 
But yet I slew him manfully in fight, 
Without false vantage, or base treachery. 

T. G., IV : 1. 65. 
HONEST.— The, never Harmful. 

Clo. * * Though honesty be no puri- 
tan,' yet it will do no hurt ; it will wear the 
surplice of humility over the black gown of 
a big heart. 

A. W.,I: 3. 499. 

HONESTY— A Chance. 

Aut. Though I am not naturally honest, 
I am so sometimes by chance. 

W. T..TV: 3. 609. 



— A rich Legacy. 

Mar. * * The honour of a maid is her 
name, and no legacy is so rich as honesty. 

A. IT., Ill: 5. 513. 

— Fearless. 
Bru. * * 

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; 

For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, 

That they pass by me, as the idle wind, 

Which I respect not. 

J. C, IV: 3. 1344. 

— Hates filthy Deeds. 

Oth. * * 

An honest man he is, and hates the slime 

That sticks on filthy deeds. 

0., V: 2. 1530. 

— Heir to Woe. 

Rosse. No mind that 's honest 

But in it shares some woe. 

M., IV: 3. 1380. 

— Incited to Hate. 

Tim. * * Thou singly honest man, 

Here, take : — the gods out of my misery 

Have sent thee treasure. Go, live rich, and 
happy : 

But thus condition'd : Thou shalt build from 
men; 

Hate all, curse all : show charity to none ; 

But let the famish'd flesh slide from the 
bone, 

Ere thou relieve the beggar : give to dogs 

What thou deny'st to men ; let prisons swal- 
low them, 

Debts wither them : Be men like blasted 
woods, 

Andfmay diseases lick up their false bloods ! 

And so, farewell, and thrive. 

T. A., IV: 3. 1311. 

— Independent. 

Touch. * * Rich honesty dwells like a 
miser, sir, in a poor house ; as your pearl in 
your foul ovster. 

A. Y.,V: 4. 436. 

Davy. * * An honest man, sir, is able 
to speak for himself, when a knave is not. 

H. IV., 2 pt., V : 1. 805. 
— Misplaced. 

Touch. Truly, and to cast away honesty 
upon a foul slut were to put good meat into 
an unclean dish. 

A. Y., Ill : 3. 425. 



HONESTY. 



278 



HONOR. 



— Pretended. 

Iago. O grace ! O heaven, defend me ! 
Are you a man ? have you a soul, or sense ? — 
God be wi' you; take mine office. — O 

wretched fool, 
That liv'st to make thine honesty a vice ! — 

monstrous world ! Take note, take note, 

O world, 
To be direct and honest, is not safe. 

0., Ill : 5. 1514. 

— Remarkable. 

Pol. Do you know me, my lord? 

Ham. Excellent well; you are a fish- 
monger. 

Pol. Not I, my lord. 

Ham. Then I would you were so honest 
a man. 

Pol. Honest, my lord? 

Ham. Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world 
goes, is to be one man picked out of ten 
thousand. 

H., II: 2. 1405. 

— Reputed. 

Mai. * * 

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our 

tongues, 

Was once thought honest. 

M., IV : 3. 1378. 

— Unfaltering, Punished. 

Sic. For that he has 

(As much as in him lies) from time to time 
Envied against the people, seeking means 
To pluck away their power; has now at 

last 
Given hostile strokes, and that not in the 

presence 
Of dreaded justice, but on the ministers 
That do distribute it : In the name o' the 

people, 
And in the power of us the tribunes, we, 
Even from this instant, banish him our city ; 
In peril of precipitation 
Erom off the rock Tarpeian, never more 
To enter our Rome gates : I' the people's 

name, 

1 say, it shall be so. 

C., Ill: 3. 1176. 

— Universal. 

Ros. None, my lord, but that the world 's 
grown honest. 

Ham. Then is dooms-day near. 

II. ,11: 2. 1406. 



— Want of. 

Ant. If it be so, 

We need no grave to bury honesty ; 
There 's not a grain of it, the face to sweeten 
Of the whole dungy earth. 

w. r.,ri: 1.589. 

— With Beauty, superfluous. 

Aud. Would you not have me honest? 

Touch. No, truly, unless thou wert hard- 
favour 'd : for honesty coupled to beauty, is 
to have honey a sauce to sugar. 

A. Y., Ill: 3. 425. 

HONOR. — Argument in a Straw. 

Ham. * * Rightly to be great, 
Is, not to stir without great argument; 
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw, 
When honor 's at the stake. How stand I 

then, 
That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd, 
Excitements of my reason, and my blood, 
And let all sleep? while, to my shame, I see 
The imminent death of twenty thousand men, 
That, for a fantasy, and trick of fame, 
Go to their graves like beds ; fight for a plot 
Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, 
Which is not tomb enough, and continent, 
To hide the slain? — O, from this time forth, 
My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth ! 

H.,IV: 2. 1423. 

— Deserved. 

1 Off. That 's a brave fellow ; but he 's 
vengeance proud, and loves not the common 
pecple. 

* * 

2 Off. He hath deserved worthily of his 
country : And his ascent is not by such easy 
degrees, as those, who, having been supple 
and courteous to the people, bonnetted, 
without any further deed to heave them at 
all into their estimation and report : but he 
hath so planted his honours in their eyes, 
and his actions in their hearts, that for their 
tongues to be silent, and not confess so 
much, were a kind of ingrateful injury ; to 
report otherwise, were a malice, that, giving 
itself the lie, would pluck reproof and re- 
buke from every ear that heard it. 

1 Off. No more of him ; he is a worthy 
man. 

C, II: 2. 1163. 



Drives away Shame 



Jul. 



Upon his brow shame is asham'd to sit ; 



HONOR. 



279 



HONOR. 



For 't is a throne where honour may be 

crown'd 
Sole monarch of the universal earth. 

R.J., ill: 2. 1261. 
— Due to Greatness. 
Ccbs. * * The wife of Antony 
Should have an army for an usher, and 
The neighs of horse to tell of her approach, 
Long ere she did appear ; the trees by the 

way, 
Should have borne men; and expectation 

fainted, 
Longing for what it had not. 

A. C, III: 6. 1561. 

— Easily Attained. 

Hot. By heaven, methinks, it were an 
easy leap, 
To pluck bright honour from the pale-fac'd 

moon ; 
Or dive into the bottom of the deep, 
Where fathom-line could never touch the 

ground, 
And pluck up drowned honour by the locks. 
H. IV., lpt., I: 3. 733. 

— Entailed. 

Her. * * For honour, 
'T is a derivative from me to mine. 

W. T., Ill: 2. 594. 

— Fed not by Gold. 
K. Hen. * * 

By Jove, I am not covetous for gold ; 
Nor care I, who doth feed upon my cost; 
It yearns me not, if men my garments wear ; 
Such outward things dwell not in my de- 
sires : 
But, if it be a sin to covet honour, 
I am the most offending soul alive. 

II. V., IV : C. 844. 
— Hard to Keep. 

K. Hen. * * Why, thou unconfutable 
baseness, it is as much as I can do to keep 
the terms of my honour precise. I, I, I 
myself sometimes, leaving the fear of heaven 
on the left hand, and hiding mine honour in 
my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, 
and to lurch; and yet you, rogue, will 
ensconce your rags, your cat-a-mountain 
looks, your red-lattice phrases, and your 
blunderbuss oaths", under the shelter of 
your honour ! 

M. W., II : 2. 97. 



— Independent of Habiliments. 

Pet. Well, come, my Kate; we will unto 

your father's, 
Even in these honest mean habiliments ; 
Our purses shall be proud, our garments 

poor : 
For 't is the mind that makes the body rich, 
And as the sun breaks through the darkest 

clouds, 
So honour peereth in the meanest habit. 
What, is the jay more precious than the 

lark, 

Because his feathers are more beautiful? 
Or is the adder better than the eel, 
Because his painted skin contents the eye? 
0, no, good Kate; neither art thou the 

worse 
For this poor furniture and mean array. 

T. S.,1V: 3. 477. 
—Its Train. 
Old L. * * Honour's train 
Is longer than his foreskirt. 

II. VIII, II : 3. 1071. 

— Loved more than Life. 

Yer. * * 
If well-respected honour bid me on, 
I hold as little counsel with weak fear, 
As you, my lord, or any Scot that lives. 

H.IV., lpt., IV: 3. 754. 
Bru. * * 
What is it that you would impart to me ? 
If it be aught toward the general good, 
Set honour in one eye, and death i' the 

other, 
And I will look on both indifferently : 
For, let the gods so speed me, as I love 
The name of honour more than I fear death. 
J. C, I: 2. 1324. 
— More precious than Life. 
Hect. Hold you still, I say ; 

Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate : 
Life every man holds dear ; but the dear 

man 
Holds honour far more precious-dear than 
life. 

T. C, V: 3. 1139. 

— New made, its Arrogance. 

Bast. * * 
For he is but a bastard to the time, 
That doth not smack of observation ; 



HONOR. 



28o 



HONOR. 



(And so am I, whether I smack, or no ;) 
And not alone in habit and device, 
Exterior form, outward accoutrement ; 
But from the inward motion to deliver 
Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's 

tooth : 
Which, though I will not practise to deceive, 
Yet, to avoid deceit, I mean to learn ; 
For it shall strew the footsteps of my rising. 

K. </., 1 : 1. 648. 
— New made, its Ignorance. 
Bast. * * 
Well, now, can I make any Joan a lady : — 
"Good dear, sir Richard, — God-a-mercy, 

fellow ;" — 
And if his name be George, I '11 call him 

Peter : 
For new-made honour doth forget men's 

names ; 
'T is too respective, and too sociable. 
For your conversion. Now your traveller, — 
He and his tooth-pick at my worship's mess ; 
And when my knightly stomach is suffic'd, 
Why then I suck my teeth, and catechise 
My picked man of countries : "My dear 

sir," 
(Thus, leaning on mine elbow, I begin,) 
"I shall beseech you" — That is question 

now ; 
And then comes answer like an ABC-book : 
"Osir," says answer, "at your best com- 
mand ; 
At your employment; at your service, sir:" 
"No, sir," says question, "I, sweet sir, at 

yours : ' ' 
And so, ere • answer knows what question 

would, 
(Saving in dialogue of compliment; 
And talking of the Alps, and Appennines, 
The Pyrenean, and the river Po.) 
It draws toward supper in conclusion so. 
But this is worshipful society, 
And fits the mounting spirit like myself. 

K. ,/., J: 1. 648. 

— Not Hereditary. 

King. * * Honours thrive, 
When rather from our acts we them derive 
Than our fore-goers : the mere word 's a 

slave, 
Debosh'd on every tomb, on every grave 
A lying trophy ; and as oft is dumb, 



Where dust, and damn'd oblivion, is the 

tomb 
Of honoured bones indeed. 

A. W.,JI: 3. 507. 

—Not Worth Risks. 

Fal. * * Honour pricks me on? Yea, 
but how if honour prick me off when I come 
on? how then? Can honour set to a leg? 
No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the 
grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no 
skill in surgery then? No. What is hon- 
our? A word. What is in that word, hon- 
our? AVhat is that honour? Air. A trim 
reckoning! — Who hath it? He that died 
o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth 
he hear it? No. Is it insensible then? 
Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with 
the living? No. Why? Detraction will 
not suffer it: — therefore I '11 none of it: 
Honour is a mere scutcheon, and so ends 
my catechism. 

H. IV., 1 pt., V : 1. 757. 

— Secured by great Victories. 

K. Hen. * * 
He, that outlives this day, and comes safe 

home, 
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, 
And rouse him at the name of Crispian. 
He, that shall live this day, and see old age, 
Will yearly on the vigil feast his friends, 
And say — to-morrow is Saint Crispian : 
Then will he strip his sleeve, and show his 

scars, 
And say, these wounds I had on Crispin's 

day. 
Old men forget ; yet all shall be forgot, 
But he '11 remember, with advantages 
What feats he did that day : Then shall our 

names : 
Familiar in their mouths as household 

words, — - 
Harry the king, Bedford, and Exeter, 
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster, 
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd : 
This story shall the good man teach his son ; 
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, 
From this day to the ending of the world, 
But we in it shall be remembered : 
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers ; 
For he, to-day that sheds his blood with me, 
Shall be my brother ; be he ne'er so vile, 
This day shall gentle his condition : 
And gentlemen in England, now a-bed, 



HONOR. 



28l 



HOPE. 



Shall think themselves accurs'd, they were 

not here ; 
And hold their manhoods cheap, while any 

speaks, 

That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's 

day. 

H. V., IV : 3. 844. 

— Swearing by. 

Touch. No, by mine honour; but I was 
bid to come for you. 

Ros. Where learned you that oath, fool? 

Touch. Of a certain knight, that swore 
by his honour they were good pancakes, 
and swore by his honour the mustard was 
naught : now, I '11 stand to it, the pancakes 
were naught, and the mustard was good ; 
and yet was not thj knight forsworn. 

Cel. How prove you that, in the great 
heap of your knowledge? 

Ros. Ay, marry; now unmuzzle your 
wisdom. 

Touch. Stand you both forth now : stroke 
your chins, and swear by your beards that I 
am a knave. 

Cel. By our beards, if we had them, thou 
art. 

Touch. By my knavery, if I had it, then 
I were : but if you swear by that that is not, 
you are not forsworn : no more was this 
knight, swearing by his honour, for he never 
had any ; or, if he had, he had sworn it 
away before ever he saw those pancakes or 
that mustard. 

A. Y., 1 : 2. 409. 

—To be Wed. 
King. * * You come 
Not to woo honour, but to wed it. 

J. W.,JI: 1.502. 

HONORS.— Funeral, Withheld. 

Lave. * * 
His means of death, his obscure funeral, — 
No trophy, sword, nor hatchment, o'er his 

bones, 
No noble rite nor formal ostentation, — 
Cry to be heard, as 't were from heaven to 

earth, 
That I must call 't in question. 

//.,IV: 5. 1426. 

— New, Sit strangely. 

Ban. New honours come upon him 

Like our strange garments ; cleave not to 

their mould, 

But with the aid of use. 

Jf., 1 : 3. 1360. 



— National, Declined. 

Tit. * * 
Rome, I have been thy soldier forty years, 
And buried one and twenty valiant sons, 
Knighted in field, slain manfully in arms, 
In right and service of their noble country : 
Give me a staff of honour for mine age, 
But not a sceptre to control the world : 
Upright he held it, lords, that held it last. 

Tit. And.. J: 2. 1203. 

— To successful Intercessors. 

1 Sent. Behold our patroness, the life 
of Rome : 
Call all your tribes together, praise the 

gods, 
And make triumphant fires ; strew flowers 

before them ; 
Unshout the noise that banish'd Marcius, 
Repeal him with the welcome of his mother. 

C, V : 4. 1191. 
— Undeserved. 
Ar. * * Let none presume 
To wear an undeserved dignity. 
O, that estates, degrees, and offices, 
Were not deriv'd corruptly ! and that clear 

honour 
Were purchas'd by the merit of the wearer ! 
M. V., II : 9. 374. 

— "Worldly, Uncertain. 

P. Hen. Even so must I run on, and 
even so stop. 
What surety of the world, what hope, what 

stay, 
When this was now a king, and now is clay ! 
K. J., V : 7. 676. 

HOPE. — A Lure to Distinction. 

Mrs. Ford. * * What tempest, I trow, 
threw this whale, with so many tuns of oil 
in his belly, asiiore at Windsor? How shall 
I be revenged on him? I think the best 
way were to entertain him with hope, till 
the wicked fire of lust have melted him in 
his own grease. 

M. W.,11: 1. 95. 

Hast. * * 
Who builds his hope in air of your fair 

looks, 
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast ; 
Ready, with every nod, to tumble down 
Into the fatal bowels of the deep. 

R. III., Ill: 5. 1025. 



HOPE. 



282 



HOPE. 



— Christian. 

K. lien. * * God shall be my hope, 
My stay, my guide, and lantern to my feet. 
H. VI, 2 pt., II : 3. 919. 

Q. Mar. So part we sadly in this troub- 
lous world, 
To meet with joy in sweet Jerusalem. 

H. VI, 3pt., V: 5. 990. 

K. Hen. Now, God be prais'd ! that to 
believing souls 
Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair ! 
E. VI, 2pt., II: 1. 916. 

— Confident. 

Mori. These promises are fair, the par- 
ties sure, 
And our induction full of prosperous hope. 
H. IV., lpt., Ill: 1. 744. 

— Diverted and Defeated. 

Agam. * * 
The ample proposition, that hope makes 
In all designs begun on earth below, 
Fails in the promis'd largeness : checks and 

disasters 
Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd ; 
As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, 
Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain 
Tortive and errant from his course of growth. 
T. C., I: 3. 1107. 

— Drunken. 

Lady M. Was the hope drunk, 

Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept 

since 
And wakes it now, to look so green and 

pale 
At what it did so freely? 

M., 1 : 7. 1362. 

— False, Causes Despair. 

Bushy. Despair not, madam. 

Queen. Who shall hinder me? 

I will despair, and be at enmity 
With cozening hope : he is a flatterer, 
A parasite, a keeper-back of death, 
Who gently would dissolve the bands of life, 
Which false hope lingers in extremity. 

R. II, II : 2. 696. 



— Happiness. 

K. Rich. * * 
What ! we have many goodly days to see : 
The liquid drops of tears that you have 

shed, 
Shall come again, transform'd to orient 

pearl ; 
Advantaging their loan, with interest 
Of ten-times-double gain of happiness. 

R. III., IV : 4. 1038. 

— In Old Age. 

Gaunt. I thank my liege, that, in regard 
of me, 
He shortens four years of my son's exile : 
But little vantage shall I reap thereby ; 
For, ere the six years, that he hath to spend, 
Can change their moons, and bring their 

times about, 
My oil-dried lamp, and time-bewasted light, 
Shall be extinct with age, and endless night ; 
My inch of taper will be burnt and done, 
And blindfold death not let me see my son. 
R. II, 1 : 3. 690. 

— In War. 

Hot. * * Come, let me take my horse, 
Who is to bear me, like a thunderbolt, 
Against the bosom of the prince of Wales. 
H. IV., lpt., IV: 1. 753. 

— Inspires Comfort. 

Ant. * * 
I spake to you for your comfort : did desire 

you 
To burn this night with torches : Know, my 

hearts, 
I hope well of to-morrow ; and will lead you, 
Where rather I '11 expect victorious life, 
Than death and honour. 

A. C., IV: 2. 1568. 

— Its Exalting Power. 
Scroop. So service shall with steeled sin- 
ews toil ; 
And labour shall refresh itself with hope. 

H. V., II: 2. 826. 

K. Hen. Westmoreland, thou art a 
summer bird, 
Which ever in the haunch of winter sings 
The lifting up of day. 

H. IV., 2pt., IV: 4. 801. 



HOPE. 



283 



HOPES. 



Rich. True hope is swift, and flies with 

swallows' wings, 

Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures 

kings. 

R. III., V : 2. 1042. 

— Its Relation to Joy. 

North. * * 

But theirs is sweeten'd with the hope to have 

The present benefit which I possess : 

And hope to joy, is little less in joy, 

Than hope enjoy'd. 

R. II., II : 3. 697. 

— Its Strength. 

Bo ling. Strong as a tower in hope, I 

cry — amen. 

R.II.,I: 3. 688. 

— Medicine to the Miserable. 

Claud. The miserable have no other 
medicine, 
But only hope : 

I have hope to live, and am prepar'd to die. 
31. M., Ill: 1. 156. 

— The Lover's Staff. 
Pro. * * 

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with 

that, 
And manage it against despairing thoughts. 
Thy letters may be here, though thou art 

hence : 
Which, being writ to me, shall be deliver'd 
Even in the milk-white bosom of thy love. 
T. G., Ill : 1. 62. 
— Valueless at Times. 
Pist. Hope is a curtail dog in some af- 
fairs. 

M. W., II : l. 96. 

HOPELESSNESS.— Mournful. 

JEge. Hopeless, and helpless, doth iEgeon 
wend 
But to procrastinate his lifeless end. 

C. E., 1 : 1. 193. 

— Of some Tasks. 

Green. Alas, poor duke ! the task he 

undertakes 
Is — numb'ring sands, and drinking oceans 

dry; 

Where one on his side fights, thousands will 

fly. 

R. II., II: 2. 697. 



— Unrelieved. 

Tro. * * There my hopes lie drown'd, 
Reply not in how many fathoms deep 
They lie indrench'd. 

T. 0., I: 1. 1103. 

— Utter. 

Mai. * * 
The night is long, that never finds the day. 
M.,IV: 3. 1380. 

Ant. 0, out of that no hope, 

What great hope have you ! no hope that 

way, is 
Another way so high a hope, that even 
Ambition cannot pierce a wink beyond, 
But doubts discovery there. 

T., II : 1. 18. 

HOPES. — False, dangerous. 

Bard. It was, my lord ; who lin'd him- 
self with hope, 
Eating the air on promise of supply, 
Flattering himself Avith project of a power 
Much smaller than the smallest of his 

thoughts ; 
An so, with great imagination, 
Proper to madmen, led his powers to death, 
And, winking, leap'd into destruction. 

H. IV., 2pt., I: 3. 779. 

— Their Expression. 

Mar. Who 's this, — my niece, that flies 
away so fast? 
Cousin, a word : Where is your husband? — 
If I do dream, 'would all my Avealth would 

wake me ! 
If I do wake, some planet strike me down, 
That I may slumber in eternal sleep. 

T. A., II : 5. 1213. 

— Lost. 

Macd. I have lost my hopes. 

Mai. Perchance, even there, where I 
did find my doubts. 

M., IV: 3. 1378. 

— That Appall and Startle. 

Ghost. * * But that I am forbid 
To tell the secrets of my prison-house, 
I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word 
Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young 
blood ; 



HOPES. 



284 



HOSPITALITY. 



Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from 

their spheres ; 
Thy knotted and combined locks to part, 
Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. 

H., 1 : 5. 1399. 

HORSE.— Extravagant Praise of. 

Dau. What a long night is this ! — I will 
not change my horse with any that treads 
but on four pasterns. Ca, ha! He bounds 
from the earth, as if his entrails were hairs ; 
le cheval volant, the Pegasus, que a les na- 
rines de fen I When I bestride him, I soar, 
I am a hawk : he trots the air ; the earth 
sings when he touches it; the basest horn 
of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of 
Hermes. 

OrL He 's of the colour of the nutmeg. 

Dau. And of the heat of the ginger. It is 
a beast for Perseus : he is pure air and fire ; 
and the dull elements of earth and water 
never appear in him, but only in patient 
stillness, while his rider mounts him : he is, 
indeed, a horse ; and all other jades you 
may call — beasts. 

Con. Indeed, my lord, it is a most abso- 
lute and excellent horse. 
* * 

OrL No more, cousin. 

Dau. Nay, the man hath no wit, that 
cannot from the rising of the lark to the 
lodging of the lamb, vary deserved praise 
on my palfrey : it is a theme as fluent as the 
sea; turn the sands into eloquent tongues, 
and my horse is argument for them all : 't is 
a subject for a sovereign to reason on, and 
for a sovereign's sovereign to ride on; and 
for the world (familiar to us, and unknown,) 
to lay apart their particular functions, and 
wonder at him. I once writ a sonnet in his 
praise, and began thus: "Wonder of na- 
ture." 

H. V., Ill : 7. 837. 



HORSEMANSHIP.— The Perfection 
of. 

Ver. * * 
I saw young Harry, — with his beaver on, 
His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, — 
Kise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, 
And vaulted with such ease into his seat, 
As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, 
To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, 
And witch the world with noble horseman- 
ship. 

H. IV., lpt.,IV: 1. 753. 



King. * * Two months since 
Here was a gentleman of Normandy, — 
I have seen myself, and serv'd against, the 

French, 
And they can well on horseback : but this 

gallant 
Had witchcraft in 't ; he grew unto his seat ; 
And to such wond'rous doing brought his 

horse, 
As he had been incorps'd and demi-natur'd 
With the brave beast : so far he topp'd my 

thought, 
That I, in forgery of shapes and tricks, 
Come short of what he did. 

H., IV : 7. 1427. 

HOSPITALITY— Deeds of. 

Cor. * * 
My master is of churlish disposition, 
And little recks to find the way to heaven 
By doing deeds of hospitality. 

A. F., II: 4. 416. 

Bal. Small cheer and great welcome 
make a merry feast. 

C.E., III: 1. 199. 

— Gratefully Remembered. 

Cor. The gods begin to mock me. I 
that now 
Refus'd most princely gifts, am bound to 

beg 
Of my lord general. 

Com. Take it : 't is yours. — What is 't? 
Cor. I sometime lay, here in Corioli, 
At a poor man's house ; he us'd me kindly : 
He cried to me ; I saw him prisoner ; 
But when Aufidius was within my view, 
And wrath o'erwhelm'd my pity : I request 

you 
To give my poor host freedom. 

Com. 0, well begg'd ! 

Were he the butcher of my son, he should 
Be free, as is the wind. Deliver him, Titus. 

C., I: 9. 1159. 



— Not Destroyed by Virtue. 

Sir To. * * Dost thou think, because 
thou art virtuous, there shall be no more 
cakes and ale? 

T.N.,II: 3. 549. 



HOSPITALITY. 2 


35 HUMILITY. 


— Sinister. 


Even in his garments ; and did give himself, 


Shy. I am bid forth to supper, Jessica ; 


All thin and naked, to the numb-cold night? 


There are my keys. — But wherefore should 


R. III., II: 1. 1015. 


I go? 


HUMILITY. 


I am not bid for love ; they natter me : 




But yet I '11 go in hate, to feed upon- 


Vol. * * 


The prodigal Christian. 


Thy knee bussing the stones, (for in such 


M. V., 11 : 5. 370. 


business 




Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the 


HOSTILITIES.— Never to be Sus- 


ignorant 


pended. 


More learned than the ears,) waving thy 


Com. * * Our gentlemen, 


head, 


The common file, (A plague! — Tribunes 


Which often, thus, correcting thy stout 


for them !) 


heart, 


The mouse ne'er shunn'd the cat, as they 


That humble, as the ripest mulberry, 


did budge 


Now will not hold the handling. 


From rascals worse than they. 


cm.: 2. 1174. 


Com. But how prevail'dyou? 




Mar. Will the time serve to tell? I do 


— Assumed. 


not think- 


Cor. * * My oiroat of war be turn'd, 


Where is the enemy? Are you lords o' the 


Which quired with my drum, into a pipe 


field? 


Such as an eunuch, or the virgin voice 


If not, why cease you till you are so? 


That babies lulls asleep ! The smiles of 


C, 1 : 6. 1156. 


knaves 




Tent in my cheeks; and school-boys' tears 


HOUNDS. — Spartan. 


take up 


The. My hounds are bred out of the 


The glasses of my sight ! A beggar's tongue 


Spartan kind, 


Make motion through my lips ; and my 


So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are 


arm'd knees, 


hung 


Who bow'd.but in my stirrup, bend like his 


With ears that sweep away the morning 


That hath receiv'd an alms! — I will not 


dew ; 


do't. 


Crook-knee'd and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian 


C III : 2. 1174. 


bulls ; 




Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like 


— At the Gates of Monarchs. 


bells, 


Bel. * * Stoop, boys : This gate 


Each under each. 


Instructs you how to adore the heavens ; 


M. W. % IV : 1. 339. 


and bows you 




To morning's holy office : The gates of mon- 


HUMANITY.— Enjoined. 


archs 


Ros. * * 


Are arch'd so high, that giants may jet 


Visit the speechless sick, and still converse 


through 


With groaning wretches ; and your task 


And keep their impious turbands on, with- 


shall be, 


out 


With all the fierce endeavour of your wit, 


Good morrow to the sun. 


To enforce the pained impotent to smile. 


Cym., Ill: 3. 1606. 


L. L., V : 2. 304. 






— Base. 


— Self-sacrificing. 


Queen. * * Wilt thou, pupil-like, 


K. Edw. * * When we both lay in the 


Take thy correction mildly? kiss the rod; 


field, 


And fawn on rage with base humility. 


Frozen almost to death, how he did lap me 


R. II, V: 1. 711. 



HUMILITY. 



286 



HUMILIATION. 



Duch. happy vantage of a kneeling 

knee ! 

R. IT.,Y: 4. 715. 

— Feigned. 

Bru. Now we have shown our power, 

Let us seem humbler after it is done, 
Than when it Avas a doing. 

C, IV: 2. 1178. 

— Feigned by Ambition. 

Glo. * * 
Definitively thus I answer you. 
Your love deserves my thanks ; but my de- 
sert 
Unmeritable, shuns your high request. 
First, if all obstacles were cut away, 
And that my path were even to the crown, 
As the ripe revenue and due of birth ; 
Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, 
So mighty, and so many, my defects, 
That I would rather hide me from my great- 
ness, — 
Being a bark to brook no -mighty sea, — 
Than in my greatness covet to be hid. 
And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. 
But, God be thank'd, there is no need of me ; 
(And much I need to help you, if need were ;) 
The royal tree hath left us royal fruit, 
Which, mellow'd by the stealing hours of 

time, 
Will well become the seat of majesty, 
And make, no doubt, us happy by his reign. 
On him I lay what you would lay on me, 
The right and fortune of his happy stars, — 
Which, God defend, tt.iat I should wring 
from him ! 
Buck. * * 
Then, good my lord, take to your royal self 
This proffer'd benefit of dignity : 
If not to bless us and the land withal, 
Yet to draw forth your noble ancestry 
From the corruption of abusing time, 
Unto a lineal true-derived course. 
* * 

Glo. Will you enforce me to a world of 
cares? 
Well, call them again; I am not made of 

stone, 
But penetrable to your kind entreaties, 
Albeit against my conscience and my soul. 
Cousin of Buckingham, — and sage, grave 



Since you will buckle fortune on my back, 
To bear her burden, whe'r I will, or no, 
I must have patience to endure the load : 
But if black scandal, or foul-fac'd reproach, 
Attend the sequel of your imposition, 
Your mere enforcement shall acquittance me 
From all the impure blots and stains there- 
of; 
For God he knows, and you may partly see, 
How far I am from the desire of this. 

E. III., Ill: 1. 1029. 

— Its napless Vesture. 
Bru. I heard him swear, 

Were he to stand as consul, never would he 
Appear i' the market-place, nor on him put 
The napless vesture of humility ; 
Nor, showing (as the manner is) his wounds 
To the people, beg their stinking breaths. 

C, II: 1. 1162. 

— Perfect. 

Isab. Let me be ignorant, and in nothing 
good, 
But graciously to know I am no better. 

M. If., II : 4. 155. 

HUMBUG. — The Success of. 

Aut. Ha, ha! what a fool honesty is! 
and trust, his sworn brother, a very simple 
gentleman ! I have sold all my trumpery ; 
not a counterfeit stone, not a riband, glass, 
pomander, brooch, table -hook, ballad, 
knife, tape, glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn- 
ring, to keep my pack from fasting; they 
throng who should buy first, as if my trink- 
ets had been hallowed, and brought a bene- 
diction to the buyer : by which means I saw 
whose purse was best in picture ; and what 
I saw, to my good use I remembered. * * 
So that, in this time of lethargy, I pick'd 
and cut most of their festival purses : and 
had not the old man come in with a whoo- 
bub against his daughter and the king's son, 
and scar'd my choughs from the chaff, I had 
not left a purse alive in the whole army. 

W. T.,IV: 3. 607. 

HUMILIATION. — Of Falstaff. 

Fal. Nay, you shall hear, master Brook, 
Avhat I have suffer'd to bring this woman to 
evil for your good. Being thus cramm'd in 
the basket, a couple of Ford's knaves, his 
hinds, were call'd forth by their mistress, to 
carry me in the name of foul clothes to 
Datchet-lane : they took me on their shoul- 
ders ; met the jealous knave their master in 



HUMILIATION. 



287 



HUNTING. 



the door; who ask'd them once or twice 
what they had in their basket : I quak'd for 
fear, lest the lunatic knave would hate 
search 'd it ; but fate, ordaining he should be 
a cuckold, held his hand. Well : on went 
he for a search, and away went I for foul 
clothes. But mark the sequel, master 
Brook : I suffered the pangs of three sev- 
eral deaths : first, an intolerable fright, to 
be detected with a jealous rotten bell- 
wether : next, to be compass'd like a good 
bilbo in the circumference of a peck, hilt 
to point, heel to head : and then, to be 
stopp'd in, like a strong distillation, with 
stinking clothes that fretted in their own 
grease : think of that, — a man of my kid- 
ney, — think of that; that am as subject to 
heat as butter ; a man of continual dissolu- 
tion and thaw ; it was a miracle to 'scape 
suffocation. And in the height of this bath, 
when I was more than half stew 'din grease, 
like a Dutch fish, to be thrown into the 
Thames, and cool'd, glowing hot, in that 
surge, like a horseshoe; think of that, — 
hissing hot, — think of that, master Brook. 

M. W., Ill : 5. 109. 

— Treated as dirty Linen. 

Fal. Go fetch me a quart of sack ; put a 
toast in 't. Have I liv'd to be carried in a 
basket, like a barrow of butcher's offal ; 
and to be thrown into the Thames? Well, 
if I be serv'd such another trick, I '11 have 
my brains ta'en out, and butter'd, and give 
them to a dog for a new year's gift. The 
rogues slighted me into the river with as lit- 
tle remorse as they would have drown'd a 
bitch's blind puppies, fifteen i' the litter : 
and you may know by my size that I have a 
kind of alacrity in sinking ; if the bottom 
were as deep as hell, I should down. I had 
been drown'd, but that the shore was shelvy 
and shallow, — a death that I abhor; for 
the water swells a man ; and what a thing 
should I have been when I had been 
swell'd ! I should have been a mountain of 
mummy. 

M. W., Ill : 5. 108. 



HUMOR. — FeJstaf f s. 

Boy. Do you not remember, 'a saw a flea 
stick upon Bardolph's nose ; and 'a said, it 
was a black soul burning in hell-fire? 

Bard. Well, the fuel is gone, that main- 
tained that fire : that 's all the riches I got 
in his service. 



H. V., II : 3. 



HUMORIST. — Gentle. 

K. Hen. * * A hand 
Open as day for melting charity, 



Yet notwithstanding, being incens'd, he 's 

flint; 
As humorous as winter, and as sudden 
As flaws congealed in the spring of day. 

H. /F.,2pt., IV: 4. 800. 

— His Portrait. 

Men. I am known to be a humorous patri- 
cian, and one that loves a cup of hot wine 
with not a drop of allaying Tyber in 't ; said 
to be something imperfect, in favouring the 
thirst complaint : hasty, and tinder-like, up- 
on too trivial motion : one that converses 
more with the buttock of the night, than 
with the forehead of the morning. What I 
think, I utter ; and spend my malice in my 
breath : Meeting two such weals-men as you 
are, (I cannot call you Lycurguses.) if the 
drink you gave me, touch my palate ad- 
versely, I make a crooked face at it. I can- 
not say, your worships have delivered the 
matter well, when I find the ass in com- 
pound with the major part of your syllables ; 
and though I must be content to bear with 
those that say you are reverend grave men ; 
yet they lie deadly, that tell, you have good 
faces. If you see this in the map of my 
microcosm, follows it, that I am known 
well enough too? What harm can your bis- 
son conspectuities glean out of this charac- 
ter, if I be known well enough too? 

C., II : 1. 1160. 

HUNTING.— Its Confusion. 

The. Go one of you, find out the for- 
ester ; 
For now our observation is perform'd ; 
And since we have the vaward of the day, 
My love shall hear the music of my hounds. 
Uncouple in the western valley ; let them go : 
Despatch, I say, and find the forester. 
We will, fair queen, up to the mountain's 

top, 
And mark the musical confusion 
Of hounds and echo in conjunction. 

Hip. I was with Hercules and Cadmus 
once, 
When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the 

boar 
With hounds of Sparta : never did I hear 
Such gallant chiding; for, besides the 

groves, 
The skies, the fountains, every region near 
Seem'd all one mutual cry. I never heard 
So musical a discord, such sweet thunder. 
M. jr., IV : 1. 339. 



HUNTING. 



288 



HYPOCRISY. 



— Roman, sinister. 

Sat. Come on then, horse and chariots 
let us have, 
And to our sport: — Madam, now shall ye 

see 
Our Roman hunting. 

Mar. I have dogs, my lord, 

Will rouse the proudest panther in the 

chase, 
And climb the highest promontory top. 
Tit. And I have horse will follow where 
the game 
Makes way, and run like swallows o'er the 
plain. 

Tit. And., II : 2. 1209. 

HUSBAND— Eulogy on a Noble. 

Lady P. * * So came I a widow ; 
And never shall have length of life enough, 
To rain upon remembrance with mine eyes, 
That it may grow and sprout as high as 

heaven, 
For recordation to my noble husband. 

H. IV, 2pt., II: 3. 785. 

HUSBANDS. — Can be Bought. 

Son. Nay, how will you do for a hus- 
band? 

L. Macd. Why, I can buy me twenty at 
any market. 

Son. Then you '11 buy 'em to sell again. 
M., IV : 2. 1377. 

— Should Deal gently. 

Emil. * * Let husbands know, 
Their wives have sense like them : they see, 

and smell, 
And have their palates both for sweet and 

sour, 
As husbands have. What is it that they do, 
When they change us for others? Is it 

sport? 
I think it is : And doth affection breed it? 
I think, it doth : Is 't frailty, that thus errs? 
It is so too : And have not we affections? 
Desires for sport? and frailty, as men have? 
Then, let them use us well : else let them 

know, 
The ills we do, their ills instruct us to. 

0., IV : 3. 1526. 



HYPERBOLE.— Launce's. 

Launce. * * Why, man, if the river 
were dry, I am able to fill it with my tears ; 
if the wind were down, I could drive the 
boat with my sighs. 

T. G., II : 3. 54. 

Gru. * * Though she have as many 
diseases as two-and-fifty horses. 

T. £.,1:2. 458. 

Fath. * * Shed seas of tears, and 
ne'er be satisfied ! 

H. VI, 3 pt., VI : 5. 968. 

HYPOCRISY. — A bold Accuser. 

Glo. Sweet prince, the untainted virtue 
of your years 
Hath not yet div'd into the world's deceit : 
No more can you distinguish of a man, 
Than of his outward show ; which, God he 

knows, 
Seldom, or never, jumpeth with the heart. 
Those uncles, which you want, were danger- 
ous ; 
Your grace attended to the sugar'd words, 
But look'd not on the poison of their hearts : 
God keep you from them, and from such 
false friends ! 
Prince. God keep me from false friends ! 
but they were none. 

R. Ill, III : 1. 1020. 

— A treble Shame. 

Duke. *" * 
He who the sword of heaven will bear 
Should be as holy as severe ; 
Pattern in himself to know, 
Grace to stand, and virtue go ; 
More nor less to others paying, 
Than by self-offences weighing. 
Shame to him, whose cruel striking 
Kills for faults of his own liking ! 
Twice treble shame on Angelo, 
To weed my vice, and let his grow ! 
O, Avhat may man within him hide, 
Though angel on the outward side ! 

M. M., Ill : 2. 162. 

— After Tears. 

Q. Mar. * * 
Beguiles him, as the mournful crocodile 
With sorrow snares relenting passengers ; 



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HYPOCRISY. 



Or as the snake, roll'd in a flowering bank, 
With shining checker'd slough, doth sting a 

child, 
That, for the beauty, thinks it excellent. 

H. VI, 2pt., Ill: 1. 924. 

— Boastful. 

Tarn. * * 
I will enchant the old Andronicus, 
With words more sweet, and yet more dan- 
gerous, 
Than baits to fish, or honey-stalks to sheep. 
Tit. And., TV: 4. 1225. 

— Complete. 

K. Hen. * * 
O, how hast thou with jealousy infected 
The sweetness of affiance ! Show men duti- 
ful? 
Why, so didst thou : Seem they grave and 

learned? 
Why, so didst thou : Come they of noble 

family? 
Why, so didst thou: Seem they religious? 
Why, so didst thou : Or are they spare in 

diet; 
Free from gross passion, or of mirth, or an- 
ger; 
Constant in spirit, not swerving with the 

blood; 
Garnish'd and deck'd in modest comple- 
ment; 
Not working with the eye, without the ear, 
And, but in purged judgment, trusting 

neither? 
Such, and so finely bolted, didst thou seem : 
And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot, 
To mark the full-fraught man, and best en- 
dued, 
With some suspicion. I will weep for thee ; 
For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like 
Another fall of man. — Their faults are open, 
Arrest them to the answer of the law : — 
And God acquit them of their practices ! 

H. V., II: 2. 827. 

Glo. * * 
So smooth he daub'd his vice with show of 

virtue, 
That, his apparent open guilt omitted. 

R., Ill : 5. 1026. 



— Consummate. 

Iago. * * 
But seeming so, for my peculiar end : 
For when my outward action doth demon- 
strate 
The native act and figure of my heart 
In compliment extern, 't is not long after 
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve 
For daws to peck at : I am not what I am. 

O., 1:1. 1492. 

— Covers Hate. 

Iago. * * 
Though I do hate him as I do hell pains, 
Yet, for necessity of present life, 
I must show out a flag and sign of love, 
Which is indeed but sign. 

O., 1 : 1. 1493. 

— Covers Itself. 

Claud. * * 
O, what authority and show of truth 
Can cunning sin cover itself withal ! 

M. A., IV : 1. 244. 

— Crafty. 

Lady if. * * To beguile the time, 
Look like the time ; bear welcome in your 

eye, 
Your hand, your tongue : look like the inno- 
cent flower, 
But be the serpent under it. 

M. t 1 : 5. 1361. 

Buck. * * 
Now, Catesby ! what says your lord to my 
request? 

Cate. He doth entreat your grace, my 
noble lord, 
To visit him to-morrow, or next day. 
He is within, with two right reverend fathers. 
Divinely bent on meditation ; 
And in no worldly suit would he be mov'd, 
To draw him from his holy exercise. 
* * 

Buck. Ah, ha, my lord, this prince is 
not an Edward ! 
He is not lolling on a lewd day-bed, 
But on his knees at meditation ; 
Not dallying with a brace of courtezans, 
But meditating with two deep divines ; 
Not sleeping to engross his idle body, 
But praying, to enrich his watchful soul : 



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HYPOCRISY. 



Happy were England, would this virtuous 

prince 
Take on himself the sovereignty thereof: 
But, sore, I fear, we shall ne'er win him to it. 
* * 

May. See, where his grace stands 'tween 

two clergymen ! 
Buck. Two props of virtue for a Christian 

prince, 
To stay him from the fall of vanity : 
And, see, a book of prayer in his hand; 
True ornaments to know a holy man. — 
Famous Plantagenet, most gracious prince, 
Lend favourable ear to our requests ; 
And pardon us the interruption 
Of thy devotion, and right Christian zeal. 
Glo. My lord, there needs no such 

apology ; 
I rather do beseech you pardon me, 
Who, earnest in the service of my God, 
Deferr'd the visitation of my friends. 

R. III., Ill : 7. 1028. 

— Destitute of. 

Cor. * * 
(If for I want that glib and oily art, 
To speak and purpose not.) 

K. L., I: 1. 1446. 

Fool. * * Nay, an thou canst not 
smile as the wind sits, thou 'It catch cold 
shortly. 

K. L., 1 : 4. 1450. 

— Extreme of. 

Oct. And some, that smile, have in their 
hearts, I fear, 
Millions of mischief. 

J. C, IV : 1. 1343. 

1 Gent. He that hath miss'd the princess, 

is a thing 
Too bad for bad report : and he that hath 

her, 
(I mean, that married her, — alack, good 

man ! — 
And therefore banish 'd) is a creature such 
As, to seek through the regions of the earth 
For one his like, there would be something 

failing 
In him that should compare. I do not think, 
So fair an outward, and such stuff within, 
Endows a man but he. 

Cym., 1 : 1. 1589. 



— Falsely Accused of. 

Q. Mar. Ah, what 's more dangerous 
than this fond affiance? 

Seems he a dove? his feathers are but bor- 
row'd, 

For he 's disposed as the hateful raven. 

Is he a lamb? his skin is surely lent him, 

For he 's inclin'd as are the ravenous 
wolves, 

Who cannot steal a shape, that means de- 
ceit? 

Take heed, my lord ; the welfare of us all 

Hangs on the cutting short that fraudful 
man. 

H. VI, 2 pt., Ill : 1. 924. 

— Foul -within. 

Isab. * * 
This outward-sainted deputy — 
Whose settled visage and deliberate word 
Nips youth i' the head, and follies doth em- 
mew, 
As falcon doth the fowl, — is yet a devil; 
His filth within being cast, he would ap- 
pear 

A pond as deep as hell. 

31. 31., Ill : 1. 157. 

— Impudent. 

Tit. O, gracious emperor ! O, gentle 
Aaron ! 
Did ever raven sing so like a lark. 

Tit. And., Ill : 1. 1215. 

Glo. Sister, have comfort : all of us 
. have cause 
To wail the dimming of our shining star ; 
But none can cure their harms by wailing 

them. 
Madam, my mother, I do cry you mercy, 
I did not see your grace : — Humbly on my 

knee 
I crave your blessing. 

Duch. God bless thee ; and put meek- 
ness in thy breast, 
Love, charity, obedience, and true duty ! 
Glo. Amen ; and make me die a good 
old man ! — 
That is the butt-end of a mother's blessing, 
I marvel, that her grace did leave it out. 

R.IlI„ll: 2. 1017. 

— Its Chagrin. 

Wol. What should this mean? 

What sudden anger 's this? how have I 
reap'd it? 



HYPOCRISY, 



29I 



HYPOCRISY. 



He parted frowning from me, as if ruin 
Leap'd from his eyes : So looks the chafed 

lion 
Upon the daring huntsman that has gall'd 

him ; 
Then makes him nothing. I must read this 

paper ; 
I fear the story of his anger. — 'T is so ; 
This paper has undone me : — 'T is the ac- 
count 
Of all that world of wealth I have drawn 

together 
For mine own ends ; indeed, to gain the 

popedom, 
And fee my friends in Rome. O negligence, 
Fit for a fool to fall by ! What cross devil 
Made me put this main secret in the packet 
I sent the king? Is there no way to cure 

this? 
No new device to beat this from his brains? 
I know, 't will stir Mm strongly : Yet I 

know 
A way, if it take right, in spite of fortune 
Will bring me off again. What 's this — 

"To the Pope?" 
The letter, as I live, with all the business 
I writ to his holiness. Nay then, farewell ! 
I have touch'd the highest point of all my 

greatness ; 
And, from that full meridian of my glory, 
I haste now to my setting : I shall fall 
Like a bright exhalation in the evening, 
And no man see me more. 

H. VIII., Ill: 2. 1079. 

— Its Falsehoods. 

Solan. I would she were as lying a gos- 
sip in that, as ever knapped ginger, or made 
her neighbours believe she wept for the death 
of a third husband. 

M. V., Ill : 1. 375. 

— Loud-Mouthed. 

K. lien. * * 
That, as my hand has open'd bounty to you, 
My heart dropp'd love, my power rain'd 

honour more 
On you, than any ; so your hand, and heart, 
Your brain, and every function of your 

p ower, 
Should, notwithstanding that your bond of 

duty, 



As 't were in love's particular, be more 
To me, your friend, than any. 

Wol. I do profess, 

That for your highness' good I ever labour'd 
More than mine own ; that am, have, and 

will be. 
Though all the world should crack their 

duty to you, 
And throw it from their soul ; though perils 

did 
Abound, as thick as thought could make 

them, and 
Appear in forms more horrid ; yet my duty, 
As doth a rock against the chiding flood, 
Should the approach of this wild river break, 
And stand unshaken yours. 

H. VIII, ni : 2. 1078. 

— Noisy. 

Mar. * * You shout me forth 
In acclamations hyperbolical ; 
As if I loved my little should be dieted 
In praises sauc'd with lies. 

C, 1 : 9. 1158. 



Of Winchester. 



Sol. 



Oft have I seen the haughty cardinal — 
More like a soldier, than a man o' the church, 
As stout, and proud, as he were lord of all, — 
Swear like a ruffian, and demean himself 
Unlike the ruler of a commonweal. 

H. VI, 2 pt., 1 : 1. 909 

— Possible in the greatest. 

Isab. * * 'T is not impossible 
But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground, 
May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as abso- 
lute, 
As Angelo ; even so may Angelo, 
In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms, 
Be an arch-villain 

M. M., V : 1. 170. 

— Self -Confessed. 

Glo. I do the wrong, and first begin to 

brawl. 
The secret mischiefs that I set abroach, 
I lay unto the grievous charge of others. 
Clarence, — whom I, indeed, have laid in 

darkness, — 
I do beweep to many simple gulls ; 



HYPOCRISY. 



292 



HYPOCRISY. 



Namely, to Stanley, Hastings, Buckingham ; 

And tell them, — 't is the queen and her al- 
lies, 

That stir the king against the duke my 
brother. 

Now they believe it ; and withal whet me 

To be reveng'd on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey : 

But then I sigh, and, with a piece of scrip- 
ture, 

Tell them — that God bids us do good for 
evil : 

And thus I clothe my naked villany 

With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ ; 

And seem a saint, when most I play the 
devil. 

R.III.,1: 3. 1010. 

— Silent. 

K. Rich. What said our cousin, when 

you parted with him? 
Aum. Farewell : 
And, for my heart disdained that my tongue 
Should so profane the word, that taught me 

craft 
To counterfeit oppression of such grief, 
That words seem'd buried in my sorrow's 

grave. 
Marry, would the word farewell have 

lengthen 'd hours, 
And added years to his short banishment, 
He should have had a volume of farewells ; 
But, since it would not, he had none of me. 
R. II., 1 : 4. 691. 

Mar. Alas, poor heart, that kiss is com- 
fortless, 
As frozen water to a starved snake. 

Tit. And., Ill : 1. 1217. 

— Small. 

Gra. Signior Bassanio, hear me : 

If I do not put on a sober habit, 

Talk with respect, and swear but now and 
then, 

Wear prayer-books in my pocket, look de- 
murely ; 

Nay more, while grace is saying, hood mine 
eyes 

Thus with my hat, and sigh, and say amen ; 

Use all the observance of civility, 

Like one well studied in a sad ostent 

To please his grandam, — never trust me 
more. 

. M. V., II : 2. 369. 



— Superlative. 
Riv. My lord of Gloster, in those busy 
days, 
Which here you urge, to prove us enemies, 
We follow'd then our lord, our lawful king ; 
So should we you, if you should be our king. 
Glo. If I should be ? — I had rather be a 
pedlar : 
Far be it from my heart, the thought there- 
of! 

R. III., 1 : 3. 100S. 



— Tearful, of a Murderer. 

Son. Good grandam, tell us, is our father 

dead? 
Duck. No, boy. 

Daugh. Why do you weep so oft? and 
beat your breast : 
And cry — " O Clarence, my unhappy son !" 
Son. Why do you look on us, and shake 
your head, 
And call us — orphans, wretches, cast- 
aways, 
If that our noble father be alive? 

Duch. My pretty cousins, you mistake 
me both; 
I do lament the sickness of the king, 
As loath to lose him, not your father's 

death ; 
It were lost sorrow, to wail one that 's lost. 
Son. Then, grandam, you conclude that 
he is dead. 
The king my uncle is to blame for this : 
God will revenge it ; whom I will impor- 
tune 
With earnest prayers all to that effect. 
Daugh. And so will I. 
Duch. Peace, children, peace ! the king 
doth love you well : 
Incapable and shallow innocents, 
You cannot guess who caus'd your father's 
death. 
Son. Grandam, we can : for my good 
uncle Gloster 
Told me, the king, provok'd to 't by the 

queen, 
Devis'd impeachments to imprison him : 
And when my uncle told me so, he Avept, 
And pitied me, and kindly kiss'd my cheek ; 
Bade me rely on him, as on my father, 
And he would love me dearly as his child. 



HYPOCRISY. 



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HYPOCRITES. 



Duch. Ah, that deceit should steal such 
gentle shapes, 
And with a virtuous visor hide deep vice ! 
He is my son, ay, and therein my shame, 
Yet from my dugs he drew not this deceit. 
Son. Think you my uncle did dissemble, 
grandam? 

R. III., II : 2. 1016. 

— Threatened. 

Isab. Ha ! little honour to be much be- 

liev'd, 
And most pernicious purpose! — Seeming, 

seeming! — 
I will proclaim thee, Angelo ; look for 't ! 
Sign me a present pardon for my brother, 
Or, with an outstretch 'd throat, I '11 tell the 

world aloud, 
What man thou art. 

M.M.,U: 4. 156. 

— Unblushing. 

Ang. Who will believe thee, Isabel? 

My unsoil'd name, th' austereness of my life, 
My vouch against you, and my place i' the 

state, 
Will so your accusation overweigh, 
That you shall stifle in your own report, 
And smell of calumny. I have begun; 
And now I give my sensual race the rein : 
Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite ; 
Lay by all nicety, and prolixious blushes, 
That banish what they sue for ; redeem thy 

brother 
By yielding up thy body to my will ; 
Or else he must not only die the death, 
But thy unkindness shall his death draw out 
To lingering sufferance : answer me to-mor- 
row, 
Or, by the affection that now guides me 

most, 
I '11 prove a tyrant to him. As for you, 
Say what you can, my false o'erweighs your 
true. 

M. M., II : 4. 156. 

— Unfelt Sorrow easy to. 

Mai. What will you do? Let 's not con- 
sort with them : 
To show an unfelt sorrow, is an office 
Which the false man does easy. 

M., II : 3. 1367. 



— "What it Scowls at. 

1 Gent. * * But not a courtier, 
Although they wear their faces to the bent 
Of the king's looks, hath a heart that is not 
Glad at the thing they scowl at, 

Cym., 1 : 1. 1589. 

— Woman's, dissembling. 

Q. Mar. God forbid any malice should 
prevail, 
That faultless may condemn a nobleman ! 
Pray God, may acquit him of suspicion ! 
K. Hen. I thank thee, Margaret ; these 
words content me much. 

E. VI., 2 pt., Ill : 2. 926. 

HYPOCRITE.— Once, Hypocrite ever. 

Iago. She did deceive her father, marry- 
ing you ; 
And, when she seem'd to shake, and fear 

your looks, 
She lov'd them most. 

Oth. And so she did. 

Iago. Why, go to, then ; 

She that, so young, could give out such a 

seeming, 
So seal her father's eyes up, close as oak, — 
He thought, 'twas witchcraft; — But I am 

much to blame ; 
I humbly do beseech you of your pardon, 
For too much loving you. 

Oth. I am bound to thee for ever. 

Iago. I see, this hath a little dash'd your 

spirits. 
Oth. Not a jot, not a jot. 
Iago. Trust me, I fear it has. 

I hope, you will consider, what is spoke 
Comes from my love ; — But, I do see you 

are mov'd : — 
I am to pray you, not to strain my speech 
To grosser issues, nor to larger reach 
Than to suspicion. 

Oth. I will not. 

0., Ill: 3. 1512. 

HYPOCRITES. — Mercenary, Re- 
proached. 

Tim. Ay, you are honest men. 

Pain. We are hither come to offer you 

our service. 
Tim. Most honest men ! Why, how shall 

I requite you? 



HYPOCRITES. 



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IDIOCY. 



Can you eat roots, and drink cold water? no. 
Both. What we can do, we '11 do, to do 

you service. 
Tim. You are honest men : You have 
heard that I have gold ; 
I am sure you have : speak truth : you are 
honest men. 
Pain. So it is said, my noble lord : but 
therefore 
Came not my friend, nor I. 

Tim. Good honest men : — Thou draw'st 
a counterfeit 
Best in all Athens : thou art, indeed, the 

best; 
Thou counterfeit'st most lively. 
Pain. So, so, my lord. 

Tim. Even so, sir, as I say : — And, for 
thy fiction, 
Why, thy verse swells with stuff so fine and 

smooth, 
That thou art even natural in thine art. — 
But, for all this, my honest-natur'd friends, 
I must needs say, you have a little fault : 
Marry, 't is not monstrous in you ; neither 

wish I, 
You take much pains to mend. 

Both. Beseech your honour 

To make it known to us. 

Tim. You '11 take it ill. 

Both. Most thankfully, my lord. 
Tim. Will you, indeed? 

Both. Doubt it not, worthy lord. 
Tim. There 's ne'er a one of you but 
trusts a knave, 
That mightily deceives you. 



Both. Do we, my lord? 

Tim. Ay, and you hear him cog, see 
him dissemble, 
Know his gross patchery, love him, feed 

him, 
Keep in your bosom : yet remain assur'd, 
That he 's a made-up villain. 

Pain. I know none such, my lord. 
Poet. Nor I. 

Tim. Look you, I love you well ; I '11 
give you gold, 
Rid me these villains from your companies : 
Hang them, or stab them, drown them in a 

draught, 
Confound them by some course, and come 

to me, 
I '11 give you gold enough. 

Both. Name them, my lord, let 's know 

them. 
Tim. You that way, and you this, but 
two in company : — 
Each man apart, all single and alone, 
Yet an arch-villain keeps him company. 
If, where thou art, two villains shall not be, 
Come not near him. — If thou would'st not 

reside 
But where one villain is, then him abandon. 
Hence ! pack ! there 's gold, ye came for 

gold, ye slaves : 
You have done work for me, there 's pay- 
ment : Hence ! 
You are an alchymist, make gold of that : — 
Out, rascal dogs ! 

T.A., V: I. 1313. 



IDEALIST.— A -Wonder. 

Ant. His word is more than the miracu- 
lous harp. 

Seb. He hath rais'd the wall and houses 
too. 

Ant. What impossible matter will he 
make easy next? 

T., II: 1. 16. 

IDES OF MARCH. — Their Danger. 

Ccbs. What man is that? 

Bru. A soothsayer, bids you beware the 
ides of March. 



Ccbs. Set him before me, let me see his 

face. 
Cas. Eellow, come from the throng : 

Look upon Caesar. 
Cces. What say'st thou to me now? 

Speak once again. 
Sooth. Beware the ides of March. 

J. C., 1 : 2. 1323. 

IDIOCY. —Assumed. 

Edg. * * While I may 'scape, 
I will preserve myself: and am bethought 



IDIOCY. 



295 



IGNORANCE. 



To take the basest and most poorest shape, 
That ever penury, in contempt of man, 
Brought near to beast; my. face I '11 grime 

with filth ; 
Blanket my loins ; elf all my hair in knots ; 
And with presented nakedness out-face 
The winds, and persecutions of the sky. 
The country gives me proof and precedent 
Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring 

voices, 
Strike in their numb'd and mortified bare 

arms 
Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rose- 
mary ; 
And with this horrible object, from low 

farms, 
Poor pelting villages, sheep-cotes and mills, 
Sometime with lunatic bans, sometime with 

prayers, 
Enforce their charity. — Poor Turlygood ! 

poor Tom ! 
That's something yet; — Edgar I nothing 

am. 

K. Z., II : 3. 1458. 

IDLENESS. — A Defiance of God. 

Ham. * * 
Sure, he, that hath made us with such large 

discourse, 
Looking before, and after, gave us not 
That capability and godlike reason 
To fust in us unus'd. 

H., IV: 4. 1423. 



— Mars. 

Or I. Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar 
that which God made, a poor unworthy 
brother of yours, with idleness. 

A. Y.,I: l. 407. 



— Sweating Labor. 

Ant. But that your royalty 

Holds idleness your subject, I should take 

you 
Eor idleness itself. 

Cleo. 'T is sweating labour, 

To bear such idleness so near the heart 
As Cleopatra this. But, sir, forgive me ; 
Since my becomings kill me, when they do 

not 
Eye well to you. 

A. C, 1 : 3. 1544. 



IDOLATRY. — Of Service. 

Ilect. * * 'T is mad idolatry, 
To make the service greater than the god. 

T. C., II: 2. 1114. 
IF. — Its Use in Quarrels. 

Glo. * * 
Talk'st thou to me of ifs? 

R. III., in : 4. 1025. 

Touch. O sir, we quarrel in print by the 
book ; as you have Books for Good Manners. 
I will name you the degrees. The first, the 
Retort courteous ; the second, the Quip mod- 
est ; the third, the Reply churlish ; the fourth 
the Reproof valiant ; the fifth, the Counter- 
check quarrrelsome ; the sixth, the Lie with 
circumstance; the seventh, the Lie direct. 
All these you may avoid, but the lie direct ; 
and you may avoid that too, with an If. I 
knew when seven justices could not take up 
a quarrel ; but when the parties were met 
themselves, one of them thought but of an 
If, as, "If you said so, then I said so;" and 
they shook hands, and swore brothers. Your 
If is the only peace-maker ; much virtue in 

A. F..V: 4. 437. 

IGNORANCE.— A Source of Thank- 
fulness to the Learned. 

Naih. * * 
And such barren plants are set before us, 

that Ave thankful should be 
(Which we of taste and feeling are) for 

those parts that do fructify in us 

more than he. 
For as it would ill become me to be rain, 

indiscreet, or a fool, 
So, were there a patch set on learning, to 

see him in a school : 
But, omne bene, say I ; being of an old 

father's mind, 

Many can brook the weather, that love not 

the wind. 

L. L., IV : 2. 285. 

— Brutal. 

Nath. * * He hath not drunk ink : 
his intellect is not replenished ; he is only 
an animal. 

L.Z..IV: 2. 285. 

— Darkness. 

Clo. Madman, thou errest : I say, there 
is no darkness but ignorance. * * 

Mai. I say, this house is as dark as ig- 
norance, though ignorance were as dark as 
hell. 

T. N., IV: 2. 536. 



IGNORANCE. 



IGNORANCE. 



— Extreme. 

Emil. * * As ignorant as dirt. 

0., V: 2. 1530. 

Say. * * 
And — seeing ignorance is the curse of God, 
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to 
heaven. 

IT. VI., 2 pt., IV : 7. 938. 

Ther. * * I had rather be a tick in a 
sheep, than such a valiant ignorance. 

T. C., Ill: 3. 1126. 

— Makes Robbery no Loss. 

Oth. What sense had I of her stolen 

hoars of lust! 
I saw it not, thought it not, it harm'd not me ; 
I slept the next night well, was free and 

merry ; 
I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips : 
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is 

stolen, 
Let him not know it, and he 's not robb'd at 

all. 

0., in : 3. 1513. 

— Of contemplated Crime. 

Lady M. What 's to be done? 

Mad. Be innocent of the knowledge, 
dearest chuck, 
Till thou applaud the deed. 

Jf., Ill: 2. 1370. 

— Unjust and cruel. 

Say. Hear me but speak, and bear me 
where you will. 
Kent, in the commentaries Caesar writ, 
Is term'd the civil'st place of all this isle. 
Sweet is the country, because full of riches ; 
The people liberal, valiant, active, wealthy ; 
Which makes me hope you are not void of 

pity- 

I sold not Maine, I lost not Normandy ; 
Yet, to recover them, would lose my life. 
Justice witli favour have I always done ; 
Prayers and tears have mov'd me, gifts 

could never. 
When have I aught exacted at your hands, 
Kent to maintain, the king, the realm, and 

you? 
Large gifts have I bestow'd en learned 

clerks, 
Because my book preferr'd me to the king : 



And — seeing ignorance is the curse of God, 
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to 

heaven, — 
Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits, 
You cannot but forbear to murder me. 
This tongue hath parley'd unto foreign kings 

For your behoof. 

Cade. Tut ! when struck'st thou one blow 

in the field? 
Say. Great men have reaching hands : 
oft have I struck 
Those that I never saw, and struck them 
dead. 
Geo. O monstrous coward ! what, to 

come behind folks? 
Say. These cheeks are pale for watching 

for your good. 
Cade. Give him a box o' the ear, and 
that will make 'em red again. 

Say. Long sitting to determine poor 
men's causes 
Hath made me full of sickness and diseases. 
Cade. Ye shall have a hempen caudle 
then, and the pap of a hatchet. 

Dick. Why dost thou quiver, man? 
Say. The palsy, and not fear, provoketh 
me. 

Cade. Nay, he nods at us ; as who 
should say, I '11 be even with you. I '11 see 
if his head will stand steadier on^ a pole, or 
no : Take him away, and behead him. 

H. VI., 2 pt., IV : 7. 938. 

— Willing, akin to Guilt. 

Brak. I am, in this, commanded to de- 
liver 
The noble duke of Clarence to your hands : 
I will not reason what is meant hereby, 
Because I will be guiltless of the meaning. 
Here are the keys; — there sits the duke 

asleep ; 
I '11 to the king ; and signify to him, 
That thus I have resign'd to you my charge. 
R. III., 1 : 4. 1011. 

—Wise. 

Ther. . Why, he stalks up and down like 
a peacock — a stride and a stand : ruminates 
like an hostess that hath no arithmetic but her 
brain to set down her reckoning : bites his 
lip with a politic regard, as who should say, 
there were wit in his head, an 'twould out; 
and so there is ; but it lies as coldly in him 
as fire in a flint, which will not show with- 
out knocking. The man 's undone for ever ; 



IGNORANCE. 



2 9 7 



IMAGINATION. 



for if Hector break not his neck i' the com- 
bat, he '11 break it himself in vain glory. 
He knows not me: I said, "Good-morrow, 
Ajax ; " and he replies, "Thanks, Agamem- 
non." What think you of this man, that 
takes me for the general? He is grown a 
very land-fish, languageless, a monster. A 
plague of opinion ! a man may wear it on 
both sides, like a leather jerkin. 

Achil. Thou must be my ambassador to 
him, Thersites. 

Ther. Who, I? why, he '11 answer no- 
body; he professes not ansAvering; speaking 
is for beggars ; he wears his tongue in his 
arms. I will put on his presence ; let Pa- 
troclus make demands to me, you shall see 
the pageant of Ajax. 

Achil. To him, Patroclus : Tell him, — 
I humbly desire the valiant Ajax, to invite 
the most valorous Hector to come unarmed 
to my tent ; and to procure safe conduct for 
his person, of the magnanimous, and most 
illustrious, six-or-seven-times-honoured cap- 
tain-general of the Grecian army, Agamem- 
non. Do this. 
* * 

Achil. Come, thou shalt bear a letter to 
him straight. 

Ther. Let me bear another to his horse ; 
for that 's the more capable creature. 

Achil. My mind is troubled, like a foun- 
tain stirr'd; 
And I myself see not the bottom of it. 

Ther. 'Would the fountain of your mind 
were clear again, that I might water an ass 
at it ! I had rather be a tick in a sheep, than 
such a valiant ignorance. 

T. C y .,III: 3. 1126. 

ILLEGITIMACY.— A Stain. 

Post. Ay, and it doth confirm 
Another stain, as big as hell can hold, 
Were there no more but it. 

Cym., II : 4. 1603. 

IMAGINATION. — A disturbed. 

Ham. * * 
Observe my uncle : if his occulted guilt 
Do not itself unkennel in one speech, 
It is a damned ghost that we have seen ; 
And my imaginations are as foul 
As Volcan's stithy. 

R., Ill : 2. 1413. 

Hor. He waxes desperate with imagina- 
tion. 

Mar. Let 's follow ; 't is not fit thus to 
obey him. 



Hor. Have after: — To what issue will 

this come? 

Mar. Something is rotten in the state of 

Denmark. 

//., 1 : 4. 1399. 

— Destroys the Brain. 

Iago. I am about it; but, indeed, my 

invention 
Comes from my pate, as birdlime does from 

frize, 
It plucks out brains and all : But my muse 

labours, 

And thus she is deliver'd. 

0., II: 1. 1501. 

— Its obliterating Power. 

Glo. * * 
And woes, by wrong imaginations, lose 
The knowledge of themselves. 

K. Z..IV: 6. 1478. 

— Its Power. 
The. * * 

Lovers and madmen have such seething 

brains, 
Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend 
More than cool reason ever comprehends. 
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, 
Are of imagination all compact : 
One sees more devils than vast hell can 

hold — 
That is the madman : the lover, all as fran- 

* tic, 
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt : 
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, 
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from 

earth to heaven, 
And, as imagination bodies forth 
The forms of things unknown, the poet's 

pen 
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy 

nothing 
A local habitation and a name. 
Such tricks hath strong imagination, 
That, if it would but apprehend some joy, 
It comprehends some bringer of that joy; 
Or, in the night, imagining some fear, 
How easy is a bush suppos'd a bear ! 

M.F.,V: 1. 341. 

— Powerless. 

Boling. O, who can hold a fire in his 
hand, 



IMAGINATION. 



298 



IMPARTIALITY. 



By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? 
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, 
By bare imagination of a feast? 
Or wallow naked in December snow, 
By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? 
O, no ! the apprehension of the good, 
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse : 
Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more, 
Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore. 
R. II., 1 : 3. 690. 

IMITATION. — Imperfect. 

Ulyss. * * 
That 's done ; as near as the extremest 

ends 
Of parallels ; as like as Vulcan and his wife : 
Yet good Achilles still cries, "Excellent! 
'T is Nestor right! Now play him me, 

Patroclus, 
Arming to answer in a night alarm." 
And then, forsooth, the faint defects of age 
Must be the scene of mirth ; to cough, and 

spit, 
And with a palsy — fumbling on his gorget, 
Shake in and out the rivet. 

T. a, 1 : 3. 1109. 

— Its Source. 

Fal. * * Ignorant carriage is caught, 
as men take diseases, one of another. 

H. IV., 2 pt., V : 1. 805. 

IMMATURITY. — A Reproach. 

Hor. This lapwing runs away with the 
shell on his head. 

E., V: 2. 1434. 

IMMODESTY. — A Maid's. 

Laer. * * 
The chariest maid is prodigal enough, 
If she unmask her beauty to the moon. 

B..I: 3. 1397. 

IMMORTALITY — Gives Worth to 
Life. 

K. Hen. O heaven! that one might read 

the book of fate ; 
And see the revolution of the times 
Make mountains level, and the continent 
(Weary of solid firmness.) melt itself 
Into the sea ! and, other times, to see 
The beachy girdle of the ocean 
Too wide for Neptune's hips ; how chances 

mock, 



And changes fill the cup of alteration 
With divers liquors ! 0, if this were seen, 
The happiest youth, — viewing his progress 

through, 
What perils past, what crosses to ensue, — 
Would shut the book, and sit him down and 

die. 

H. IV., 2pt., Ill: 2. 790. 

— Longed for. 

Cleo. Give me my robe, put on my crown ; 
I have 
Immortal longings in me. 

A. C, V: 2. 1581. 

IMP ARTIALITY. —Rewarded. 

King. You are right, justice, and you 

weigh this well ; 
Therefore still bear the balance, and the 

sword : 
And I do wish your honours may increase, 
Till you do live to see a son of mine 
Offend you, and obey you, as I did. 
So shall I live to speak my father's words ; 
"Happy am I, that have a man so bold, 
That dares do justice on my proper son : 
And not less happy, having such a son, 
That would deliver up his greatness so 
Into the hands of justice." — You did com- 
mit me : 
For which, I do commit into your hand 
The unstained sword that you have us'd to 

bear; 
With this remembrance, — That you use 

the same 
With the like bold, just, and impartial spirit, 
As you have done 'gainst me. There is my 

hand ; 
You shall be as a father to my youth : 
My voice shall sound as you do prompt 

mine ear; 
And I will stoop and humble my intents 
To your well-practis'd, wise directions. 

E. IV., 2 pt., V : 3. 807. 

— Strict. 

K. Rich. Mowbray, impartial are our 

eyes and ears : 
Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's 

heir, 
(As he is but my father's brother's son,) * 
Now by my sceptre's awe I make a vow, 



IMPARTIALITY. 



2 99 



IMPATIENCE, 



Such neighbour nearness to our sacred 

blood 
Should nothing" privilege him, nor partialize 
The unstooping firmness of my upright soul ; 
He is our subject, Mowbray, so art thou ; 
Free speech, and fearless, I to thee allow. 
7?. IT.,1: 1. 685. 

IMPATIENCE.— A Sign of Sorrow. 

K. Lew. Kenowned queen, with patience 
calm the storm, 
While we bethink a means to break it off. 
Q. Mar. The more we stay, the stronger 

grows our foe. 
K. Lew. The more I stay, the more I '11 

succour thee. 
Q. Mar. O but impatience waiteth on 
true sorrow : 
And see, where comes the breeder of my 
sorrow. 

H. VI., 3pt., Ill: 3. 975. 

— At Injustice. 
Tit. He doth me wrong, to feed me 

with delays. 
I '11 dive into the burning lake below, 
And pull her out of Acheron by the heels. — 
Marcus, we are but shrubs, no cedars we ; 
No big-bon'd men, fram'd of the Cyclop 's 

size : 
But metal, Marcus, steel to the very back ; 
Yet wrung with wrongs, more than our backs 

can bear : 
And, sith there is no justice in earth nor hell, 
We will solicit heaven ; and move the gods, 
To send down justice for to wreak our 

wrongs. 

Tit. And., IV: 3. 1223. 

— Becoming. 

Cleo. * * 
Patience is sottish ; and impatience does 
Become a dog that 's mad : Then is it sin. 
A. C.,IV: 13. 1576. 

— Betrays our Purposes. 

For. * * You 've ungently, Brutus, 
Stole from my bed : and yesternight, at 

supper, 
You suddenly arose, and walk'd about, 
Musing and sighing, with your arms across ; 
And when I ask'd you what the matter was, 



You star'd upon me with ungentle looks : 
I urg'd you further ; then you scratch'd 

your head, 
And too impatiently stamp'd with your foot : 
Yet I insisted, yet you answer'd not ; 
But, with an angry wafture of your hand, 
Gave sign for me to leave you : So I did ; 
Fearing to strengthen that impatience, 
Which seem'd too much enkindled ; and, 

withal, 
Hoping it was but an effect of humour, 
Which sometime hath his hour with every 

man. 
It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep ; 
And, could it work so much upon your shape, 
As it hath much prevail'd on your condition, 
I should not know you, Brutus. Dear my 

lord, 
Make me acquainted with your cause of 

grief. 
Bru. I am not well in health, and that is 

all. 
Por. Brutus is wise, and, were he not in 

health, 
He would embrace the means to come by it. 
Bru. Why, so I do : — Good Portia, go 

to bed. 

J. C., II: l. 1331. 



— For News. 
Nurse. I am aweary, give me leave 
awhile ; — 
Fie, how my bones ache ! What a jaunt 
have I had ! 
Jul. I would, thou hadst my bones, and 
I thy news : 
Nay, come, I pray thee, speak; — good, 
good nurse, speak. 
Nurse. Jesu, what haste ! can you not 
stay awhile? 
Do you not see, that I am out of breath? 
Jul. How art thou out of breath, when 
thou hast breath 
To say to me — that thou art out of breath? 
The excuse, that thou dost make in this de- 
lay 
Is longer than the tale thou dost excuse. 
Is thy news good, or bad? answer to that ; 
Say either, and I '11 stay the circumstance : 
Let me be satisfied, Is 't good or bad? 

R.J., II: 5. 1257. 



IMPATIENCE. 



300 



IMPERIOUSNESS. 



— In Enterprises. 

Hot. Uncle, adieu : — O, let the hours 
be short, 
Till fields, and blows, and groans applaud 
our sport ! 

H. IV., lpt., I: 3. 734. 

— In View of Death's Delay. 

Imo. * * Prithee, despatch : 
The lamb entreats the butcher : Where 's 

thy knife? 
Thou art too slow to do thy master's bidding, 
When I desire it too. 

Pis. gracious lady, 

Since I receiv'd command to do this busi- 
ness, 
I have not slept one wink. 

Imo. Do 't, and to bed then. 

Cym., Ill : 4. 1609. 

— Of Love. 

Jul. * * 
I have bought the mansion of a love, 
But not possess 'd it; and, though I am sold, 
Not yet enjoy'd : so tedious is this day, 
As is the night before some festival 
To an impatient child, that hath new robes, 
And may not wear them. 

R. J., Ill : 2. 1261. 

— Time slow to. 

The. * * 
Another moon : but, oh, methinks, how slow 
This old moon wanes ! she lingers my de- 
sires, 
Like a step-dame, or a dowager, 
Long withering out a young man's revenue. 
M. N.,\: 1. 321. 

— Wild. 

Rom. * * 
The time and my intents are savage-wild ; 
More fierce, and more inexorable far, 
Than empty tigers, or the roaring sea. 

E.J.,V: 3. 1275. 

IMPENITENCE. — Final. 

1 Rom. You sad Andronici, have done 
with woes ; 
Give sentence on this execrable wretch, 
That hath been breeder of these dire events. 
Luc. Set him breast-deep in earth, and 
famish him ; 



There let him stand, and rave and cry for 

food : 
If any one relieves or pities him, 
For the offence he dies. This is our doom : 
Some stay to see him fasten'd in the earth. 
Aar. O, why should wrath be mute, and 

fury dumb? 
I am no baby, I, that, with base prayers, 
I should repent the evils I have done ; 
Ten thousand, worse than ever yet I did, 
Would I perform, if I might have my will ; 
If one good deed in all my life I did, 
I do repent it from my very soul. 

Tit. And., V: 3. 1231. 

IMPERATIVENESS.— Sneered at. 

Cor. Shall remain ! — 

Hear you this Triton of the minnows ? mark 

you 
His absolute ''shall?" 

C, III : 1. 1169. 

IMPERFECTIONS.— To be covered. 

Cho. * * 
Piece out our imperfections with your 

thoughts ; 
Into a thousand parts divide one man, 
And make imaginary puissance 
Think, when we talk of horses^ that you 

see them 
Printing their proud hoofs i' the receiving 

earth : 
For 't is your thoughts that now must deck 

our kinys, 
Carry them here and there ; jumping o'er 

times. 

H. V., 1 : C. 819. 

IMPERIOUSNESS. — Despised. 

Nor. We had need pray, 
And heartily, for our deliverance ; 
Or this imperious man will work us all 
From princes into pages : all men's honours 
Lie in one lump before him, to be fashion'd 
Into what pitch he please. 

H. VIII., II: 2. 1068. 

— Its Power. 

War. * * The proud insulting queen, 
With Clifford, and the haught Northumber- 
land, 



IMPERIOUSNESS. 



3d 



IMPOSSIBILITIES. 



And of their feather, many more proud 

birds, 
Have wrought the easy-melting king like 

wax. 

H. VI, 3pt., II: 1. 964. 

IMPETUOSITY. —Boyish. 

Men. I am known to be a humorous 
patrician, and one that loves a cup of hot 
wine with not a drop of allaying Tyber in 't ; 
said to be something imperfect, in favouring 
the thirsty complaint : hasty, and tinder- 
like, upon too trivial motion : one that con- 
verses more with the buttock of the night, 
than with the forehead of the morning. 

0. t II : 1. 1160. 

Dem. Why, boy, although our mother, 
unadvis'd, 
Gave you a dancing-rapier by your side, 
Are you so desperate grown, to threat your 

friends? 
Go to ; have your lath glued within your 

sheath, 
Till you know better how to handle it. 

Tit. And., II: 1. 1207. 

— Hard to Restrain. 

Com. Flower of warriors, 

How is 't with Titus Lartius? 

Mar. As with a man busied about de- 
crees : 
Condemning some to death, and some to 

exile ; 
Ransoming him, or pitying, threat'ning the 

other ; 
Holding Corioli in the name of Rome, 
Even like a fawning greyhound in the leash, 
To let him slip at will. 

C., 1 : 5. 1156. 

— In Love Consumes Itself. 

Fri. These violent delights have violent 
ends, 
And in their triumph die ; like *fire and 

powder, 
Which, as they kiss, consume : The sweet- 
est honey 
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, 
And in the taste confounds the appetite : 
Therefore, love moderately ; long love doth 

so; 
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. 

R. J., II: 6. 1257. 



— Its Rage. 

K. Rich. Then call them to our pres- 
ence ; face to face, 
And frowning brow to brow, ourselves will 

hear 
The accuser, and the accused, freely speak : 
High-stomach'd are they both, and full of 

ire, 
In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. 

R. II., I: 1. 684. 

— Of the Young. 

Gent. Save yourself, my lord ; 

The ocean, overpeering of his list, 

Eats not the flats with more impetuous 

haste. 

a., IV: 5. 1424. 

— Short-Lived. 

Gaunt. Methinks, I am a prophet new 
inspir'd; 

And thus, expiring, do foretell of him : 

His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last ; 

For violent fires soon burn out themselves ; 

Small showers last long, but sudden storms 
are short; 

He tires betimes, that spurs too fast be- 
times ; 

With eager feeding food doth choke the 

feeder. 

R. II, II : 1. 692. 

IMPOLICY— In braving Danger. 

1 Sen. * * 
Neglecting an attempt of ease, and gain, 
To wake, and wage, a danger profitless. 

0., 1 : 3. 1495. 

IMPORTUNITY— Its Earnestness. 

Lucio. Give 't not o'er so : to him again, 
entreat him ; 
Kneel down before him, hang upon his 

gown ; 
You are too cold : if you should need a pin, 
You could not with more tame a tongue de- 
sire it. 

M. M., n : 2. 151. 

IMPOSSIBILITIES. — Easy to Some. 

Seb. I think he will carry this island 
home in his pocket, and give it to his son 
for an apple. 

Ant. And, sowing the kernels of it in the 
sea, bring forth more islands. 

T.,II: 1. 16. 



IMPOSTURE. 



302 



INACTIVITY. 



IMP O STURE. — Its Punishment. 

K. Hen. Stand forth, dame Eleanor Cob- 
ham, Gloster's wife : 
In sight of God, and us, your guilt is great ; 
Receive the sentence of the law, for sins 
Such as by God's book are adjudg'd to 

death. — 
You four, from hence to prison back again ; 
From thence, unto the place of execution : 
The witch in Smithfield shall be burn'd to 

ashes, 
And you three shall be strangled on the gal- 
lows. — 
You, madam, for you are more nobly born, 
Despoiled of your honour in your life, 
Shall, after three days' open penance done, 
Live in your country here, in banishment, 
With sir John Stanley, in the Isle of Man. 
H. VI, 2pt.,II: 3. 919. 

IMPOTENCE.— Complete. 

Clif. Ay, ay, so strives the woodcock 

with the gin. 
North. So doth the coney struggle in the 

net. 

H. VI, 3pt., I: 4. 960. 

War. * * 
For though they cannot greatly sting to hurt, 
Yet look to have them buzz to offend thine 
ears. 

H. VI, 2 pt., II : 6. 970. 



— Of Assaults. 

Will. 'Mass, you '11 pay him then ! That 's 
a perilous shot out of an elder gun, that a 
poor and private displeasure can do against 
a monarch ! you may as well go about to 
turn the sun to ice, with fanning in his face 
with a peacock's feather. 

H. V., IV: 1. 842. 



IMPRECATIONS. — Margaret's, upon 
Murderers. 

Q. Mar. * * 
If heaven have any grievous plague in store, 
Exceeding those that I can wish upon thee, 
O, let them keep it, till thy sins be ripe, 
And then hurl down their indignation 
On thee, the troubler of the poor world's 

peace ! 
The worm of conscience still be-gnaw thy 

soul ! 



Thy friends suspect for traitors while thou 

liv'st, 
And take deep traitors for thy dearest 

friends ! 
No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine, 
Unless it be while some tormenting dream 
Affrights thee with a hell of ugly devils ! 
Thou elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog! 
Thou that wast seal'd in thy nativity 
The slave of nature, and the son of hell ! 
Thou slander of thy mother's heavy womb ! 
Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins ! 
Thou rag of honour ! 

B. Ill, 1 : 3. 1009. 

IMPRISONMEN T.— Mitigated and 
Forgotten. 

Plan. * * 
In prison hast thou spent a pilgrimage, 
And like a hermit overpass'd thy days. 

H. VI, lpt., II: 5. 877. 

K. Hen. * * 
Nay, be thou sure, I '11 well requite thy kind- 
ness, 
For that it made my imprisonment a pleas- 
ure; 
Ay, such a pleasure as encaged birds 
Conceive, when, after many moody thoughts, 
At last, by notes of household harmony, 
They quite forget their loss of liberty. 

H. VI, 3pt., IV: 6. 982. 

INACTION.— A Plea for. 

Fal. * * But it was always yet the 
trick of our English nation, if they have a 
good thing, to make it too common. If you 
will needs say, I am an old man, you should 
give me rest. I would to God, my name 
were not so terrible to the enemy as it is. 
I were better to be eaten to death with rust, 
than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual 
motion. 

//. IV., 2pt.,I: 2.778. 

— Intolerable. 

Bot. Enough. Hold, or cut bow-strings. 
M. N., 1 : 2. 325. 

INACTIVITY. — Masterly. 

Bru. Well, to our work alive. What 
do you think 
Of marching to Philippi presently? 



INACTIVITY. 



303 



INCONSTANCY. 



Cas. I do not think it good. 
Bru. Your reason? 

Cas. This is it : 

'T is better, that the enemy seek us : 
So shall he waste his means, weary his sol- 
diers, 
Doing himself offence : whilst we, lying still. 
Are full of rest, defence, and nimbleness. 

J. C., TV : 3. 1346. 

— Not honorable. 

Con. * * O, for honour of our land, 
Let us not hang like roping icicles 
Upon our houses' thatch, whiles a more 

frosty people 
Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich 

fields ; 

Poor — we may call them, in their native 

lords. 

R. V., Ill : 5. 835. 

INCENTIVE.— To Drive the Purpose. 

King. * * 
Good gentlemen, give him a further edge, 
And drive his purpose on to these delights. 
&., Ill : 1. 1410. 

INCENTIVES. — In a good Cause. 

Q. Mar. Lords, knights, and gentlemen, 

what I should say, 
My tears gainsay ; for every word I speak, 
Ye see, I drink the water of mine eyes. 
Therefore, no more but this : Henry, your 

sovereign, 
Is prisoner to the foe ; his state usurp'd, 
His realm a slaughterhouse, his subjects 

slain, 
His statutes cancell'd, and his treasure 

spent ; 
And yonder is the wolf, that makes this 

spoil. 
You fight in justice : then, in God's name, 

lords, 
Be valiant, and give signal to the fight. 

H. VI., 3pt., V: 4. 989. 

INCEST. — Punished by the gods. 

Hel. * * 
Antiochus from incest lived not free ; 
For which, the most high gods not minding 

longer 
To withhold the vengeance that they had in 

store, 
Due to his heinous capital offence ; 



Even in the height and pride of all his glory, 
"When he was seated, and his daughter with 

him, 
In a chariot of inestimable value, 
A fire from heaven came, and shrivell'd up 
Their bodies, even to loathing; for they so 

stunk, 
That air those eyes ador'd them, ere their 

fall, 

Scorn now their hand should give them 

burial. 

P., II : 4. 1652. 

INCONGRUITIES. — Psalms and 
Songs. 

Mrs. Ford. * * That I would have 
sworn his disposition would have gone to 
the truth of his words ; but they do no more 
adhere and keep place together, than the 
hundredth psalm to the tune of "Green 
Sleeves." 

M. W., II : 1. 95. 

INCONSISTENCY. — In Teachers of 
Religion. 

Oph. * * But, good my brother, 
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, 
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, 
Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, 
Himself the primrose path of dalliance 

treads, 
And recks not his own read. 

H., 1 : 3. 1397. 

— Of Character. 

Serv. This man, lady, hath robbed many 
beasts of their particular additions ; he is as 
valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear, slow 
as the elephant : a man into Avhom nature 
hath so crowded humours, that his valour is 
crushed into folly, his folly sauced with dis- 
cretion : there is no man hath a virtue, that 
he has not a glimpse of; nor any man an 
attaint, but he carries some stain of it; he is 
melancholy without cause, and merry against 
the hair : He hath the joints of every thing ; 
but every thing so out of joint, that he is a 
gouty Briareus, many hands and no use ; or 
purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight. 

T. 0., I: 2. 1104. 

INCONSTANCY.— -Bemoaned. 

' Ant. * * All come to this ? — The 
hearts 
That spaniel'd me at heels, to whom I gave 
Their wishes, to discandy, melt their sweets 



INCONSTANCY. 



304 



INDECISION. 



On blossoming Caesar; and this pine is 

bark'd, 
That overtopp'd them all. Betray'd I am : 
O this false spell of Egypt ! this great eharm, 
Whose eye beck'd forth my wars, and eall'd 

them home ; 
Whos£ bosom was my crownet, my chief 

end, 
Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose, 
Beguil'd me to the very heart of loss. 

A. C IV : 10. 1572. 

— Confessed. 

King. I am not a day of season, 
For thou mayst see a sunshine and a hail 
In me at once : But to the brightest beams 
Distracted clouds give way ; so stand thou 

forth, 
The time is fair again. 

A. W.,V: 3. 526. 

— Knows Itself. 

Ros. I pray you, do not fall in love with 
me, 
For I am falser than vows made in wine. 

A. F..III: 5. 427. 

— Of common Men. 
K. Hen. * * 

Look, as I blow this feather from my face, 
And as the air blows it to me again, 
Obeying with my wind when I do blow, 
And yielding to another when it blows, 
Commanded always by the greater gust ; 
Such is the lightness of you common men. 
H. VI, 3 pt., in : 1. 971. 

— Threatened. 

Glo. Come, Warwick, take the time, 
kneel down, kneel down : 
Nay, when? strike now, or else the iron 
cools. 
War. I had rather chop this hand off at 
a blow, 
And with the other fling it at thy face, 
Than bear so low a sail, to strike to thee. 
K. Edw. Sail how thou canst, have 
wind and tide thy friend; 
This hand, fast wound about thy coal-black 

hair, 
Shall, whiles the head is warm, and new cut 
off, 



Write in the dust this sentence with thy 

blood, — 

"Wind-changing Warwick now can change 

no more." 

H. VI, 3 pt., V : 1. 987. 

— Woman's. 

Post. * * 

For ev'n to vice 

They are not constant, but are changing still 

One vice, but of a minute old, for one 

Not half so old as that. 

Cym., II : 5. 1604. 

— Woman's, an easy Glove. 

Laf. This woman 's an easy glove, my 
lord ; she goes off and on at pleasure. 

A. W.,Y: 3. 529. 

INCREDIBLE. — The. 

Her. * * I '11 believe as soon 
This whole earth may be bor'd ; and that 

the moon 
May through the centre creep, and so dis- 
please 
Her brother's noontide with th' Antipodes. 
M.N.,\\\: 2. 333. 

INDEBTEDNES S.— Its Embarrass- 
ment. 

Bass. 'T is not unknown to you, Anto- 
nio, 
How much I have disabled mine estate, 
By something showing a more swelling port 
Than my faint means wo aid grant continu- 
ance : 
Nor do I now make moan to be abridg'd 
From such a noble rate ; but my chief care 
Is to come fairly off from the great debts, 
Wherein my time, something too prodigal, 
Hath left me gagg'd. To you, Antonio, 
I owe the most in money and in love : 
And from your love I have a warranty 
To unburthen all my plots and purposes, 
How to get clear of all the debts I owe. 

M. V., 1 : 1. 362. 

INDECISION. — A Meeting of the 
Tides. 

North. Come, come, go in with me : 'tis 

with my mind. 
As with the tide swell'd up unto its height, 
That makes a still-stand, running neither 

way. 



INDECISION. 



305 



INDIGNATION. 



Fain would I go to meet the archbishop, 
But many thousand reasons hold me back. 
//. rF.,2pt.,II: 3, 785. 

— Between Desire and Duty. 

Isab. There is a vice that most I do 
abhor, 
And most desire should meet the blow of 

justice ; 
For which I would not plead, but that I 

must ; 
For which I must not plead, but that I am 
At war 'twixt will and will not. 

M. J/., II: 2. 151. 

— Embarrassing. 
Auf. * * 
As with a man by his own alms empoison'd, 
And with his charity slain. 

C, V : 5, 1192. 

Ant. Her tongue will not obey her 
heart, nor can 
Her heart inform her tongue : the swan's 

down feather, 
That stands upon the swell at th' full of 

tide, 
And neither way inclines. 

A. C, III : 2. 1558. 

Ant. * * 
My very hairs do mutiny ; for the white 
Reprove the brown for rashness, and they 

them 
For fear and doating. 

A. C., Ill: 9. 1564. 

INDECORUM. — Hasty. 

Ham. Thrift, thrift, Horatio ! the funeral 
bak'd meats 
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. 

JET.,1: 2. 1395. 

INDEPENDENCE. 

Ham. * * Bless'd are those, 
Whose blood and judgment are so well co- 
mingled, 
That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger 
To sound what stop she please. 

IT., Ill: 2. 1413. 

INDEXES. — Baby Fingers. 

Nest.. * * 
And in such indexes, although small pricks 



To their subsequent volumes, there is seen 
The baby-figure of the giant mass 
Of things to come at large. 

T. C, I: 3. 1111. 

INDIFFERENCE. — Blind. 

Pan. * * But what care I? I care 
not, an . she were a black-a-moor ; 't is all 
one to me. 

• T. G. t I: 1.1103. 

— Disquieting. 

Achil. My mind is troubled, like a foun- 
tain stirr'd; 
And I myself see not the bottom of it. 

T. C., Ill: 3. 1126. 

—In Enemies, Exasperating. 

Mar. They fear us not, but issue forth 
their city. 

Now put your shields before your hearts, 
and fight 

With hearts more proof than shields. — Ad- 
vance, brave Titus : 

They do disdain us much beyond our 
thoughts, 

Which makes me sweat with wrath. — Come, 
on my fellows ; 

He that retires, I '11 take him for a Voice, 

And he shall feel mine age. 

C.,l: 4. 1155. 

Leon. * * 
You smell this business with a sense as cold 
As is a dead man's nose : but I do see 't 
and feel 't. 

W. F.,11: 1.589. 

INDIGNATION— At popular Arro- 
gance. 

1 Sen. No more words, we beseech you. 
Cor. How! no more? 

As for my country I have shed my blood, 
Not fearing outward force, so shall my lungs 
Join words till their decay, against those 

meazels 
Which we disdain should tetter us, yet 

sought 
The very way to catch them. 

Bru. You speak o' the people 

As if you were a god to punish, not 
A man of their infirmity. 

C, III: l. 1169. 



INDIGNATION. 



306 



INDUSTRY 



—Bitter. 

Glou What ! threat you me with telling 
of the king? 
Tell him, and spare not ; look, what I have 

said 
I will avouch, in presence of the king : 
I dare adventure to be sent to the Tower. 
'T is time to speak, my pains are quite for- 
got. 
Q. Mar. Out, devil ! I remember them 
too well : 
Thou kill'dst my husband Henry in the 

Tower, 
And Edward, my poor son, at Tewkesbury. 
Glo. Ere you were queen, ay, or your 
husband king, 
I was a pack-horse in his great affairs, 
A weeder-out of his proud adversaries, 
A liberal rewarder of his friends ; 
To royalize his blood, I spilt mine own. 
* * 

Q. Mar. Hie thee to hell for shame, and 
leave this world, 
Thou cacodgemon ! there thy kingdom is. 

R.III.,1: 3. 1008. 

— Bitter at Insult. 
Shy. Signior Antonio, many a time and 
oft, 
In the Bialto, you have rated me 
About my monies, and my usances : 
Still have I borne it with a patient shrug, 
For suff'rance is the badge of all our tribe ; 
You call me 'misbeliever,' ' cut- throat dog,' 
And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, 
And all for use of that which is mine own. 
Well, then, it now appears you need my 

help : 
Go to, then ; you come to me, and you say, 
" Shylock, we would have monies:" You 

§ay so ; 
You, that did void your rheum upon my 

beard, 
And foot me, as you spurn a stranger cur 
Over your threshold; monies is your suit. 
What should I say to you? Should I not 

say, 
"Hath a dog money? is it possible 
A cur can lend three thousand ducats?" or 
Shall I bend low, and in a bondsman's key, 
With 'bated breath, and whisp 'ring humble- 
ness, 
Say this, — 



"Fair sir, you spet on me on Wednesday 

last ; 
You spurn'd me such a day; another time 
You call'd me dog ; and for these courtesies 
I '11 lend you thus much monies?" 

M. V., I: 3. 366. 

INDIGNITY. — Resented. 

Cleo. * * Now Iras, what think'st thou? 
Thou, an Egyptian puppet, shalt be shown 
In Rome, as well as I : mechanic slaves 
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, 

shall 
Uplift us to the view ; in their thick breaths, 
Rank of gross diet, shall we be enclouded, 
And forc'd to drink their vapour. 

Iras. The gods forbid ! 

A. C.,V: 2. 1580. 

INDISCRETION— Not Recoverable. 

Luc. Scro. * * 
You must consider, that a prodigal course 
Is like the sun's ; but not,, like his, recover- 
able. 

T. A., Ill : 4. 1299. 

— Result of Haste. 

Nor. * * We may outrun, 
By violent swiftness, that which we run at, 
And lose by over-running. 

H. VIII., 1:1. 1058. 

INDULGENCE.— Effect on Wits. 
Long. I am resolv'd ; 't is but a three 

years' fast 
The mind shall banquet, though the body 

pine; 
Fat paunches have lean pates ; and dainty 

bits 

Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the 

wits. 

Z.Z.,1: 1. 271. 

INDUSTRY. — Bee, Symbol of. 

K. Hen. * * 
When like the bee, tolling from every flower 
The virtuous sweets. 

H. IV., 2 pt., IV : 4. 802. 

— Does not always Profit. 

Val. You would be another Penelope : 
yet, they say, all the yarn she spun, in 
Ulysses' absence, did but fill Ithaca full of 
moths. 

C, 1 : 3. 1154. 



INEFFICIENCY. 



307 



INFATUATION. 



INEFFICIENCY. — Its Fitifulness. 

1 Serv. To be called into a huge sphere, 
and not to be seen to move in 't, are the 
holes where eyes should be, which pitifully 
disaster the cheeks. 

A. C, II : 7. 1555. 

INEXPERIENCE.— A Bar to Man- 
hood. 

■Ant. * * He cannot be a perfect man, 
Not being tried and tutor'd in the world. 

T. G. t 1 : 3. 51. 

INEXPLICABLE.— The, to be Made 
Plain. 

Alon. This is as strange a maze as ere 
men trod, 

And there is in this business more than na- 
ture 

Was ever conduct of: some oracle 

Must rectify our knowledge. 
Pro. Sir, my liege, 

Do not infest your mind with beating on 

The strangeness of this business : at pick'd 
leisure. 

Which shall be shortly, single I '11 resolve 
you 

(Which to you shall seem probable) of 
every 

These happen'd accidents : till when, be 
cheerful, 

And think of each thing well. 

T. t Y : 1. 33. 

INFAMY. — Apparent. 

Tarn. Titus, I come to talk with thee. 
Tit. No ; not a word : How can I grace 
my talk, 
Wanting a hand to give it action? 
Thou hast the odds of me, therefore no more. 
Tarn. If thou did'st know me, thou 

would'st talk with me. 
Tit. I am not mad ; I know thee well 
enough : 
Witness this wretched stump, these crimson 

lines ; 
Witness these trenches, made by grief and 

care ; 
Witness the tiring day, and heavy night; 
Witness all sorrow, that I know thee well 
For our proud empress, mighty Tamora ! 
Is not thy coming for my other hand? 

T. A., V : 2. 1227. 



— Invoked. 

Pol. 0, then my best blood turn 

To an infected jelly ; and my name 
Be y ok'd with his that did betray the Best ! 
Turn then my freshest reputation to 
A savour that may strike the dullest nostril 
Where I arrive ; and my approach be 

shunn'd, 
Nay, hated too, worse than the great'st in- 
fection 
That e'er was heard, or read! 

W. T.,I: 2. 586. 

— Its lowest Depth. 

Par. Sir, for a cardecue he will sell the 
fee-simple of his salvation, the inheritance 
of it; and cut th' entail from all -remain- 
ders, and a perpetual succession for it per- 
petually. 

A. W.,TV: 3. 522. 

INFATUATION. — Intoxicates. 

Mar. Nay, but say true ; does it work 

upon him? 
Sir To. Like aqua- vita? with a midwife. 
T. JV r ., II : 5. 554. 

— Its Language. 

Cleo. * * His delights 
Were dolphin- like ; they show'd his back 

above 
The element they liv'd in : In his livery 
Walk'd crowns, and crownets ; realms and 

islands were 
As plates dropp'd from his pocket. 

A. C.,V: 2. 1578. 

— Of a Woman. 

Cleo. Charmian, 

Where think'st thou he is now? Stands he, 

or sits he? 
Or does he walk? or is he on his horse? 
O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony ! 
Do bravely, horse ! for wot'st thou whom 

thou mov'st? 
The demi- Atlas of this earth, the arm 
And burgonet of men. — He 's speaking now, 
Or murmuring, "Where's my serpent of 

old Nile?" 
For so he calls me : Now I feed myself 
With most delicious poison : — Think on me, 
That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches 

black, 



INFATUATION. 



3 08 



INGRATITUDE. 



And wrinkled deep in time? Broad-fronted 

Caesar, 
When thou wast here above the ground. I 

was 
A morsel for a monarch : and great Pompey 
Would stand, and make his eyes grow in 

my brow ; 
There would he anchor his aspect, and die 
With looking on his life. 

A. C.,1: 5. 1546. 

INFIDELITY. — Marital. 

Leon. * * Were my wife's liver 
Infected as her life, she would not live 
The running of one glass. 

W. T.,I: 2. 584. 

INFIRMITIES. — Mutual. 

Host. * * As rheumatic as two dry 
toasts : you cannot one bear with another's 
confirmities. 

H. IV., II : 4. 785. 

— Of a Friend. 

Bru. I do not like your faults. 

Gas. A friendly eye could never see such 

faults. 
Bru. A flatterer's would not, though they 
do appear 
As huge as high Olympus. 

J. C, IV : 3. 1345. 

INFLEXIBILITY.— In a great General. 

Men. So did he me : and he no more re- 
members his mother now, than an eight 
year old horse. The tartness of his face 
sours ripe grapes. When he walks, he 
moves like an engine, and the ground 
shrinks before his treading. He is able 
to pierce a corslet with his eye ; talks 
like a knell, and his hum is a battery. He 
sits in his state, as a thing made for Alexan- 
der. What he bids be done, is finished 
with his bidding. He wants nothing of a 
god but eternity, and a heaven to throne in. 

C.,Y: 4. 1191. 

INGENIOUSNESS. — Transparent. 

D. John. * * I cannot hide what I 
am : I must be sad when I have cause, and 
smile at no man's jests ; eat when I have 
stomach, and wait for no man's leisure ; 
sleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no 
man's business ; laugh when I am merry, 
and claw no man in his humour. 

M.A.,I: 3. 229. 



INGRATITUDE. — A common Crime. 

Poet. When Fortune, in her shift and 
change of mood, 

Spurns down her late belov'd, all his de- 
pendants, 

Which labour'd after him to the mountain's 
top, 

Even on their knees and hands, let him slip 
down, 

Not one accompanying his declining foot. 

T.A.,1: 1. 1287. 

— A Daughter's. 

Lear. * * 
With cadent tears fret channels in her 

cheeks ; 
Turn all her mother's pains, and benefits, 
To laughter and contempt; that she may 

feel 
How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is 
To have a thankless child. 

K. L., 1 : 4. 1452. 

— Aggravation of Cruelty. 

Arth. * * 
Must you with hot irons burn out both mine 
eyes? 
Sub. Young boy, I must. 
Arth. And will you? 

Hub. And I will. 

Arth. Have you the heart? When your 
head did but ache, 
I knit my handkerchief about your brows, 
(The best I had, a princess wrought it me,) 
And I did never ask it you again : 
And with my hand at midnight held your 

head ; 
And, like the watchful minutes to the hour, 
Still and anon cheer'd up the heavy time ; 
Saying, What lack you? and, Where lies 

your grief? 
Or, What good love may I perform for you? 
Many a poor man's son would have lain 

still, 
And ne'er have spoken a loving word to you ; 
But you at your sick service had a prince. 
Nay, you may think my love was crafty love, 
And call it, cunning ; Do, an if you Avill : 
If heaven be pleas'd that you must use me 

ill, 
Why, then you must. — Will you put out 
mine eves? 



INGRATITUDE. 



309 



INGRATITUDE. 



These eyes, that never did, nor never shall, 
So much as frown on you? 

Hub. I have sworn to do it; 

And with hot irons must I burn them out. 
Arth. Ah, none, but in this iron age, 

would do it ! 
The iron of itself, though heat red-hot, 
Approaching near these eyes, would drink 

my tears, 
And quench his fiery indignation, 
Even in the matter of mine innocence : 
Nay, after that, consume away in rust, 
But for containing fire to harm mine eye. 
Are you more stubborn-hard than hammer'd 

iron? 
An if an angel should have come to me, 
And told me Hubert should put out mine 

eyes, 
I would not have believ'd no tongue but 

Hubert's. 

Hub. Come forth. 

K. J., IV : 1. 664. 

— Beyond Words. 

Poet. Sir, 

Having often of your open bounty tasted, 

Hearing you were retir'd, your friends fall'n 
off, 

Whose thankless natures — O abhorred 
spirits ! 

Not all the whips of heaven are large 
enough — 

What ! to you ! 

Whose star-like nobleness gave life and in- 
fluence 

To their whole being ! I 'm rapt, and can- 
not cover 

The monstrous bulk of this ingratitude 

With any size of words. 

T. A., V: 1. 1312. 

— Brute, excusable. 

K.Rich. Rode he on Barbary? Tell me. 
gentle friend, 
How went he under him? 

Groom. So proudly, as if he disdain'd 

the ground. 
K. Rich. So proud that Bolingbroke was 
on his back ! 
That jade hath eat bread from my royal 

hand ; 
This hand hath made him proud with clap- 
ping him. 



Would he not stumble? Would he not fall 

down, 
(Since pride must have a fall,) and break 

the neck 
Of that proud man that did usurp his back? 
Forgiveness, horse ! why do I rail on thee, 
Since thou, created to be aw'd by man, 
Wast born to bear? I was not made a horse ; 
And yet I bear a burden like an ass, 
Spur-gall'd, and tir'd, by jauncing Boling- 
broke. 

R. II, V : 5. 716. 

— Dead to Pity. 

Cor. Had you not been their father, 

these white flakes 
Had challeng'd pity of them. Was this a 

face 
To be exposed against the warring winds? 
To stand against the deep dread-bolted 

thunder? 
In the most terrible and nimble stroke 
Of quick, cross lightning? to watch (poor 

perdu !) 
With this thin helm? Mine enemy's dog, 
Though he had bit me, should have stood 

that night 
Against my fire ; And wast thou fain, poor 

father, 
To hovel thee with swine, and rogues for- 
lorn, 
In short and musty straw? Alack, alack ! 
'T is wonder, that thy life and wits at once 
Had not concluded all. 

K. L. t IV : 7. 1478. 

—Filial. 

Lear. * * Filial ingratitude ! 
Is it not as this mouth should tear this 

hand, 
For lifting food to 't? 

K. L., Ill : 4. 1465. 

Lear. * * 
Ingratitude ! thou marble-hearted fiend, 
More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a 

child, 
Than the sea-monster ! 

K. L., 1 : 4. 1452. 

Lear. * * O most small fault, 
How ugly didst thou in Cordelia show ! 
Which, like an engine, wrenched my frame 
of nature 



INGRATITUDE, 



3IO 



INGRATITUDE. 



From the fix'd place ; drew from my heart 

all love, 
And added to the gall. O Lear, Lear, Lear ! 
Beat at this gate, that let thy folly in, 
And thy dear judgment out. 

K. L.,J: 4. 1452. 

— Hated. 

Ant. * * Do not tempt my miser} 7 , 
Lest that it make me so unsound a man 
As to upbraid you with those kindnesses 
That I have done for you. 

Vio. I know of none ; 

Nor know I you by voice, or any feature : 
I hate ingratitude more in a man 
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunken- 
ness, 
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corrup- 
tion 
Inhabits our frail blood. 

T. 2T., Ill: 4. 561. 

— Its Forgetfulness. 

Ulyss. Time hath, my lord, a wallet at 
his back, 
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, 
A great-sized monster of ingratitudes : 
Those scraps are good deeds past : which 

are devour'd, 
As fast as they are made, forgot as soon 
As done. 

T. a, in : 3. 1125. 

— Killed Caesar. 

Ant. * * 
Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, 
Quite vanquish'd him : then burst his mighty 
heart. 

J. C, III : 2. 1341. 

— Man's. 

Blow, blow, thou winter wind, 

Thou art not so unkind 
As man's ingratitude ; 

Thy tooth is not so keen, 

Because thou art not seen, 
Although thy breath be rude. 
Heigh ho ! sing, heigh ho ! unto the green holly ; 
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. 

Then, heigh ho ! the holly ! 

This life is most jolly ! 



Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, 
That dost not bite so nigh 

As benefits forgot: 
Though thou the waters warp, 
Thy sting is not so sharp 

As friend remember'd not. 
Heigh ho ! sing, heigh ho ! &c. 

A. Y., II : 7. 420. 

— Monstrous. 

3 Cit. Ingratitude is monstrous : and for 
the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make 
a monster of the multitude ; of the which, 
we being members, should bring ourselves 
to be monstrous members. 

&, II: 3. 1165. 

— National. 

Ant. * * 
Through this, the well-beloved Brutus 

stabb'd : 
And, as he pluck'd his cursed steel away, 
Mark how the blood of Cassar follow'd it ; 
As rushing out of doors, to be resolv'd 
If Brutus so unkindly knock'd, or no. 

J. C, III : 2. 1341. 

Mar. I have some wounds upon me, and 
they smart 
To hear themselves remember'd. 

Com. Should they not, 

Well might they fester 'gainst ingratitude, 
And tent themselves with death. 

C, 1 : 9. 1158. 

Sic. Speak briefly then : 

For we are peremptory, to despatch 
This viperous traitor : to eject him hence, 
Were but one danger; and, to keep him 

here, 
Our certain death ; therefore it is decreed. 
He dies to-night. 

Men. Now the good gods forbid, 

That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude 
Towards her deserved children is enrolled 
In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam 
Should now eat up her own ! 

Sic. He 's a disease, that must be cut 

away. 
Men. O, he 's a limb, that has but a dis- 
ease ; 
Mortal to cut it off; to cure it, easy. 
What has he done to Rome, that 's worthy 
death? 



INGRATITUDE. 



311 



INGRATITUDE. 



Killing our enemies? The blood he hath 

lost, 
(Which, I dare vouch, is more than that he 

hath, 
By many an ounce,) he dropp'd it for his 

country, 
AVere to us all, that do 't, and suffer it, 
A brand to the end o' the world. 

C, III : 1. 1172. 

— Popular. 

Flav. * * 
After distasteful looks, and these hard frac- 
tions, 
With certain half-caps, and cold-moving 

nods, 
They froze me into silence. 

T. A., II : 2. 1296. 

Bru. * * 
Of no more soul, or fitness for the world, 
Than camels in their war ; who have their 

provand 
Only for bearing burdens, and sore blows 
For sinking under them. 

C, II: l. 1162. 

— Popular Rebuked. 

Mar. * * 
You blocks, you stones, you worse than 

senseless things ! 
O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, 
Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and 

oft 
Have you climb'd up to walls and battle- 
ments, 
To towers and windows, yea, to chimney- 
tops, 
Your infants in your arms, and there have 

sat 
The live-long day, with perfect expectation, 
To see great Pompey pass the streets of 

Rome : 
And when you saw his chariot but appear, 
Have you not made an universal shout, 
That Tyber trembled underneath her banks, 
To hear the replication of your sounds, 
Made in her concave shores? 
And do you now put on your best attire? 
And do you now cull out a holiday? 
And do you now strew flowers in his way, 
That comes in triumph over Pompey's blood? 
Be gone ; 



Run to your houses, fall upon your knees, 
Pray to the gods to intermit the plague 
That needs must light on this ingratitude. 
J. C, I: 1. 1322. 
— Self -reproaching. 
Dun. * * 
The sin of my ingratitude even now 
Was heavy on me : Thou art so far before, 
That swiftest wing of recompense is slow 
To overtake thee. 'Would thou hadst less 

deserv'd; 
That the proportion both of thanks and pay- 
ment 
Might have been mine ! 



M., I: 4. 1360. 



Stinging. 



York. * * 
I fear me, you but warm the starved snake, 
Who, cherish'd in your breasts, will sting 
your hearts. 

H. VI., 3pt., Ill: 1. 926. 

— The People Infatuated by. 

3 Cit. He said, he had wounds, which he 
could show in private ; 

And with his hat, thus waving it in scorn, 

"I would be consul," says he : " aged cus- 
tom, 

But by your voices, will not so permit me ; 

Your voices therefore :" When we granted 
that, 

Here was, — "I thank you for your voices, — 
thank you, — 

Your most sweet voices: — now you have 
left your voices, 

I have no further with you:" — Was not 

this mockery? 

* * 

Bru. Did you perceive, 

He did solicit you in free contempt, 
When he did need your loves ; and do you 

think, 
That his contempt shall not be bruising to 

you, 
When he hath power to crush? Why, had 

your bodies 
No heart among you? Or had you tongues 

to cry 
Against the rectorship of judgment? 

* * 

Bru. Get you hence instantly ; and tell 
those friends, — 



INGRATITUDE. 



312 



INK. 



They have chose a consul, that will from 
them take 

Their liberties ; make them of no more 
voice 

Than dogs, that are as often beat for bark- 
ing, 

As therefore kept to do so. 

C, II: 3. 1167. 

—To Mothers. 

Vol. * * Thou hast never in thy life 
Show'd thy dear mother any courtesy ; 
When she, (poor hen!) fond of no second 

brood, 
Has cluck'd thee to the wars, and safely 

home, 
Loaden with honour. 

C V: 3. 1190. 

INJURIES.— Real, Insulted. 

K. Rich. * * 
So in the Lethe of thy angry soul 
Thou drown the sad remembrance of those 

Avrongs, 
Which, thou supposest, I have done to thee. 
R. III., IV : 4. 1037. 

— To Others, Deserved. 

Reg. 0, sir, to wilful men, 

The injuries, that they themselves procure, 
Must be their schoolmasters. 

K. Z., II: 4. 1462. 

INJURY. — Estimate of. 

Per. Report thy parentage. I think thou 
said'st 
Thou hadst been toss'd from wrong to in- 
jury, 
And that thou thought 'st thy griefs might 

equal mine, 
If both were open'd. 

P., V: L 1668. 

INJUSTICE. — Affiliates with Foes. 

Cor. * * So, fellest foes, 
Whose passions and whose plots have broke 

their sleep 
To take the one the other, by some chance, 
Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow 

dear friends, 
And interjoin their issues. So with me : — 



My birth-place hate I, and my love 's upon 
This enemy town. — I '11 enter: if he slay 
me. 

C IV: 4. 1179. 

— Heaven Fights against. 

Leon. Apollo 's angry ; and the heavens 
themselves 
Do strike at my injustice. 

W. T., Ill : 2. 595. 

— Not Disguised by Forms. 

Scriv. * * Who is so gross, 

That cannot see this palpable device? 

Yet who so bold, but says — he sees it not? 

Bad is the world, and all will come to 

nought, 

When such bad dealing must be seen in 

thought. 

R. III., Ill : 6. 1027. 

— Of Penalties. 

Escal. Well, heaven forgive him ! and 
forgive us all ! 
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall : 
Some run from brakes of ice, and answer 

none ; 
And some condemned for a fault alone. 

M. M., II : 1. 148. 

— To Public, mean. 

JEd. The people's enemy is gone, is 

gone ! 
Cit. Our enemy 's banish'd ! he is gone ! 

Hoo ! hoo ! 
Sic. Go, see him out at gates, and follow 
him, 
As he hath follow'd you, with all despite; 
Give him deserv'd vexation. Let a guard 
Attend us through the city. 

Cit. Come, come, let us see him out at 
gates ; come : — 
The gods preserve our noble tribunes! — 
Come. 

C, III: 3. 1177. 

INK. — Its License. 

Sir To. Go, write it in a martial hand : 
be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, 
so it be eloquent and full of invention; 
taunt him with the licence of ink : if thou 
thoiist him some thrice, it shall not be 
amiss ; and as many lies as will lie in thy 
sheet of paper, although the sheet were big 



INK. 



313 



INNOCENCE, 



enough for the bed of Ware in England, set 
'em down ; go about it. Let there be gall 
enough in thy ink ; though thou write with 
a goose-pen, no matter : About it. 

T. N., Ill : 2. 556. 

INNOCENCE.— A Life of gentle. 

Mar. Why would she have me kill'd? 
Now, as I can remember, by my troth, 
I never did her hurt in all my life ; 
I never spake bad word, nor did ill turn 
To any living creature : believe me, la, 
I never kill'd a mouse, nor hurt a fly : 
I trod upon a worm against my will, 
But I wept for it. How have I offended, 
Wherein my death might yield her profit, or 
My life imply her danger? 

P., IV : 1. 1660. 

— Awakens Mercy. 

Hub. If I talk to him, with his innocent 
prate 
He will awake my mercy, which lies dead : 
Therefore I will be sudden, and dispatch. 

X. J., IV: 1. 664. 

— Can Stand any Test. 

Hub. If I in act, consent, or sin of 
thought 
Be guilty of the stealing that sweet breath 
Which was embounded in this beauteous 

clay 
Let hell want pains enough to torture me ! 
I left him well. 

K.J.,IV: 3. 670. 

— Defended. 

K. Hen. * * But shall I speak my con- 
science? 
Our kinsman Gloster is as innocent 
From meaning treason to our royal person, 
As is the sucking lamb, or harmless dove : 
The duke is virtuous, mild ; and too well 

given, 
To dream on evil, or to work my downfall. 
H. IV., 2pt.,III: 1. 922. 

— Defends Itself. 

Hub. * * This hand of mine 
Is yet a maiden and an innocent hand, 
Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. 
Within this bosom never enter'd yet 
The dreadful motion of a murd'rous thought, 



And you have slander'd nature in my form ; 
Which, howsoever rude exteriorly, 
Is yet the cover of a fairer mind. 

• K. J., IV: 2. 668. 

— God Avenges injured. 

Q. Eliz. Wilt thou, O God, fly from 
such gentle lambs, 
And throw them in the entrails of the wolf? 
When didst thou sleep when such a deed 
was done? 

R. III., IV: 4. 1034. 

— Has its Fears. 

Des. And yet I fear you ; for you are 
fatal then, 
When your eyes roll so ! why I should fear 

I know not, 
S ince guiltiness I know not ; but yet, I feel 
I fear. 

0., V: 2. 1529. 

— Makes Men bold. 

Buck. Trust no body, for fear you be 

betray 'd. 
Say. The trust I have is in mine inno- 
cence, 
And therefore am I bold and resolute. 

ff.VL, 2pt., IV: 4. 937. 

— Never Winces. 

Ham. * * But what of that? your 
majesty, and we that have free souls, it 
touches us not : Let the galled jade wince, 
our withers are unwrung. 

H., Ill : 2. 1415. 

— Silent, Persuades. 

Paul. * * We do not know 
How he may soften at the sight o' the child ; 
The silence often of pure innocence 
Persuades, when speaking fails. 

W. T., II: 2. 590. 

— Slumbering. 

Tyr. * * 
"0 thus," quoth Dighton, "lay the gentle 

babes, — " 
"Thus, thus," quoth Forrest, "girdling one 

another 
Within their alabaster innocent arms : 



INNOCENCE. 



3H 



INSANITY. 



Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, 

Which in their summer beauty, kiss'd each 

other. 

R. III., IV : 3. 1033. 

— Thrice-armed. 

K. Hen. "What stronger breast-plate than 
a heart untainted? 
Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel 

just; 
And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, 
Whose conscience with injustice is cor- 
rupted. 

H. VI., 2pt., Ill: 2. 929. 

INNOCENT.— Should not Suffer. 

1 Sen. All have not offended ; 

For those that were, it is not square, to take, 
On those that are, revenges ; crimes, like 

lands, 
Are not inherited. 

T. A., V: 5. 1315. 

INNOCENTS. — Not safe. 

Cleo. Some innocents 'scape not the 



thunder-bolt. 



A. C, II: 5.1553. 



INSANITY. — Creates. 

Queen. This is the very coinage of your 
brain : 
This bodiless creation, ecstasy 
Is very cunning in. 
* * 

You do bend your eye on vacancy, 
And with the incorporal air do hold dis- 
course? 

H., Ill : 4. 1419. 

— Its Causes. 

Abb. How long hath this possession held 

the man? 
Adr. This week he hath been heavy, 
sour, sad, 
And much different from the man he was ; 
But, till this afternoon, his passion 
Ne'er brake into extremity of rage. 

Abb. Hath he not lost much wealth by 
wreck of sea? 
Buried some dear friend? Hath not else his 

eye 
Stray 'd his affection in unlawful love? 
A sin prevailing much in youthful men, 



Who give their eyes the liberty of gazing. 
Which of these sorrows is he subject to? 

C. JE., V: 1. 210. 

— Its Ecstasy of Love. 

Pol. * * 
This is the very ecstasy of love ; 
Whose violent property foredoes itself, 
And leads the will to desperate undertak- 
ings, 
As oft as any passion under heaven, 
That does afflict our natures. 

m, II : 1. 1403. 

— Its outward Signs. 

Oph. My lord, as I was sewing in my 

closet, 
Lord Hamlet, — with his doublet all un- 

brac'd; 
No hat upon his head ; his stockings foul'd, 
Ungarter'd, and down-gyved to his ancle ; • 
Pale as his shirt ; his knees knocking each 

other, 
And with a look so piteous in purport, 
As if he had been loosed out of hell, 
To speak of horrors, — he comes before me. 
* * 

He took me by the wrist, and held me hard ; 
Then goes he to the length of all his arm ; 
And, with his other hand thus o'er his brow, 
He falls to such perusal of my face, 
As he would draw it. Long staid he so ; 
At last, — a little shaking of mine arm, 
And thrice his head thus waving up and 

down, — 
He rais'd a sigh so piteous and profound, 
As it did seem to shatter all his bulk, 
And end his being : That done, he lets me 

go: 
And, with his head over his shoulder turn'd, 
He seem'd to find his way without his eyes ; 
For out o' doors he went without their 

helps, 
And, to the last, bended their light on me. 

J7..II: 1. 1402. 

Salar. * * 
Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her 

time ; 
Some that will evermore peep through their 

eyes, 
And laugh, like parrots, at a bagpiper. 

M. V.,I:1. 361. 



INSANITY 



315 



INSIGNIFICANCE. 



— Man's noblest. 

Oph. 0, what a noble mind is here o'er- 

thrown ! 
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, 

tongue, head : 
The expectancy and rose of the fair state, 
The glass of fashion, and the mould of 

form, 
The observ'd of all observers ! quite, quite 

down ! 
And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, 
That suck'd the honey of his music vows, 
Now see that noble and most sovereign 

reason, 
Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and 

harsh ; 
That unmatch'd form and feature of blown 

youth, 
Blasted with ecstasy : 0, woe is me ! 
To have seen what I have seen, see what I 

see ! 

H., Ill : 1. 1411. 

— One Idea a Sign of. 

Edg. Who gives any thing to poor Tom? 
whom the foul fiend hath led through fire 
and through flame, through ford and whirl- 
pool, over bog and quagmire ; that hath laid 
knives under his pillow, and halters in his 
pew ; set ratsbane by his porridge ; made him 
proud of heart, to ride on a bay trotting- 
horse over four-inched bridges, to course 
his own shadow for a traitor : — Bless thy 
five wits ! Tom 's a-cold. — O, do de, do de, 
do de. — Bless thee from Avhirlwinds, star- 
blasting, and taking ! Do poor Tom some 
charity, whom the foul fiend vexes : There 
could I have him now, — and there, — and 
there, — and there again, and there. 

E. L., Ill : 4. 1405. 

— Self-confessed. 

King. And can you, by no drift of con- 
ference, 
Get from him, why he puts on this confu- 
sion; 
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet 
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy? 
Ros. He does confess, he feels himself 
distracted ; 
But from what cause he will by no means 
speak. 
Guil. Nor do we find him forward to be 
sounded ; 
But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof, 



When we would bring him on to some con- 
fession 

Of his true state. 

H. t III : 1. 1410. 

INSENSIBILITY.— Refuge of Cow- 
ardice. 

Gon. * * 
'T is the cOwish terror of his spirit, 
That dares not undertake : he '11 not feel 

wrongs, 
Which tie him to an answer. 

E.L.,IV: 2. 1471. 

INSEPARABILITY.— Of true Lovers. 

Adr. * * 
How comes it now, my husband, oh, how 

comes it, 
That thou art then estranged from thyself? 
Thyself I call it, being strange to me, 
That, undividable, incorporate, 
Am better than thy dear self s better part. 
Ah, do not tear away thyself from me ; 
For know, my love, as easy mayst thou 

fall 
A drop of water in the breaking gulf, 
And take unmingled thence that drop again, 
Without addition or diminishing, 
As take from me thyself, and not me too. 

C.E., II: 2. 198. 

INSIGNIFICANCE.— Barks at Great- 
ness. 

Lear. The little dogs and all, 
Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they 
bark at me. 

K. L., Ill : 6. 1468. 

— Its Safety. 

K. lien. O piteous spectacle ! O bloody 
times ! 
Whilst lions war, and battle for their dens, 
Poor harmless lambs abide their enmity. 

//. FY.,3pt., II: 4. 968. 

— Of disturbing Agencies. 

Des. * * Something, sure, of state, — 
Either from Venice ; or some unhatch'd 

practice, 
Made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him, 
Hath puddled his clear spirit : and, in such 

cases, 
Men's natures wrangle with inferior things, 



INSIGNIFICANCE, 



3l6 



INSINUATIONS. 



Though great ones are their object. 'T is 

even so : 
For let our finger ache, and it indues 
Our other healthful members ev'n to that 

sense 
Of pain : Nay, we must think, men are not 

gods ; 
Nor of them look for such observances 
As fit the bridal. 

0., Ill: 4. 1517. 

— Of Men to the gods. 

Glo. * * 
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods ; 
They kill us for their sport. 

K. L., IV: 1. 1471. 

INSIGNIFICANT.— Danger of Neg- 
lecting the. 
Clar. A little fire is quickly trodden out ; 
Which being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. 
H. VI., 3pt., IV: 8. 985. 

INSINCERITY. — Superlative. 

Tro. Cressid ! false Cressid ! false, 
false, false ! 
Let all untruths stand by thy stained name, 
And they '11 seem glorious. 

T. C.,V: 2. 1139. 

— Woman's. 

Tro. This she? no, this is Diomed's 
Cressida : 
If beauty have a soul, this is not she ; 
If souls guide vows, if vows be sanctimony, 
If sanctimony be the gods' delight, 
If there be rule in unity itself, 
This was not she. O madness of discourse, 
That cause sets up with and against itself! 
Bi-fold authority ! where reason can revolt 
Without perdition, and loss assume all rea- 
son 
Without revolt ; this is, and is not. Cressid ! 
Within my soul there doth commence a fight 
Of this strange nature, that a thing insepa- 

rate 
Divides more wider than the sky and earth ; 
And yet the spacious breadth of this division 
Admits no orifice for a point, as subtle 
As is Arachne's broken woof, to enter. 
Instance, O instance ! strong as Pluto's 
gates ; 



Cressid is mine, tied with the bonds of 
heaven ; 

Instance, instance ! strong as heaven it- 
self: 

The bonds of heaven are slipp'd, dissolv'd, 
and loos'd ; 

And with another knot, five-finger-tied, 

The fractions of her faith, orts of her love, 

The fragments, scraps, the bits, and greasy 
reliques 

Of her o'er-eaten faith, are bound to Diomed. 
J. C, V : 2. 1138. 

INSINUATION — Cautious when 
Base. 

Glo. Go, after, after, cousin Bucking- 
ham. 
The mayor towards Guildhall hies him in 

all post : — 
There, at your meetest vantage of the time, 
Infer the bastardy of Edward's children : 
Tell them, how Edward put to death a citi- 
zen, 
Only for saying — he would make his son 
Heir to the crown; meaning, indeed, his 

house, 
Which, by the sign thereof, was termed so. 
Moreover, urge his hateful luxury, 
And bestial appetite in change of lust ; 
Which stretch'd unto their servants, daugh- 
ters, wives, 
Even where his raging eye, or savage heart, 
Without control, listed to make his prey. 
Nay, for a need, thus far come near my per- 
son : — 
Tell them, when that my mother went with 

child 
Of that insatiate Edward, noble York, 
My princely father, then had wars in France ; 
And, by just computation of the time, 
Found, that the issue was not his begot; 
Which well appeared in his lineaments, 
Being nothing like the noble duke my father. 
Yet touch this sparingly, as 't were far off; 
Because, my lord, you know, my mother 
lives. 

R. III., in: 5. 1026. 

INSINUATIONS. — Adroit. 

Oth. What dost thou say, Iago ? 

Iago. Did Michael Cassio, when you 
woo'd my lady, 
Know of your love? 



INSINUATIONS. 



317 



INSOLVENCY. 



Oth. He did, from first to last : Why 

dost thou ask? 
Iago. But for a satisfaction of my 
thought ; 
No further harm. 

Oth. Why of thy thought, Iago? 

• Iago. I did not think, he had been ac- 
quainted with her. 
Oth. O, yes ; and went between us very 

oft. 
Iago. Indeed? 

Oth. Indeed! ay, indeed: — Discern'st 
thou aught in that? 
Is he not honest? 

Iago. Honest, my lord? 

Oth. Ay, honest. 

Iago. My lord, for aught I know. 
Oth. What dost thou think? 
Iago. Think, my lord? 

Oth. Think, my lord ! 

By heaven, he echoes me, 
As if there were some monster in his thought 
Too hideous to be shown. — Thou dost mean 

something : 
I heard thee say but now, — Thou lik'dst 

not that, 
When Cassio left my wife : What did'st not 

like? 
And, when I told thee — he was of my coun- 
sel 
In my whole course of wooing, thou cry'dst, 

"Indeed?" 
And did'st contract and purse thy brow to- 
gether, 
As if thou then had'st shut up in thy brain 
Some horrible conceit : If thou dost love 

me, 
Show me thy thought. 

0., Ill : 3. 1510. 

— The Superlative of Base. 

Iach. I never saw him sad. 

There is a Frenchman his companion, one 
An eminent monsieur, that, it seems, much 

loves 
A Gallian girl at home : he furnaces 
The thick sighs from him; whiles the jolly 

Briton 
(Your lord, I mean,) laughs from 's free 

lungs, cries, "O ! 
Can my sides hold, to think, that man, — 

who knows 



By history, report, or his own proof, 
What woman is, yea, what she cannot choose 
But must be, — will his free hours languish 

for 
Assured bondage?" 

* * 

Imo. I pray you, sir, 

Deliver with more openness your answers 
To my demands. Why do you pity me? 

* * 

Iach. That others do, 

I was about to say, enjoy your But 

It is an office of the gods to venge it, 
Not mine to speak on 't. 

Ci/m., 1 : 7. 1596. 

— Turn Virtue into Pitch. 

Iago. * * For while this honest fool 
Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes, 
And she for him pleads strongly to the 

Moor, 
I '11 pour this pestilence into his ear, — 
That she repels him for her body's lust ; 
And, by how much she strives to do him 

good, 
She shall undo her credit with the Moor. 
So will I turn her virtue into pitch ; 
And out of her own goodness make the net 
That shall enmesh them all. 

0., II : 3. 1508. 

INSOLVENCY. — Mistakes concern- 
ing. 

Flav. O my good lord ! 

At many times I brought in my accounts, 
Laid them before you ; you would throw 

them off, 
And say, you found them in mine honesty. 
When, for some trifling present, you have 

bid me 
Return so much, I have shook my head, and 

wept; 
Yea, 'gainst the authority of manners, pray'd 

you 
To hold your hand more close : I did endure 
Not seldom, nor no slight checks ; when I 

have 
Prompted you, in the ebb of your estate, 
And your great flow of debts. My dear- 

lov'd lord, 
Though you hear now, (too late !) yet now 's 

a time, 



INSOLVENCY. 



318 



INSTRUMENTS. 



The greatest of your having lacks a half 
To pay your present debts. 

Tim. Let all my land be sold. 

Flav. 'T is all engag'd, some forfeited 
and gone ; 
And what remains will hardly stop the 

mouth 
Of present dues : the future comes apace : 
What shall defend the interim? and at 

length 
How goes our reckoning? 

Tim. To Lacedaemon did my land ex- 
tend. 
Flav. O my good lord, the world is but 
a word ; 
Were it all yours to give it in a breath, 
How quickly were it gone ! 

Tim. You tell me true. 

Flav. If you suspect my husbandry, or 
falsehood, 
Call me before the exactest auditors, 
And set me on the proof. So the gods bless 

me, 
When all our offices have been oppress'd 
With riotous feeders ; when our vaults have 

wept 
With drunken spilth of wine ; when every 

room 
Hath blaz'd with lights, and bray'd with 

minstrelsy ; 
I have retir'd me to a wasteful cock, 
And set mine eyes at flow. 

T.A.,11: 2. 1295. 

INSPIRATION.— Love Needed for. 

Biron. * * 
Never durst poet touch a pen to write, 
Until his ink were temper'd with Love's 
sighs. 

L. £., IV: 3. 291. 

— Needed for Success. 

Mor. * * But now the bishop 
Turns insurrection to religion : 
Suppos'd sincere and holy in his thoughts, 
He 's follow 'd both with body and with mind ; 
And doth enlarge his rising with the blood 
Of fair king Richard, scrap'd from Pomfret 

stones : 
Derives from heaven his quarrel, and his 

cause ; 
Tells them, he doth bestride a bleeding land, 



Gasping for life under great Bolingbroke ; 
And more, and less, do flock to follow him. 
H. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 1. 776. 

INSTABILITY.— Of Character. 

Beat. Very easily possible. He wears 
his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it 
ever changes with the next block. • 

M. A., 1 : 1. 226. 

INSTINCT.— Excuse for Cowardice. 

Fal. By the Lord, I knew ye, as well as 
he that made ye. Why, hear ye, my mas- 
ters : Was it for me to kill the heir appar- 
ent? Should I turn upon the true prince? 
Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as 
Hercules : but beware instinct ; the lion 
will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a 
great matter; I was a coward on instinct. 
I shall think the better of myself and thee, 
during my life ; I, for a valiant lion, and 
thou for a true prince. But, by the Lords, 

lads, I am glad you have the money. 

Hostess, clap to the doors ; 'watch to-night, 
pray to-morrow. — Gallants, lads, boys, 
hearts of gold, All the titles of good fellow- 
ship come to you ! What, shall we be 
merry? shall we have a play extempore? 

H. IV., 1 pt., II : 4. 741. 

— Paternal. 

Per. .* * 
My dearest wife was like this maid, and 

such a one 
My daughter might have been : my queen's 

square brows ; 
Her statute to an inch : as wand-like 

straight ; 
As silver voic'd; her eyes as jewel-like, 
And cas'd as richly : in pace another Juno ; 
Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes 

hungry, 
The more she gives them speech. 

P., V: 1. 1668. 

INSTRUMENT.— Poor. 

Cleo. * * How poor an instrument 
May do a noble deed ! he brings me liberty. 
A. C, V: 2. 1581. 

INSTRUMENTS. — Coarse, Suited to 
some Ends. 

Ulyss. This 't is : 
Blunt wedges rive hard knots. 

T. C.,1: 3. 1111. 



INSULT. 



319 



INTENTIONS. 



INSULT. — Desire to Resent. 

Ther. I would, thou didst itch from 
head to foot, and I had the scratching of 
thee ; I would make thee the loathsom- 
est scab in Greece. 

T. C.,11: 1. 1112. 

— Premeditated. 

Q. Mar. * * 
Give me my fan : What, minion ! can you 

not? 
I cry you mercy, madam : Was it you? 
Duch. Was 't I? yea, I it was, proud 
Frenchwoman : 
Could I come near your beauty with my 

nails, 
I'd set my ten commandments in your face. 
K. Hen. Sweet aunt, be quiet ; 't was 

against her will. 
Duch. Against her will ! Good king, 
look to 't in time ; 
She '11 hamper thee, and dandle thee like a 

baby : 
Though in this place most master wear no 

breeches, 
She shall not strike dame Eleanor unre- 
venged. 

H. VI., 2 pt., 1 : 3. 913. 

— Threatened, Resented. 

Ther. * * Thou scurvy valiant ass ! 
thou art here put to thrash Trojans : and 
thou art bought and sold among those of 
any wit, like a Barbarian slave. If thou 
use to beat me, I will begin at thy heel, and 
tell what thou art by inches, thou thing of 
no bowels, thou ! 

T. C.,II:1. 1112. 

INTELLECT.— Human, diversified. 

1 (Jit. And to make us no better thought 
of, a little help will serve : for once, when 
we stood up about the corn, he himself 
stuck not to call us the many-headed multi- 
tude. 

3 Cit. We have been called so of many ; 
not that our heads are some brown, some 
black, some auburn, some bald, but that our 
wits are so diversely coloured : and truly I 
think, if all our wits were to issue out of 
one skull, they would fly east, west, north, 
south ; and their consent of one direct way 
should be at once to all the points o' the 
compass. 

2 Cit. Think you so? Which way, do 
you judge, my wit would fly? 

3 Cit. Nay, your wit will not so soon 



out at another man's will, 't is strongly 
wedged up in a block-head : but if it were 
at liberty, 't would, sure, southward. 

2 Cit. Why that way? 

3 Cit. To lose itself in a fog ; where be- 
ing three parts melted away witli rotten 
dews, the fourth would return for con- 
science sake, to help to yet thee a wife. 

C, II : 3. 1065. 

INTELLIGENCE. — Enriches. 

Pet. * * 
For 't is the mind that makes the body ricn, 
And as the sun breaks through the darkest 
clouds. 

T. S., IV : 3. 477. 

INTEMPERANCE. — (See Drunken- 
ness.) 
Claud. As surfeit is the father of much 
fast, 
So every scope, by the immoderate use, 
Turns to restraint. 

M. M.,I: 2. 145. 

Cas. * * 0, that men should put an 
enemy in their mouths, to steal away their 
brains ! That we should, with joy, revel, 
pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves 
into beasts ! 

0., II : 3. 1507. 

INTENTIONS. — Defeated. 

Dio. That were to blow at fire, in hope 

to quench it ; 

For who digs hills because they do aspire, 

Throws down one mountain, to cast up a 

higher. 

P., I: 4. 1646. 

— Give Value. 

Wall. In this same interlude, it doth be- 
fall, 
That I, one Snout by name, present a wall : 
And such a wall as I would have you think, 
That had in it a cranny 'd hole, or chink, 
Through which the lovers, Pyramus and 

Thisbe, 
Did whisper often very secretly. 
This loam, this rough-cast, and this stone 

doth show 
That I am that same wall ; the truth is so : 
And this the cranny is, right and sinister, 
Through which the fearful lovers are to 

whisper. 

M.N.,Y: 1. 343. 



INTENTIONS. 



320 



INTOXICATION. 



— Not punishable. 

Isab. * * 
His act did not o'ertake his bad intent, 
And must be buried but as an intent 
That perish 'd by the way : thoughts are no 

subjects, — 
Intents but merely thoughts. 

M. M.,V: 1. 175. 

— Unfulfilled. 

% France. Is it but this? a tardiness in 
nature, 
Which often leaves the history unspoke, 
That it intends to do? 

K. L., 1 : 1. 1446. 

INTERCESSION.— For a Brother. 

Isab. I have a brother is condemn 'd to 
die : 
I do beseech you, let it be his fault, 
And not my brother ! 

Prov. Heaven give thee moving graces ! 
Ang. Condemn the fault and not the 
actor of it? 
Why, every fault 's condemn'd, ere it be 

done : 
Mine were the very cipher of a function, 
To fine the faults, whose fine stands in record, 
And let go by the actor. 

Isab. O just but severe law ! 

I had a brother then. — Heaven keep your 
honour ! 

M. jr., II: 2. 151. 

— With Heaven. 

Isab. * * 
Lord Angelo, having affairs to heaven, 
Intends you for his swift ambassador, 
Where you shall be an everlasting leiger. 

M. If., Ill: 1. 157. 

INTERFERENCE.— Dangerous. 

Lear. Peace, Kent ! 
Come not between the dragon and his wrath. 
K. L., 1 : 1. 1444. 

INTERMEDDLER— Rebuked. 

Duke. You were not bid to speak. 
Lucio. No, my good lord; 

Nor wish'd to hold my peace. 

Duke. I wish you now then ; 



Pray you, take note of it : and when you 

have 
A business for yourself, pray heaven you 

then 
Be perfect. 

Lucio. I warrant your honour. 

Duke. The warrant 's for yourself; take 

heed to 't. 
Isab. This gentleman told something of 

my tale. 
Lucio. Right. 

Duke. It may be right; but you are i' 
the wrong 
To speak before your time. 

M.M.,Y: 1. 171. 

INTOXICATION.— Relation to Quar- 
relsomeness. 

1 Neigh. Here, neighbour Horner, I drink 
to you in a cup of sack : And fear not, neigh- 
bour, you shall do well enough. 

2 Neigh. And here, neighbour, here 's a 
cup of charneco. 

3 Neigh. And here 's a pot of good double 
beer, neighbour : drink, and fear not your 
man. 

Hor. Let it come, i' faith, and I '11 pledge 
you all : And a fig for Peter ! 

1 Pren. Here, Peter, I drink to thee ; 
and be not afraid. 

2 Pren. Be merry, Peter, and fear not 
thy master ; fight for credit of the 'prentices. 

Peter. I thank you all : drink, and pray 
for me, I pray you : for, I think, I have 
taken my last draught in this world. — Here, 
Robin, an if I die, I give thee my apron; 
and. Will, thou shalt have my hammer : — 
and here, Tom, take all the money that I 
have. — O Lord, bless me, I pray God! for 
I am never able to deal with 'my master, he 
hath learnt so much fence already. 

Sal. Come, leave your drinking, and fall 
to blows. — Sirrah, what 's thy name? 

Peter. Peter, forsooth. 

Sal. Peter! what more? 

refer. Thump. 

Sal. Thump! then see thou thump thy 
master well. 

Hor. Masters, I am come hither, as it 
vere, upon my man's instigation, to prove 
aim a knave, and myself an honest man : 
ind touching the duke of York, — will take 
my death, I never meant him any ill, nor 
the king, nor the queen : And therefore, 
Peter, have at thee with a downright blow. 

//. VI., 2pt.,Il: 3. 920. 



INTREPIDITY. 



321 



INVOCATION. 



INTREPIDITY. — Defies Danger. 

Co r. Let them pull all about mine ears ; 
present me 
Death on the wheel, or at wild horses' 

heels ; 
Or pile ten hills on the Tarpeian rock, 
That the precipitation might down stretch 
Below the beam of sight, yet will I still 
Be thus to them. 

C, III : 2. 1173. 

INTRIGUE. — Complicated and Law- 
ful. 

Suf. Madam, myself have lin'd a bush 
for her, 
And plac'd a quire "of such enticing birds, 
That she will light to listen to the lays, 
And never mount to trouble you again. 
So, let her rest : And, madam, list to me ; 
For I am bold to counsel you in this. 
Although we fancy not the cardinal, 
Yet must we join with him, and with the 

lords, 
Till we have brought duke Humphrey in 

disgrace. 
As for the duke of York, — this late com- 
plaint 
Will make but little for his benefit : 
So, one by one, we '11 weed them all at last, 
And you yourself shall steer the happy 
helm. 

H. VI., 2pt., I: 3. 912. 

INTROSPECTION— Demands Seclu- 
sion. 

K. Hen. * * 
I and my bos<5m must debate a while, 
And then I would no other company. 

H. V., IV : 1. 840. 

INTRUSION— Impertinent, Punished. 

Fal. * * And in the height of this 
bath, when I was more than half stew'd in 
grease, like a Dutch dish, to be thrown into 
the Thames, and cool'd, glowing hot, in 
that surge, like a horse-shoe ; think of that, 
— hissing hot, — think of that, master Brook. 

M. W., Ill : 5. 109. 

— Witless. 

Bern. Chiron, thy years want wit, thy 
wit wants edge, 



And manners, to intrude where I am grac'd ; 
And may, for aught thou know'st, affected 



be. 



Tit. And., II: 1. 1207. 



INVASION. — Habitual. 

K. Hen. * * 
For you shall read, that my great grand- 
father 
Never went with his forces into France, 
But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd king- 
dom 
Came pouring, like the tide into a breach, 
With ample and brim fulness of his force ; 
Galling the gleaned land with hot essays. 

H. V., 1 : 2. 822. 

INVOCATION. -Lear's, to Nature. 

Lear. Blow, winds, and crack your 
cheeks ! rage ! blow ! 
You cataracts, and hurricanoes, spout 
Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd 

the cocks ! 
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires, 
Vaunt couriers to oak-cleavingthunder-bolts, 
Singe my white head ! And thou, all shaking 

thunder, 
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world ! 
Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at 

once, 
That make ingrateful man ! 

Fool. O nuncle, court holy-water in a 
dry house is better than this rain-water out 
o' door. Good nuncle, in, and ask thy 
daughters' blessing; here 's a night pities 
neither wise men nor fools. 

Lear. Rumble thy bellyfull ! Spit, fire ! 
spout, rain ! 
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daugh- 
ters : 
I tax not you, you elements, with unkind- 

ness, 
I never gave you kingdom, call'd you chil- 
dren ; 
You owe me no subscription ; why then let 

fall 
Your horrible pleasure ; here I stand, your 

slave, 
A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man : 
But yet I call you servile ministers, 
That have with two pernicious daughters 

joined 
Your high-engender'd battles, 'gainst a head 
So old and white as this. O ! O ! 't is foul ! 
K. L., Ill : 2. 1403. 



IRREVERENCE. 



322 



JEALOUSY. 



IRREVERENCE. — Ud reasonable. 

Gre. * * Quaff'd off the muscadel 
And threw the sops all in the sexton's face ; 
Having no other reason, — 
But that his beard grew thin and hungerly, 
And seem'd to ask him sops as he was 
drinking. 



T. S., Ill : 2. 



ISOLATION.— Leads to Conceit 

Imo. * * 
Hath Britain all the sun that shines? Day, 

night, 
Are they not but in Britain? I' the world's 

volume 
Our Britain seems as of it, but not in it ; 
In a great pool, a swan's nest : Pr'ythee, 

think 
There 's livers out of Britain. 

Cym., Ill: 4. 1609. 



J 



JEALOUSY.— A Green-Eyed Mon- 
ster. 
Iago. O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; 

It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth 
mock 

The meat it feeds on : That cuckold lives in 
bliss 

Who, certain of his fate, loves not his 
wronger ; 

But, O, what damned minutes tells he 
o'er, 

Who dotes, yet doubts ; suspects, yet 
strongly loves ! 
Oth. O misery ! 

O., Ill : 3. 1511. 

— Belligerent. 

Win. * * 
And that engenders thunder in his breast, 
And makes him roar these accusations forth. 
H. F7., lpt.,III: 1. 878. 

Cleo. By Isis, I will give thee bloody 
teeth, 
If thou with Caesar paragon again 
My man of men ! 

A. C, 1 : 5. 1547. 

— Born upon Itself. 

Emil. But jealous souls will not be an- 
swer'd so ; 
They are not ever jealous for the cause, 
But jealous for they are jealous : 'tis a 

monster, 
Begot upon itself, born on itself. 

0., Ill: 4. 1517. 



— Dangerous. 

Cam. Good, my lord, be^cur'd 

Of this diseas'd opinion, and betimes ; 
For 't is most dangerous. 

W. T., 1 : 2. 584. 

— Determined. 

Eos. * * I will be more jealous of 
thee than a Barbary cock-pigeon over his 
hen. 

A. Y., IV: 1. 430. 

— Despises Itself. 

Oth. * * I had rather be a toad, 

And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, 

Than keep a corner in the thing I love, 

For others' uses. 

0., Ill: 3. 1513. 

— Extreme. 

Fal. * * Ford, her husband, hath the 
finest mad devil of jealousy in him, master 
Brook, that ever govern'd frenzy. 

M. W., V : 1. 117. 

— Hard to Satisfy. 

Ford. Help to search my house this one 
time : If I find not what I seek, show no 
colour for my extremity ; let me for ever be 
your table-sport; let them say of me, As 
jealous as Ford, that search'd a hollow wal- 
nut for his wife's leman. Satisfy me once 
more ; once more search with me. 

M. W., IV : 2. 112. 

— Heaven Praised for. 

Ford. * * My heart is ready to crack 
with impatience. — Who says this is improv- 
ident jealousy? My wife hath sent to him, 



JEALOUSY. 



323 



JEALOUSY. 



the hour is fix'd, the match is made. Would 
any man have thought this? — See the hell 
of having a false woman ! My bed shall be 
alms'd, my coffers ransack'd, my reputation 
gnawn at; and I shall not only receive this 
villainous wrong, but stand under the adop- 
tion of abominable terms, and by him that 
does me this wrong. Terms! names! — 
Amaimon sounds well ; Lucifer, well ; Bar- 
bason, well ; yet they are devil's additions, 
the names of fiends ! but cuckold ! wittol- 
cuckold ! the devil himself hath not such a 
name. Page is an ass, a secure ass ! he will 
trust his wife ; he will not be jealous. I will 
rather trust a Fleming with my butter, par- 
son Hugh the Welchman with my cheese, an 
Irishman with my aqua-vitae bottle, or a thief 
to walk my ambling gelding, than my wife 
with herself: then she plots, then she rumi- 
nates, then she devises; and what they think 
in their hearts they may effect, they will 
break their hearts but they w r ill effect 
Heaven be prais'd for my jealousy! — 
Eleven o'clock the hour. — I will prevent 
this, detect my wife, be reveng'd on Falstaff, 
and laugh at Page. I will about it; better 
three hours too soon than a minute too late. 
Fie, fie, fie! cuckold! cuckold! cuckold! 

M. W., II : 2. 100. 

— Impossible to Some. 

Emil. Is he not jealous? 

Des. Who, he? I think the sun where 
he was born, 
Drew all such humours from him. 

0., Ill : 4. 1515. 

— Its Suggestions. 

Bru. That you do love me, I am nothing 

jealous ; 
What you would work me to, I have some 

aim; 
How I have thought of this, and of these 

times, 
I shall recount hereafter ; for this present, 
I would not, so with love I might entreat 

you, 

Be any further mov'd. What you have 

said, 
I will consider : what you have to say, 
I will with patience hear : and find a time 
Both meet to hear, and answer, such high 

things. 
Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this ; 
Brutus had rather be a villager, 
Than to repute himself a son of Rome 
Under these hard conditions as this time 
Is like to lay upon us. 



Cas. I am glad, that my weak words 
Have struck but thus much show of fire 
from Brutus. 

J. C.,I: 2. 1325. 

— Katharina's. 

Kath. * * Nay, now I see 
She is your treasure, she must have a hus- 
band ; 
I must dance barefoot on her wedding-day, 
And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell. 
Talk not to me. I will go sit and weep, 
Till I can find occasion of revenge. 

T. S.,Il: 1. 461. 

— Leads to Contempt. 

Pol. The king hath on him such a coun- 
tenance 

As he had lost some province, and a region 

Lov'd as he loves himself: even now I met 
him 

With customary compliment ; when he, 

Wafting his eyes to the contrary, and fall- 
ing 

A lip of much contempt, speeds from me ; 
and 

So leaves me, to consider what is breeding 

That changes thus his manners. 

W. T.,1: 2. 585. 

— Meditating Revenge. 

Iago. That Cassio loves her, I do well 

believe it; 
That she loves him, 't is apt, and of great 

credit : 
The Moor — howbeit that I endure him 

not, — 
Is of a constant, loving, noble nature ; 
And, I dare think, he '11 prove to Desde- 

mona 
A most dear husband. Now I do love her 

too ; 
Not out of absolute lust, (though, perad- 

venture, 
I stand accountant for as great a sin,) 
But partly led to diet my revenge, 
For that I do suspect the lusty Moor 
Hath, leap'd into my seat : - the thought 

whereof 
Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my 

inwards 
And nothing can or shall content my soul, 



JEALOUSY. 



3H 



JEALOUSY 



Till I am even with him, wife for wife : 
Or, failing so, yet that I put the Moor 
At least into a jealousy so strong 
That judgment cannot cure. 

0.,U: 1.1503. 

— Misinterprets. 

Casca. * * I saw Mark Antony offer 
him a crown; — yet 't was not a crown 
neither, 't was one of these coronets, — and, 
as I told you, he put it by once ; but, for 
all that, to my thinking, he would fain have 
had it. Then he offered it to him again; 
then he put it by again : but, to my think- 
ing, he was very loath to lay his fingers off 
it. And then he offered it the third time ; 
he put it the third time by : and still as 
he refused it, the rabblement hooted, and 
clapped their chopped hands, and threw up 
their sweaty night-caps, and uttered such a 
deal of stinking breath because Csesar re- 
fused the crown, that it had almost choked 
Caesar ; for he swooned, and fell down at it : 
And for mine own part, I durst not laugh, 
for fear of opening my lips and receiving 
the bad air. 

J. C, 1 : 2. 1325. 

— Not a French Fashion. 

Eva. This is ferry fantastical humours 
and jealousies. 

Caius. By gar 't is no de fashion of 
France : it is not jealous in France. 

M, W., Ill : 3. 106. 

— Satisfied with Trifles. 

Iago. * * Trifles, light as air, 
Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong 
As proofs of holy writ. This may do some- 
thing. 
The Moor already changes with my poison : 
Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, 

poisons, 
Which, at the first, are scarce found to dis- 
taste ; 
But, with a little act upon the blood, 
Burn like the mines of sulphur. — I did say 

so : — 
Look, where he comes ! Not poppy, nor 

mandragora, 
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, 
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep 
Which thou ow'dst yesterday. 

0., Ill : 3. 1513. 

— Self -harming. 

Adr. Unfeeling fools can with such 
wrongs dispense ! 



I know his eye doth homage otherwhere ; 
Or else, what lets it but he would be here? 
Sister, you know he promis'd me a chain ; — 
Would that alone alone he would detain, 
So he would keep fair quarter with his bed ! 
I see, the jewel best enamelled 
Will lose his beauty, yet the gold 'bides still, 
That others touch ; and often touching will 
Wear gold ; and no man, that hath a name, 
By falsehood and corruption doth it shame ! 
Since that my beauty cannot please his eye, 
I '11 weep what 's left away, and weeping die. 
Luc. How many fond fools serve mad 
jealousy ! 

C. E., II : 1. 196. 

— Stings. 

' Edm. * * 

Each jealous of the other, as the stung 
Are of the adder. 

K. L. t V : 1. 1481. 

Women's, drive Men to Madness. 

Abb. And thereof came it that the man 
was mad : 
The venom clamours of a jealous woman 
Poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. 

C.E.,V: 1. 210. 

— Wrong in Everything. 

Leon. Is whispering nothing? 

Is leaning cheek to cheek? is meeting noses? 

Kissing with inside lip? stopping the career 

Of laughter with a sigh? (a note infallible 

Of breaking honesty :) horsing foot on foot? 

Skulking in corners? wishing clocks more 
swift? 

Hours, minutes? noon, midnight? and all 
eyes 

Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs 
only 

That would unseen be wicked? is this noth- 
ing? 

Why, then the world, and all that 's in 't, is 
nothing ; 

The covering sky is nothing ; Bohemia noth- 
ing; 

My wife is nothing ; nor nothing have these 
nothings, 

If this be nothing. 

W.T.,1: 2. 584. 



JEST. 



325 



JOAN OF ARC. 



JEST. — Appreciation of a. 

Eos. * * 
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear 
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue 
Of him that makes it. 

L. L., V : 2. 304. 

— Ignorant. 

Bom. He jests at scars that never felt a 
wound. 

R. J., II : 2. 1251. 

— Stupidly plain. 

Speed. O jest unseen, inscrutable, in- 
visible, 
As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock 
on a steeple ! 

T. G., II : 1. 53. 

JESTING. — Untimely. 

Ant. S. Because that I familiarly some- 
times 
Do use you for my fool, and chat with you, 
Your sauciness will jest upon my love, 
And make a common of my serious hours. 
When the sun shines, let foolish gnats make 

sport, 
But creep in crannies when he hides his 

beams. 
If you will jest with me, know my aspect, 
And fashion your demeanour to my looks, 
Or I will beat this method in your sconce. 

C. E.,H: 2. 197. 

— "Wit in great Men. 

Isab. * * 
Great men may jest with saints : 't is wit in 

them ; 
But in the less foul profanation. 

M. M., II : 2. 152. 

JESTS.— Braggarts', never Hurt. 

Bene. Fare you well, boy ! you know 
my mind ; I will leave you now to your 
gossip-like humour : you break jests as 
braggarts do their blades, which, God be 
thanked, hurt not. 

M. A., Y : 1. 251. 

JEW. — His social Relation. 

Bass. If it please you to dine with us. 

Shy. Yes, to smell pork ! to eat of the 
habitation which your prophet, the Nasarite, 
conjured the devil into ! I will buy with 



you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with 
you, and so following; but I will not eat 
with you, drink with you, nor pray with 
you. 

M. V., 1 : 3. 365. 

JEWELS.— Win Women. 

Val. Win her with gifts, if she respect 
not words ; 
Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, 
More than quick words, do move a woman's 
mind. 

T. G.,III: 1. 60. 

JOAN OF ARC — Courage and Prow- 
ess. 

Char. Thou hast astonish'd me with thy 

high terms ; 

Only this proof I '11 of thy valour make, — 

In single combat thou shalt buckle with me ; 

And, if thou vanquishest, thy words are 

true ; 
Otherwise, I renounce all confidence. 

Puc. I am prepar'd; here is my keen- 
edg'd sword, 
Deck'd with five flower-de-luces on each 

side ; 
The which at Touraine, in Saint Katharine's 

churchyard, 
Out of a deal of old iron I chose forth. 
Char. Then come o' God's name, I fear 

no woman. 
Puc. And, while I live, I '11 ne'er fly 

from a man. 
Char. Stay, stay thy hands ; thou art an 
Amazon, 
And lightest with the sword of Deborah. 
Puc. Christ's mother helps me, else I 

were too weak. 
Char. Whoe'er helps thee, 't is thou that 
must help me : 
Impatiently I burn with thy desire ; 
My heart and hands thou hast at once 

subdu'd. 
Excellent Pucelle, if thy name be so, 
Let me thy servant, and not sovereign, be ; 
'T is the French Dauphin sueth to thee thus. 
H. VI., 1 pt., 1 : 2. 867. 

— Her Birth and Calling. 
Puc. First, let me tell yqu whom you 
have condemn'd : 
Not me begotten of a shepherd swain, 



JOAN OF ARC. 



326 



JOAN OF ARC. 



But issu'd from the progeny of kings ; 

Virtuous, and holy ; chosen from above, 

By inspiration of celestial grace, 

To work exceeding miracles on earth. 

I never had to do with wicked spirits : 

* * Joan of Arc hath been 

A virgin from her tender infancy, 

Chaste and immaculate in every thought ; 

Whose maiden blood, thus rigorously efFus'd, 

Will cry for vengeance at the gates of 

heaven. 

H. F/.,lpt., V: 4. 895. 

— Her Discernment. 

Puc. Reignier, is 't thou that thinkest to 

beguile me? — 

Where is the Dauphin? — come, come from 

behind ; 

I know thee well, though never seen before. 

Be not amaz'd, there 's nothing hid from me : 

In private will I talk with thee apart ; — 

Stand back, you lords, and give us leave a 

while. 

H. VI, lpt.,1: 2. 867. 

— Her Ruse at Rouen. 

Puc. These are the city gates, the gates 
of Rouen, 
Through which our policy must make a 

breach : 
Take heed, be wary how you place your 

words ; 
Talk like the vulgar sort of market men, 
That come to gather money for their corn. 
If we have entrance, (as, I hope, we shall,) 
And that we find the slothful watch but 

weak, 
I '11 by a sign give notice to our friends, 
That Charles the Dauphin may encounter 
them. 
1 Sold. Our sacks shall be a mean to 
sack the city, 
And we be lords and rulers over Rouen ; 
Therefore we '11 knock. 

Guard. [Within. ~\ Qui est la f 
Puc. Paisans, pauvres gens de France: 
Poor market-folks, that come to sell their 
corn. 
Guard. Enter, go in ; the market bell is 

rung. 
Puc. Now, Rouen, I '11 shake thy bul- 
warks to the ground. 

H. VI, lpt.,III: 2. 880. 



— Her Victory. 

Char. Divinest creature, bright Astr&a's 

daughter, 
How shall I honour thee for this success? 
Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens, 
That one day bloom'd, and fruitful were the 

next. — 
Trance, triumph in thy glorious prophetess ! 
Recover'd is the town of Orleans : 
More blessed hap did ne'er befal our state. 
Reig. Why ring not out the bells 

throughout the town? 
Dauphin, command the citizens make bon- 
fires, 
And feast and banquet in the open streets, 
To celebrate the joy that God hath given us. 
Alen. All France will be replete with 

mirth and joy, 
When they shall hear how we have play'd 

the men. 
Char. 'T is Joan, not we, by whom the 

day is won ; 
Tor which, I will divide my crown with her : 
And all the priests and friars in my realm 
Shall, in procession, sing her endless praise. 
A statelier pyramis to her I '11 rear, 
Than Rhodope's, or Memphis', ever was : 
In memory of her, when she is dead, 
Her ashes, in an urn more precious 
Than the rich-jewel'd coffer of Darius, 
Transported shall be at high festivals 
Before the kings and queens of Trance. 
No longer on Saint Dennis will we cry, 
But Joan la Pucelle shall be France's saint. 
H. VI, lpt.,1: 6. 871. 

— Spirit of Prophecy. 

Bast. * * 
Be not dismay'd, for succour is at hand : 
A holy maid hither with me J bring, 
Which, by a vision sent to her from heaven, 
Ordained is to raise this tedious siege, 
And drive the English forth the bounds of 

France. 
The sprit of deep prophecy she hath, 
Exceeding the nine sibyls of old Rome ; 
What 's past, and what 's to come, she can 

descry. 
Speak, shall I call her in? 

//. VI., lpt.,1: 2. 867. 



— Supernatural Call. 
Puc. Dauphin, I am by birth 
herd's daughter, 



shep- 



JOAN OF ARC. 



327 



JUDGE. 



My wit untrain'd in any kind of art. 
Heaven, and our Lady gracious, hath it 

pleas'd 
To shine on my contemptible estate : 
Lo, whilst I waited on my tender lambs, 
And to sun's parching heat display'd my 

cheeks, 
God's mother deigned to appear to me ; 
And, in a vision full of majesty, 
Will'd me to leave my base vocation, 
And free my country from calamity : 
Her aid she promis'd, and assur'd success : 
In complete glory she reveal'd herself; 
And, whereas I was black and swart before, 
With those clear rays which she infus'd on 

me, 
That beauty am I bless 'd with, which you 

see. 
Ask me what question thou canst possible, 
And I will answer unpremeditated : 
My courage try by combat, if thou dar'st, 
And thou shalt find that I exceed my sex. 

H. VI, 1 pt., 1 : 2. 867. 

JOY. — Great. 

Auf. * * More dances my rapt heart, 

Than when I first my wedded mistress saw 

Bestride mv threshold. 

C, IV : 5. 1181. 

— Overwhelming. 

3 Gent. Then you have lost a sight, 
which was to be seen, cannot be spoken of. 
There might you have beheld one joy crown 
another; so, and in such manner, that it 
seem'd sorrow wept to take leave of them; 
for their joy waded in tears. There was 
casting up of eyes, holding up of hands ; 
with countenance of such distraction, that 
they were to be known by garment, not by 
favour. Our king, being ready to leap out 
of himself for joy of his found daughter ; as 
if that joy were now become a loss, cries, 
"O, thy mother, thy mother!" then asks 
Bohemia forgiveness ; then embraces his 
son-in-law ; then again worries he his daugh- 
ter, with clipping her ; now he thanks the 
old shepherd, which stands by, like a weath- 
er-bitten conduit of many kings' reigns. I 
never heard, of such another encounter, 
which lames report to follow it, and undoes 
description to do it. 

W. T., V : 2. 614. 

— Shared. 

Val. * * Our day of marriage shall 
be yours ; 
One feast, one house, one mutual happi- 
ness. 

T. <?., V : 4. 73. 



JOYS. — Brief. 

Luc. * * Briefly die their joys, 
That place them on the truth of girls and 
boys. 

Cym., V : 5. 1627. 

— Earthly. 

Per. * * 
Who knows the world, see heaven, but feel- 
ing woe, 
Gripe not at earthly joys, as erst they did. 

P., I: 1. 1643. 

— Overwhelming. 

Per. O Helicanus, strike me, honour'd 
sir; 
Give me a gash, put me to present pain ; 
Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me, 
O'erbear the shores of my mortality, 
And drown me with their sweetness. 

P., V: l. 1669. 

— Too Plenteous. 

Dun. My plenteous joys, 

Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves 
In drops of sorrow. 

M. t 1 : 4. 1360. 

JUDGE.— A poor One. 

Men. * * When you are a hearing a 
matter between party and party * * you 
* * dismiss the controversy pleading, the 
more entangled by your hearing. 

C, II: l. 1160. 

Ant. * * 
O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, 
And men have lost their reason. 

J. C, III : 2. 1340. 

— Unrighteous. 

Ang. * * 
Thieves for their robbery have authority, 
When judges steal themselves. 

M.M., II: 2. 153. 

Q. Kath. Ye tell me what ye wish for 
both, my ruin : 
Is this your christian counsel? out upon ye ! 
Heaven is above all yet ; there sits a Judge, 
That no king can corrupt. 

H. VIIL, III: 1. 1075. 

Q. Kath. * * I do believe, 
Induc'd by potent circumstances, that 



JUDGE, 



328 



JUSTICE. 



You are mine enemy ; and make my chal- 
lenge, 

You shall not be my judge : for it is you 

Have blown this coal betwixt my lord and 
me, — 

Which God's dew quench! — Therefore, I 
say again, 

I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul, 

Refuse you for my judge ; whom, yet once 
more, 

I hold my most malicious foe, and think not 

At all a friend to truth. 

H. VIII. , II : 4. 1072. 

JUDGMENT. — And Reason, old Jury- 
men. 

Sir To. Did she see thee the while, old 
boy? tell me that. 

Sir And. As plain as I see you now. 

Fab. This was a great argument of love 
in her toward you. 

Sir And. 'Slight! will you make an ass 
o' me? 

Fab. I will prove it legitimate, sir, upon 
the oaths of judgment and reason. 

Sir To. And they have been grand jury- 
men, since before Noah was a sailor. 

T. 37., Ill: 2. 556. 

— Dependent on Fortune. 

Eno. * * I see, men's judgments are 
A parcel of their fortunes ; and things out- 
ward 
Do draw the inward quality after them, 

To suffer all alike. 

A. C, III : 11. 1565. 

— Greenness of. 

Vol. * ■ * 'T was you incens'dthe rabble : 
Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth, 
As I can of those mysteries which heaven 
Will not have earth to know. 

C, IV: 2. 1178. 

Cleo. My salad days ! 

When I was green in judgment, — cold in 

blood, 

To say as I said then ! 

A. C., I: 5. 1547. 

— Hasty. 

Prov. * * 
Under your good correction, I have seen, 
When, after execution, judgment hath 
Repented o'er his doom. 

M. 3f., II: 2. 151. 



— Meted out. 

Alb. * * All friends shall taste 
The wages of their virtue, and all foes 
The cup of their deservings. 

K.L.,V: 3. 1485. 

— Rash, Deprecated. 

Isab. * * Go to your bosom ; 
Knock there ; and ask your heart, what it 

doth know 
Thrt 's like my brother's fault. 

31. 31., II : 2. 153. 

— Reserved. (See Advice.) 
K. Hen. Forbear to judge, for we are 
sinners all. 

H. VI., 2 pt., Ill : 3. 931. 

Isab. * * How would you be. 
If he, which is the top of judgment, should 
But judge you as you are? 

31. jr., II : 2. 152. 

Ham. * * How his audit stands, who 
knows, save heaven? 

//., Ill: 3. 1417. 



— Sound, its Shrewdness. 

Pan. That 's Antenor ; he has a shrewd 
wit, I can tell you ; and he 's a man good 
enough : he 's one o' the soundest judgments 
in Troy, whosoever, and a proper man of 
his person. 

T. C, 1 : 2. 1106. 

Lear. * * A man may see how the world 
goes, with no eyes. Look with thine ears. 

K. L.,TV: 6. 1476. 



JUSTICE. — A Cry for. 

Bru. * * 

Let us be sacrificers, but no butchers, 

Caius. 

J. C, II: 1. 1330. 

Isab. Justice, O royal duke ! Vail your 
regard 
Upon a wrong 'd, I would fain have said, a 

maid ! 
O worthy prince, dishonour not your eye 
By throwing it on any other object, 
Till you have heard me in my true com- 
plaint, 
And given me justice, justice, justice, jus- 
tice ! 

M. 31., V: 1. 170. 



JUSTICE. 



329 



JUSTICE. 



— Above Relationship. 

Ant. These many, then, shall die; their 

names are prick'd. 
Oct. Your brother too must die ; consent 

you, Lepidus? 
Lep. I do consent. — 
Oct. Prick him down, Antony. 

Lep. Upon condition Publius shall not 

live, 

Who is your sister's son, Mark Antony. 

Ant. He shall not live ; look, with a spot 

I damn him. 

J. C, IV : 1. 1342. 

— Absolute. 

Ham. * * Use every man after his de- 
sert, and who shall 'scape whipping? 

II., II: 2. 1409. 

Lear. What, art mad? A man may see 
how this world goes, with no eyes. Look 
with thine ears : see how yon' justice rails 
upon yon' simple thief. Hark, in thine ear : 
Change places ; and, handy-dandy, which is 
the justice, which is the thief! — Thou hast 
seen a farmer's dog hark at a beggar? 

Glo. Ay, sir. 

Lear. And the creature run from the 
There thou might'st behold the great 



image of authority 
office. 



a dog 's obeyed in 



Through tatter'd clothes small vices do ap- 
pear ; 

Robes, and furr'd gowns, hide all. Plate 
sin with gold, 

And the strong lance of justice harmless 
breaks : 

Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce 

it. 

* * 

And, like a scurvy politician, seem 
To see the things thou dost not. 

K, £., IV j 3. 1476. 
— Even-handed. 
Macb. * * This even-handed justice 
Commends the ingredients of our poison'd 

chalice 
To our own lips. 

jr., I: 7. 1362. 

— Favored by the gods. 

Pom. If the great gods be just, they shall 
assist 
The deeds of justest men. 

A. C., n : 1. 1547. 



— Must be Executed. 

K. Hen. Well, for this night, we will re- 
pose us here, 
To-morrow, toward London, back again, 
To look into this business thoroughly, 
And call these foul offenders to their an- 
swers ; 
And poise the cause in justice' equal scales, 
Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful 
cause prevails. 

//. VI., 2pt.,II: 1. 918. 

— Personified. 

Escal. * * But my brother justice 
have I found so severe, that he hath forc'd 
me to tell him, he is indeed — justice. 

M. M., Ill : 2. 162. 

— Plausible, but Erring. 

Ang. 'T is one thing to be tempted, 

Escalus, — 
Another thing to fall. I not deny, 
The jury passing on the prisoner's life, 
May, in the sworn twelve, have a thief or 

two 
Guiltier than him they try. What 's open 

made 
To justice, that justice seizes : what know 

the laws, 
That thieves do pass on thieves? 'T is 

very pregnant, 
The jewel that we find, we stoop and take 't, 
Because we see it ; but what we do not see 
We tread upon, and never think of it. 
You may not so extenuate his offence, 
For I have had such faults ; but rather tell 

me 
When I, that censure him, do so offend, 
Let mine own judgment pattern out my 

death, 
And nothing come in partial. Sir, he must 

die. 

M. M., II : 1. 148. 

— Representative, Respected. 

Ch. Just. I then did use the person of 
your father ; 
The image of his power lay then in me : 
And, in the administration of his law, 
Whiles I was busy for the commonwealth, 
Your highness pleased to forget my place, 
The majesty and power of law and justice, 
The image of the king whom I presented, 



JUSTICE, 



330 



KINDNESS. 



And struck me in my very seat of judgment ; 
Whereon, as an offender to your father, 
I gave bold way to my authority, 
And did commit you. If the deed were ill, 
Be you contented, wearing now the garland, 
To have a son set your decrees at nought ; 
To pluck down justice from your awful 

bench ; 
To trip the course of law, and blunt the 

sword 
That guards the peace and safety of your 

person : 
Nay, more : to spurn at your most royal im- 
age, 
And mock your workings in a second body. 



Question your royal thoughts, make the 

case yours ; 
Be now the father, and propose a son : 
Hear your own dignity so much profan'd, 
JSee your most dreadful laws so loosely 

slighted, 
Behold yourself so by a son disdained ; 
And then imagine me taking your part, 
And, in your power, soft silencing your son : 
After this cold considerance, sentence me ; 
And, as you are a king, speak in your state, 
"What I have done, that misbecame my place, 
My person, or my liege's sovereignty. 

H. VI., 2pt., V: 2. 807. 



K 



KINDNESS. — Declined. 

Glo. Away, get thee away ; good friend, 
be gone ; 
Thy comforts can do me no good at all ; 
Thee they may hurt. 

K. L., IV : 1. 1470. 

— Milk of human. 

Lady M. * * Yet do I fear thy nature ; 
It is too full o' the milk of human kindness, 
To catch the nearest way : Thou would 'st 

be great, 
Art not without ambition ; but without 
The illness should attend it. What thou 

would'st highly, 
That would'st thou holily ; would'st not 

play false, 
And yet would'st wrongly win: thou 'd'st 

have, great Glamis, 
That which cries, "Thus thou must do, if 

thou have it ; 
And that which rather thou dost fear to do, 
Than wishest should be undone." 

31., 1 : 5. 1361. 



— Mistaken. 

Fool. Cry to it, nuncle, as the cockney 
did to the eels, when she put them i' the 
paste alive ; she rapp'd 'em o' the cox- 
combs with a stick, and cry'd, "Down, 



wantons, down : " 'T was her brother, that, 
in pure kindness to his horse, buttered his 
hay. 

K. L., II : 4. 1460. 

— Most powerful. 

Her. * * You may ride 's 
With one soft kiss, a thousand furlongs, ere 
With spur we heat an acre. 

W. T., 1 : 2. 582. 

2 Sen. What thou wilt, 

Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile, 
Than hew to 't with thy sword. 

T. A., V : 5. 1316. 

— Nobler than Revenge. 

01%. * * 
But kindness, nobler ever than revenge, 
And nature, stronger than his just occasion, 
Made him give battle to the lioness. 

A. Y., IV : 3. 432. 

— Petrucio's, Affected. 

Pet. * * 
She eat no meat to-day, nor none shall eat ; 
Last night she slept not, nor to-night she 

shall not ; 
As with the meat, some undeserved fault 
I '11 find about the making of the bed : 
And here I '11 fling the pillow, there the bol- 
ster, 



KINDNESS. 



331 



KING. 



This way the coverlet, another way the 

sheets : — 
Ay, and amid this hurly, I intend, 
That all is done in reverend care of her ; 
And, in conclusion, she shall watch all 

night : 
And, if she chance to nod, I '11 rail and 

brawl, 
And with the clamour keep her still awake. 
This is a way to kill a wife with kindness. 

T. S., IV : 1. 473. 

— "Wins Love. 

Hor. * * 
Kindness in women, not their beauteous 

looks, 
Shall win my love : and so I take my leave, 
In resolution as I swore before. 

T S., IV : 2. 474. 

KING.— A good. 

Per. He is a happy king, since from his 
subjects 
He gains the name of good, by his govern- 
ment. 

P., II: 1. 1649. 

— Advantage of a Peasant over. 

K. Hen. * * 
Not all these, laid in bed majestical, 
Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave ; 
Who, with a body fill'd, and vacant mind, 
Gets him to rest, cramm'd with distressful 

bread ; 
Never sees horrid night, the child of hell ; 
But, like a lackey, from the rise to set, 
Sweats in the eye of Phoebus, and all night 
Sleeps in Elysium ; next day, after dawn, 
Doth rise, and help Hyperion to his horse ; 
And follow so the ever-running year 
With profitable labour, to his grave : 
And, but for ceremony, such a wretch, 
Winding up days with toil, and nights with 

sleep, 
Had the fore-hand and vantage of a king. 
The slave, a member of the country's peace, 
Enjoys it; but in gross brains little wots, 
What watch the king keeps to maintain the 

peace, 
Whose hours the peasant best advantages. 
H. V., IV: 1. 842. 



— Every Inch a. 

Lear. Ay, every inch a king : 
When I do stare, see, how the subject 
quakes. 

K. L., IV : 6. 1476. 

— God's anointed. 

K. Rich. * * 
Not all the water in the rough rude sea 
Can wash the balm from an anointed king : 
The breath of worldly men cannot depose 
The deputy elected by the Lord : 
For every man that Bolingbroke hath 

press'd, 
To lift shrewd steel against our golden 

crown, 
God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay 
A glorious angel : then, if angels fight, 
Weak men must fall ; for heaven still guards 

the right. 

R. II, Ill : 2. 701. 

— Hedged with Divinity. 

King. * * 
There 's such divinity doth hedge a king, 
That treason can but peep to what it would, 
Acts little of his will. 

II., IV : 5. 1425. 

— Power of his Touch. 

Doct. Ay, sir : there are a crew of 
wretched souls, 
That stay his cure : their malady convinces 
The great assay of art ; but, at his touch, 
Such sanctity hath heaven given his hand, 
They presently amend. 

31, IV: 3. 1379. 

— Subject to Infirmity. 

K. Hen. * * I think the king is but a 
man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it 
doth to me ; the element shows to him as it 
doth to me ; all his senses have but human 
conditions ; his ceremonies laid by, in his 
nakedness he appears but a man ; and 
though his affections are higher mounted 
than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop 
with the like wing; therefore when he sees 
reason of fears, as we do, his fears, out of 
doubt, be of the same relish as onrs are : 
Yet, in reason, no man should possess him 
with any appearance of fear, lest he, by 
showing it, should dishearten his army. 

H. F..IV: 1. 841. 



KING, 



332 



KISS. 



— The first British. 

Cym. * * Mulmutius made our laws, 
Who was the first of Britain, which did put 
His brows within a golden crown, and 

call'd 
Himself a king. 

Cym., Ill : 2. 1605. 

KINGS. — Gods. 

Per. * * 

Kings are earth's gods : in vice their law 's 

their will ; 

And if Jove stray, who dares say Jove doth 

ill? 

P., 1 : 1. 1643. 

— Have "Weaknesses. 

Nym. The king is a good king: but^it 
must be as it may ; he passes some hu- 
mours, and careers. 

E. V., II: 1. 826. 

— Uiihappiness of. • 

K. Hen. * * 
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 

E.IV., 2pt., Ill: 1. 790. 

K. Hen. * * 
O God ! methinks, it were a happy life, 
To be no better than a homely swain; 
To sit upon a hill, as I do now, 
To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, 
Thereby to see the minutes how they run : 
How many make the hour full complete, 
How many hours bring about the day, 
How many days will finish up the year, 
How many years a mortal man may live. 
When this is known, then to divide the 

times : 
So many hours must I tend my flock ; 
So many hours must I take my rest; 
So many hours must I contemplate; 
So many hours must I sport myself; 
So many days my ewes have been with 

young ; 
So many weeks ere the poor fools will 

yean; 
So many years ere I shall shear the fleece ; 
So minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, 

and years, 
Pass'd over to the end they were created, 
Would bring white hairs unto a quiet grave. 
Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet ! how 

lovely ! 



Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter 

shade 
To shepherds, looking on their silly eheep, 
Than doth a rich embroider 'd canopy 
To kings, that fear their subjects' treachery? 
O, yes, it doth ; a thousand fold it doth. 
And to conclude, — the shepherd's homely 

curds, 
His cold thin drink out of his leather bottle, 
His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, 
All which secure and sweetly he enjoys, 
Is far beyond a prince's delicates, 
His viands sparkling in a golden cup, 
His body couched in a curious bed, 
When care, mistrust, and treason wait on 

him. 

n. VI, 3 pt., II : 5. 968. 

— Unhappy. 

K. Hen. Was ever king that joy'd an 
earthly throne, 
And could command no more content than I? 
No sooner was I crept out of my cradle, 
But I was made a king, at nine months old : 
Was never subject long'd to be a king, 
As I do long and wish to be a subject. 

E. VI, 2pt., IV; 9. 940. 

KING'S EVIL. — Cured by Royalty. 

Macd. What 's the disease he means? 
Mai. 'T is call'd the evil : 

A most miraculous work in this good king : 
Which often, since my here-remain in Eng- 
land, 
I have seen him do. How he solicits 4 

heaven, 
Himself best knows : but strangely- visited 

people, 
"All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, 
The mere despair of surgery he cures. 

M. V., IV: 3. 1379. 

KISS. — A pure. 

Rom. * * 
And steal immortal blessing from her lips ; 
Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, 
Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin. 
#.^.,111: 3. 1262. 

— Fidelity to a. 

Cor. * * O, a kiss 
Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge ! 



KISS. 



333 



KNAVE. 



Now by the jealous queen of heaven, that 

kiss 
I carried from thee, dear ; and my true lip 
Hath virgin'd it e'er since. 

C., V : 3. 1189. 

— Indenture of Love. 

Aust. Upon thy cheek lay I this zealous 
kiss, 
As seal to this indenture of my love. 

K. J. II : 1. 649. 

— Its Power. 

Her. * * You may ride 's 
With one soft kiss, a thousand furlongs, ere 
With spur we heat an acre. 

W. T., 1 : 2. 582. 

— Sign of good News. 

Glo. * * 

To-morrow are let blood at Pomfret-castle ; 

And bid my friend, for joy of this good 

news, 

Give mistress Shore one gentle kiss the 

more. 

B. III., in: 1. 1022. 

Sign of Love. 

Ros. * * For lovers, lacking (God 
warn us!) matter, the cleanliest shift is to 
kiss. 

A. Y, IV : 1. 429. 

— Treacherous. 

K. Edw, Clarence, and Gloster, love my 

lovely queen ; 

And kiss your princely nephew, brothers 

both. 

Clar. The duty, that I owe unto your 

majesty, 

I seal upon the lips of this sweet babe. 

K. Edw. Thanks, noble Clarence ; worthy 

brother, thanks. 

Glo. And, that I love the tree from 

whence thou sprang'st, 

Witness the loving kiss I give the fruit : — 

To say the truth, so Judas kiss'd his master; 

And cried — all hail! when as he meant — 

all harm. 

H. YL, 3pt., V: 7. 992. 

KISSING. — Betrayed by. 

Iago. * * 
In sleep I heard him say, — " Sweet Desde- 
mona, 



Let us be wary, let us hide our loves ! " 
And then, sir, would he gripe, and wring 

my hand, 
Cry, — ." O, sweet creature ! " and then kiss 

me hard, 
As if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots, 
That grew upon my lips. 

O., lit : 3. 1514. 

— Boisterous. 

Gre. * * 
This done, he took the bride about the neck, 
And kiss'd her lips with sach a clamorous 

smack, 
That, at the parting, all the church did echo. 
T. 5,111: 2. 469. 

— Full of Sanctity. 

Ros. And his kissing is as full of sanctity 
as the touch of holy bread. 

Gel. He hath bought a pair of chaste lips 
of Diana : a nun of Winter's sisterhood 
kisses not more religiously ; the very ice of 
chastity is in them. 

A. Y, III: 4. 426. 

— Lips Made for. 

Glo. * * 
Teach not thy lip such scorn; for it was 

made 
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt. 

R. III., 1 : 2. 1005. 

— Sign of true Love. 

Alice. Dat it is not be de fashion pour 
les ladies of France, — I cannot tell what it 
is, baiser, en English. 

K. Hen. To kiss. 

Alice. Your majesty entendre better que 
moy. 

K. Hen. It is not the fashion for the 
maids in France to kiss before they are 
married, would she say? 

Alice. Oui, vrayment. 

K. Hen. O, Kate, nice customs curt'sy 
to great kings. * * You have witchcraft 
in your lips, Kate : there is more eloquence 
in a sugar touch of them, than in the tongues 
of the French council. 

H. V., V : 2. 855. 

KNAVE. — A complete. 

Iago. * * A slippery and subtle knave ; 
a finder out of occasions ; that has an eye can 
stamp and counterfeit advantages, though 
true advantage never presents itself. * * 



KNAVE. 



334 



KNOWLEDGE. 



Besides the knave is handsome, young ; and 
hath all those requisites in him, that folly 
and green minds look after. 

0., II : 2. 1503. 

— Needs a Friend. 

Davy. I grant your worship, that he is 
a knave, sir : but yet, God forbid, sir, but a 
knave should have some countenance at his 
friend's request. An honest man, sir, is 
able to speak for himself, when a knave is 
not. I have served your worship truly, sir, 
this eight years ; and if I cannot once or 
twice in a quarter bear out a knave against 
an honest man, I have but a very little credit 
with your worship. The knave is mine 
honest friend, sir; therefore, I beseech your 
worship, let him be countenanced. 

R.IV., 2pt. ( V: 1. 805. 

— Needs no Broker. 

Hume. * * 
They say, A crafty knave does need no 

broker ; 
Yet am I Suffolk and the cardinal's broker. 
Hume, if you take not heed, you shall go 

near 

To call them both — a pair of crafty knaves. 

Well, so it stands : And thus, I fear, at last, 

Hume's knavery will be the duchess' wreck. 

H. VI., 2pt., I: 2. 911. 

KNAVERY. — Hidden. 

Iago. * * 
Knavery's plain face is never seen, till us'd. 

0., II: 1. 1503. 

— Indolence Overlooked. 

Count. What does this knave here? Get 
you gone, sirrah ! The complaints I have 
heard of you I do not all believe ; 't is my 
slowness that I do not : for I know you lack 
not folly to commit them, and have ability 
enough to make such knaveries yours. 

A. W.,I: 3. 499. 

— Well disguised. 

Bene. I should think this a gull, but that 
the white-bearded fellow speaks it ; knavery 
cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence. 

M.A.,U: 3. 236. 

KNEES. — Supple, base. 

Ulyss. * * Tor supple knees 
Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's 
fees. 

T. C, III: 3. 1123. 



KNIFE. — Relieves from Despair. 

Jul. * * 

'Twixt my extremes and me, this bloody 
knife 
Shall play the umpire ; arbitrating that 
Which the commission of thy years and art 
Could to no issue of true honour bring. 
Be not so long to speak ; I long to die, 
If what thou speak'st speak not of remedy. 
R. J., IV : 1. 1268. 

KNOCKING.— Alarming to Murder- 
ers. 

Lady M. My hands are of your colour; 

but I shame 
To wear a heart so white. I hear a knock- 
ing 
At the south entry: — retire we to our 

chamber : 
A little water clears us of this deed : 
How easy is it then ! Your constancy 
Hath left you unattended. Hark ! more 

knocking : 
Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call 

us, 
And show us to be watchers : — Be not lost 
So poorly in your thoughts. 

Macb. To know my deed, — 'twere best 

not know myself. 
Wake Duncan with thy knocking! Ay, 

'would thou could'st ! 

M., II : 2. 1365. 

KNOWLEDGE.- Certainty of. 

Com. The shepherd knows not thunder 
from a tabor, 
More than I know the sound of Marcius' 

tongue 
From every meaner man's. 

C, 1 : 6. 1156. 

— Modest. 

Char. Is this the man? Is 't you, sir, 
that know things? 

Sooth. In nature's infinite book of se- 
crecy 
A little I can read. 

A. C., 1 : 2. 1541. 

— Perfect, Imparted by Blows. 
Dro. E. Say what you will, sir, but I 
know what I know : 



KNOWLEDGE. 335 LADIES. 


That you beat me at the mart, I have your 


I should kick, being kick'd; and, being at 


hand to show : 


that pass, 


If the skin were parchment, and the blows 


You would keep from my heels, and be- 


you gave were ink, 


ware of an ass. 


Your own handwriting would tell you what 


C.E., III: l. 199. 


I think. 


— Self, Cures Faults. 


Ant. E. I think thou art an ass. 


1 Lord. Is it possible he should know 


Dro. E. Marry, so it doth appear 


what he is, and be that he is? • 


By the wrongs I suffer and the blows I bear. 


A. W.,TV: 1. 517. 


L 


LABOR. — A Relief in Pain. 


— Should be Shared. 


Macb. The labour we delight in, physics 


Mira. Alas, now ! pray you 


pain. 


Work not so hard; I would the lightning 


M.,11: 3. 1366. 


had 




Burnt up those logs that you are enjoin'd 


— Lightened by Thought. 


to pile ! 


Fer. There be some sports are painful, 


Pray set it down, and rest you : when this 


and their labour 


burns, 


Delight in them sets off: some kinds of 


'T will weep for having wearied you. My 


baseness 


father 


Are nobly undergone ; and most poor mat- 


Is hard at study: pray, now, rest yourself; 


ters 


He 's safe for these three hours. 


Point to rich ends. This my mean task 


Fer. most dear mistress ! 


"Would be as heavy to me as odious ; but 


The sun will set, before I shall discharge 


The mistress which I serve quickens what 's 


What I must strive to do. 


dead, 


Mira. If you '11 sit down, 


And makes my labours pleasures : 0, she is 


I '11 bear your logs the while : Pray give 


Ten times more gentle than her father's 


me that ; 


crabbed ; 


I '11 carry it to the pile. 


And he 's compos'd of harshness. I must 


Fer. No, precious creature ! 


remove 


I had rather crack my sinews, break my 


Some thousands of these logs, and pile 


back, 


them up, 


Than you should such dishonour undergo, 


Upon a sore injunction. My sweet mistress 


While I sit lazy by. 


Weeps, when she sees me work; and says, 


Mira. It would become me 


such baseness 


As well as it does you : and I should do it 


Had never like executor. I forget : 


With much more ease, for my good will is 


But these sweet thoughts do even refresh 


to it, 


my labours, 


And yours it is against. 


Most busy-less when I do it. 


T., Ill: 1. 21. 


T., Ill : 1. 21. 






LADIES. — Drop Manna. 


— Lost. 


Lor. Fair ladies, you drop manna in the 


Long. He weeds the corn, and still lets 


way 


grow the weeding. 


Of starved people. 


L. L., 1 : 1. 272. 


M. V.,V: 1. 391. 



LADIES. 



336 



LATIN. 



— Privileged in "War. 

Wol. * * Nay, ladies, fear not; 
By all the laws of war you are privileg'd. 

H. VIII., I: 1. 1064. 

LAND. — Cheap. 

Fal. * * You may buy land now as 
cheap as stinking mackerel. 

II. TV., lpt.,II: 4. 742. 

LANGUAGE. — Best Speaker of. 

Fer. My language ! heavens ! — 

I am the best of them that speak this speech, 
"Were I but where 'tis spoken. 

T., 1 : 2. 13. 

— Boasting of its Use. 

Glend. I can speak English, lord, as well 
as you ; 
For I was train'd up in the English court : 
"Where, being but young, I framed to the 

harp 
Many an English ditty, lovely well, 
And gave the tongue a helpful ornament; 
A virtue that was never seen in you. 

If. IV., lpt., Ill: 1. 745. 

— Ignorance of. 

Mori. This is the deadly spite that angers 
me, — 
My wife can speak no English, I no "Welsh. 
* * 

I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, 
And that 's a feeling disputation : 
But I will never*be a truant, love, 
Till I have learn'd thy language. 

H. IV., 1 pt., Ill : 1. 746. 

— Its Abuse. 

Quick. * * See if you can see my 
master, master doctor Caius, coming : if he 
do, i' faith, and find anybody in the house, 
here will be an old abusing of God's patience 
and the king's English. 

M. W., 1 : 4. 93. 

Fal. Seese and putter ! have I liv'd to 
stand at the taunt of one that makes fritters 
of English? 

M. W., V : 5. 119. 

— Low Result of Association. 
P. Hen. * * They call — drinking deep, 



dying scarlet; and when you breathe in 
your watering, they cry — hem! and bid 
you play it off. — To conclude, I am so good 
a proficient in one quarter of an hour, that 
I can drink with any tinker in his own lan- 
guage during my life. 

H. IV., 1 pt., II : 4. 738. 



— Pretentious. 

Hoi. You find not the apostrophes, and 
so miss the accent: let me supervise the 
canzonet. Here are only numbers rati- 
fied ; but, for the elegancy, facility and 
golden cadence of poesy, caret. Ovidius 
Naso was the man : and why, indeed, Naso, 
but for smelling out the odoriferous flowers 
of fancy, the jerks of invention? 

Z.Z. 3 TV: 2. 286. 

— Welsh, humorous. 

Hot. Now I perceive, the devil under- 
stands Welsh; 
And 't is no marvel, he 's so humorous. 
By 'r-lady, he 's a good musician. 

Lady P. Then should you be nothing 
but musical ; for you are altogether gov- 
erned by humours. Lie still, ye thief, and 
hear the lady sing in "Welsh. 

Hot. I had rather hear "-Lady," my 
brach, howl in Irish. 

H. IV., 1 pt., Ill : 1. 747. 

LATIN — Allegations in. 

Gru. Nay, 'tis no matter, what he 'leges 
in Latin. 

T. S.,1: 2. 458. 

— Protest against. 

Wol. Tanta est erga te mentis integritas, 

regina serenissima, — 
Q. Kath. O, good my lord, no Latin; 
I am not such a truant since my coming, 
As not to know the language I have liv'd in : 
A strange tongue makes my cause more 

strange, suspicious ; 
Pray, speak in English : here are some will 

thank you, 
If you speak truth, for their poor mistress' 

sake ; 
Believe me, she has had much wrong : Lord 

cardinal, 
The willing'st sin I ever yet committed, 
May be absolv'd in English. 

H. VIII, III: 1. 1074. 



LAUGH. 



337 



LAW. 



LAUGH. — A Sign of being Hurt. 

Jaq. * * 
And they that are most galled with my folly, 
They most must laugh. And why, sir, must 

they so? 
The why is plain as way to parish church : 
He that a fool doth very wisely hit, 
Doth very foolishly, although he smart, 
[Not to] seem senseless of the bob : if not, 
The wise man's folly is anatomiz'd 
Even by the squandering glances of the fool. 
Invest me in my motley ; give me leave 
To speak my mind, and I will through and 

through 
Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, 
If they will patiently receive my medicine. 
A. Y., II: 7. 418. 

— "Winners May. 

Oth. So, so, so, so ! They laugh that 

win. 

0., IV: 1. 1519. 

LAUGHTER. — Distorting. 

Eos. * * I will laugh like a hyen. 

A. F..IV: 1. 430. 

Fal. * * O, you shall see him laugh, 
till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up. 

H. IV., 2 pt. V : 1. 806. 

— Empty. 

Gon. I do well believe your highness ; 
and did it to minister occasion to these gen- 
tlemen, who are of such sensible and nim- 
ble lungs, that they always use to laugh at 
nothing. 

Ant. 'Twas you we laugh'd at. 

Gon. Who, in this kind of merry fool- 
ing, am nothing to you ; so you may con- 
tinue, and laugh at nothing still. 

Z*.,II: 1. 17. 

— Foolish. 

Cres. At what was all this laughing? 

Pan. Marry, at the white hair that Helen 
spied on Troilus' chin. 

Cres. An 't had been a green hair, I 
should have laughed too. 

Pan. They laughed not so much at the 
hair, as at his pretty answer. 

Cres. What was his answer? 

Pan. Quoth she, "Here's but one and 
fifty hairs on your chin, and one of them is 
white." 

T.C,l: 2. 1105. 



— Stabbed with. 

Prin. Here comes Boyet, and mirth is 

in his face. 
Boyet. O, I am stabb'd with laughter ! 
L. L.,V: 2. 294. 

— Suitable to Age. 

Gra. With mirth and laughter let old 
wrinkles come. 

M. V., 1 : 1. 362. 

LAW. — An obsolete, Revised. 

Lucio. * * 
He (to give fear to use and liberty, 
Which have, for long, run by the hideous 

law, 
As mice by lions) hath pick'd out an act, 
Under whose heavy sense your brother's 

. life 
Falls into forfeit : he arrests him on it 
And follows close the rigour of the statute, 
To make him an example. 

M. M.,1: 4. 147. 

—Bottomless. 

Alcib. * * 
It pleases time, and fortune, to lie heavy 
Upon a friend of mine, who, in hot blood, 
Hath stepp'd into the law, which is past 

depth 
To those that, without heed, do plunge into 
it. 

T. A., Ill : 5. 1301. 

— iDflexible. 

Aug. Be you content, fair maid ; 

It is the law, not I, condemns your brother : 
Were he my kinsman, brother, or my son, 
It should be thus with him; — he must die 
to-morrow. 

M. 31., II : 2. 152. 

— Its Wrongs Cured. 

Const. * * 
Law cannot give my child his kingdom here ; 
For he, that holds his kingdom, holds the 

law : 
Therefore, since law itself is perfect wrong, 
How can the law forbid my tongue to curse? 
K. J., Ill: 1. 658. 



LAWS. 



338 



LEANNESS. 



LAWS. — Unexecuted, Despised. 

Ang. We must not make a scarecrow of 
the law, 

Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, 
And let it keep one shape, till custom make 

it 
Their perch, and not their terror. 

M. If., II: 1. 148. 

Duke. We have strict statutes, and most 

biting laws, 
(The needful bits and curbs to headstrong 

steeds,) 
Which for this fourteen years we have let 

sleep ; 
Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave, 
That goes not out to prey. Now, as fond 

fathers, 
Having bound up the threat' ning twigs of 

birch, 
Only to stick it in their children's sight, 
For terror, not to use, in time the rod 
Becomes more mock'd than fear d : so our 

decrees, 
Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead ; 
And liberty plucks justice by the nose ; 
The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart 
Goes all decorum. 

M. M., 1 : 3. 146. 

LAWNS.— Perfect, Boasted of. 

Cer. Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that 

ne'er 
Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter ; 
Who, with thy saffron wings, upon my 

flow'rs 
Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing show'rs ; 
And with each end of thy blue bow dost 

crown 
My bosky acres, and my .unshrubb'd down, 
Rich scarf to my proud earth. 

T., IV: 1. 27. 

LEADER. — A great. 

1 Goth. Brave slip, sprung from the 
great Andronicus, 

Whose name Avas once our terror, now our 
comfort ; 

Whose high exploits, and honourable deeds, 

Ingrateful Rome requites with foul con- 
tempt, 



Be bold in us ; we '11 follow where thou 

lead'st, 
Like stinging bees in hottest summer's day, 
Led by their master to the flower'd fields, 
And be aveng'd on cursed Tamora. 

Tit. And., V: 1. 1225. 

— A great, Inspires Confidence. 

Com. If! 

He is their god ; he leads them like a thing 
Made by some other deity than nature, 
That shapes man better : and they follow 

him, 
Against us brats, with no less confidence, 
Than boys pursuing summer butterflies, 
Or butchers killing flies. 

C, IV : 6. 1184. 

LEANNESS.— Laughed at. 

Bast. Madam, an if my brother hai my 
shape, 
And I had his, sir Robert his, like him ; 
And if my legs were two such riding-rods, 
My arms such eel-skins stufPd ; my face so 

thin, 
That in mine ear I durst not stick a rose, 
Lest men should say, Look, where three- 
farthings goes ! " 

K. J., I • 1. 647. 

— Suspicious. 

Ant. Fear him not, Caesar, he 's not 
dangerous ; 
He is a noble Roman, and well given. 

Ccesar. 'Would he were fatter: — But I 
fear him not : 
Yet if my name were liable to fear, 
I do not know the man I should avoid 
So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads 

much ; 
He is a great observer, and he looks 
Quite through the deeds of men : he loves 

no plays, 
As thou dost, Antony ; he hears no music : 
Seldom he smiles ; and smiles in such a sort, 
As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his 

spirit 
That could be mov'd to smile at any thing. 
Such men as he be never at heart's ease, 
Whiles they behold a greater than them- 
selves ; 



LEANNESS, 



339 



LEGITIMACY. 



And therefore are they very dangerous. 
I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd, 
Than what I fear, for always I am Caesar. 
Come on my r ight hand, for this ear is 

deaf, 
And tell me truly what thou think'st of 

him. 

J. C, 1 : 2. 1325. 

— The Superlative of. 

Cam. I should leave grazing, were I of 
your flock, 
And only live by gazing. 

Pei\ Out, alas ! 

You 'd be so lean, that blasts of January 
Would blow you through and through. 

W. T.,IV: 3. 602. 

LEARNING. — Astounds*. 

Gre. 0, this learning ! what a thing it is ! 
T. S., I: 2. 459. 

— How Valued. 

Fal. * * And learning, a mere hoard 
of gold kept by a devil. 

II. IV., 2pt., IV: 3. 800. 

LEAVE-TAKING.— Hasty. 

Tro. And suddenly ; where injury of 
chance 
Puts back leave-taking, justles rcoighlyby 
All time of pause, rudely beguiles our lips 
Of ail rejoindure, forcibly prevents 
Our lock'd embrasures, strangles our dear 

vows 
Even in the birth of our own labouring 

breath : 
We two, that with so many thousand sighs 
Did buy each other, must poorly sell our- 
selves 
With the rude brevity and discharge of one. 
Injurious time now, with a robber's haste, 
Crams his rich thievery up, he knows not 

how : 
As many farewells as be stars in heaven, 
With distinct breath and consign'd kisses to 

them, 
He fumbles up into a loose adieu ; 
And scants us with a single famish 'd kiss, 
Distasted with the salt of broken tears. 

T. C., IV: 4. 1130. 



— Should not be Dainty. 

Mai. This murderous shaft that's shot 
Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way 
Is to avoid the aim. Therefore, to horse ; 
And let us not be dainty of leave-taking, 
But shift away : there 's warrant in that 

theft 
Which steals itself, when there 's no mercy 
left. 

M., II : 3. 1367. 

LEGITIMACY.— Apparent. 

Eli. He hath a trick of Coeur-de-lion's 
face, 
The accent of his tongue affecteth him : 
Do you not read some tokens of my son 
In the large composition of this man? 

K. J., 1 : 1. 647. 

— Doubtful. 

Bast. Most certain of one mother, 
mighty king. 
That is well known ; and, as I think, one 

father ; 
But, for the certain knowledge of that truth, 
I put you o'er to heaven and to my mother ; 
Of that I doubt, as all men's children may. 

K.J.,1: 1. 647. 

— Impossible. 

Rob. * * 
But truth is truth; large lengths of seas 

and shores 
Between my father and my mother lay, 
(As I have heard my father speak himself,) 
When this same lusty gentleman was got. 
Upon his death-bed he by will bequeath'd 
His lands to me ; and took it, on his death, 
That this, my mother's son, was none of his ; 
And, if he were, he came into the world 
Full fourteen weeks before the course of 
time. 

K. J., 1 : 1. 647. 

— Physical Signs of. 

Paul. It is yours ; 

And, might we lay th' old proverb to your 
charge, 

So like you, 't is the worse. — Behold, my 
lords, 

Although the print be little, the whole mat- 
ter 



LEGITIMACY. 



34° 



LETTERS. 



And copy of the father : eye, nose, lip, 
The trick of his frown, his forehead ; nay, 

the valley, 
The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek ; 

his smiles ; 
The very mould and frame of hand, nail, 

finger : — 
And thou, good goddess Nature, which hast 

made it 
So like to him that got it, if thou hast 
The ordering of the mind too, 'mongst all 

colours 
No yellow in 't ; lest she suspect, as he does, 
Her children not her husband's ! 

W. T.,1I: 3. 591. 

— Secured by Wedlock. 

K. John- Sirrah, your brother is legiti- 
mate ; 

Your father's wife did after wedlock bear him ; 

And, if she did play false, the fault was hers ; 

Which fault lies on the hazards of all hus- 
bands 

That marry wives. Tell me, how if my 
brother, 

Who, as you say, took pains to get this son, 

Had of your father claim'dthis son for his? 

In sooth, good friend, your father might 
have kept 

This calf, bred from his cow, from all the 
world ; 

In sooth, he might : then, if he were my 
brother's, 

My brother might not claim him ; nor your 
father, 

Being none of his, refuse him : this con- 
cludes, — 

My mother's son did get your father's heir ; 

Your father's heir must have your father's 
land. 

K.J.,1: 1. 647. 



LENITY.— In War, good Policy. 

K. Hen. We would have all such offend- 
ers so cut off: — and we give express 
charge, that, in our marches through the 
country, there be nothing compelled from 
the villages, nothing taken but paid for; 
none of the French upbraided, or abused in 
disdainful language : For when lenity and 
cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler 
gamester is the soonest winner. 

H. V., Ill : 6. 836. 



— Not Mercy. 

Clif. * * Henry, had'st thou sway'd 

as kings should do, 
Or as thy father, and his father, did, 
Giving no ground unto the house of York, 
They never then had sprung like summer 

flies; 
I, and ten thousand in this luckless realm, 
Had left no mourning widows for our 

death, 
And thou this day hadst kept thy chair in 

peace. 
For what doth cherish weeds but gentle 

air? 
And what makes robbers bold, but too much 

lenity? 

H. VI., 3 pt., II : 6. 969. 



LETTERS. — A Madman's. 

Clo. Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub 
at the stave's end, as well as a man in his 
case may do : he has here writ a letter to 
you ; I should have given it to you to-day 
morning, but as a madman's epistles are no 
gospels, so it skills not much when they are 
delivered. 

T. 1T. % V : 1. 568. 



— Ill Used. 

Cces. I wrote to you, 

When rioting in Alexandria : you 
Did pocket up my letters, and with taunts 
Did gibe my missive out of audience. 

A. C, II: 2. 1549. 

— Joy at Receiving. 

Vol. Look, here 's a letter from him ; 
the state hath another, his wife another ; 
and, I think, there 's one at home for you. 

Men. I will make my very house reel to- 
night : — A letter for me? 

Vir. Yes, certain, there 's a letter for 
you ; I saw it. 

Men. A letter for me? It gives me an 
estate of seven years' health. 

C, II : 1. 1161. 



— Unpleasant. 

Bass. O sweet Portia, 

Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words 
That ever blotted paper ! 

M. V., Ill : 2. 379. 



LETTERS. 



34 1 



LIE. 



— Writing, Suggested. 

Pro. * * 
To Milan let me hear from thee by letters, 
Of thy success in love, and what news else 
Betideth here in absence of thy friend ; 
And I likewise will visit thee with mine. 

T. ft, I: l. 48. 

LEVITY. — A Source of Life. 

Kath. * * A light heart lives long. 

L.L.,V: 2. 293. 

— Ill-timed. 

Pro. * * Those that can pity, here 
May, if they think it well, let fall a tear ; 
The subject will deserve it. Such, as give 
Their money out of hope they may believe, 
May here find truth too. 
* * Then, in a moment, see 
How this mightiness meets misery ! 
And, if you can be merry then, I '11 say, 
A man may weep upon his wedding day. 

H. VIII., P. 1056. 

LIAR. — A voluble One. 

Par. * * He will lie, sir, with such 
volubility, that you would think truth were 
a fool. 

A. W., IV : 3. 522. 

— Hated of God. 

Nor. 0, let my sovereign turn away his 
face, 
And bid his ears a little while be deaf, 
Till I have told this slander of his blood 
How God, and good men, hate so foul a 
liar. 

R. II., I: 1. 685. 

— Should be thrice Beaten. 

Laf. A good traveller is something at 
the latter end of a dinner ; but one that lies 
three-thirds, and uses a known truth to pass 
a thousand nothings with, should be once 
heard, and thrice beaten. — God save you, 
captain. 

A. W., II : 5. 510. 

LIBERTY.— Ends in Restraint. 

Lucio. Why, how now Claudio? whence 

comes this restraint? 
Claud. From too much liberty, my 
Lucio, liberty : 
As surfeit is the father of much fast, 



So every scope, by the immoderate use, 
Turns to restraint : Our natures do pursue 
(Like rats that ravin down their proper bane) 
A thirsty evil, and when-we drink, we die. 
M. M., 1 : 2. 145. 

— Stirs the Blood. 

Orl. * * Besides this nothing that he 
so plentifully gives me, the something that 
nature gave me his countenance seems to 
take from me : he lets me feed with his 
hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and, 
as much as in him lies, mines my gentility 
with my education. This is it, Adam, that 
grieves me; and the spirit of my father, 
which I think is within me, begins to muti- 
ny against this servitude. I will no longer 
endure it, though yet I know no wise rem- 
edy how to avoid it. 

A. Y., I: l. 407. 

LIBRARY — Content with. 

Pro. Me, poor man ! my library 
Was dukedom large enough. 

T., 1 : 2. 9. 

— Prized. 

Pro. * * So, of his gentleness, 
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd 

me, 
From mine own library, with volumes that 
I prize above my dukedom. 

T., 1 : 2. 10. 

LICENTIOUSNESS.— Linked to 
Woe. 

Luc. Why, headstrong liberty is lash'd 
with woe. 

C. E., II: 1. 195. 

LIE. — Caesar Incapable of 

Cal. Say he is sick. 

Cces. Shall Caesar send a lie ? 

Have I in conquest stretch'd mine arm so 

far, 
To be afeared to tell grey-beards the truth? 
Oceius, go tell them Caesar will not come. 

J. C, II : 2. 1333. 

— Made Truth. 

Pro. * * Like one 
Who having unto truth, by telling of it, 
Made such a sinner of his memory, 
To credit his own lie. 

ST., I: 2. 9. 



LIE. 



34 2 



LIFE, 



— Told like Truth.. 

Macb. * * 
I pull in resolution ; and begin 
To doubt the equivocation of the fiend, 
That lies like truth : "Fear not, till Birnam 

wood 
Do come to Dunsinane ; " — and now a wood 
Comes toward Dunsinane. — Arm, arm, and 

out! — 
If this, which he avouches, does appear, 
There is nor flying hence, nor tarrying here. 
I 'gin to be a-weary of the sun, 
And wish the estate o' the world were now 

undone. — 
Ring the alarum bell : — Blow, wind ! come, 

wrack ! 
At least Ave '11 die with harness on our back. 

M.,V: 5. 1384. 

LIES. — Palpable. 

P. Hen. These lies are like the father 
that begets them; gross as a mountain, 
open, palpable. 

H. IV., lpt.,H: 4. 740. 

— Probable. 

1 Lord. None in the world ; but return 
with an invention, and clap upon you two 
or three probable lies. 

A. IF., Ill: 6. 516. 

LIFE. — A Continued Storm. 

Mar. * * Ah me ! poor maid, 
Born in a tempest, when my mother died, 
This world to me is like a lasting storm, 
Whirring me from my friends. 

P., IV: 1. 1659. 

— A Dream. 

Pro. * * We are such stuff 
As dreams are made on, and our little life 
Is rounded with a sleep. 

T., IV : l. 28. 

— A Dying Horror. 

Juliet. Must die to-morrow ! O, injuri- 
ous love, 
That respites me a life, whose very comfort 
Is still a dying horror ! 

M. M., II : 3. 154. 

— A Mingled Yarn. 

1 Lord. The web of our life is of a 
mingled yarn, good and ill together : our 
virtues would be proud, if our faults whip- 



ped them not; and our crimes would de- 
spair, if they were not cherished by our vir- 
tues. 

A. IF., IV: 3. 520. 

— A Shuttle. 

Fal. * * Life is a shuttle. 

M. IF., V: 1. 117. 

— Depends on Means. 

Shy. Nay, take my life and all ; pardon 
not that : 
You take my house, when you do take the 

prop 
That doth sustain my house : you take my 

life, 
AVhen you do take the means whereby I 
live. 

M. V., IV: 1. 386. 

— Its Brevity. 

Cel. * * How brief the life of man 

Runs his erring pilgrimage ; 
That the stretching of a span 

Buckles in his sum of age. 

A. Y., Ill : 2. 422. 

— Loathed in Sorrow. 
Macb. Had I but died an hour before 
this chance, 
I had liv'd a blessed time ; for, from this in- 
stant, 
There 's nothing serious in mortality : 
All is but toys : renown, and grace, is 

dead; 
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees 
Is left this vault to brag of. 

M.\ II : 3. 1366. 

— Loss not Feared. 

Kent. My life I never held but as a 
pawn 
To wage against thine enemies ; nor fear 

to lose it, 
Thy safety being motive. 

K. L. t 1 : 1. 1445. 

— Noble ill -what it Does. 

Bel. * * 0, this life 
Is nobler, than attending for a check ; 
Richer, than doing nothing for a babe ; 
Prouder, than rustling in unpaid-for silk. 

Cym., Ill : 3. 1607. 



LIFE, 



343 



LOCALITY. 



— Out of Human Power. 

Gaunt. But not a minute, king, that 

thou canst give : 
Shorten my days thou canst with sullen 

sorrow, 
And pluck nights from me, hut not lend a 

morrow : 
Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, 
But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage ; 
Thy word is current with him for my death ; 
But, dead, thy kingdom cannot buy my 

breath. 

R.II.,1: 3. 690. 

— Precious -when Endangered. 

Hast. My lord, I hold my life as dear as 
yours ; 
And never, in my life, I do protest, 
Was it more precious to me than 't is now : 
Think you, but that I know our state secure, 
I would be so triumphant as I am? 

R. III., Ill: 2. 1023. 

— "Walking Shadow. 

' Macb. * * Out, out, brief candle! 
Life 's but a walking shadow ; a poor player, 
That struts and frets his hour upon the 



And then is heard no more : it is a tale 
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 
Signifying nothing. 

M„ V : 5. 1384. 

LIGHT. — Its Disclosive Power. 

K. Rich. * * 
But when, from under this terrestrial ball, 
He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines, 
And darts his light through every guilty 

hole, 
Then murders, treasons, and detested sins, 
The cloak of night being pluck'd from off 

their backs, 
Stand bare and naked, trembling at them- 
selves? 
So when this thief, this traitor, Bolingbroke, 
Who all this while hath revelPd in the night, 
Whilst Ave were wandering with the anti- 
podes, — 
Shall see us rising in our throne, the east, 
His treasons will sit blushing in his face, 
Not able to endure the sight of day, 
But, self-affrighted, tremble at his sin. 

R. II, III : 2. 701. 



LINEAGE. — Pure. 

Hect. * * 

The obligation of our blood forbids 

A gory emulation 'twixt us twain : 

Were thy commixtion Greek and Trojan, 
so 

That thou could'st say — "This hand is 
Grecian all, 

And this is Trojan; the sinews of this leg 

All Greek, and this all Troy ; my mother's 
blood 

Runs on the dexter cheek, and this sinis- 
ter 

Bounds-in my father's ; " by Jove multipo- 
tent, 

Thou should'st not bear from me a Greekish 
member 

Wherein my sword had not impressure 
made 

Of our rank feud : But the just gods gain- 
say, 

That any drop thou borrow 'st from thy 
mother, 

My sacred aunt, should by my mortal sword 

Be drain'd! 

T. C, IV : 5. 1133. 

LIP. — Diana's. 

Duke. * * Diana's lip 
Is not more smooth and rubious. 

T. N,I: 4. 543. 

LISTENER.— Runs low. 

Hero * * 
For loot where Beatrice, like a lapwing, 

runs 
Close by the ground, to hear our confer- 
ence. 

M. A., in : 1. 238. 

LOCALITY.— Not Essential. 

Imo. Where then? 

Hath Britain all the sun that shines? Day, 

night, 
Are they not but in Britain? I' the world's 

volume 
Our Britain seems as of it, but not in it ; 
In a great pool, a swan's nest : Pr'y thee, 

think 
There 's livers out of Britain. 

Gym., Ill : 4. 1609. 



LONGING. 



344 



LOOKS. 



LONGING. — For rare Sights. 

Achil. * * I have a woman's longing, 
An appetite that I am sick withal, 
To see great Hector in his weeds of peace ; 
To talk with him, and to behold his visage, 
Even to my full of view. 

T. C., HI: 3. 1126. 

— Unparalleled. 
Imo. * * 
O, for a horse with wings ! — Hear'st thou, 

Pisanio? 
He is at Milford-Haven : Read, and tell me 
How far 't is thither. If one of mean affairs 
May plod it in a week, why may not I 
Glide thither in a day? — Then, true Pisanio, 
(Who long'st, like me, to see thy lord ; who 

long'st, — 
O, let me 'bate, — but not like me: — yet 

long'st, — 
But in a fainter kind : — 0, not like me ; 
Por mine's beyond beyond,) say, and speak 

thick, 
(Love's counsellor should fill the bores of 

hearing, 
To the smothering of the sense,) how far it is 
To this same blessed Milford. 

Gym., Ill : 2. 1606. 

LOOK.— Its power to Kill. 

Sir To. * * But, sir, I will deliver 
his challenge by word of mouth ; set upon 
Ague-cheek a notable report of valour ; and 
drive the gentleman (as I know his youth 
will aptly receive it) into a most hideous 
opinion of his rage, skill, fury, and impetu- 
osity. This will so fright them both, that 
they will kill one another by the look, like 
cockatrices. 

T. N., Ill : 4. 560. 

LOOKER-ON— Disregarded. 

K. Hen. * * 

He was but as the cuckoo is in June, 

Heard, not regarded. 

#./F., lpt.,111: 2. 748. 

— In Vienna. 

Duke. Be not so hot ; the duke 
Dare no more stretch this finger of mine, 

than he 
Dare rack his own ; his subject am I not, 
Nor here provincial : My business in this 

state 
Made me a looker-on here in Vienna, 



Where I have seen corruption boil and bub- 
ble, 

Till it o'errun the stews : laws for all faults, 

But faults so countenanc'd, that the strong 
statutes 

Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, 

As much in mock as mark. 

M. M., V : 1. 173. 

LOOKS.— Appropriate. 

K. Rich. * * 
We do debase ourself, cousin, do we not, 
To look so poorly, and to speak so fair? 

R. II., Ill : 3. 704. 

— Deceitful. 

Hast. * * 
Who builds his hope in air of your fair 

looks, 
Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast ; 
Ready, with every nod, to tumble down 
Into the fatal bowels of the deep. 

R. III., Ill : 4. 1025. 

— Greedy. 

Fal. * * The appetite of her eye did 
seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass ! 

M. IF., I: 3. 92. 

— Interrogated. 

Pis. * * How look I, 
That I should seem to lack humanity 
So much as this fact comes to? 

Gym., Ill: 2. 1605. 

—No Proof of Guilt. 
Pern. This is the man should do the 
bloody deed ; 
He show'd his warrant to a friend of mine : 
The image of a wicked, heinous fault 
Lives in his eye ; that close aspect of his 
Does show the mood of a much-troubled 

breast, 
And I do fearfully believe, 't is done, 
What we so fear'd he had a charge to do. 

K. J., IV : 2. 666. 

— Not an Index. 

Arth. Alas ! I then have chid away my 

friend ; 

He hath a stern look, but a gentle heart : — 

Let him come back, that his compassion may 

Give life to yours. 

K. J., IV : 1. 665. 



LOOKS. 



345 



LOVE. 



— Significance of. 

Scroop. Men judge by the complexion 

of the sky 
The state and inclination of the day : 
So may you by my dull and heavy eye, 
My tongue hath but a heavier tale to say. 
R. II, Ill : 2. 702. 

— Sour. 

Beat. How tartly that gentleman looks ! 
I never can see him but I am heartburn'd 
an hour after. 

Hero. He is of a very melancholy dispo- 
sition. 

31. A., II: 1. 230. 

LOQUACITY.— Its Danger. 

Clo. Marry, you are the wiser man ; for 
many a man's tongue shakes out his mas- 
ter's undoing. 

A. W., II : 4. 509. 

— Offensive. 

Alon. You cram these words into mine 
ears, against 
The stomach of my sense. 



T..1I: 1. 16. 



Worthless. 



Bass. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal 
of nothing, more than any man in all 
Venice. His reasons are two grains of 
wheat hid in two bushels of chaff, you shall 
seek all day ere you find them, and when 
you have them, they are not worth the 
search. 

31. V., I: 1. 362. 

LOSS.— May be Regained. 

Bass. In my school-days, when I had 

lost one shaft 
I shot his fellow of the self-same flight 
The self-same way, with more advised 

watch 
To find the other forth ; and, by adventur- 
ing both, 
I oft found both : I urge this childhood 

proof, 
Because what follows is pure innocence. 
I owe you much; and, like a wilful 

youth, 
That which I owe is lost : but if you 

please 
To shoot another arrow that self-way 
Which you did shoot the first, I do not 

doubt, 



As I will watch the aim, or to find both, 
Or bring your latter hazard back again, 
And thankfully rest debtor for the first. 

M. V., I: 1. 362. 

— Sometimes Gain. 

Glo. I have no way, and therefore want 
no eyes ; 
I stumbled when I saw : Full oft 't is seen, 
Our mean secures us ; and our mere defects 
Prove our commodities. 

K. Z..IV: 1. 1470. 

LOSSES.— Irreparable. 

Alon. Irreparable is the loss ; and pa- 
tience 
Says it is past her cure. 

Pro. I rather think, 

You have not sought her help ; of whose 

soft grace, 
For the like loss, I have her sovereign aid, 
And rest myself content. 

Alon. You the like loss? 

Pro. As great to me, as late ; and sup- 
portable 
To make the dear loss, have I means much 

weaker 
Than you may call to comfort you ; for I 
Have lost my daughter. 

T., V : 1. 31. 

LOST. — Praising the. 

King. Praising what is lost 

Makes the remembrance dear. 

A. W., V : 3. 526. 

—The, Seeking. 

Ant. S. He that commends me to mine 
own content 
Commends me to the thing I cannot get. 
I to the world am like a drop of water, 
That in the ocean seeks another drop ; 
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, 
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: 
So I, to find a mother and a brother, 
In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself. 

C. E., 1 : 2. 194. 

LOVE— A Shadow. 

Ford. * * 
Love like a shadow flies, when substance love pur- 
sues; 
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. 

31. W., II: 2. 99. 



LOVE. 



34 6 



LOVE. 



— A Source of Pain. 

Tro. * * I love her; 

But, saying thus, instead of oil and balm, 
Thou lay'st in every gash that love hath 

given me 
The knife that made it. 

T. C, 1 : 1. 1103. 

— A Stream not to be Dammed. 

Jul. The more thou damm'st it up, the 
more it burns ; 
The current that with gentle murmur glides, 
Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently 

doth rage ; 
But, when his fair course is not hindered, 
He makes sweet music with the enamell'd 

stones, 
Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge 
He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; 
And so by many winding nooks he strays, 
With willing sport, to the wild ocean. 
Then let me go, and hinder not my course : 
1 '11 be as patient as a gentle stream, 
And make a pastime of each weary step, 
Till the last step has brought me to my 

love ; 
And there I '11 rest, as, after much tur- 
moil, 
A blessed soul doth in Elysium. 

T. G., II: 7. 58. 

— Admires Fools. 

Ilel. * * I love him for his sake ; 
And yet I know him a notorious liar, 
Think him a great way fool, solely a cow- 
ard; 
Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him, 
That they take place, when virtue's steely 

bones 
Look bleak i' the cold wind : withal, full oft 

we see 
Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. 

A. W.,I: 1. 496. 

— Advancing and Retiring. 

Rom. * * 

Love goes toward love, as school-boys 
from their books ; 
But love from love, toward school with heavy 
looks. 

B.J.,11: 2. 1252. 



— Advantages no Account in. 

K. Hen. Marry, if you would put me to 
verses, or to dance for your sake, Kate, 
why you undid me : for the one, I have 
neither words nor measure ; and for the 
other, I have no strength in measure, yet a 
reasonable measure in strength. If I could 
win a lady at leap-frog, or by vaulting into 
my saddle with my armour on my back, un- 
der the correction of bragging be it spoken, 
I should quickly leap into a wife. Or, if I 
might buffet for my love, or bound my horse 
for her favours, I could lay on like a butch- 
er, and sit like a jack-an-apes, never off: 
but, before God, I cannot look greenly, nor 
gasp out my eloquence, nor I have no cun- 
ning in protestation ; only down-right oaths, 
which I never use till urged, nor never break 
for urging. If thou canst love a fellow of 
temper, Kate, whose face is not worth sun- 
burning, that never looks in his glass for 
love of any thing he sees there, let thine 
eye be thy cook. I speak to thee plain sol- 
dier : If thou canst love me for this, take 
me : if not, to say to thee — that I shall die, 
is true ; but — forthylove, by the Lord, no ; 
yet I love thee too. And while thou livest, 
dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and un- 
coined constancy ; for he perforce must do 
thee right, because he hath not the gift to 
avoo in other places : for these fellows of in- 
finite tongue, that can rhyme themselves 
into ladies' favours, — they do always reason 
themselves out again. What! a speaker is 
but a prater : a rhyme is but a ballad. A 
good leg will fall ; a straight back will stoop ; 
a black beard will turn white ; a curled pate 
will grow bald ; a fair face will wither ; a 
full eye will wax old : but a good heart, 
Kate, is the sun and moon; or, rather the 
sun, and not the moon ; for it shines bright, 
and never changes, but keeps his course 
truly. If thou would have such a one, take 
me: And take me, take a soldier; take a 
soldier, take a king : And what sayst thou 
then to my love? speak, my fair, and fairly, 
I pray thee. 

H.V.,Y:2. 854. 

— All absorbing. 

Duke. * * 
O spirit of love ! how quick and fresh art 

thou, 
That, notwithstanding thy capacity 
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, 
Of what validity and pitch soe'er, 
But fall into abatement and low price, 
Even in a minute ! 

T.N., I: 1. 540. 

Pro. He after honour hunts, I after love : 
He leaves his friends to dignify them more ; 



LOVE. 



347 



LOVE. 



I leave myself, my friends, and all for love. 
Thou, Julia, thou hast metamorphos'd me, — 
Made me neglect my studies, lose my time, 
War with good counsel, set the world at 

nought ; 
Made wit with musing weak, heart sick with 

thought. 

T. &.,I: l. 48. 

— All Things endurable to. 

Fer. * * 
Might I but through my prison once a day 
Behold this maid : all corners else o' the 

earth 
Let liberty make use of; space enough 
Have I in such a prison. 

T 7 ., 1 : 2. 14. 

— An absorbing Passion. 

Por. How all the other passions fleet to 
air, 

As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embrac'd 
despair, 

And shudd'ring fear, and green-ey'd jeal- 
ousy ! 

love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy ; 

In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess ; 

1 feel too much thy blessing; make it less, 
For fear I surfeit ! 

M. V., Ill : 2. 377. 

— An Excuse for Folly and Sin. 

Bast. * * 
Some sins do bear their privilege on earth, 
And so doth yours ; your fault was not your 

folly; 
Needs must you lay your heart at his dis- 
pose, — 
Subjected tribute to commanding love, — 
Against whose fury and unmatched force 
The awless lion could not wage the fight, 
Nor keep his princely heart from Richard's 

hand. 
He, that perforce robs lions of their hearts, 
May easily win a woman's. 

K. J., 1 : 1. 649. 

— And Duty. 

Oth. * * No, when light-wing'd toys 
Of feather'd Cupid seel with wanton dull- 
ness 
My speculative and active instruments, 



That my disports corrupt and taint my 

business, 
Let housewives make a skillet of my helm, 
And all indign and base adversities 
Make head against my estimation ! 

0.,I: 3. 1498. 

— And Wisdom conjoined. 

Ores. * * To be wise, and love, 
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with 
gods above. 

T. C, III : 2. 1122. 



— Armado's Opinion of. 

Arm. * * Love is a familiar ; love is 
a devil : there is no evil angel but love. 
Yet was Sampson so tempted ; and he had 
an excellent strength : yet was Solomon so 
seduced ; and he had a very good wit. 
Cupid's buttshaft is too hard for Hercules' 
club, and therefore too much odds for a 
Spaniard's rapier. The first and second 
cause will not serve my turn ; the passado 
he respects not ; the duello he regards not : 
his disgrace is to be called boy, but his 
glory is to subdue men. Adieu, valour ! 
rust, rapier ! be still, drum ! for your man- 
ager is in love ; yea, he loveth. Assist me, 
some extemporal god of rhyme, for, I am 
sure, I shall turn sonneteer. Devise, wit! 
write, pen ! for I am for whole volumes in 
folio. 

L. L., 1 : 2. 276. 



—At first Sight. 

Phe. Dead shepherd ! now I find thy 
saw of might ; 
"Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first 
sight?" 

A. F.,III: 5. 427. 

Duke. * * 
O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first. 
Methought she purg'd the air of pestilence ; 
That instant was I turn'd into a hart, 
And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, 
E'er since pursue me. 

T.JST.,1: 1. 540. 

K. Phi. What say'st thou, boy? look in 

the lady's face, 
Lew. I do, my lord, and in her eye I 
find 
A wonder, or a wondrous miracle, 
The shadow of myself formed in her eye ; 
Which, being but the shadow of your son, 



LOVE. 



348 



LOVE. 



Becomes a sun, and makes your son a 

shadow : 
I do protest, I never lov'd myself, 
Till now infixed I beheld myself, 
Drawn in the flattering table of her eye. 

K.J. ,11: 2. 655. 

Mira. I do not know, 

One of my sex ; no woman's face remem- 
ber, 
Save, from my glass, mine own ; nor have 

seen 
More that I may call men, than you, good 

friend, 
And my dear father : how features are 

abroad, 
I am skill-less of; but, by my modesty, 
(The jewel in my dower,) I would not 

wish 
Any companion in the world but you ; 
Nor can imagination form a shape, 
Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle 
Something too wildly, and my father's pre- 
cepts 
I therein do forget. 

ST., Ill: 1. 22. 

—Blind. 

Jes. Here, catch this casket ; it is worth 

the pains. 
I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on 

me, 
For I am much asham'd of my exchange : 
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see 
The pretty follies that themselves commit ; 
For if they could, Cupid himself would 

blush 
To see me thus transformed to a boy. 

M. V., II: 6. 371. 

Hel. * * 

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the 
mind ; 

And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind. 

Nor hath love's mind of any judgment taste ; 

Wings, and no eyes, figure unheedy haste : 

And therefore is love said to be a child, 

Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd. 

As waggish boys in game themselves for- 
swear, 

So the boy love is perjur'd everywhere. 

M. N., 1 : 1. 324. 



— Breaks all Disguises. 

OIL * * 
A murth'rous guilt shows not itself more 

soon 
Than love that would seem hid : love's night 
is noon. 

T. JT., Ill : 1. 556. 

— Cautious. 

Claud. How sweetly do you minister to 
love, 
That know love's grief by his complexion ! 
But lest my liking might too sudden seem, 
I would have salv'd it with a longer trea- 
tise. 

M. A., I: 1. 228. 

— Changed by Slander. 

Oth. O, that the slave had forty thousand 

lives ; 
One is too poor, too weak for my revenge ! 
Now do I see 't is true. — Look here, Iago ; 
All my fond love thus I do blow to heaven ; 
'T is gone. — 
Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow 

cell! 
Yield up, O love, thy crown, and hearted 

throne, 
To tyrannous hate ! swell, bosom, with thy 

fraught, 
For 't is of aspicks' tongues ! 

O., Ill: 3. 1515. 

— Changed to Hate. 

Scroop. Sweet love, I see, changing his 
property, 
Turns to the sourest and most deadly hate. 
R. II, Ill : 2. 702. 

— Character of true. 

War. Such it seems, 

As may beseem a monarch like himself. 
Myself have often heard him say and swear, 
That this his love was an eternal plant ; 
Wherof the root was fix'd in virtue's ground, 
The leaves and fruit maintain'd with beau- 
ty's sun ; 
Exempt from envy, but not from disdain, 
Unless the lady Bona quit his pain. 

n. VI, 3pt., Ill: 3. 976. 



LOVE, 



349 



LOVE. 



— Comes too late. 
King. * * 

Oft our displeasures, to ourselves unjust, 

Destroy our friends, and after weep their 
dust : 

Our own love waking cries to see what 's 
done, 

While shameful hate sleep out the after- 
noon. 

A. W., V : 5. 526. 

— Concealed. 

Luc. Yet he, of all the rest, I think, 

best loves ye. 
Jul. His little speaking shows his love 

but small. 
Luc. Fire that 's closest kept burns most 

of all. 
Jul. They do not love that do not show 

their love. 
Luc. O, they love least that let men 

know their love. 

T. G.,I: 3. 49. 

Vio. A blank, my lord : She never told 
her love, 

But let concealment, like a worm i' the 
bud, 

Feed on her damask cheek : she pin'd in 
thought ; 

And, with a green and yellow melancholy, 

She sat, like Patience on a monument, 

Smiling at grief. Was not this love, in- 
deed? 

We men may say more, swear more : but, 
indeed, 

Our shows are more than will ; for still we 
prove 

Much in our vows, but little in our love. 

T. IT., II : 4. 551. 

— Course never smooth. 

Lys. Ah me ! for aught that I could 

ever read, 
Could ever hear by tale or history, 
The course of true love never did run 

smooth : 
But, either it was different in blood. 
* * 

Her. If then true lovers have been ever 

cross'd, 
It stands as an edict in destiny : 



Then let us teach our trial patience, 

Because it is a customary cross ; 

As due to love, as thoughts, and dreams, 

and sighs, 
Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers. 
M. V., I: 1. 322. 

— Declaration of. 

Lys. 0, take the sense, sweet, of my in- 
nocence ; 
Love takes the meaning, in love's confer- 
ence ; 
I mean, that my heart unto yours is knit, 
So that but one heart we can make of it : 
Two bosoms interchanged with an oath; 
So then, two bosoms, and a single troth. 

M.N., II: 2. 329. 

— Deep and foolish. 

Touch. * * We, that are true lovers, 
run into strange capers ; but as all is mortal 
in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in 
folly. 

A. Y., II: 4. 416 

Val. And on a love-book pray for my 

success. 
Pro. Upon some book I love, I '11 pray 

for thee. 
Val. That 's on some shallow story of 
deep love, 
How young Leander cross'd the Hellespont. 
Pro. That 's a deep story of a deeper 
love. 
For he was more than over shoes in love. 
Val. 'T is true ; for you are over boots 
in love, 
And yet you never sworn the Hellespont. 
Pro. Over the boots? nay, give me not 

the boots. 
Val. No, I will not, for it boots thee not, — 
Pro. What? 

Val. To be in love, where scorn is 
bought with groans ; 
Coy looks with heart-sore sighs ; one fading- 
moment's mirth 
With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights : 
If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain ; 
If lost, why then a grievous labour won ; 
However, but a folly bought with wit, 
Or else a wit by folly vanquished. 

Pro. So, by your circumstance, you call 
me fool. 



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350 



LOVE. 



Val. So, by your circumstance, I fear 

you '11 prove. 
Pro. 'T is Love you cavil at ; I am not 

Love. 
Val. Love is your master, for he mas- 
ters you : 
And he that is so yoked by a fool, 
Methinks should not be chronicled for wise. 

T. G., 1 : 1. 47. 

— Delights in Praises. 

Val. Even she ; and is she not a heaven- 
ly saint? 
Pro. No ; but she is an earthly paragon. 
Val. Call her divine. 
Pro. I will not natter her. 

Val. O, natter me, for love delights in 

praises. 

T. C, II: 4. 56. 

— Demands Deafness. 

Imo. * * 
Love's counsellor should fill the bores of 

hearing, 
To the smothering of the sense. 

Gym., Ill: 2. 1606. 

— Desires the Inaccessible. 

Pake. This very night ; for love is like 
a child, 
That longs for every thing that he can come 
by. 

T. G., Ill : 1. 60. 

— Destitution of. 
Per. * * But, fair soul, 

In your fine frame hath love no quality? 

If the quick fire of youth light not your 

mind, 

You are no maiden, but a monument : 

When you are dead, you should be such a 

one. 

A. W., IV: 2. 518. 

Jul. But love will not be spurr'd to 

what it loaths. 

T. G., V : 2. 70. 

— Disguised. 

Claud. Hero thinks surely she will die ; 
for she says she will die if he love her not, 
and she will die ere she make her love 
known; and she will die if he woo her, 
rather than she will 'bate one breath of her 
accustomed crossness. 

M. V., II : 3. 236. 



— Enslaving. 

Aar. * * Fetter 'd in amorous chains ; 
And faster bound to Aaron's charming 

eyes, 
Than is Prometheus tied to Caucasus. 

Tit. And., II: 1. 1207. 

— Ever Lives. 

Love, love, nothing but love, still more! 

For, oh, love's how 

Shoots buck and doe : 

The shaft confounds, 

Not that it wounds 
But tickles still the sore. 

These lovers cry — Oh ! oh ! they die ! 

Yet that which seems the wound to kill, 
Doth turn oh ! oh ! to ha ! ha ! he ! 

So dying love lies still : 
Oh! oh! a while, but ha! ha! ha! 
Oh ! oh ! groans out for ha ! ha ! ha ! 

T. C, III : 1. 1120. 

— False, Sheds no Tears. 

Cleo. O most false love ! 

Where be the sacred vials thou should'st 

fill 
With sorrowful water? Now I see, I see, 
In Fulvia's death, how mine receiv'd shall 
be. 

A. C.j I: 3. 1544. 

— Fed by Sight of. 

Ros. O, come, let us remove ; 

The sight of lovers feedeth those in love. 

A. Y., Ill: 4. 426. 

— Fidelity of true Love. 

Ores. * * I have forgot my father ; 
I know no touch of consanguinity ; 
No kin, no love, no blood, no soul so near 

me, 
As the sweet Troilus. — O you gods divine ! 
Make Cressid's name the very crown of 

falsehood, 
If ever she leave Troilus ! Time, force, 

and death, 
Do to this body what extremes you can ; 
But the strong base and building of my 

love 
Is as the very centre of the earth, 
Drawing all things to it. — I'll go in, and 

weep. 

T. C, IV : 2. 1129. 



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— Filial. 

King. Not that I think, you did not love 
your father, 
But that I know, love is begun by time ; 
And that I see, in passages of proof, 
Time qualifies the spark and fire of it. 
There lives within the very flame of love 
A kind of wick, or snuff, that will abate it. 
' H., IV : 7. 1428. 

Gon. Sir, I 

Do love you more than words can wield the 

matter, 
Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty ; 
Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare ; 
No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, 

honour : 
As much as child e'er loved, or father found. 
A love that makes breath poor, and speech 

unable ; 
Beyond all manner of so much I love you. 
K. L. t 1 : 1. 1444. 

— Fire and Madness. 

Rom. * * 
Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of 

sighs ; 
Being puff'cl, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes ; 
Being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' 

tears : 
What is it else? a madness most discreet, 
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet. 

R.J.,I: 1. 1243. 

— Goes by Haps. 

Hero. * * Loving goes by haps : 
Some Cupids kill with arrows, some with 
traps. 

M.A.,IIl: 1. 238. 

— Guided by Heaven. 

Ford. Stand not amaz'd : here is no 
remedy : 
In love, the heavens themselves do guide 

the state ; 
Money buys lands, and wives are sold by 
fate. 

M. W. t V : 5. 120. 

— Impossible to Restrain. 

Macb. * * Who could refrain, 
That had a heart to love, and in that heart 
Courage, to make his love known? 

M., II : 3. 1367. 



— Improperly Placed, Lost. 

Ford. * * 
'* Love like a shadow flies, when substance love pur- 
sues; 
Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues." 

Fal. Have you receiv'd no promise of 
satisfaction at her hands? 

Ford. Never. 

Fal. Have you importun'd her to such a 
purpose? 

Ford. Never. 

Fal. Of what quality was your love, then ? 

Ford. Like a fair house built on another 
man's ground; so that I have lost my edi- 
fice, by mistaking the place where I erected 
it. 

M. W., II: 2. 99. 

— In Queen and Maid. 

Cleo. No more, but e'en a woman: and 
commanded 
By such poor passion as the maid that milks, 
And does the meanest chares. 

A. C, IV: 13. 1576. 

— Infatuation of. 

Tro. No, Pandarus : I stalk about her 

door, 

Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks 

Staying for waftage. O, be thou my Charon. 

T. C.,111: 2. 1121. 

Ros. Love is merely a madness ; and, I 
tell you, deserves as well a dark house and 
a whip as madmen do : and the reason why 
they are not so punish'd and cured is, that 
the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers 
are in love too : Yet I profess curing it by 
counsel. 

A. Y., Ill : 2. 424. 

Pro. Already have I been false to Val- 
entine, 
And now I must be as unjust to Thurio. 
Under the colour of commending him, 
I have access my own love to prefer ; 
But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, 
To be corrupted with my worthless gifts. 
When I protest true loyalty to her, 
She twits me with my falsehood to my 

friend : 
When to her beauty I commend my vows, 
She bids me think how I have been for- 
sworn 
In breaking faith with Julia whom I lov'd : 



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And, notwithstanding all her sudden quips, 
The least -whereof would quell a lover's 

hope, 
Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my 

love, 
The more it grows, and fawneth on her still. 
T. G., IV : 2. 66. 

— Infinite as the Sea. 
Jul. * * 
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, 
My love as deep ; the more I give to thee, 
The more I have, for both are infinite. 

R. J.. II : 2. 1252. 



— Its absurd Vows. 

Cres. They say, all lovers swear more 
performance than they are able, and yet re- 
serve an ability that they never perform ; 
vowing more than the perfection often, and 
discharging less than the tenth part of one. 
They that have the voice of lions, and the 
act of hares, are they not monsters? 

T. (7., Ill: 2. 1121. 



— Its Avowal Desired. 

Jul. * * 

Dost thou love me? I know, thou wilt 

say — Ay; 
And I will take thy word : yet, if thou 

swear'st, 
Thou may'st prove false ; at lovers' per- 
juries, 
They say, Jove laughs. O, gentle Komeo, 
If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully : 
Or if thou think'st I am too quickly won, 
I '11 frown, and be perverse, and say thee 

nay, 
So thou wilt woo ; but, else, not for the 

world. 
In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond ; 
And therefore thou may'st think my 'haviour 

light : 
But trust me, gentleman, I '11 prove more 

true 
Than those that have more cunning to be 

strange. 

It. «/., II : 2. 1252. 

— Its bewildering Power. 

Bene. * * I do much wonder that one 
man, seeing how much another man is a 



fool when he dedicates his behaviours to 
love, will, after he hath laughed at such shal- 
low follies in others, become the argument 
of his own scorn by falling in love: — and 
such a man is Claudio. I have known when 
there was no music with him but the drum 
and the fife ; and now had he rather hear 
the tabor and the pipe : I have known when 
he would have walked ten mile afoot, to see 
a good armour; and now will he lie ten 
nights awake, carving the fashion of a new 
doublet. He was wont to speak plain, and 
to the purpose, like an honest man and a 
soldier ; and now he is turn'd orthographer ; 
his words are a very fantastical banquet, 
just so many strange dishes. May I be so 
converted, and see with these eyes? I can- 
not tell ; I think not. I will not be sworn 
but love may transform me to an oyster; 
but I '11 take my oath on it, till he hath 
made an oyster of me, he shall never make 
me such a fool. One woman is fair ; yet I 
am well : another is wise ; yet I am well : 
another virtuous, yet I am well : but till all 
graces be in one woman, one woman shall 
not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, 
that 's certain ; wise, or I '11 none ; virtuous, 
or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll 
never look on her ; mild, or come not near 
me ; noble, or not I for an angel ; of good 
discourse, an excellent musician, and her 
hair shall be of what colour it please God. 

M. A., II : 3. 234. 



— Its bewitching Tyranny. 

Iago. * * And then for her 
To win the Moor, — were 't to renounce his 

baptism, 
All seals and symbols of redeemed sin, — 
His soul is so enfetter'd to her love, 
That she may make, unmake, do what she 

list, 
Even as her appetite shall play the god 
With his weak function. 

0., II : 3. 1507. 

—Its Conquests. 

Val. * * 
O, gentle Proteus, Love 's a mighty lord; 
And hath so humbled me, as, I confess, 
There is no woe to his correction, 
Nor to his service no such joy on earth ! 
Now, no discourse, except it be of love ; 
Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and 

sleep, 
Upon the very naked name of Love. 

T. ff.,11: 4. 56. 



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— Its contradictory Character. 
Ben. Alas, that love, so gentle in his 

view, 
Should he so tyrannous and rough h. proof! 
Rom. Alas, that love, whose view is 

muffled still, 
Should, without eyes, see pathways to his 

will ! 
Where shall we dine? — O me ! — What fray 

was here? 
Yet tell me not, for I have heard it all. 
Here 's much to do with hate, but more with 

love : — 
Why then, brawling love ! O loving hate ! 
any thing, of nothing first created ! 
O heavy lightness ! serious vanity ! 
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms ! 
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, 

sick health ! 
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is ! — 
This love feel I, that feel no love in this. 

E. J., 1 : 1. 1243. 

— Its Dart not invincible. 

Duke. * * 
Believe not that the dribbling dart of love 
Can pierce a complete bosom. 

M. J/"., 1 : 3. 146. 

—Its Difficulties. 

K. Hen. No, Kate? I will tell thee in 
French ; which, I am sure, will hang upon 
my tongue like a new-married wife about 
her husband's neck, hardly to be shook ofi°. 
Quand f ay la possession de France, ei 
quand vous avez le possession demoi, (let 
me see, what then? Saint Dennis be my 
speed!) — done vostre est France, et vous 
estes mienne. It is as easy for me, Kate, to 
conquer the kingdom, as to speak so much 
more French : I shall never move thee in 
French, unless it be to laugh at me. 

H. Y., V: 2. 854. 

—Its Effect on Time. 

Claud. To-morrow, my lord : Time 
goes on crutches, till Love have all his rites. 

Jf. A., II : 1. 233. 

— Its Infatuation. 

Orl. * * 
Rosalind ! these trees shall be my books, 
And in their barks my thoughts I '11 char- 
acter : 



That every eye, which in this forest looks, 
Shall see thy virtue witnessed everywhere. 

Run. run, Orlando ; carve on every tree 

The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. 
A. Y., Ill : 1. 420. 
Tro. * * 

And give me swift transportance to those 
fields, 

Where I may wallow in the lily beds 

Propos'd for the deserver ! O gentle Pan- 
da rus, 

From Cupid's shoulder pluck his painted 
Avings, 

And fly with me to Cressid ! 

Pan. Walk here i' the orchard, I '11 

bring her straight. 

Tro. I am giddy ; expectation Avhirls me 
round. 

The imaginary relish is so sweet 

That it enchants my sense : What will it 
be, 

When that the wat'ry palate tastes indeed 

Love's thrice-reputed nectar? death, I fear 
me ; 

Swooning destruction ; or some joy too fine, 

Too subtle-potent, turn'd too sharp in sweet- 
ness, 

For the capacity of my ruder powers. 

r. a, in .- 2. ii2i. 

— Its Jealousy. 

Val. * * 
Because thou seest me dote upon my love. 
My foolish rival, that her father likes, 
Only for his possessions are so huge, 
Is gone with her along ; and I must after, 
For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy. 

T. G., II : 4. 56. 

— Its Messengers should be swift. 

Jul. * * 
O, she is lame ! love's heralds should be 

thoughts, 
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's 

beams, 
Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. 

R. J. s II : 5. 1256. 

— Its monstrous Promises. 

Tro. * * When we vow to weep seas, 
live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers ; thinking 
it harder for our mistress to devise imposi- 



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tion enough, than for us to undergo any diffi- 
culty imposed. This is the monstruosity in 
love, lady, — that the will is infinite, and the 
execution confined ; that the desire is bound- 
less, and the act a slave to limit. 

T. C 111 : 2. 1121. 

— Its own Dowry. 
France. * * Love is not love, 
When it is mingled with respects, that stand 
Aloof from the entire point. Will you 

have her? 
She is herself a dowry. 

K. L., 1 : 1. 1446. 

— Its pacifying Power. 
Eli. * * 

This might have been been prevented, and 

made whole, 
With very easy arguments of love ; 
Which now the manage of two kingdoms 

must 
With fearful bloody issue arbitrate. 

K. J., I : 1. 646. 

— Its Reason no Reason. 

Arv. If it be a sin to say so, sir, I yoke 

me 
In my good brothers fault; I know not 

why 
I love this youth ; and I have heard you 

say 
Love's reason 's without reason ; the bier at 

door, 
And a demand who is 't shall die, I 'd say, 
"My father, not this youth." 

Cym.,TV: 2. 1614. 

— Its Shadows. 

Rom. If I may trust the flattering truth 

of sleep, 
My dreams presage some joyful ne>vs at 

hand : 
My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne ; 
And, all this day, an unaccustom'd spirit 
Lifts me above the ground with cheerful 

thoughts. 
I dreamt, my lady came and found me 

dead ; 
(Strange dream! that gives a dead man 

leave to think,) 



And breath'd such life with kisses in my 

lips, 
That I reviv'd, and was an emperor. 
Ah, me! how sweet is love itself possess'd, 
When but love's shadows are so rich in 

joy? 

R. J., V : 1. 1273. 

— Its Treasures. 

Val. Not for the world : why, man, she 
is mine own; 
And I as rich in having such a jewel, 
As twenty seas, if all their sand were 

pearl, 
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. 

T. G.,U: 4. 56. 

— Justifies Disguise. 

Jul. * * 
O Proteus, let this habit make thee blush! 
Be thou asham'd, that I have took upon 

me 
Such an immodest raiment, if shame live 
In a disguise of love : 
It is the lesser blot, modesty finds, 
Women to change their shapes, than men 

their minds. 

7V G., V : 4. 72. 

— Longings of a mutual. 

Rom. * * 
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand ! 
O, that I were a glove upon that hand, 
That I might touch that cheek ! 

Jul. Ah me ! 

Rom. She speaks : — 

O, speak again, bright angel ! for thou art 
As glorious to this night, being o'er my 

head, 
As is a winged messenger of heaven 
Unto the white-upturned wond'ring eyes 
Of mortals, that fall back to gaze on him, 
When he bestrides the lazy-passing clouds, 
And sails upon the bosom of the air. 

R.J., II : 2. 1251. 

— Makes base Men noble. 

Iago. * * Base men, being in love, 
have then a nobility in their natures more 
than is native to them. 

0., II: 1. 1502. 



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—Makes Sacrifices. 

Laer. * * 
Nature is fine in love ; and, where 't is fine, 
It sends some precious instance of itself 
After the thing it loves. 

ff.,IV: 5. 1425. 

— Men never Die of. 

Orl. Then, in mine own person, I die. 

Eos. No, faith, die by attorney. The 
poor world is almost six thousand years 
old, and in all this time there was not any 
man died in his own person, videlicit, in a 
love-cause. Troilus had his brains dash'd 
out with a Grecian club : yet he did what 
he could to die before ; and he is one of the 
patterns of love. Leander, he would have 
lived many a fair year, though Hero had 
turn'd nun, if it had not been for a hot mid- 
summer night : for, good youth, he went 
but forth to wash him in the Hellespont, 
and, being taken with the cramp, was 
drown'd ; and the foolish coroners of that 
age found it was — Hero of Sestos. But 
these are all lies ; men have died from time 
to time, and worms have eaten them, but 
not for love. 

A. Y., IV: 1. 429. 

—Misplaced. 

Por. * * 

I had rather be married to a death's head 
with a bone in his mouth, than to either of 
these. 

M. V., 1 : 2. 363. 

— Mistrust Treason to. 

Bass. None, but that ugly treason of 
mistrust, 
Which makes me fear the enjoying of my 

love : 
There may as well be amity and life 
'Tween snow and file, as treason and my 
love. 

M. V., Ill : 2. 376. 

— Music its Food. 

Duke. If music be the food of love, play 
on; 
Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting, 
The appetite may sicken, and so die. 
That strain again ; — it had a dying fall : 
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound 
That breathes upon a bank of violets, 
Stealing, and giving odour. 

T. JT.,1: 1. 540. 



— Natural, its Declaration. 
Mir a. Do you love me? 
Fer. O heaven ! O earth ! bear witness 

to this sound, 
And crown what I profess with kind event, 
If I speak true ; if hollowly, invert 
What best is boded me, to mischief! I, 
Beyond all limit of what else i' the world, 
Do love, prize, honour you. 

Mir a. I am a fool, 

To weep at what I am glad of. 

Pro. Fair encounter 

Of two most rare affections ! Heavens rain 

grace 
On that which breeds between them ! 

T., Ill : 1. 22. 

— Natural, its Equality. 

• Shep. * * He says, he loves my 
daughter ; 
I think so too : for never gaz'd the moon 
Upon the water, as he '11 stand, and read, 
As 't were, my daughter's eyes : and, to be 

plain, 
I think there is not half a kiss to choose 
Who loves another best. 

W. T., IV : 3. 602. 

— Never Quenched. 

Jul. 0, know'st thou not, his looks are 

my soul's food? 
Pity the dearth that I have pined in, 
By longing for that food so long a time. 
Didst thou but know the inly touch of 

love, 
Thou would'st as soon go kindle fire with 

snow. 
As seek to quench the fire of love with 

words. 

T. <?., II : 7. 58. 

— New Objects Displace old. 

Thu. Therefore, as you unwind her love 
from him, 
Lest it should ravel, and be good to none, 
You must provide to bottom it on me ; 
Which must be done by praising me as 

much 
As you in worth dispraise sir Valentine. 

T. £., Ill : 2. 64. 



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— No Despair in. 

Dem. Then why should he despair, that 

knows to court it 

With words, fair looks, and liberality? 

"What, hast thou not full often struck a doe, 

And borne her cleanly by the keeper's nose? 

Tit. And., II : 1. 1208. 

— No Substitute for Food. 

Vol. I have din'd. 

Speed. Ay, but hearken, sir ; though the 
cameleon Love can feed on the air, I am 
one that am nourish'd by my victuals, and 
would fain have meat. 0, be not like your 
mistress ; be moved, be moved. 

T. #.,11: 1. 54. 

— No Time for, in War. 

Hot. * * 
Away, you trifler ! — Love? — I love thee 

not, 
I care not for thee Kate : this is no world 
To play with mammets, and to tilt with lips : 
We must have bloody noses, and crack'd 

crowns, 
And pass them current too. — Gods me, my 

horse ! 

//. IV., lpt.,11: 3. 737. 

— None without Folly. 

Sil. Corin, that thou knew'st how I do 

love her ! 
Cor. I partly guess ; for I have lov'd ere 

now. 
Sil. No, Corin, being old, thou canst not 
guess ; 
Though in thy youth thou wast as true a 

lover 
As ever sigh'd upon a midnight pillow : 
But if thy love were ever like to mine, 
(As sure I think did never man love so,) 
How many actions most ridiculous 
Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy? 
Cor. Into a thousand that I have for- 
gotten. 
Sil. O, thou didst then never love so 
heartily : 
If thou remember'st not the slightest folly 
That ever love did make thee run into, 
Thou hast not lov'd : 
Or if thou hast not sat as I do now, 
"Wearying thy hearer in thy mistress' praise, 



Thou hast not lov'd : 

Or if thou has not broke from company 

Abruptly, as my passion now makes me, 

Thou hast not lov'd : 

O Phebe, Phebe, Phebe ! 

A. F.,11: 4. 416. 

— Not fit for Warriors. 

Pair. * * 
Sweet, rouse yourself; and the weak wan- 
ton Cupid 
Shall from your neck unloose his amorous 

fold, 
And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, 
Be shook to very air. 

T. C, III : 3. 1125. 

— Object black. 

King. By heaven, thy love is black as 

ebony. 
Biron. Is ebony like her? wood 

divine ! 

L. Z..IV: 3. 289. 

— Overleaps all Barriers. 

Jul. How cam'st thou hither, tell me? 
and wherefore? 
The orchard walls are high, and hard to 

climb ; 
And the place death, considering who thou 

art, 
If any of my kinsmen find thee here. 

Rom. With love's light wings did I o'er- 
perch these walls ; 
For stony limits cannot hold love out : 
And what love can do, that dares love at- 
tempt ; 
Therefore thy kinsmen are no stop to me. 
Jul. If they do see thee, they will mur- 
der thee. 
Rom. Alack! there lies more peril in 
thine eye, 
Than twenty of their swords : look thoa 

but sweet, 
And I am proof against their enmity. 

R.J.,Il: 2. 1251. 

— Overleaps Vows. 

Glo. So should I give consent to flatter 
sin. 
You know, my lord, your highness is be- 
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Unto another lady of esteem; 
How shall we then dispense with that con- 
tract. 
And not deface your honour with reproach? 
Suf. As doth a ruler with unlawful oaths ; 
Or one, that, at a triumph having vow'd 
To try his strength, forsaketh yet the lists 
By reason of his adversary's odds : 
A poor earl's daughter is unequal odds, 
And therefore may be broke without offence. 
H. VI., lpt., V: 5. 897. 

— Passionate. 

Jul. * * When he shall die, 
Take him and cut him out in little stars, 
And he will make the face of heaven so fine, 
That all the world will be in love with night, 
And pay no worship to the garish sun. 

R. J. t III : 2. 1261. 

— Perseverance in. 

Fent. * * 
Perforce, against all checks, rebukes, and 

manners, 
I must advance the colours of my love, 
And not retire : Let me have your good will. 
M. W., Ill : 4. 108. 

— Persistence in. 

Val. * * 
But, since thou lov'st, love still, and thrive 

therein, 
Even as I would, when I to love begin. 

T. G.,_I: 1. 47. 

— Requited. 

Beat. * * 
Contempt, farewell ! and maiden pride, 

adieu ! 
No glory lives behind the back of such. 
And Benedick, love on, I will requite thee 
Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand. 
M. A. y III: 1. 238. 

— Resisted by Beauty. 



She will not stay the siege of loving terms, 
Nor bide the encounter of assailing eyes, 
Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold : 
0, she is rich in beauty ; only poor, 
That, when she dies, with beauty dies her 
store. 

R.J.,I: 1. 1244. 



— Shortens the Path. 
Rom. * * 

Love goes toward love, as school-boys from 

their books ; 

But love from love, toward school with 

heavy looks. 

A'. J., II: 2. 1252. 

— Should be Avoided. 

War. * * I hold it cowardice, 
To rest mistrustful where a noble heart 
Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love. 
H. VI., 3 pt., IV : 2. 980. 

— Signs of. 

Moth. * * To jig off a tune at the 
tongue's end, canary to it with your feet, hu- 
mour it with turning up your eyelids ; sigh 
a note, and sing a note ; sometime through 
the throat, as if you swallowed love with 
singing love ; sometimes through the nose, 
as if you snuffed up love by smelling love ; 
with your hat, penthouselike, o'er the shop 
of your eyes ; with your arms crossed on 
your thin belly-doublet, like a rabbit on a 
spit ; or your hands in your pocket, like a 
man after the old painting ; and keep not 
too long in one tune, but a snip and away : 
These are complements, these are humours. 

L. L., Ill : 1. 280. 



Val. Why, how know you that I am in 



Speed. Marry, by these special marks : 
First, you have learn'd, like sir Proteus, to 
wreath your arms like a malcontent; to 
relish a love-song, like a robin-redbreast ; 
to walk alone, like one that had the pesti- 
lence ; to sigh, like a schoolboy that had 
lost his A. B. C. ; to weep, like a young 
wench that had buried her grandam ; to 
fast, like one that takes diet; to watch, like 
one that fears robbing; to speak puling, 
like a beggar at Hallowmas. You were 
wont, when you laughed, to crow like a 
cock ; when you walk'd, to walk like one 
of the lion* ; when you fasted, it was pres- 
ently after dinner ; when you look'd sadly, 
it was for want of money : and now you 
are metamorphos'd with a mistress, that, 
when I look on you, I can hardly think you 
mv master. 

T. O, II: l. 52. 

— Soldiers susceptible to. 

Agam. * * But Ave are soldiers ; 
And may that soldier a mere recreant prove, 
That means not, hath not, or is not in love ! 
If then one is, or hath, or means to be, 
That one meets Hector ; if none else, I am he. 
T. C, 1 : 3. 1110. 



LOVE. 358 LOVE. 


— Speaking. 


— The twenty Eyes of. 


Biron. * * 


Val. Why, lady, Love hath twenty pair 


And when Love speaks, the voice of all the 


of eyes. 


gods 


Thu. They say that Love hath not an 


Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. 


eye at all. — 


L. Z.,IV: 3. 291. 


Val. To see such lovers, Thurio, as 




yourself; 


— Springs from Hate. 


Upon a homely object Love can wink. 


Jul. My only love sprung from my only 


T. <?., II : 4. 55. 


hate ! 




Too early seen unknown, and known too 


— Transient. 


late! 


Tro. * * 


Prodigious birth of love it is to me, 


But, still, sweet love is food for fortune's 


That I must love a loathed enemy. 


tooth. 


R. J., 1 : 5. 1250. 


T. C, IV: 5. 1135. 


— Superseded. 


Duke. This weak impress of love is as a 
figure 
Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat 


Pro. Love hade me swear, and Love 


bids me forswear ; 


Dissolves to water, and doth lose his form. 


sweet suggesting Love ! if thou hast 


A little time will melt her frozen thoughts, 


sinn'd, 


And worthless Valentine shall be forgot. 


Teach me, thy tempted subject, to excuse it. 


T. G. Ill : 2. 63. 


At first I did adore a twinkling star, 




But now I worship a celestial sun. 


— Transmitting Power of. 


T. G.,l\: 6. 58. 






Eel. * * 


— Sweet, not lasting. 


Things base and vild, holding no quantity, 


Laer. For Hamlet, and the trifling of 


Love can transpose to form and dignity. 


his favour, 


M. IT., 1 : 1. 324. 


Hold it a fashion, and a toy in blood ; 


— Trifles. 


A violet in the youth of primy nature, 


Jul. * * 


Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, 


Alas, how love can trifle with itself! 


The perfume and suppliance of a minute ; 


T. G., IV : 2. 70. 


No more. 




//., 1 : 3. 1396. 


— True, beyond Estimate. 




Jul. Conceit, more rich in matter than 


— Tame when content with Words. 


in words, 


Pan. Words pay no debts, give her 


Brags of his substance, not of ornament : 


deeds : but she '11 bereave you of the deeds 


They are but beggars that can count their 


too, if she call your activity in question. 


worth ; 


What, billing again ? Here 's — " In witness 


whereof the parties interchangeably " — 


But my true love is grown to such excess, 


Come in, come in ; I '11 go get a fire. 


I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth. 


T. C., Ill : 2. 1121. 


R. J., II : 6. 1258. 


— That can be Reckoned. 


— True, never "Weary. 


Ant. There 's beggary in the love that 


Jul. A true-devoted pilgrim is not weary 


can be reckon'd. 


To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps ; 


Cleo. I '11 set a bourn how far to be be- 


Much less shall she that hath Love's wings 


lov'd. 


to fly; 


Ant. Then must thou needs find out 


And when the flight is made to one so dear, 


new heaven, new earth. 


Of such divine perfection, as sir Proteus. 


A. C, I: 1. 1540. 


T. G., II : 7. 58. 



LOVE. 



359 



LOVE. 



— Turns Wit to Polly. 

Pro. Yet writers say, as in the sweetest 
bud 
The eating canker dwells, so eating love 
Inhabits in the finest wits of all. 

Val. And writers say, as the most for- 
ward bud 
Is eaten by the canker ere it blow, 
Even so by love the young and tender wit 
Is turn'd to folly ; blasting in the bud, 
Losing his verdure even in the prime, 
And all the fair effects of future hopes. 

T. G., 1 : 1. 47. 

— Uncertainty of. 

Pro. * * 
O, how this spring of love resembleth 

The uncertain glory of an April day ; 
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, 

And by and by a cloud takes all away ! 

T. G., 1 : 3. 51. 



— Unbooked for. 

Bene. Is 't possible? Sits the wind in 
that corner? 

Leon. By my troth, my lord, I cannot 
tell what to think of it, but that she loves 
him with an enraged affection ; it is past 
the infinite of thought. 

M. A., II : 3. 235. 



— Unrequited. 

Ilel. Then, I confess, 

Here on my knee, before high Heaven and 

you, 

That before you, and next unto high Heaven, 

I love your son : — 

My friends were poor but honest ; so 's my 

love : 
Be not offended ; for it hurts not him 
That he is lov'd of me. I follow him not 
By any token of presumptuous suit ; 
Nor would I have him till I do deserve him ; 
Yet never know how that desert should be. 
I know I love in vain, strive against hope ; 
Yet, in this captious and intenible sieve, 
I still pour in the waters of my love, 
And lack not to lose still : thus, Indian-like. 
Beligious in mine error, I adore 
The sun, that looks upon his worshipper, 
But knows of him no more. 

A. W. t 1 : 3. 501. 



— Unsought. 

OH. * * Love sought is good, but given 
unsought is better. 

T. JT., Ill: 1. 556. 

— Vehement. 

Ros. O, I know where you are : — Nay, 
't is true : there was never anything so sud- 
den, but the fight of two rams, and Caesar's 
thrasonical brag of — "I came, saw, and 
overcame." For your brother and my sister 
no sooner met, but they look'd ; no sooner 
look'd, but they lov'd ; no sooner lov'd, but 
they sigh'd ; no sooner sigh'd, but they ask'd 
one another the reason ; no sooner knew the 
reason, but they sought the remedy : and in 
these degrees have they made a pair of stairs 
to marriage, which they will climb incon- 
tinent, or else be incontinent before mar- 
riage : they are in the very wrath of love, 
and they will together ; clubs cannot part 
them. 

A. Y.,V: 2. 434. 

— Waning. 

Clo. * * I begin to love, as an old 
man loves money, with no stomach. 

A. W., Ill: 1. 511. 

— "Wanton. 

Biron. * * 
As love is full of unbefitting strains ; 
All wanton as a child, skipping, and vain. 

L.L.,V: 2. 303. 



Wayward. 



Jul. 



Fie, fie ! how wayward is this foolish love, 
That, like a testy babe, will scratch the 

nurse, 
And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod ! 

T. G., II : 2. 49. 

— Willing for any Test. 

Tro Are there such? such are not we: 
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we 
prove ; our head shall go bare, till merit 
crown it: no perfection in reversion shall 
have a praise in present : we shall not name 
desert, before his birth; and, being born, 
his addition shall be humble. 

T. C, III : 2. 1122. 

— Women Cannot Fight for. 

Hel. Ay, in the temple, in the town, the 
field, 
You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius ! 



LOVE. 



360 



LOVE-MAKING. 



Your wrongs do set a scandal on my sex : 
We cannot fight for love, as men may do : 
"We should be woo'd, and were hot made to 

woo. 
I '11 follow thee, and make a heaven of hell, 
To die upon the hand I love so well. 

M. N.,l\: 1. 328. 



"Wounds invisible. 



Sil. 



Then shall you know the wounds invisible 
That love's keen arrows make. 

A. Y., Ill: 5.427. 

— Youthful. 

Count. * * 
It is the show and seal of nature's truth, 
Where love's strong passion is impress'd in 
youth. •* 

A. W., 1 : 3. 500. 

LOVE-LETTER. — Falstaff's. 

Mrs. Page. AVhat; have I 'scap'd love- 
letters in the holiday time of my beauty, 
and am I now a subject for them? Let me 
see : 

"Ask me no reason why I love you; for though 
Love use reason for his precisian, he admits him not 
for his counsellor : You are not young, no more am 
I; go to, then, there's sympathy: you are merry, 
so am I; Ha! ha! then there 's more sympathy; 
you love sack, and so do 1 ; Would you desire hetter 
sympathy? Let it suffice thee, mistress Page, (at 
the least, if the love of soldier can suffice,) that I 
love thee. I will not say, pity me, 't is not a soldier- 
like phrase ; hut I say, love me. By me, 

Thine own true knight, 

By day or night, 

Or any kind of light, 

With all his might, 

For thee to fight. John Falstaff." 

31. IF., II: 1. 95. 



— Mrs. Page's Opinion of Falstaff's. 

Mrs. Page. Letter for letter; but that 
the name of Page and Ford differs ! — To 
thy great comfort in this mystery of ill 
opinions, here 's the twin-brother of thy let- 
ter : but let thine inherit first, for I protest, 
mine never shall. I warrant lie hath a thous- 
and of these letters, (sure more.) writ with 
blank space for different names, and these 
are of the second edition : He will print 
them out of doubt ; for he cares not what he 
puts into the press when lie would put us 
two. I had rather be a giantess, and lie 
under mount Pelion. Well, I will find you 
twenty lascivious turtles, ere one chaste 
man. 

jr. in, ii: 1. 95. 



— Torn, but worshipped. 
Jul. Nay, Avould I Avere so anger'd with 
the same ! 

hateful hands, to tear such loving words ! 
Injurious wasps ! to feed on such sweet 

honey ! 
And kill the bees, that yield it, with your 
stings ! 

1 '11 kiss each several paper for amends. 
Look, here is writ — "kind Julia:" — un- 
kind Julia ! 

As in revenge of thy ingratitude, 
I throw thy name against the bruising stones, 
Trampling contemptuously on thy disdain ! 
And here is writ — "love-wounded Pro- 
teus : " — 
Poor Avounded name ! "my bosom, as a bed. 
Shall lodge thee, till thy wound be throughly 

heal'd ; 
And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss. 
But twice, or thrice, was Proteus written 

down. 
Be calm, good wind, blow not a Avord aAvay, 
Till I have found each letter in the letter, 
Except mine OAvn name : that some Avhirl- 

wind bear 
L T nto a ragged, fearful, hanging rock, 
And throAv it thence into the raging sea! 
Lo, here in one line is his name tAvice writ, — 
" Poor forlorn Proteus, passionate Proteus, 
To the sweet Julia ; " that I '11 tear aAvay, — 
And yet I Avill not, sith so prettily 
He couples it to his complaining names ; 
Thus Avill I fold them one upon another : 
Now kiss, embrace, contend, do what you 

will. 

T. £., I: 2. 50. 

LOVE-MAKING. — By Proxy. 

Shal. Mistress Anne, my cousin loves 
you. 

Slen . Ay, that I do ; as Avell as I love any 
woman in Glostershire. 

Shal. He will maintain you like a gen- 
tlewoman. 

Slen. Ay, that I will, come cut and long- 
tail, under the degree of a 'squire. 

Shal. He will make you a hundred and 
fifty pounds jointure. 

Anne. Good master ShalloAv, let him 
woo for himself. 

Shal. Marry, I thank you for it ; I thank 
you for that good comfort. She calls you, 
coz : I '11 leave A r ou. 



LOVE-MAKING. 



361 



LOVER. 



Anne. Now, master Slender. 

Slen. Now, good mistress Anne. 

Anne. What is your will? 

Slen. My will? 'od's heartlings, that 's 
a pretty jest, indeed ! I ne'er made my will 
yet, I thank heaven ; I am not such a sickly 
creature, I give heaven praise. 

Anne. I mean, master Slender, what 
would you with me? 

Slen. Truly, for mine own part, I would 
little or nothing with you. Your father, and 
my uncle, have made motions ; if it be my 
luck, so ; if not, happy man be his dole ! 
They can tell you how things go better than 
I can ; You may ask your father ; here he 
comes. 

M. IT., Ill: 4. 107. 

LOVER. — Admiration of a. 

Rom. 0, she doth teach the torches to 

burn bright ! 
Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night 
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear : 
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear ! 
So show a snowy dove trooping with crows, 
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. 
The measure done, I '11 watch her place of 

stand, 
And, touching hers, make blessed my rude 

hand. 
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, 

sight : 
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. 
B.J., I: 5. 1248. 

— An accepted. 

Lys. I am, my lord, as well deriv'd as 

he,- 
As well possess'd ; my love is more than 

his ; 
My fortunes every way as fairly rank'd, 
If not with vantage, as Demetrius' ; 
And, which is more than all these boasts 

can be, 
I am belov'd of beauteous Hermia. 
Why should not I then prosecute my right? 
M. N., 1:1. 322. 

— Characteristics of. 

Cel. Was is not his : besides, the oath of 
a lover is no stronger than the word of a 
tapster; they are both the confirmers of 
false reckonings. 

A. Y, Ill: 4. 426. 



Orl. lam lie that is so love-shak'd; I 
pray you, tell me your remedy. 

Ros. There is none of my uncle's marks 
upon you : he taught me how to know a 
man in love ; in which cage of rushes, I am 
sure, you are not prisoner. 

Orl. What were his marks? 

Ros. A lean cheek, which you have not : 
a blue eye, and sunken, which you have 
not : an unquestionable spirit, which you 
have not : a beard neglected, which you 
have not : (but I pardon you for that ; for. 
simply, your having in beard is a younger 
brother's revenue :) Then your hose should 
be ungarter'd, your bonnet unhanded, 
your sleeve unbutton'd, your shoe unti'd, 
and everything about you demonstrating a 
careless desolation. But you are no such 
man; you are rather point-device in your 
accoutrements ; as loving yourself, than 
seeming the lover of any other. 

A. Y, Ill: 2. 424. 

— His Arts. 

Ege. * * 

This hath bewitch'd the bosom of my child : 

Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her 
rhymes, 

And interchang'd love-tokens with my child ; 

Thou hast by moonlight at her window 
sung, 

With feigning voices, verses of feigning 
love ; 

And stol'n the impression of her fantasy 

With bracelets of thy hair, rings, gauds, 
conceits, 

Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeats, — 
messengers 

Of strong prevailmentinunharden'd youth : 

With cunning hast thou filched my daugh- 
ter's heart ; 

Turn'd her obedience, which is due to me, 

To stubborn harshness. 

M. N.,\\ 1. 321. 

— Keen Sense of a. 

Biron. * * 
A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind ; 
A lover's ear will hear the lowest sound, 
When the suspicious head of theft is 

stopp'd : 
Love's feeling is more soft and sensible, 
Than are the tender horns of cockled snails : 
Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross 

in taste. 



LOVER. 



362 



LOYALTY. 



For valour, is not Love a Hercules, 
Still climbing trees in the Hesperides? 
Subtle as sphynx ; as sweet and musical, 
As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his 

hair ; 
And when Love speaks, the voice of all the 

gods 
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. 
Never durst poet touch a pen to write, 
Until his ink were temper'd with Love's 

sighs. 
O, then his lines would ravish savage ears, 
And plant in tyrants mild humility. 

L. X., IV: 3. 290. 

— Light of Step. 

Fri. * * O, so light a foot 
Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint; 
A lover may bestride the gossamers 
That idle in the wanton summer air, 
And yet not fall ; so light is vanity. 

B. J., II : 6. 1258. 

LOVERS. — Inseparable. 

Bar. * * 
Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves, 
That could not live asunder day or night. 

H. VL, 1 pt., II : 2. 873. 

— Their Vows. 

Lys. * * If thou lov'st me, then, 
Steal forth thy father's house to-morrow 

night ; 
And in the wood, a league without the town, 
Where I did meet thee once with Helena, 
To do observance to a morn of May, 
There will I stay for thee. 

Her. My good Lysander ! 

I swear to thee by Cupid's strongest bow ; 
By his best arrow with the golden head ; 
By the simplicity of Venus' doves; 
By that wbich knitteth souls, and prospers 

loves ; 
And by that fire which burn'd the Carthage 

queen, 
When the false Trojan under sail was seen ; 
By all the vows that ever men have broke, 
In number more than ever woman spoke ; 
In that same place thou hast appointed me, 
To-morrow truly will I meet with thee. 

M. JIT., I: 1. 323. 



LOVING. — Vehement. 

OH. How does he love me? 

Vio. With adorations, fertile tears, 
With groans that thunder love, with sighs 
of fire. 

T. $T., 1 : 5. 546. 

— Violent. 

Fri. These violent delights have violent 
ends, 
And in their triumph die ; like fire and pow- 
der, 
Which, as they kiss, consume. 

B. J., II : 6. 1257. 

LOWLINESS. — No Barrier to Mirth. 

Arth. * * 
So I were out of prison, and kept sheep, 
I should be as merry as the day is long. 

E. J., IV: 1. 664. 

LOYALTY. — Honored in Death. 

Tit. * * 

Lo, as the bark, that hath discharg'd her 
fraught, 

Returns with precious lading to the bay, 

From whence at first she weigh'd her an- 
chorage, 

Cometh Adronicus, bound with laurel 
boughs, 

To re-salute his country with his tears. 

Tit. And., 1 : 2. 1202. 

— In Defeat. 

Eno. * * Yet, he, that can endure 
To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, 
Does conquer him that did his master con- 
quer, 
And earns a place i' the story. 

A. C, III : 11. 1565. 

— Indignant. 

York. * * 
Com'st thou because the anointed king is 

hence? 
Why, foolish boy, the king is left behind, 
And in my loyal bosom lies his power. 
Were I but now the lord of such hot youth, 
As when brave Gaunt, thy father, and my- 
self, 
Rescued the Black Prince, that young Mars 
of men, 



LOYALTY. 



363 



LUST. 



From forth the rank of many thousand 

French ; 
O, then, how quickly should this arm of 

mine, 
Now prisoner to the palsy, chastise thee, 
And minister correction to thy fault ! 

7?. //., II : 4. 698. 

— Sneered at. 

Suf. ? T is like, the commons, rude un- 
polish'd hinds, 
Could send such message to their sovereign ; 
But you, my lord, were glad to be employ'd, 
To show how quaint an orator you are : 
But all the honour Salisbury hath won, 
Is — that he was the lord ambassador. 
Sent from a sort of tinkers to the king. 

//. VI., 2pt., Ill: 2. 929. 

— Stronger than other Ties. 

Duch. Why, York, what wilt thou do? 

Wilt thou not hide the trespass of thine 
own? 

Have Ave more sons? or are we like to 
have? 

Is not my teeming date drunk up with 
time ? 

And wilt thou pluck my fair son from mine 
age, 

And rob me of a happy mother's name? 

Is he not like thee? Is he not thine own? 
York. Thou fond mad woman, 

Wilt thou conceal this dark conspiracy ? 

A dozen of them here have ta'en. the sacra- 
ment, 

And interchangeably set down their hands, 

To kill the king at Oxford. 

* * 

Duch. Hadst thou groan'd for him, 

As I have done, thoud'st be more pitiful. 

But now I know thy mind ; thou dost sus- 
pect, 

That I have been disloyal to thy bed, 

And that he is a bastard, not thy son : 

Sweet York, sweet husband, be not of that 
mind : 

He is as like thee as a man may be. 

Not like to me, or any of my kin, 

And yet I love him. 

York. Make way, unruly woman. 

Duch. * * 

r 11 not be long behind, though I be old, 



I doubt not but to ride as fast as York : 
And never will I rise up from the ground, 
Till Bolingbroke have pardon'd thee : Away ; 
Begone. 

R. II., V : 2. 713. 

LUNGS. — Military. 

Host. * * Bully sir John ! speak from 
thy lungs military. 

M. W., IV 5. 114. 

LURING.— To Shame. 

Mrs. Ford. * * I think the best way 
were to entertain him with hope, till the 
wicked fire of lust have melted him in his 
own grease. 

M. W., II : 1. 95. 

LUST — A Fire. 

Anne. * * 
Fie on lust and luxury ! 
Lust is but a bloody fire, 
Kindled with unchaste desire, 
Fed in heart; whose flames aspire, 
As thoughts do blow them, higher and higher. 

M. W.,V: 5. 119. 

— Excess of. 

Ros. The blood of youth burns not with 
such excess, 
As gravity's revolt to wantonness. 

L. Z., V : 2. 294. 

— Kingly, the -worst. 

Imo. * * 
I could not miss my way : Will poor folks 

lie, 
That have afflictions on them ; knowing 't is 
A punishment, or trial? Yes ; no wonder 
When rich ones scarce tell true : To lapse 

in fulness 
Is sorer, than to lie for need ; and falsehood 
Is worse in kings, than beggars. 

Cym., Ill : 6. 1612. 

— Overreaches Itself. 

Pand. * * 
And falsehood falsehood cures ; as fire cools 

fire, 
Within the scorched veins of one new 
burn'd. 

K. J., Ill : 1. 659. 



LUST. 



3^4 



MADNESS. 



Plays "with -what it Loathes. 

Ilel. * * But 0, strange men ! 
That can such sweet use make of what they 

hate, 
When saucy trusting of the cozen'd 

thoughts 
Defiles the pitchy night ! so lust doth 

play 
With what it loathes, for that which is 

away. 

A. W., IV : 4. 523. 



— Preys on Garbage. 

Ghost. * * 
So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, 
Will sate itself in a celestial bed, 
And prey on garbage. 

//., 1 : 5. 1400. 

LYING. — Universal. 

Fal. * * Lord, lord, how this world 
is given to lying ! 

K. IV., 1 pt., V : 4. 761. • 



M 



MADNESS.— A well-balanced. 

King. What, Gertrude? How does Ham- 
let? 
Queen. Mad as the sea, and wind, when 
both contend 
Which is the mightier. 

II. IV., IV : 1. 1421. 

— Edgar's Advice. (See Insanity.) 

Edg. A serving-man, proud in heart 
and mind ; that curled my hair ; wore 
gloves in my cap ; * * swore as many 
oaths as I spake words, and broke them in 
the sweet face of heaven. * * Wine 
loved I deeply ; dice dearly ; and in woman, 
out-paramoured the Turk : False of heart, 
light of ear, bloody of hand : Hog in sloth, 
fox in stealth, wolf in greediness, dog in 
madness, lion in prey. Let not the creak- 
ing of shoes, nor the rustling of silks, be- 
tray thy poor heart to women : Keep thy 
foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plack- 
ets, thy pen from lenders' books, and defy 
the foul fiend. — Still through the hawthorn 
blows the cold wind : Says suum, mun, ha 
no nonny, dolphin my boy, my boy, sessa ; 
let him trot by. 

K. L., Ill : 4. 1465. 

— Exposure a Sign of. 

Gent. Contending with the fretful ele- 
ment : 
Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, 
Or swell the curl'd waters 'bove the main, 
That things might change, or cease : tears 
his white hair : 



Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless 
rage, 

Catch in their fury, and make nothing of: 

Strives in his little world of man to out- 
scorn 

The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. 

This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear 
would couch, 

The lion and the belly-pinched wolf 

Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, 

And bids what will take all. 

A~.Z..III: 1.1462. 



— Flees Accountability. 

Ham. Give me your pardon, sir ; I have 
done you wrong ; 

But pardon it, as you are a gentleman. 

This presence knows, and you must needs 
have heard, 

How I am punish'd with a sore distraction. 

What have I done, 

That might your nature, honour, and ex- 
ception, 

Roughly awake, I here proclaim was mad- 
ness. 

Was 't Hamlet wrong'd Laertes? Never, 
Hamlet : 

If Hamlet from himself be ta'en away, 

And, when he 's not himself, does wrong 
Laertes, 

Then Hamlet does it not, Hamlet denies it. 

Who does it then? His madness : If 'the so, 

Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd ; 



MADNESS. 365 MAGISTRATES. 


His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy. 


—-Test of. 


Sir, in this audience, 


Ham. Ecstasy ! 


Let my disclaiming from a purpos'd evil 


My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep 


Free me so far in your most generous 


time, 


thoughts, 


And makes us healthful music : It is not 


That I have shot my arrow o'er the house, 


madness, 


And hurt my brother. 


That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, 


//., V : 3. 1435. 


And I the matter will re-word ; which mad- 




ness would gambol from. 


— Impending. 


jr., Ill: 4. 1420." 


Tsab. 0, prince, I conjure thee, as thou 




believ'st 


— To be Shunned. 


There is another comfort than this world, 


Lear. * * 


That thou neglect me not with that opinion 


O, that way madness lies ; let me shun that ; 


That I am toucd'd with madness. 


No more of that. . 


M. M., V: 1. 170. 


A". Z., Ill : 4. 1465. 


— Limited. 


MAGIC — Its Tricks, Bubbles. 


Ham. * * But, sure, that sense 


Ban. The earth hath bubbles, as the 


Is apoplex'd : for madness would not err; 


water has, 


Nor sense to ecstasy was ne'er so thrall'd, 


And these are of them. 


But it reserv'd some quantity of choice. 


M., 1 : 3. 1359. 


//., II: 4. 1419. 






— Lawful as Elating. 




Leon. * * 


— Mixed -with Sense. 






If this be magic, let it be an art 


Duke. By mine honesty, 


Lawful as eating. 


If she be mad, as I believe no other, 


W. T.,V: 3. 617. 


Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, 




Such a dependency of thing on thing, 


MAGISTRATES. — Chosen by the 


As e'er I heard in madness. 


People. 


jr. 3f., V: 1. 170. 


Marc. * * 




Titus Andronicus, the people of Rome, 


— Must be Watched. 


Whose friend in justice thou hast ever been, 


King. It shall be so : 


Send thee by me, their tribune, and their 


Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd 


trust, 


go. 


This palliament of white and spotless hue ; 


7/., Ill: 1. 1412. 


And name thee in election for the empire, 




With these our late-deceased emperor's 




sons : 


— Partial. 






Be candidatus then, and put it on, 


Ham. I am but mad north-north-west : 


And help to set a head on headless Borne. 


when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk 


from a hand-saw. 


Tit And., 1 : 2. 1203. 


//., II: 2. 1407. 






— Should be free from Faults. 


— Sad and merry. 


Duke. Not so, not so ; his life is paral- 


OH. Go call him hither. — I am as mad 


-lell'd 


as he, 


Even with the stroke and line of his great 


If sad and merry madness equal be. 


justice ; 


T. 2IT., Ill : 4. 558. 


He doth with holy abstinence subdue 



MAGISTRATES. 



366 



MAJESTY. 



That in himself, which he spurs on his 

pow'r 
To qualify in others : were he meal'd with 

that 
Which he corrects, then were he tyrannous ; 
But this being so, he 's just. 

M. M., IV: 2. 165. 

MAGNANIMITY.— False, its Pre- 
tences. 

Bra. * * 
Let 's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully ; 
Let 's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, 
Not hew him as a carcase fit for hounds : 
And let our hearts, as subtle masters do, 
Stir up their servants to an act of rage, 
And after seem to chide them. 

J. C II: 1. 1330. 

— Its Forbearance. 

Rich. * * 
Or as a bear, encompass 'd round with dogs ; 
Who having pinched a few, and made them 

cry, 
The rest stand all aloof, and bark at him. 
So far'd our father with his enemies ; 
So fled his enemies my warlike father. 

H. VI., 3pt M II: 1. 962. 

— Of the Duke of Exeter. 

Flu. * * As magnanimous as Aga- 
memnon. 

H. V., Ill : 6. 835. 

— To a lying Knave. 

Fal. No, that 's certain ; I am not a 
double man : but if I be not Jack Falstaff, 
then am I a Jack. There is Percy ; if your 
father will do me any honour, so ; if not, 
let him kill the next Percy himself. I look 
to be either earl or duke, I can assure you. 

P. Hen. Why, Percy I killed myself, 
and saw thee dead. 

Fal. Didst thou? — Lord, lord, how this 
world is given to lying ! — I grant you I was 
down, and out of breath ; and so was he : 
but we rose both at an instant, and fought a 
long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may 
be believed, so; if not, letthem, that should 
reward valour, bear the sin upon their own 
heads. I '11 take it upon my death, I gave 
him this wound in the thigh : if the man 
were alive, and wculd deny it, I would make 
him eat a piece of my sword. 



P. John. This is the strangest tale that 

e'er I heard. 
P. Hen. This is the strangest fellow, 

brother John. 

Come, bring your luggage nobly on your 

back : 
For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, 
I '11 gild it with the happiest terms I have. 
E. IV., lpt., V: 4. 761. 

MAID.— Her Honor. 

Mar. * * The honour of a maid is her 
name, and no legacy is so rich as honesty. 

A. W., Ill : 5. 513. 

MAIDEN.— Silent. 

Bra. A maiden never bold ; 

Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion 
Blush 'd at herself. 

0., 1 : 3. 1496. 

Por. * * 

(And yet a maiden hath no tongue but 

thought.) 

M. V., Ill : 2. 376. 

MAIDENHOOD.— Death in. 

Per. * * Pale primroses, 

That die unmarried, ere they can behold 

Brght Phoebus in his strength, a malady 

Most incident to maids. 

W. P., IV: 3.60'i. 

MAJESTY. — Borrowed. 

Chat. Thus, after greeting, speaks the 
king of France, 
In my behaviour, to the majesty, 
The borrow 'd majesty of England here. 

Eli. A strange beginning: — borrow'd 

majesty ! 

K. J., 1 : 1. 646. 

— Far-reaching. 

Ros. * * The cease of majesty 
Dies not alone ; but, like a gulf, doth draw 
What 's near it, with it ; it is a massy wheel, 
Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, 
To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser 

things 
Are mortis'd and adjoin'd ; which, when it 

' falls, 
Each small annexment, petty consequence, 
Attends the boist'rous ruin. Never alone 
Did the king sigh, but with a general groan. 

//., Ill : 3. 1417. 



MAJESTY, 



3^7 



MAN. 



— Its Mockery. 

K. Rich. * * 
Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and 

blood 
With solemn reverence ; throw away re- 
spect, 
Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, 
For you have hut mistook me all this while : 
I live with bread like you, feel want, taste 

grief, 
Need friends : — Subjected thus, 
How can you say to me — I am a king? 

R. II, Ill : 2. 702. 

— Towers, when Excited. 

Bast. Ha, majesty ! how high thy glory 
towers, 
When the rich blood of kings is set on fire ! 
K. J., II : 2. 653. 

MALARIA. — All-pervading. 

Cal. All the infections that the sun sucks 
up 
From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and 

make him 
By inch-meal a disease ! 

T., II : 2. 19. 

MALICE. — Darin g. 

Cran. * * Men, that make 
Envy, and crooked malice, nourishment, 
Dare bite the best. 

H. VIII., V : 2. 1090. 

— Disguised. 
Sal. * * 
Where these two Christian armies might 

combine 
The blood of malice in a vein of league. 

K. J., V : 2. 672. 

MALIGNANCY. — Far-reaching. 

Wbl. Please your highness, 

note 
This dangerous conception in this point, 
Not friended by his wish, to your high per- 
son 
His will is most malignant ; and it stretches 
Beyond you, to your friends. 

//. VIII, 1 : 2. 1061. 



MAN. — And Woman One. 

1 at. * * 

Whose veins bound richer blood than lady 

Blanch? 
Such as she is, in beauty, virtue, birth, 
Is the young Dauphin every way complete ; 
If not complete, O say, he is not sbe ; 
And she again wants nothing, to name want, 
If want it be not, that she is not lie : 
He is the half part of a blessed man, 
Left to be finished by such as she ; 
And she a fair divided excellence, 
Whose fulness of perfection lies in him. 
0, two such silver currents, when they join 
Do glorify the banks that bound them in : 
And two such shores to two such streams 

made one, 
Two such controlling bounds shall you be, 

kings, 
To these two princes, if you marry them. 

A'. J., II : 2. G54. 

— Cleopatra's Idea of a perfect. 

Cleo. His face was as the heavens ; and 

therein stuck 
A sun, and moon; which kept their course, 

and lighted 
The little O, the earth. 

Dol. Most sovereign creature, — 

Cleo. His legs bestrid the ocean : his 

rear'd arm 
Crested the world : his- voice was propertied 
As all the tuned spheres, and that to friends : 
But when he meant to quail and shake the 

orb, 
He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, 
There was no winter in 't; an autumn 't 

was, 
That grew the more by reaping: His de- 
lights 
Were dolphin-like ; they show'd his back 

above 
The element they liv'd in : In his livery 
Walk'd crowns, and crownets ; realms and 

islands were 
As plates dropp'd from his pocket. 

A. C, V: 2. 1578. 

— Giddy. 

Bene. * * For man is a giddy thing, 
and this is my conclusion. 

M. A., V: 4. 255. 



— Hamlet's Speech on. 

Ham. * * What a piece of work is a 
man ! How noble in reason ! how infinite 
in faculties ! in form, and moving, how ex- 
press and admirable ! in action, how like an 
angel ! in apprehension, how like a god ! 
the beauty of the world ! the paragon of 
animals ! And yet, to me, what is this quin- 
tessence of dust ! man delights not me, nor 
woman neither; though, by your smiling, 
you seem to say so. 

II., II: 2. 1406. 

— His higher Constituents. 

Cleo. * * 
I am fire, and air ; my other elements 
I give to baser life. 

A. C.,V: 2. 1581. 

— In Name only. 

Por. God made him, and therefore let 
him pass for a man. 

M. V., I: 2. 364 

— Low Type of. 

Pro. * * Foolish wench ! 
To the most of men this is a Caliban, 
And they to him are angels. 

T., 1 : 2. 14. 

— Twice a Child. 

Eos. Happily, he 's the second time come 
to them ; for, they say, an old man is twice 
a child. 

//. //., 2: 1407. 

MANHOOD. — Failure of. 

Beat. * * O that I" were a man for 
his sake ! or that I had any friend would be 
a man for my sake ! But manhood is 
melted into cursies, valour into compliment, 
and men are only turned into tongue, and 
trim ones too : he is now as valiant as Her- 
cules that only tells a lie, and swears it. I 
cannot be a man with wishing; therefore I 
will die a woman with grieving. 

M. A., IV : 1. 247. 

MANLINESS. — True. 

Agam. What Trojan is that same that 

looks so heavy? 
Ulyss. The youngest son of Priam, a 
true knight ; 
Not yet mature, yet matchless ; firm of 

word ; 
Speaking in deeds, and deedless in his 
tongue ; 



Not soon provok'd, nor, being provok'd, 

soon calm'd : 
His heart and hand both open, and both 

free ; 
For what he has, he gives, what thinks, he 

shows ; 
Yet gives he not till judgment guide his 

bounty, 
Nor dignifies an impair thought with breath : 
Manly as Hector, but more dangerous ; 
For Hector, in his blaze of wrath, sub- 
scribes 
To tender objects ; but he, in heat of action, 
Is more vindicative than jealous love : 
They call him Troilus ; and on him erect 
A second hope, as fairly built as Hector. 
Thus says iEneas ; one that knows the 

youth 
Even to his inches, and, with private soul, 
Did in great Ilion thus translate him to me. 
T. C, IV: 5. 1132. 

MANNERS— Bad, Laughed at. 

Touch. It is meat and drink to me to see 
a clown. 

A. ¥., V : 1. 433. 

— Evil, Live in Brass. 

Grif. Noble madam, 

Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virt- 
ues 
We write in water. 

H. VIII., IV : 2. 1085. 

— Good. 

2 Serv. When good manners shall lie all 
in one or two men's hands, and they un- 
washed too, 'tis a foul thing. 

R. J., 1 : 5. 1248. 

—Indicated by Shape. 

Clif. Hence, heap of wrath, foul indi- 
gested lump, 
As crooked in thy manners as thy shape ! 

H. VI., 2pt., V: 1. 943. 

— Queenly. 

Flo. * * Each your doing, 
So singular in each particular, 
Crowns what you are doing in the present 

deeds, 
That all your acts are queens. 

W. T., IV. 3. 602. 



MARPLOT. 



3^9 



MARRIAGE. 



MARPLOT. — Detected. 

Biron. * * 
Some carry-tale, some please-man, some 

slight zany, 
Some mumble-news, some trencher-knight, 

some Dick, — 
That smiles his cheek in years, and knows 

the trick 
To make my lady laugh, when she 's dis- 

pos'd — 
Told our intents before : which once dis- 

clos'd, 
The ladies did change favours ; and then we, 
Following the signs, woo'd but the sign of 
she. 

L. L..V: 2. 299. 

MARRIAGE.— (See "Wife; also, Vir- 
ginity.) Acceptance of an Offer 
of. 
For. * * Her gentle spirit 
Commits itself to yours to be directed, 
As from her lord, her governor, her king. 

M. F.,111: 2. 378. 

Tarn. And here, in sight of heaven, to 
Rome I swear, 
If Saturnine advance the queen of Goths, 
She will a handmaid be to his desires, 
A loving nurse, a mother to his youth. 

Tit. And., I: 2. 1205. 

— Buries Brotherhood. 

Glo. * * 
But in your bride you bury brotherhood. 

//. TV., 3pt.,IV: 1. 979. 

— Cements Friendship. 

Agr. * * By this marriage, 
All little jealousies, which now seem great, 
And all great fears, which now import their 

dangers, 
Would then be nothing : truths would be 

but tales, 
Where now half tales be truths : her love to 

both, 
Would, each to other, and all loves to both, 
Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke ; 
For 't is a studied, not a present thought, 
By duty ruminated. 

A. C, II: 2. 1549. 



— Clandestine, its Excuse. 

Fent. You do amaze her : Hear the 
truth of it. 
You would have married her most shame- 
fully, 
Where there was no proportion held in love. 
The truth is, she and I, long since contracted, 
Are now so sure that nothing can dissolve us. 
Th' offence is holy that she hath committed : 
And this deceit loses the name of craft, 
Of disobedience, or unduteous title ; 
Since therein she doth evitate and shun 
A thousand irreligious cursed hours, 
Which forced marriage would have brought 
upon her. 

M. W., V : 5. 120. 

— Gives Possession. 

Fri. So smile the heavens upon this holy 
act, 
That after-hours with sorrow chide us not ! 
Rom. Amen, amen ! but come what sor- 
row can, 
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy 
That one short minute gives me in her sight : 
Do thou but close our hands with holy words, 
Then love-devouring death do Avhat he dare, 
It is enough I may but call her mine. 

R.J.,11: 6. 1257. 

—Hasty. 

Glo. Now tell me, brother Clarence, 
what think you 
Of this new marriage with the lady Grey? 
Hath not our brother made a worthy choice? 
* * 

Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well. 
K. Edw. Yea, brother Richard, are you 

offended too? 
Glo. Not I : 
No ; God forbid, that I should wish them 

sever'd 
Whom God hath join'd together : ay, and 

't were pity, 
To sunder them that yoke so well together. 
H. VI., 3pt.,IV: 1. 978. 



— Heedlessly, contracted. 

K. Hen. Marriage, uncle ! alas ! my 
years are young; 
And fitter is my study and my books, 
Than wanton dalliance with a paramour. 



MARRIAGE. 



370 



MARRIAGE. 



Yet, call the ambassadors ; and, as you 

please, 
So let them have their answers every one : 
I shall he well content with any choice, 
Tends to God's glory, and my country's 

weal. 

H. VI., 1 pt., V : 1. 891. 

— Honorable. 

Marg. * * Is not marriage honoura- 
ble in a beggar? 

M. A., Ill : 4. 242. 

— How confirmed. 
Priest. A contract of eternal bond of 
love, 
Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, 
Attested by the holy close of lips, 
Strengthen'd by interchangement of your 

rings ; 
And all the ceremony of this compact 
Seal'd in my function, by my testimony : 
Since when, my watch hath told me, toward 

my grave 
I have travell'd but two hours. 

T.N.,V : I. 567. 

— Impassioned Offer of. 

Sat. And therefore, lovely Tamora, 

queen of Goths, — 
That, like the stately Phoebe 'mongst her 

nymphs, 
Dost overshine the gallant'st dames of Rome, 
If thou be pleas 'd with this my sudden 

choice, 
Behold, I choose thee, Tamora, for my 

bride, 
And will create thee emperess of Rome. 
Speak, queen of Goths, dost thou applaud 

my choice? 
And here I swear by all the Roman gods, — 
Sith priest and holy water are so near, 
And tapers burn so bright, and every thing 
In readiness for Hymeneus stand, — 
I will not re-salute the streets of Rome, 
Or climb my palace, till from forth this place 
I lead espous'd my bride along with me. 

Tit. And., I: 2. 1205. 

— Imperfectly performed. 

Jaq. And will you, being a man of your 
breeding, be married under a bush, like a 
beggar? Get you to church, and have a 



good priest that can tell you what marriage 
is : this fellow will but join you together as 
they join wainscot; then one of you will 
prove a shrunk panel, and, like green tim- 
ber, warp, warp. 

A. Y.,Ill: 3. 426. 

— Makes a Change. 

Eos. * * Men are April when they 
woo, December when they wed : maids are 
May when they are maids, but the sky 
changes when they are wives. 

A. Y, IV: 2. 430. 

— Not a Thing of Clothes. 

Pet. * * 
To me she 's married, not unto my clothes. 
T. #.,III: 2. 469. 

— Not to be Despised. 

Ros. * * 
But, mistress, know yourself ; down on your 

knees, 
And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good 

man's love : 
For I must tell you friendly in your ear, 
Sell when you can ; you are not for all 
markets. 

A. Y., Ill : 5. 427. 

— Petrucio's mad. 

Tra. * * 
Signior Gremio ! came you from the 
church? 
Gre. As willingly as e'er I came from 

school. 
Tra. And is the bride and bridegroom 

coming home? 
Gre. A bridegroom, say you? 't is a 
groom indeed, 
A grumbling groom, and that the girl shall 
find. 
Tra. Curster than she? why 't is im- 
possible. 
Gre. Why, he 's a devil, a devil, a very 

fiend. 
Tra. Why, she 's a devil, a devil, the 

devil's dam. 
Gre. Tut! she 's a lamb, a dove, a fool 
to him. 
I '11 tell you, sir Lucentio; When the 

priest 
Should ask — if Katharine should be his 
wife, 



MARRIAGE. 



371 



MASTER. 



"Ay, by gogs-wouns," quotli he; and 

swore so loud 
That, all amaz'd, the priest let fall the 

book : 
And, as he stoop'd again to take it up, 
This mad-brain'd bridegroom took him such 

a cuff, 
That down fell priest and book, and book 

and priest ; 
"Now take them up," quoth he, "if any 

list." 
Tra. What said the wench, when he 

rose again? 
Gre. Trembled and shook ; for why, he 

stamp'd and swore, 
As if the vicar meant to cozen him. 
But after many ceremonies done, 
He calls for wine: — "A health!" quoth 

he, as if 
He had been aboard, carousing to his 

mates 
After a storm : — Quaff d off the muscadel, 
And threw the sops all in the sexton's face ; 
Having no other reason, — 
But that his beard grew thin and hungerly, 
And seem'd to ask him sops as he was 

drinking. 
This done, he took the bride about the 

neck, 
And kiss'd her lips with such a clamorous 

smack, 
That, at the parting, all the church did 

echo. 
And I, seeing this, came thence for very 

shame ; 
And after me, I know, the route is coming : 
Such a mad marriage never was before. 
Hark, hark ! I hear the minstrels play. 

T. S., Ill : 2. 469. 



— Premature. 

Par. * * 
A young man married is a man that 's 
marr'd. 

A. W., II : 3. 508. 

Hor. My lord, I came to see your 

father's funeral. 
Ham. I pray thee, do not mock me, 
fellow-student ; 
I think, it was to see my mother's wedding. 



Hor. Indeed, my lord, it follow'd hard 

upon. 
Ham. Thrift, thrift, Horatio ! the funeral 
baked meats 
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. 

IT., I: 2. 1395. 

— Second, not of Love. 

P. Queen. The instances, that second 
marriage move, 
Are base respects of thrift, but none of 

love : 
A second time I kill my husband dead, 
When second husband kisses me in bed. 

H., Ill : 2. 1414. 

— Strangles Friendship. 

Eno. * * But you shall find, the band 
that seems to tie their friendship together, 
will be the very strangler of their amity. 

A. C II: 6. 1555. 

— When a Curse. 

Oth. * ■ * O curse of marriage, 
That we can call these delicate creatures 

ours, 
And not their appetites ! I had rather be a 

toad, 
And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, 
Than keep a corner in the thing I love. 



self! — 
I '11 not believe it. 

6>.,III: 3. 1513. 



MARTLET.— Bravery of the. 

Ar. * * The martlet 
Builds in the weather on the outward wall, 
Even in the force and road of casualty. 

M. V., II: 9. 374. 

MASTER.— (See Service.) Jew a 
hard One. 

Lavn. Well, well; but for mine own 
part, as I have set up my rest to run away, 
so I will not rest till I have run some 
ground. My master's a very Jew. Give 
him a present? give him a halter! I am 
famish'd in his service : you may tell every 
finger I have with my ribs. Father, I am 



MASTER. 



372 



MEDICINE, 



glad you are come : give me your present 
to one master Bassanio, who, indeed, gives 
rare new liveries ; if I serve not him, I will 
run as far as God has any ground. — O rare 
fortune! here comes the man; — to him, 
father ; for I am a Jew, if I serve the Jew 
any longer. 

M. V., II : 2. 368. 



— New, Need new Servants. 
War. Here come the heavy issue of dead 
Harry : 
0, that the living Harry had the temper 
Of him, the worst of these three gentlemen! 
How many nobles then should hold their 

places, 
That must strike sail to spirits of vile sort ! 
//. IV., 2 pt., V : 2. 806. 

MATRIMONY.— A Contract. 

Priest. A contract of eternal bond of 
love, 
Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, 
Attested by the holy close of lips, 
Strengthen'd by interchangement of your 

rings ; 
And all the ceremony of this compact 
Seal'cl in my function, by my testimony : 

T. W., V : 1. 566. 

— An alarming Prospect. 

Prin. * * A world-without-end bar- 
gain. 

L. L.,V: 2. 303. 

Leon. Should all despair 
That have revolted wives, the tenth of man- 
kind 
Would hang themselves. 

W. T.,I: 2. 583. 

Dro. S. As from a bear a man would 
run for life, 
So fly I from her that would be my wife. 

C.E., 111: 2. 203. 

— Desirable. 

The. * * 
But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, 
Than that which, withering on the virgin 

thorn, 
Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. 
M. JK,I: 1. 322. 



MATTERS.— Great, Take Precedence. 

Eno. I shall entreat him 

To answer like himself: if Caesar move 

him, 
Let Antony look over Caesar's head, 
And speak as loud as Mars. By Jupiter, 
Were f the wearer of Antonius' beard, 
I would not shave to-day. 

Lep. 'Tisnotatime 

For private stomaching. 

Eno. Every time 

Serves for the matter that is then born in 't. 

Lep. But small to greater matters must 
give way. 

Eno. Not if the small come first. 

A. C, 11: 2. 1548. 

MEALS.— Demand Quiet. 

Abb. * * 
Unquiet meals make ill digestions. 

C. E., V : 1. 210. 

MEANS. — Weak, God's Choice. 

Uel. * * 
It is not so with Him that all things knows, 
As 't is with us that square our guess by 

shows : 
But most it is presumption in 'us, when 
The help of heaven we count the act of men. 
A. IT., II : 2. 504. 

— Well-husbanded. 

Laer. * * 
And for my means I '11 husband them so well, 
They shall go far with little. 

II., IV: 5. 1425. 

MEDDLING. — Ambitious. 

Buck. The devil speed him ! no man's 
pie is free'd 
From his ambitious finger. What had he 
To do in these fierce vanities? I wonder, 
That such a keech can with his very bulk 
Take up the rays o' the beneficial sun, 
And keep it from the earth. 

H. VIII., 1 : 1. 1057. 

MEDICINE.— Cures and Kills. 



By medicine life may be prolong'd, yet 

death 

Will seize the doctor too. 

Gym., V: 5. 1626. 



MEDITATION. 



373 



MELANCHOLY. 



MEDITATION.— What it Is. 

Oli. * * 
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy. 
A. Y., IV: 3. 432. 

MEDIUM. — Circumstances best. 

Ner. You would be, sweet madam, if 
your miseries were in the same abundance 
as your good fortunes are. And yet, for 
aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit 
with too much, as they that starve with 
nothing. It is no small happiness, there- 
fore, to be seated in the mean; superfluity 
comes sooner by white hairs, but competen- 
cy lives longer. 

M. V., I: 2. 363. 

MEEKNESS.— Becomes a Church- 
man. 

Cran. Ah, my good lord of Winchester, 

I thank you. 
You are always my good friend ; if your will 

pass, 
I shall both find your lordship judge and 

juror, 
You are so merciful : I see your end, 
'T is my undoing : Love, and meekness, 

lord, 
Become a churchman better than ambition ; 
Win straying souls with modesty again, 
Cast none away. That I shall clear myself, 
Lay all the weight ye can upon my patience, 
I make as little doubt, as you do conscience, 
In doing daily wrongs. I could say more, 
But reverence to your calling makes me 

modest. 

H. VIII. , V: 2. 1090. 

— Under Injures. 

Macb. * * Do you find 

Your patience so predominant in your nat- 
ure, 

That you can let this go? Are you so gos- 
pell'd, 

To pray for this good man, and for his issue, 

Whose heavy hand hath bow'd you to the 
grave, 

And beggar'd yours for ever? 

M., Ill : 3. 1369. 

MEETING.— Fixing the Time of. 

1 Witch. When shall we three meet again ? 
In thunder, lightning, or in rain? 



2 Witch. When the hurlyburly 's done, 
When the battle 's lost and won. 

3 Witch. That will be ere set of sun. 

M., 1 : 1. 1357. 

MELANCHOLY. — (See Discontent.) 
Bottomless. 

Bel. 0, melancholy ! 

Who ever yet could sound thy bottom? 
find 

The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish 
crare 

Might easiliest harbour in? — Thou bless'd 
thing ! 

Jove knows what man thou might'st have 
made ; but I, 

Thou diedst, a most rare boy of melan- 
choly ! 

Cym., TV : 2. 1617. 

— Exhausts Companions. 

Fal. * * 'Sblood, I am as melancholy 
as a gib Cat, or a lugged bear. 

P. lien. Or an old lion; or a lover's 
lute. 

Fal. Yea, or the drone of a Lincolnshire 
bagpipe. 

P. Hen. What sayest thou to a hare, or 
the melancholy of Moor-ditch ? 

H. ZT.,lpt.,I: 2. 729. 

— Fit for Funerals. 

The. * * 
Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth ; 
Turn melancholy forth to funerals, 
The pale companion is not for our pomp. 

M. N., 1 : 1. 321. 

— Incurable. 

Per. Let none disturb us. — 
Why should this change of thoughts, 
The sad companion, dull-ey'd melancholy. 
By me so us'd a guest is, not an hour, 
In the day's glorious walk, or peaceful 

night, 
(The tomb where grief should sleep,) can 

breed me quiet ! 
Here pleasures court mine eyes, and mine 

eyes shun them, 
And "danger, which I feared, is at Antioch, 
Whose arm seems far too short to hit me 

here, 



MELANCHOLY. 



374 



MEMORY. 



Yet neither pleasure's art can joy my 
spirits, 

Nor yet the other's distance comfort me. 

Then it is thus : the passions of the mind, 

That have their first conception hy mis- 
dread, 

Have after-nourishment and life by care : 

And what was first but fear what might be 
done, 

Grows elder now, and cares it be not done. 

And so with me. 

P., I: 2. 1644. 

— Of various Kinds. 

Ros. They say you are a melancholy fel- 
low. 

Jaq. I am so ; I do love it better than 
laughing. 

Ros. Those that are in extremity of 
either are abominable fellows, and betray 
themselves to every modern censure, worse 
than drunkards. 

Jaq. Why, 'tis good to be sad and say 
nothing. 

Ros. Why, then 't is good to be a post. 

Jaq. I have neither the scholar's melan- 
choly, which is emulation; nor the musi- 
cian's, which is fantastical; nor the court- 
ier's, which is proud; nor the soldier's, 
which is ambitious ; nor the lawyer's, which 
is politic ; nor the lady's, which is nice ; nor 
the lover's, which is all these : but it is a 
melancholy of mine own, compounded of 
many simples, extracted from many objects, 
and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my 
travels, in which my often rumination wraps 
me in a most humorous sadness. 

A. Y.,IV: 1. 428. 



— Pride Mistaken for. 

Ajax. Yes, lion-sick, sick of proud 
heart : you may call it melancholy, if you 
will favour the man : but, by my head, 't is 
pride. 

T. C., II: 3. 1117. 



— Singing a Sign of. 

Clo. By my troth, I take my young lord 
to be a very melancholy man. 

Count. By what observance, I pray you? 

Clo. Why, he will look upon his boot, 
and sing ; mend the ruff, and sing : ask 
questions, and sing ; pick his teeth, and sing : 
I knew a man that had this trick of melan- 
choly hold a goodly manor for a song. 

A. ir.,111: 2. 511. 



— Sings to its Death. 

P. Hen. * * 
I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, 
Who chants a doleful hymn to his own 

death, 
And, from the organ-pipe of frailty, sings 
His soul and body to their lasting rest. 

• K. J., V : 7. 676. 

— The Nurse of Frenzy. 

Serv. * * 
And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy : 
Therefore they thought it good you hear a 

Play, 
And frame your mind to mirth and merri- 
ment, 
Which bars a thousand harms, and length- 
ens life. 

T. S., Ind. : 2. 454. 

MEMORY.— Affected by Fatigue. 

Lart. Marcius, his name? 

Cor. By Jupiter, forgot : — 

I am weary; yea, my memory is tir'd. — 
Have we no wine here? 

Com. Go we to our tent : 

The blood upon your visage dries : 'tis time 
It should be look'd to : come. 

C, 1 : 9. 1159. 

— An acute. 

IIol. This is a gift that I have, simple, 
simple ; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of 
forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, appre- 
hensions, motions, revolutions : these are 
begot iu the ventricle of memory, nourished 
in the womb of pia mater, and delivered 
upon the mellowing of occasion : But the 
gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and 
I am thankful for it. 

L. L., IV: 2. 285. 

— Destroyed by Drink. 

Lady M. * * 
Will I with wine and wassel so convince, 
That memory, the warder of the brain, 
Shall be a fume. 

M., 1 : 7. 1363. 

— Not eternal. 

Cym. * * 
She hath not yet forgot him : some more time 
Must wear the print of his remembrance out, 
And then she 's yours. 

Cym., II : 3. 1600. 



MEMORY. 



375 



MERCY. 



— Painful. 

Oth. * * 0, it comes o'er my memory, 
As doth the raven o'er the iufectious house, 
Boding to all. 

0., IV : 1. 1518. 

— Register of Gratitude. 

Macb. Give me your favour : — 
My dull brain was Avrought with things for- 
gotten. 
Kind gentlemen, your pains are register'd 
Where every day I turn the leaf to read 
them. 

Jf., I: 3. 1360. 

— Sign of Scholarship. 

Mrs. Page. He is a better scholar than 
I thought he was. 

Eva. He is a good sprag memory. 

M. IF., IV: 1. 110. 

MEN. — Old, Described. 

Ham. Slanders, sir ; for the satirical 
rogue says here, that old men have grey 
beards ; that their faces are wrinkled ; their 
eyes purging thick amber, and plum-tree 
gum ; and that they have a plentiful lack of 
wit, together with most weak hams : All of 
which, sir, though I most powerfully and 
potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty 
to have it thus set down ; for yourself, sir, 
shall be as old as I am, if, like a crab, you 
could go backward. 

Pol. Though this be madness, yet there 's 
method in it. 

27"., II: 2. 1405. 

— Soon Lost to Sight. 

Emil. 'T is not a year or two shows us a 
man : 
They are all but stomachs, and we all but 

food; 
They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, 
They belch us. — Look you, — Cassio, and 
my husband. 

O., Ill : 4. 1516. 

— Their Supremacy. 

Luc. * * 
There 's nothing situate under heaven's eye 
But hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky : 
The beasts, the fishes, and the winged 

fowls, 
Are their males' subjects, and at their con- 
trols : 
Men, more divine, the masters of all these, 



Lords of the wide world, and wild wat'ry seas 
Indued with intellectual sense and souls, 
Of more pre-eminence than fish and fowls, 
Are masters to their females, and their 

lords : 
Then let your will attend on their accords. 
C. E., II: 1. 195. 

MENIAL. — Ail ambitious. 

OldAth. This fellow here, lord Timon, 

this thy creature, 
By night frequents my house. I am a man 
That from my first have been inclined to 

thrift ; 
And my estate deserves an heir more rais'd, 
Than one which holds a trencher. 

Tim. Well; what further? 

Old Ath. One only daughter have I, no 

kin else, 
On whom I may confer what I have got : 
The maid is fair, o' the youngest for a 

bride, 
And I have bred her at my dearest cost 
In qualities of the best. This man of 

thine 
Attempts her love : I pr'ythee, noble lord, 
Join with me to forbid him her resort ; 
Myself have spoke in vain. 

T.A., I: 1. 1287. 

MERCY. — Becomes every Station. 

Isab. * * Well, believe this, 
No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, 
Not the king's crown, nor the deputed 

sword, 
The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's 

robe 
Become them with one half so good a grace 
As mercy does. If he had been as you 
And you as he, you would have slipp'd like 

him, 
But he, like you, would not have been so 

stern. 

JT. JT., II : 2. 152. 

— Beyond the Reach of. 

Paul. * * A thousand knees, 
Ten thousand years together, naked, fast- 
ing, 
Upon a barren mountain, and still winter 
In storm perpetual, could not move the gods 
To look that way thou wert. 

W. T., in : 2. 596. 



MERCY. 376 MERCY. 


— Devilish. 


K. Hen. 0, let us yet be merciful. 


Isab. Yes, brother, you may live ; 


Cam. So may your highness, and yet 


There is a devilish mercy in the judge, 


punish too. 


If you '11 implore it, that will free your life, 


Grey. Sir, you show great mercy, if you 


But fetter you till death. 


give him life, 


Claud. Perpetual durance? 


After the taste of much correction. 


Isab. Ay, just, perpetual durance ; a re- 


H. V., II : 2. 826. 


straint, 




Though all the world's vastidity you had, 


— Lacking in. 


To a determin'd scope. 


Men. I paint him in the character. Mark 


Claud. But in what nature ? 


what mercy his mother shall bring from him : 




There is no more mercy in him, than there 


Isab. In such a one as (you consenting 


is milk in a male tiger ; that shall our poor 


to 't) 


city find. 


Would bark your honour from that trunk you 


C, V: 4. 1191. 


bear, 




And leave you naked. 


— Misconstrued. 


M. M., Ill : 1. 157. 


West. * * 




Here come I from our princely general, 


— Emboldens Sin. 


To know your griefs ; to tell you from his 


1 Sen. My lord, you have my voice to 


grace, 


it ; the fault 's 


That he will give you audience : and wherein 


Bloody ; 't is necessary he should die : 


It shall appear that your demands are just, 


Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. 


You shall enjoy them ; every thing set off, 


T. A., Ill : 5. 1301. 


That might so much as think you enemies. 




Mowb. But he hath forc'd us to compel 


— In Cruelty. 


this offer; 


Oth. * * 


And it proceeds from policy, not love. 


I, that am cruel, am yet merciful ; 


West. Mowbray, you overween, to take 


I would not have thee linger in thy pain. 


it so; 


0., V : 2. 1529. 


This offer comes from mercy, not from fear : 




Tor, lo ! within a ken, our army lies ; 


— Inspired by Heaven's, to us. 


Upon mine honour, all too confident 


Isab. Alas ! alas ! 


To give admittance to a thought of fear. 


Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit 


Our battle is more full of names than yours, 


once : 


Our men more perfect in the use of arms, 


And he, that might the vantage best have 


Our armour all as strong, our cause the best ; 


took, 


Then reason wills, our hearts should be as 


Found out the remedy. How would you be, 


good : — 


If he, which is the top of judgment, should 


Say you not then, our offer is compelled. 


But judge you as you are ? 0, think on that ; 


H. IV., 2pt.,lV: 1. 796. 


And mercy then will breathe within your 




lips, 


— Misplaced. 


Like man new made. 


Prin. And, for that offence, 


M.M.,U: 2. 152. 


Immediately we do exile him hence : 




I have an interest in your hates' proceeding, 


— Its Persistence. 


My blood for your rude brawls doth lie a 


Scroop. That 's mercy, but too much se- 


bleeding; 


curity : 


But I '11 amerce you with so strong a fine, 


Let him be punish'd, sovereign ; lest ex- 


That you shall all repent the loss of mine : 


ample 


I will be deaf to pleading and excuses ; 


Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a 


Nor tears, nor prayers, shall purchase out 


kind. 


abuses, 



MERCY. 



377 



MERCY. 



Therefore use none : let Romeo hence in 

haste, 
Else, when he 's found, that hour is his last. 
Bear hence this body, and attend our will : 
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill. 
R. J., Ill: 1. 1260. 

— Mistakes concerning. 

Escal. It is but needful. 

Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so ; 
Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. 

M. J/., TI : 1. 151. 

— Nature Excels Man in. 

Arih. No, in good sooth ; the fire is 

dead with grief, 
Being create for comfort, to be us'd 
In undeserved extremes : See else yourself ; 
There is no malice in this burning coal; 
The breath of heaven hath blown his spirit 

out, 
And strewed repentant ashes on his head. 
Hub. But with my breath I can revive 

it, boy. 
Arth. And if you do, you will but make 

it blush, 
And glow with shame of your proceedings, 

Hubert : 
Nay, it, perchance, will sparkle in your eyes ; 
And, like a dog that is compell'd to fight, 
Snatch at his master that doth tarre him on. 
All things, that you should use to do me 

wrong, 
Deny their office : only you do lack 
That mercy which fierce fire, and iron, ex- 
tends, 
Creatures of note, for mercy-lacking uses. 
K.J., IV: 1. 665 

— Nobilty's true Badge. 

Tarn. * * 
But must my sons be slaughter'd in the 

streets, 
For valiant doings in their country's cause? 
! if to fight for king and common-weal 
Were piety in thine, it is in these. 
Andronicus, stain not thy tomb with blood : 
Wilt thou draw near the nature of the gods? 
Draw near them then in being merciful : 
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge ; 
Thrice-noble Titus, spare my first-born son. 
Tit. And., I: 2. 1202. 



— Not less to Man than Brutes. 
Isab. To-morrow? O, that's sudden! 
Spare him, spare him : 
He 's not prepared for death ! Even for 

our kitchens 
We kill the fowl of season : shall we serve 

heaven 
With less respect than we do minister 
To our gross selves? Good, good my lord, 

bethink you : 
Who is it that hath di'd for this offence? 
There 's many have committed it. 

M. M., II : 2. 152. 



-Not to be Asked of the In- 
jured. 

We are all undone, unless 

The noble man have mercy. 

Com. Who shall ask it? 

The tribunes cannot do 't for shame ; the 
people 

Deserve such pity of him, as the wolf 

Does of the shepherds : for his best friends, 
if they 

Should say, "Be good to Rome," they 
charg'd him even 

As those should do that had deserv'd his 
hate, 

And therein show'd like enemies. 
Men. 'T is true : 

If he were putting to my house the brand 

That should consume it, I have not the face 

To say, "Beseech you, cease." 

C., IV: 6. 1184. 



— Relation to Justice. 

Por. The quality of mercy is not strain'd ; 
It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven 
Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; 
It blesseth him that gives, and him that 

takes : 
'T is mightiest in the mighties ; it becomes 
The throned monarch better than his 

crown ; 
His sceptre shows the force of temporal 

power, 
The attribute to awe and majesty, 
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of 

kings ; 
But mercy is above this sceptred sway, 



MERCY. 



378 



MERRINESS. 



It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, 

It is an attribute to God himself: 

And earthly power doth then show likest 

God's, 
When mercy seasons justice. 

M. V. t IV : 1. 384. 

— Sometimes a Vice. 

Tro. Brother, you have a vice of mercy 
in you, 
Which better fits a lion, than a man. 

Hect. What vice is that, good Troilus? 

chide me fur it. 
Tro. When many times the captive Gre- 
cians fall, 
Even in the fan and wind of your fair 

sword, 
You bid them rise, and live. 
Hect. O, 't is fair play. 
Tro. Fool's play, by heaven, Hector. 

Hect. How now? how now? 
Tro. For the love of all the gods, 

Let 's leave the hermit pity with our 

mother ; 
And when we have our armours buckled 

on, 
The venom'd vengeance ride upon our 

swords ; 
Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from 
ruth. 

T. C., V : 3. 1139. 

— True. 

Isab. Ignomy in ransom, and free par- 
don, 
Are of two houses : lawful mercy is 
Nothing akin to foul redemption. 

M. M., II : 4. 155. 

MERIT.— Does not Get its Reward. 

Par. It is to be recovered : but that the 
merit of service is seldom attributed to the 
true and exact performer, I would have 
that drum or another, or hicjacet. 

A. IT., Ill: 6.515. 

— May Envenom. 

Adam. O, what a world is this, when 
what is comely 
Envenoms him that hears it. 

A. Y., II: 3. 415. 



— Modest. 

D. Pedro. It is the witness still of excel- 
lency, 
To put a strange face on his own perfection. 
M.A.,ll: 3. 235. 

Jul. * * 
They are but beggars that can count their 
worth. 

B. J., II : 6. 1258. 

— (See Dignity.) More powerful 
than Ancestry. 

Nor. Surely, sir, 
There 's in him stuff that puts him to these 

ends : 
For, being not propp'd by ancestry, whose 

grace 
Chalks successors their way; nor call'd 

upon 
For high feats done to the crown ; neither 

allied 
To eminent assistants ; but, spider-like, 
Out of his self-drawing-web, — O! give us 

note ! — 
The force of his own merit makes his way 
A gift that heaven gives for him, which 

buys 
A place next to the king. 

H. VIII., 1 : 1. 1057. 

MERMAID. — Her Music. 

Obe. * * 
My gentle Puck, come hither. Thou re- 

member'st 
Since once I sat upon a promontory, 
And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, 
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, 
That the rude sea grew civil at her song ; 
And certain stars shot madly from their 

spheres, 
To hear the sea-maid's music. 

M.N.,11: 1. 327. 

MERRINESS.— Cures Discontent. 

Abbot. * * 
I see your brows are full of discontent, 
Your hearts of sorrow, and your eyes of 

tears ; 
Come home with me to supper ; I will lay 
A plot shall show us all a merry day. 

B. II., IV : 1. 711. 



MESSENGER. 



379 



MIND. 



MESSENGER. — A poor. 

Dol. Caesar, 't is his schoolmaster : 

An argument that he is pluck'd, when hither 
He sends so poor a pinion of his wing, 
Which had superfluous kings for messengers, 
Not many moons gone by. 

A. C., HI : 10. 1564. 

— A welcome. 

Mess. * * 
A day in April never came so sweet, 
To show how costly summer was at hand, 
As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord. 
M. V., II: 9. 374. 

MESSENGERS.— Should be swift. 

Jul. * * Love's heralds should be 

thoughts, 
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's 

beams, 
Driving back shadows over lowering hills : 
Therefore do nimble-pinion'd doves draw 

love, 
And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid 

wings. 
Now is the sun upon the highmost hill 
Of this day's journey ; and from nine till 

twelve 
Is three long hours, — yet she is not come. 
Had she affections, and warm youthful blood, 
She 'd be as swift in motion as a ball. 

R.J. ,11: 5. 1256. 

METTLE.— Lady Macbeth's. 

Macb. Bring forth men-children only ! 
For thy undaunted mettle should compose 
Nothing but males. Will it not be receiv'd, 
When we have mark'd with blood those 

sleepy two 
Of his own chamber, and us'd their very 

daggers, 
That they have don 't? 

M.,I: 7. 1363. 

MIDNIGHT. — Appalling. 

Ham. * * 
'T is now the very witching time of night ; 
When churchyards yawn, and hell itself 

breathes out 
Contagion to this world. 

H., Ill : 2. 1416. 



— Drowsy. 

K. John. * * If the midnight bell 
Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth, 
Sound one unto the drowsy race of night. 

K. J.,\\\: 3. 661. 

Hor. In the dead waist and middle of 
the night. 

//., 1 : 2. 1395. 

— Urgent Business at. 

Gar. * * Affairs that walk 
(As, they say, spirits do) at midnight, have 
In them a wilder nature, than the business 
That seeks despatch by day. 

H. VIII., V : 1. 1087. 

MIGHTINESS.— Native, to be Feared. 

Fr. King. Think we king Harry strong ; 
And, princes, look, you strongly arm to 

meet him. 
The kindred of him hath been flesh'd upon us ; 
And he is bred out of that bloody strain, 
That haunted us in our familiar paths. 
* * 

This is a stem 
Of that victorious stock ; and let us fear 
The native mightiness and fate of him. 

H. V., II: 4. 829. 

MIND. — A fair. 

Seb. * * She bore a mind that envy 
could not but call fair. 

T. N., II: 1. 547. 

— Diseased. 

Macb. How does your patient, doctor? 

Doct. Not so sick, my lord, 

As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies, 
That keeps her from her rest. 

Macb. Cure her of that : 

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd ; 
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; 
Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; 
And with some sweet oblivious antidote, 
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous 

grief, 
Which weighs upon the heart? 

Doct. Therein the patient 

Must minister to himself. 

Macb. Throw physic to the dogs, I '11 
none of it. 

M., V : 3. 13S3. 



MIND. 



3 80 



MISALLIANCE. 



— Disturbed by Love. 

Mon. Many a morning hath he there 

been seen, 
With tears augmenting the fresh morning's 

dew, 
Adding to clouds more clouds with his deep 

sighs : 
But all so soon as the all-cheering sun 
Should in the furthest east begin to draw 
The shady curtains from Aurora's bed, 
Away from light steals home my heavy son, 
And private in bis chamber pens himself; 
Shuts up. his windows, locks fair daylight 

out, 
And makes himself an artificial night : 
Black and portentous must this humour 

prove, 
Unless good counsel may the cause remove. 
R.J.,1: 1. 1243. 

— Its Sufferings. 

Lear. * * We are not ourselves, 

When nature, being oppress 'd, commands 

the mind 

To suffer with the body : I '11 forbear ; 

And am fallen out with my more headier will, 

To take the indispos'd and sickly fit 

For the sound man. 

K. L., II: 4. 1459. 

— Superior to Looks. 

Pet. For 't is the mind that makes the 

body rich. 

T. S., IV : 3. 477. 

Des. * * 
I saw Othello's visage in his mind ; 
And to his honours, and his valiant parts, 
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate. 

0., I: 3. 1498. 

— Youthful. 

Pand. Your mind is all as youthful as 
your blood. 

K. «/;, ni : 4. 663. 

MIRTH. — A good Garment. 

Bass. No, that were pity ; 

I would entreat you rather to put on 
Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have 

friends 
That purpose merriment : But fare you well, 
I have some business. 

M. V., II : 2. 369. 



— A Relief. 

Ros. * * But a merrier man, 
Within the limit of becoming mirth, 
I never spent an hour's talk withal. 

L.L., II: 1. 277. 

Jes. I am sorry thou wilt leave my 
father so ; 
Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil, 
Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness. 

M. V., II : 3. 370. 

— Assumed. 

Des. I am not merry ; but I do beguile 
The thing I am, by seeming otherwise. 

0., II : 1. 1501. 

— (See Amusement.) Overpower- 
ing. 

D. Pedro. * * For, from the crown 
of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all 
mirth. 

M. A., Ill : 2. 239. 

MISALLIANCE.— Contract void. 

Clo. You sin against 

Obedience, which you owe your father. For 
The contract you pretend with that base 

wretch, 
(One, bred of alms, and fostered with cold 

dishes, 
With scraps o' the court.) it is no contract, 

none : 
And though it be allow'd in meaner parties, 
(Yet who, than he, more mean?) to knit 

their souls 
(On whom there is no more dependency 
But brats and beggary) in self-figur'd knot ; 
Yet you are curb'd from that enlargement by 
The consequence o' the crown ; and must 

not soil 
The precious note of it with a base slave, 
A hiding for a livery, a squire's cloth, 
A pantler, not so eminent. 

Cym., II: 3. 1601. 

— To be Made the best of. 

Duke. * * 
Good Brabantio, 

Take up this mangled matter at the best : 
Men do their broken weapons rather use, 
Than their bare hands. 

0.. 1 : 3. 1497. 



MISANTHROPY. 



381 



MISERY. 



MISANTHROPY.— How its Victims 
Talk. 

Ham. Man delights not me, nor woman 
neither. 

JI., II : 2. 1406. 

Buck. It will help me nothing, 

To plead mine innocence ; for that die is on 

me, 
Which makes my whitest part black. 

H. VIII., 1 : 1. 1059. 

Alcib. What art thou there? 

Speak. 

Tim. A beast, as thou art. The canker 
gnaw thy heart, 
For showing me again the eyes of man ! 
Alcib. What is thy name? Is man so 
hateful to thee, 
That art thyself a man? 

Tim. I am misanthropos, and hate man- 
kind. 
For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, 
That I might love thee something. 

T. A., IV : 3. 1305. 

MISCHANCE.— Slave to Patience. 

Prince. Seal up the mouth of outrage 
for a while. 
Till we can clear these ambiguities, 
And know their spring, their head, their 

true descent; 
And then will I be general of your woes, 
And lead you even to death : Meantime, for- 
bear, 
And let mischance be slave to patience. 

R.-J.,V: 3. 1277. 

MISCHIEF.— Love of. 

Horn. * * O mischief! thou art swift 
To enter in the thoughts of desperate men. 
R. «/., V : 1. 1273. 

Ant. Now let it work : Mischief, thou 
art afoot. 

J. C., III : 2. 1342. 

Puck. Captain of our fairy band, 
Helena is here at hand ; 
And the youth, mistook by me, 
Pleading for a lover's fee. 
Shall we their fond pageant see? 
Lord, what fools these mortals be ! 



Obe. Stand aside : the noise they make 

Will cause Demetrius to awake. 
Puck. Then will two at once woo one, — 

That must needs be sport alone ; 

And those things do best please me, 

That befall preposterously. 

M. AT., Ill : 2. 333. 

— Not Mended by Grief. 

Duke. * * 
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone, 
Is the next way to draw new mischief on. 
What cannot be preserv'd when fortune 

takes, 
Patience her injury a mockery makes. 
The robb'd, that smiles,' steals something 

from the thief; 
He robs himself, that spends a bootless 

grief. 

0.,I: 3. 1497. 

MISCONCEPTION. — Deplored. 

Hub. * * Brave soldier, pardon me, 
That any accent breaking from thy tongue 
Should 'scape the true acquaintance of mine 
ear. 

K.J., V: 6. 673. 

MISER. — Compared. 

1 Fish. * * I can compare our rich 
misers to nothing so fitly as a whale : he 
plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry 
before him, and at last devours them all at 
a mouthful. 

P., II : 1. 1649. 



MISERY.— Abject. 

Hot. Sick in the world's regard, wretch- 
ed and low. 

H. IV., lpt., IV: 3. 755. 

Q. Kath. 'Would I had never trod this 

English earth, 
Or felt the flatteries that grow upon it ! 
Ye have angels' faces, but heaven knows 

your hearts. 
What will become of me now, wretched 

lady? 
I am the most unhappy woman living. — 
Alas? poor wenches, where are now your 

fortunes? 
Shipwreck'd upon a kingdom, where no 

pity, 



MISERY. 



382 



MISERY. 



No friends, no hope ; no kindred weep for 

me, 
Almost, no grave allow'd me: — Like the 

lily, 
That once was mistress of the field, and 

flourish'd, 
I '11 hang my head, and perish. 

H. VIII., Ill 1. 1076. 

— Beyond Aggravation. 

Tit. If they did kill thy husband, then 
be joyful, 

Because the law hath ta'en revenge on 
them. — 

No, no, they would not do so foul a deed ; 

Witness the sorrow that their sister makes. 

Gentle Lavinia, let me kiss thy lips ; 

Or make some sign how I may do thee ease : 

Shall thy good uncle, and thy brother Lu- 
cius, 

And thou, and I, sit round about some 
fountain ; 

Looking all downwards, to behold our cheeks 

How they are stain'd ; like meadows, yet 
not dry 

With miry slime left on them by a flood ? 

And in the fountain shall we gaze so long, 

Till the fresh taste be taken from that clear- 
ness, 

And make a brine-pit with our bitter tears ? 

Or shall we cut away our hands, like thine? 

Or shall we bite our tongues, and in dumb 
shows 

Pass the remainder of our hateful days? 

What shall we do? let us, that have our 
tongues, 

Plot some device of further misery, 

To make us wonder'd at in time to come. 

Tit. And., Ill: 1. 1215. 

— Its Reproach. 

K. Phi. O fair affliction, peace. 

Const. No, no, I will not, having breath 
to cry : — 
O, that my tongue were in the thunder's 

mouth ! 
Then with a passion would I shake the world ; 
And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy, 
Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, 
Which scorns a modern invocation. 

K. J., Ill : 4. 662. 



— Its strange Bed-fellows. 

Trin. Here 's neither bush nor shrub, 
to bear off any weather at all, and another 
storm brewing ; I hear it sing i' the wind ; 
yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks 
like a foul bumbard that would shed his 
liquor. If it should thunder as it did be- 
fore, I know not where to hide my head : 
yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by 
pailfulls. — What have we here, — a man or 
a fish? Dead or alive? A fish : he smells 
like a fish ; a very ancient and fish-like 
smell ; a kind of (not of the newest) Poor 
John ; a strange fish ! Were I in England 
now, (as once I was,) and had but this fish 
painted, not a holiday fool there but would 
give a piece of silver : there would this 
monster make a man; any strange beast 
there makes a man : when they will not 
give a cloit to relieve a lame beggar, they 
will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd 
like a man ! and his fins like arms ! Warm, 
o' my troth ! I do now let loose my opinion, 
hold it no longer,- — this is no fish, but an 
islander, that hath lately suffered by-a thun- 
der-bolt. Alas ! the storm is come again : 
my best way is to creep under his gaberdine ; 
there is no other shelter hereabout. Misery 
acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. I 
will here shroud till the dregs of the storm 
be past. 

T., II : 2. 19. 

— Mistaken for Madness. 

Pand. Lady, you utter madness, and 
not sorrow. 

Const. Thou art not holy to belie me so ; 
I am not mad : this hair I tear, is mine ; 
My name is Constance ; I was Geffrey's wife ; 
Young Arthur is my son, and he is lost : 
I am not mad ; — I would to heaven I were, 
For then, 't is like I should forget myself: 
O, if I could, what grief should I forget !| 
Preach some philosophy to make me mad, 
And thou shalt be canoniz'd, cardinal; 
For, being not mad, but sensible of grief, 
My reasonable part produces reason 
How I may be deliver'd of these woes, 
And teaches me to kill or hang myself; 
If I were mad I should forget my son ; 
Or madly think, a babe of clouts were he. 
I am not mad ; too well, too well I feel 
The different plague of each calamity. 

K. J., Ill : 4. 662. 

—Willing. 

Apem. * * Willing misery 
Outlives incertain pomp, is crown'd before : 



MISERY. 



383 



MISFORTUNE. 



The one is filling still, never complete ; 
The other, at high wish : Best state, con- 

tentless, 
Hath a distracted and most wretched being, 
Worse than the worst, content. 
Thou should'st desire to die, being miserable. 
T. A., IV: 3. 1308. 

MISFORTUNE. — Deliverance from. 

Gon. 'Beseech you, sir, be merry : you 

have cause 
(So have we all) of joy ; for our escape 
Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe 
Is common : every day, some sailor's wife, 
The masters of some merchant, and the 

merchant, 
Have just our theme of woe : but for the 

miracle, 
I mean our preservation, few in millions 
Can speak like us, then wisely, good sir, 

weigh 
Our sorrow with our comfort. 

T., II. 1. 15. 

— Demands Pity. 

Duke. * * 
But, touch'd with human gentleness and 

love, 
Forgive a moiety of the principal ; 
Glancing an eye of pity on his losses, 
That have of late so huddled on his back, 
Enow to press a royal merchant down, 
And pluck commiseration of his state 
From brassy bosoms, and rough hearts of 

flint, 
From stubborn Turks and Tartars, never 

train'd 
To offices of tender courtsey. 

M. V., IV : 1 382 

— Desertion in. 

K. Rich. Alack, why am I sent for to a 

king, 
Before I have shook off the regal thoughts 
Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet have 

learn'd 
To insinuate, flatter, bow, and bend my 

knee : — 
Give sorrow leave a while to tutor me 
To this submission. Yet I well remember 
The favours of these men : Were they not 



Did they not sometime cry, all hail ! to me? 
So Judas did to Christ : but he, in twelve, 
Found truth in all, but one ; I, in twelve 

thousand, none. 
God save the king ! — Will no man say, 

amen? 
Am I both priest and clerk ? well then, amen. 
God save the king ! although I be not he ; 
And yet, amen, if heaven do think him me. 
To do what service am I sent for hither? 

R. II, IV: 1. 709. 

— Excuse for Desertion. 

K.Rich. * * 
All souls that will be safe, fly from my side ; 
For time hath set a blot upon my pride. 

R. II, III: 2. 701. 

— Falls heavy on Some. 

Bel. Then was I as a tree, 
Whose boughs did bend with fruit ; but, in 

one night, 
A storm, or robbery, call it what you will, 
Shook down my yellow hangings. 

Cym., Ill: 3. 1607. 

Bel. And, besides, the king 

Hath not deserv'd my service, nor your 

loves ; 
Who find in my exile the want of breeding, 
The certainty of this hard life ; aye, hope- 
less 
To have the courtesy your cradle promis'd, 
But to be still hot summer's tanlings, and 
The shrinking slaves of winter. 

Cym., IV : 4. 1621. 

— Insulted. 

York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, 
After a well grac'd actor leaves the stage, 
Are idly bent on him that enters next, 
Thinking his prattle to be tedious : 
Even so, or with much more contempt, 

men's eyes 
Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God 

save him ; 
No joyful tongue gave him his welcome 

home : 
But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; 
Which with such gentle sorrow he shook ofi°, 
His face still combating with tears and 

smiles, 



MISFORTUNE. 



384 



MISFORTUNES. 



The badges of his grief and patience, — 

That hath not God, for some strong pur- 
pose, steel'd 

The hearts of men, they must perforce have 
melted, 

And barbarism itself have pitied him. 

But heaven hath a hand in these events.; 

To whose high will we bound our calm con- 
tents. 

To Bolingbroke are we sworn subjects 
now, 

Whose state and honour I for aye allow. 

B.II.,V: 2. 712. 
1 
— Its Seat the Ground. 
Q. Mar. * * 

Must strike her sail, and learn a while to 
serve, 

Where kings command. I was, I must 
confess, 

Great Albion's queen in former golden 
days : 

But now mischance hath trod my title 
down, 

And with dishonour laid me on the ground ; 

Where I must take like seat unto my for- 
tune, 

And to my humble seat conform myself. 

R. VI., 2 pt M III : 3. 974. 

— Making the Best of. 

Gaunt. All places that the eye of heaven 
visits, 
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : 
Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; 
There is no virtue like necessity. 
Think not, the king did banish thee ; 
But thou the king : Woe doth the heavier 

sit, 
Where it perceives it is but faintly borne. 
Go, say — I sent thee forth to purchase 

honour, 
And not — the king exil'dthee : or suppose, 
Devouring pestilence hangs in our air, 
And thou art flying to a fresher clime, 
Look, what thy soul holds dear, imagine it 
To lie that way thou go'st, not whence thou 

com'st : 
Suppose the singing birds, musicians ; 
The grass whereon thou tread'st, the pres- 
ence strew 'd; 



The flowers, fair ladies ; and thy steps, no 

more 
Than a delightful measure, or a dance : 
For gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite 
The man that mocks at it, and sets it light. 
R. II, I: 3. 690. 

— Muddied by. 

Par. * * I am now, sir, muddied in 
Fortune's mood, and smell somewhat strong 
of her strong displeasure. 

A. W., V: 2. 525. 

— Sweeping. 

Mowb. * * 
We shall be winnow'd with so rough a wind, 
That even our corn shall seem as light as 

chaff, 
And good from bad find no partition. 

H. IV., 2 pt., IV : 1. 796. 

MISFORTUNES.— Clustered. 

K. Phi. So, by a roaring tempest on the 
flood, 
A whole armado of convented sail 
Is scattered and disjoin'd from fellowship. 
Pand. Courage and comfort ! all shall 

yet^go well. 
K. Phi. What can go well, when we 
have run so ill? 
Are we not beaten? Is not Angiers lost? 
Arthur ta'en prisoner? divers dear friends 

slain? 
And bloody England into England gone, 
O'erbearing interruption, spite of France? 
K. J., Ill : 4. 661. 

— Great, Come to the Great. 

Cor. * * Common chances common 
men could bear ; 
That when the sea was calm, all boats alike 
Show'd mastership in floating. 

C., IV: 1. 1177. 

—Too great for Talk. 

Rom. * * O give me thy hand, 
One writ with me in sour misfortune's book. 
R.J.,V: 3. 1275. 

P. John. We meet like men that had 

forgot to speak. 
War. We do remember ; but our argu- 
ment 
Is all too heavy to admit much talk. 



MISFORTUNES. 



38s 



MOBS. 



P. John. Well, peace be with him that 

hath made us heavy ! 
Ch. Just. Peace be with us, lest we be 

heavier ! 

IT. iX.,2pt., V; 2. 806. 

MIS GOVERNMENT. — Its Crisis. 

Queen. * * 

Uncle, 

For heaven's sake, speak comfortable words. 
York. Should I do so, I should belie my 
thoughts : 

Comfort 's in heaven ; and we are on the 
earth, 

Where nothing lives but crosses, care, and 
grief. 

Your husband he is gone to save far off, 

Whilst others come to make him lose at 
home : 

Here am I left to underprop his land ; 

Who, weak with age, cannot support my- 
self: 

Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit 
made : 

Now shall he try his friends that flatter'd 

him. 

R. II. , II : 2. 696. 

MISREPRESENTATION.— Dis- 
proved 
P. Hen. O heaven, they did me too 
much injury, 

That ever said, I hearken'd for your death. 

If it were so, I might have let alone 

The insulting hand of Douglas over you ; 

Which would have been as speedy in your 
end, 

As all the poisonous potions in the world, 

And sav'd the treacherous labour of your son. 
H. IV., lpt., V: 4. 760. 

MISTAKE. — In Punishment. 

Oth. * * 

O, I were damn'd beneath all depth in hell, 

But that I did proceed upon just grounds 

To this extremity. 

0., V: 2. 1530. 

MISTAKES. — Military. 

Par. * * There was excellent com- 
mand ! to charge in with our horse upon 
our own wings, and to rend our own sol- 
diers ! 

A. W., Ill : 6. 515. 



MISTRUST. — Cowardly. 

War. * * I hold it cowardice, 
To rest mistrustful where a noble heart 
Hath pawn'd an open hand in sign of love. 
H. VI., 3pt., IV: 2. 980. 

— Kills its Victims. 

Tit. * * O setting sun ! 
As in thy red rays thou dost sink to night, 
So in his red blood Cassius' day is set ; 
The sun of Rome is set ! Our day is gone ; 
Clouds, dews, and dangers come ; our deeds 

are done ! 
Mistrust of my success hath done this deed. 
Mes. Mistrust of good success hath done 

this deed. 
O hateful error, melancholy's child, 
Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of 

men 
The things that are not? O error, soon 

conceiv'd, 
Thou never com'st unto a happy birth, 
But kill'st the mother that engender'd thee? 
J. C.,V: 3. 1350. 

MISUNDERSTANDING. — Mutual. 

Pan. Friend, we understand not one an- 
other : I am too courtly, and thou art too 
cunning. 

T. C, III: l. 1119. 

MITIGATIONS.— Of Villainy. 

Ch. Just. Well, I am loath to gall a 
new-healed wound ; your day's service at 
Shrewsbury hath a little gilded over your 
night's exploit on Gad's-hill : you may 
thank the unquiet time for your quiet o'er- 
posting that action. 

H. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 2. 777. 

MOBS. — Cruelty of. 

Cade. They fell before thee like sheep 
and oxen, and thou behavedst thyself as if 
thou hadst been in thine own slaughter- 
house : therefore thus will I reward thee, — 
The Lent shall be as long again as it is ; 
and thou shalt have a licence to kill for a 
hundred lacking one. * * The bodies 
shall be dragged at my horse' heels, till I 
do come to London, where we will have the 
mayor's sword borne before us. 

Dick. If we mean to thrive and do good, 
break open the gaols, and let out the prison- 
ers. 

H. VI., 2 pt., IV : 3. 936. 



MOBS. 



386 



MOBS. 



—Fitful. 
Arv. I will not jump with common spirits, 
And rank me with the barbarous multitudes. 
31. F.,11: 9. 374. 

Clif. What say ye, countrymen? will ye 

relent, 
And yield to mercy, whilst 't is offer'd you ; 
Or let a rabble lead you to your deaths? 
Who loves the king, and will embrace his 

pardon, 
Fling up his cap, and say — God save his 

majesty ! 
Who hateth him, and honours not his father, 
Henry the Fifth, that made all France to 

quake, 
Shake he his weapon at us, and pass by. 
All. God save the king! God save the 

king ! 
Cade. What, Buckingham, and Clifford, 
are ye so brave? — And you, base peasants, 
do ye believe him? will you needs be hanged 
with your pardons about your necks? Hath 
my sword therefore broke through London 
Gates, that you should leave me at the White 
Hart in Southwark? I thought, you would 
never have given out these arms, till you 
had recovered your ancient freedom : but 
you are all recreants, and dastards ; and de- 
light to live in slavery to the nobility. Let 
them break your backs with burdens, take 
your houses over your heads, ravish your 
wives and daughters before your faces : For 
me, — I will make shift for one; and so — 
God's curse 'light upon you all. 

All. We '11 follow Cade, we '11 follow 

Cade. 
Clif. Is Cade the son of Henry the Fifth, 
That thus you do exclaim — you '11 go with 

him ? 
Will he conduct you through the heart of 

France, 
And make the meanest of you earls and 

dukes? 
Alas, he hath no home, no place to fly to ; 
Nor knows he how to live, but by the spoil, 
Unless by robbing of your friends, and us. 
Were 't not a shame, that whilst you live at 

jar, 
The fearful French, whom you late van- 
quished, 
Should make start o'er seas, and vanquish 

you? 
Methinks already, in this civil broil, 
I see them lording it in London streets, 



Crying — Villageois ! unto all they meet. 

Better ten thousand base-born Cades mis- 
carry, 

Than you should stoop unto a Frenchman's 
mercy. 

To France, to France, and get what you 
have lost; 

Spare England, for it is your native coast : 

Henry hath money, you are strong and 
manly ; 

God on our side, doubt not of victory. 
All. A Clifford ! a Clifford ! we '11 follow 
the king, and Clifford. 

H. VI, 2pt.,IV: 8. 939. 

— Imitative. 

K. Hen. * * Like to village curs, 
Bark when their fellows do. 

//. VIII, II : 4. 1073. 

— Mutable. 

Cor. * * The mutable, rank-scented 
many. 



C, III : 1. 1169. 



— Unchecked, dangerous. 

K. Hen. How now, what news? why 

com'st thou in such haste? 
Mess. The rebels are in Southwark : Fly, 
my lord ! 
Jack Cade proclaims himself lord Mortimer, 
Descended from the duke of Clarence' 

house ; 
And calls your grace usurper, openly, 
And vows to crown himself in Westminster. 
His army is a ragged multitude 
Of hinds and peasants, rude and merciless : 
Sir Humphrey Stafford and his brother's 

death 
Hath given them heart and courage to pro- 
ceed; 
All scholars, lawyers, courtiers, gentlemen, 
They call — false caterpillars, and intend 
their death. 

H. F/.,2pt.,IV: 4. 936. 

— "Wavering. 

Indu. * * 
That the blunt monster with uncounted 

heads, 
The still discordant wavering multitude. 

n. 7F.,Ind. : 773. 



MOCKERY. 



387 



MODESTY. 



MOCKERY.— As bad as Death. 

Hero. * * If I should speak, 
She would mock me into air ; O, she would 

laugh me 
Out of myself, press me to death with 

wit. 
Therefore let Benedick, like cover'd fire, 
Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly : 
It were a better death than die with 

mocks, 
Which is as bad as die with tickling. 

M. A., Ill : 1. 238. 

— Blasphemous. 

Isab. You do blaspheme the good, in 
mocking me. 

Jf. JT. f I: 4. 147. 

MODERATION.— In Joy, discreet. 

Oth. * * 
Let 's teach ourselves that honourable stop, 
Not to out-sport discretion. 

0., II : 3. 1504. 

— In popular Commotion. 
Men. Be that you seem, truly your 
country's friend, 
And temperately proceed to what you 

would 
Thus violently redress. 

Bru. Sir, those cold ways, 

That seem like prudent helps, are very 

poisonous 
Where the disease is violent: lay hands 

upon him, 
And bear him to the rock. 

C., III : 1. 1171. 

— The true Wisdom. 

Pet. * * 
And where two raging fires meet together, 
They do consume the thing that feeds their 

fury: 
Though little fire grows great with little 

wind, 
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and 
all. 

T. S., II : 1. 463. 

MODESTY. 

Pet. * * Modest as the dove. 

T.S., II: 1.465. 



— Chivalrous. 

Ven. * * 
Better leave undone, than by our deed ac- 
quire 
Too high a fame, when him we serve 's away. 
A. C., III: 1. 1557. 

— Grieved by Praise. 

Mar. Pray now, no more ; my mother, 
Who has a charter to extol her blood, 
When she does praise me, grieves me. I 

have done, 
As you have done ; that ? s what I can ; in- 
duced 
As you have been ; that 's for my country : 
He that has but effected his good will, 
Hath overta'en mine act. 

Com. You shall not be 

The grave of your deserving; Rome must 

know 
The value of her own : 't were a conceal- 
ment 
Worse than a theft, no less than a traduce- 

ment, 
To hide your doings ; and to silence that, 
Which, to the spire and top of praises 

vouch'd, 
Would seem but modest : Therefore, I be- 
seech 3 r ou, 
(In sign of what you are, not to reward 
What you have done,) before our army hear 
me. 
Mar. I have some wounds upon me, and 
they smart 
To hear themselves remember'd. 

C, 1 : 9. 1158. 

— How Excited. 

^Ene. Ay ; 
I ask, that I might waken reverence, 
And bid the cheek be ready with a blush 
Modest as morning when she coldly eyes 
The youthful Phoebus. 

T. C, I: 3. 1110. 

— Its Deservings. 

Stew. Madam, the care I have had to 
even your content, I wish might be found 
in the calendar of my past endeavours : for 
them we wound our modesty, and make 
foul the clearness of our deservings, when 
of ourselves we publish them. 

A. JT., I: 3. 499. 



MODESTY. 



3 88 



MONSTER. 



— Opposed to Noise. 

Bass. Why, then you must. — But hear 

thee, Gratiano ; 
Thou art too wild, too rude, and bold of 

voice ; 
Parts, that become thee happily enough, 
And in such eyes as ours appear not faults, 
But where they are not known, why, there 

they show 
Something too liberal: — pray thee take 

pain 
To allay with some "cold drops of modesty 
Thy skipping spirit ; lest, through thy wild 

behaviour, 
I be misconster'd in the place I go to, 
And lose my hopes. 

M. V., II: 2. 369. 

— Parade distasteful to. 

Glo. * * 
I would rather hide me from my great- 
ness, — 
Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, — 
Than in my greatness covet to be hid, 
And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. 
R. III., Ill : 7. 1029. 

MONEY. —But Dirt. {See page 533.) 
• Gui. Money, youth? 

Arv. All gold and silver rather turn to 
dirt? 
As 't is no better reckon'd, but of those 
Who worship dirty gods. 

Cym., Ill: 6. 1613. 

— Costs Hearts. 

Pom. * * Caesar gets money, where 
He loses hearts. 

A. C, II : 1. 1547. 

— Hides many Faults. 

Anne. * * 

O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults 

Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a 

year. 

M. W., Ill : 4. 107. 

— Its Power. 

Fal. * * For they say, if money go 
before, all ways do lie open. 

M. W., II : 2. 99. 

Gru. * * Nothing comes amiss, so 
money comes withal. 

T. S., I: 2. 458. 



— Powerful. 

Fal. Money is a good soldier sir, and 
will on. 

M. W., II : 2. 99. 



MONSTER. — An intellectual. 

Pro. A devil, a born devil, on whose 
nature 
Nurture can never stick ; on whom my pains, 
Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost ! 
And as, with age, his body uglier grows, 
So his mind cankers : I will plague them all. 

T., IV : 1. 28. 

— Desire to See a. 

Trin. * * Were I in England now (as 
once I was), and had but this fish painted, 
not a holyday fool there but would give a 
piece of silver : there would this monster 
make a man ; any strange beast there makes 
a man : when they will not give a doit to 
relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten 
to see a dead Indian. 

T., II : 2. 19. 

— Fiendish Exultation of. 

Glo. What, will the aspiring blood of 

Lancaster 
Sink in the ground? I thought it would 

have mounted. 
See, how my sword weeps for the poor king's 

death ! 

0, may such purple tears be always shed 
From those that wish the downfall of our 

house ! — 
If any spark of life be yet remaining, 
Down, down to hell; and say — I sent thee 

thither, 

1, that have neither pity, love, nor fear. — 
Indeed, 't is true, that Henry told me of; 
For I have often heard my mother say, 

I came into the world with my legs forward : 
Had I not reason, think ye, to make haste, 
And seek their ruin that usurp 'd our right? 
The midwife wonder 'd; and the women 

cried, 
"O, Jesus bless us, he is born with teeth! " 
And so I was ; which plainly signified — 
That I should snarl, and bite, and play the 

dog. 
Then, since the heavens have shap'd my 

body so, 
Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. 



MONSTER. 



389 



MOONISHNESS. 



I have no brother, I am like no brother ; 
And this word — love, which greybeards call 

divine, 
Be resident in men like one another, 
And not in me ; I am myself alone. 

H. VI, 3pt., V: 6. 992. 

— His Soliloquy. 

Glo. Now is the winter of our discontent 
Made glorious summer by this sun of York ; 
And all the clouds, that lower 'd upon our 

house, 
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. 
Now are our brows bound with victorious 

wreaths ; 
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments ; 
Our stern alarums changed to merry meet- 
ings, 
Our drearful marches to delightful meas- 
ures. 
Grim-visaged war had smoothed his wrinkled 

front ; 
And now, — instead of mounting barbed 

steeds, 
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, — 
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, 
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. 
But I, — that am not shap'd for sportive 

tricks, 
Nor made to court an amorous looking- 
glass ; 
I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's 

majesty, 
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph ; 
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, 
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, 
Deform 'd, unfinished, sent before my time 
Into this breathing world, scarce half made 

up, 
And that so lamely and unfashionable, 
That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them ; — 
"Why I, in this weak piping time of peace, 
Have no delight to pass away the time ; 
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, 
And descant on mine own deformity ; 
And therefore, — since I cannot prove a 

lover, 
To entertain these fair Avell-spoken days, — 
I am determined to prove a villain, 
And hate the idle pleasures of these days. 
Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, 
By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams, 



To set my brother Clarence, and the king, 
In deadly hate the one against the other : 
And, if king Edward be as true and just, 
As I am subtle, false, and treacherous, 
This day should Clarence closely be mew'd 

up; 
About a prophecy, which says — that G 
Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be. 
Dive, thoughts, down to my soul ! here Clar- 
ence comes. 

R. Ill, 1:1. 1001. 

MOON. — Emblem of Inconstancy. 

Rom. Lady, by yonder blessed moon I 
swear, 
That tips with silver all these fruit-tree 

tops, 

Jul. O, swear not by the moon, the in- 
constant moon, 
That monthly changes in her circled orb, 
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. 
Rom. What shall I swear by ? 
Jul. Do not swear at all ; 

Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, 
Which is the god of my idolatry, 
And I '11 believe thee. 

R. J., II: 2. 1252. 

— Its Powers. 

Tita. * * 
Therefore the moon, the governess of floods, 
Pale in her anger, washes all the air, 
That rheumatic diseases do abound : 
And thorough this distemperature, we see 
The seasons alter. 

M. N., II : 1. 326. 

— Spectator of Solemnities. 

Hip. * * The moon, like to a silver 
bow 
Now bent in heaven, shall behold the night 
Of our solemnities. 

M. N., 1 : 1. 321. 

MOONISHNESS. — A Maiden's, as- 
sumed. 

Ros. Yes, one ; and in this manner. He 
was to imagine me his love, his mistress ; 
and I set him every day to woo me : At 
which time would I, being but a moonish 
youth, grieve, be effeminate, changeable, 
longing, and liking; proud, fantastical, 
apish, shallow, inconstant, full of tears, full 
of smiles ; for every passion something, 



MOONISHNESS. 



39° 



MOTHER. 



and for no passion truly anything, as boys 
and women are, for the most part, cattle of 
this colour : would now like him, now 
loathe him ; then entertain him, then for- 
swear him; now weep for him, then spit at 
him ; that I drave my suitor from his mad 
humour of love, to a living humour of mad- 
ness; which was, to forswear the full stream 
of the world, and to live in a nook merely 
monastic. And thus I cur'd him ; and this 
way will I take upon me to wash your liver 
as clean as a sound sheep's heart, that there 
shall not be one spot of love in 't. 

A. Y., Ill: 2. 424. 



MOONSHINERS.— Falstaff's Friends. 

Fal. * * Gentlemen of the shade, 
minions of the moon. 

//. TV., lpt.,1: 2. 728. 

MOOR.— A Boar, when Chafed. 

Aar. * * If you brave the Moor, 
The chafed boar, the mountain lioness, 
The ocean swells not so as Aaron storms. 

Tit. And., IV : 2. 1222. 

MORN. — Described. 

Fri. The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the 

frowning night, 
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks 

of light ; 
And flecked darkness like a drunkard reels 
From forth day's path-way, made by Titan's 

wheels : 
Now ere the sun advance his burning eye, 
The day to cheer, and night's dank dew to 

dry, 
I must up-iill this osier cage of ours, 
With baleful weeds, and precious-juiced 

flowers. 

R. J., IT : 3. 1253. 

MORNING. — (See Daybreak; also, 
Modesty.) Its Signs. 

Song * * 
When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, 
And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks. 

L.L..V: 2. 304. 

Rich. See how the morning opes her 
golden gates, 
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun. 
//. TV., 3pt,,II: 1. 962. 



Pro. * * As the morning steals upon 
the night, 
Melting the darkness. 

T.,V: 1. 30. 

Hor. * * The moon in russet mantle 
clad, 
Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastern hill. 

IT., I : l. 1393. 

D. Pedro. Good morrow, masters ; put 

your torches out : 

The wolves have prey'd : and, look, the 

gentle day, 

Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about 

Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. 

M. A., V : 3. 254. 

MOROSE. — Countenances of the. 

Salar. * * 
And other of such vinegar aspect, 
That they '11 not show their teeth in way of 

smile, 
Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. 
M. V., I: 1. 362. 

Men. * * The tartness of his face 
sours ripe grapes. 

C, V : 4. 1191. 

MOTHER— (See Wishes.) Cruelty 
in, Admonishing. 

Ham. * * Soft ; now to my mother. — ■ 
O, heart, lose not thy nature ; let not ever 
The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom : 
Let me be cruel, not unnatural : 
I will speak daggers to her, but use none ; 
My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites : 
How in my words soever she be shent, 
To give them seals never, my soul, consent. 

//., Ill : 3. 1416. 

— Denied to her Children. 

Q. Eliz. * * 
Master lieutenant, pray you, by your leave, 
How doth the prince, and my young son of 
York? 
Brak. Right well, dear madam : By 
your patience, 
I may not suffer you to visit them ; 
The king hath strictly charg'd the con- 
trary. 
Q. Eliz. The king! who 's that? 



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Brak. I mean, the lord protector. 

Q. Eliz. The Lord protect him from 
that kingly title ! 
Hath he set bounds between their love, and 

me? 
I am their mother, who shall bar me from 
them? 
Duch. I am their father's mother, I will 

see them. 
Anne. Their aunt I am in law, in love 
their mother : 
Them bring me to their sights ; I '11 bear 

thy blame, 
And take thy office from thee, on thy peril. 
R. III., IV: 1. 1030. 

— Her Intercession. 

Vol. O, stand up bless'd ! 

Whilst, with no softer cushion than the 

flint, 
I kneel before thee; and unproperly 
Show duty, as mistaken all the while 
Between the child and parent. 

Cor. What is this? 

Your knees to me? to your corrected son? 
Then let the pebbles on the hungry beach 
Fillip the stars ; then let the mutinous 

winds 
Strike the proud cedars 'gainst the fiery 

sun; 
Murd'ring impossibility, to make 
What cannot be, slight work. 

C, V: 3. 1189. 

— Honored. 

Cor. * * 
My wife comes foremost ; then the honour'd 

mould 
Wherein this trunk was fram'd, and in her 

hand 
The grand-child to her blood. 
* * 

My mother bows ; 

As if Olympus to a molehill should 
In supplication nod. 

C., V : 3. 1188. 

Love for her Son. 

Const. * * 
O lord ! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son ! 
My life, my joy, my food, my all the world ! 
My widow-comfort, and my sorrows' cure ! 
X.J.,III: 4. 662. 



MOTIVE.— Ambiguous. 

Berk. * * What pricks you on 
To take advantage of the absent time, 
And fright our native peace with self-born 
arms. 

R.I I., II: 3. 698. 

MOTIVES.— Lesser, never Moved. 

Dogb. * * The ewe that will not hear 
her lamb when it baes, will never answer a 
calf when it bleats. 

31. A., Ill: 3. 241. 

MOUNTAIN.— Life noble. 

Bel. Now, for our mountain sport : Up 

to yon hill, 
Your legs are young; I '11 tread these flats. 

Consider, 
When you above perceive me like a crow, 
That it is place, which lessens, and sets off. 
And you may then revolve what tales I have 

told you, 
Of courts, of princes, of the tricks in war : 
This service is not service, so being done, 
But being so allow'd : To apprehend thus, 
Draws us a profit from all things we see : 
And often, to our comfort, shall we find 
The sharded beetle in a safer hold 
Than is the full-wing'd eagle. O, this life 
Is nobler, than attending for a check ; 
Richer, than doing nothing for a babe ; 
Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk : 
Such gain the cap of him, that makes them 

fine, 
Yet keeps his book uncross'd : no life to ours. 
Cym. t III : 3. 1606. 

MUNIFICENCE. — The Attribute of 
gods. 

Sim. * * 
Princes, in this, should live like gods above, 
Who freely give to every one that comes 
To honour them : and princes, not doing so, 
Are like to gnats, which make a sound, but 

kill'd 
Are wonder'd at. 

P., II : 3. 1652. 

MURDER.— A fiendish. 

K. Rich. Kind Tyrrel ! am I happy in 

thy news? 
Tyr. If to have done the thing you 
gave in charge 



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Beget your happiness, be happy then, 
For it is done. 

K. Rich. But didst thou see them dead? 
Tyr. I did, my lord. 

K. Rich. And buried, gentle Tyrrel? 

Tyr. The chaplain of the Tower hath 

buried them ; 

But where, to say the truth, I do not know. 

K. Rich. Come to me, Tyrrel, soon, at 

after supper, 

When thou shalt tell the process of their 

death. 
Mean time, but think how I may do thee 

good, 
And be inheritor of thy desire. 

B. III., IV : 3. 1033. 

— A Robbery. 

Bast. They found him dead, and cast 

into the streets ; 

An empty casket, where the jewel of life 

By some damn'd hand was robb'd and ta'en 

away. 

K. J., V: 1. 671. 

— Artistically committed. 
Bru. Our course will seem too bloody, 

Caius Cassius, 
To cut the head off, and then hack the 

limbs ; 
Like wrath in death, and envy afterwards : 
For Antony is but a limb of Caesar. 
Let us be sacrificers, but no butchers, Caius. 
We all stand up against the spirit of Caesar ; 
And in the spirit of men there is no blood : 
O, that we then could come by Caesar's spirit, 
And not dismember Cassar! But, alas, 
Caesar must bleed for it ! And, gentle 

friends, 
Let 's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully ; 
Let 's carve him as a dish fit for the gods, 
Not hew him as a carcase fit for hounds : 
And let our hearts, as subtle masters do, 
Stir up their servants to an act of rage, 
And after seem to chide them. This shall 

make 
Our purpose necessary, and not envious ; 
Which so appearing to the common eyes, 
We shall be call'd purgers, not murderers. 
And for Mark Antony, think not of him ; 
Eor he can do no more than Caesar's arm, 
When Caesar's head is off. 

J. O.II: l. 1330. 



— Atrocious. 

Sal. Sir Richard, what think you? Have 
you beheld, 
Or have you read, or heard? or could you 

think? 
Or do you almost think, although you see, 
That you do see ? could thought, without this 

object, 
Form such another? This is the very top, 
The height, the crest, or crest unto the crest, 
Of murder's arms : this is the bloodiest 

shame, 
The wildest savag'ry, the vilest stroke, 
That ever wall-ey'd wrath, or staring rage, 
Presented to the tears of soft remorse. 
Fern. All murders. past do stand excus'd 
in this : 
And this, so sole, and so unmatchable, 
Shall give a holiness, a purity, 
To the yet-unbegotten sin of time ; 
And prove a deadly bloodshed but a jest, 
Exampled by this heinous spectacle. 

Bast. It is a damned and a bloody work ; 
The graceless action of a heavy hand, 
If that it be the work of any hand. 

K.J.,1V: S. 669. 

— Cries for Vengeance. 

Bo ling. * * 
Which blood, like sacrificing Abel's, cries, 
Even from the tongueless caverns of the 

earth, 
To me, for justice, and rough chastisement. 
R.IL, I: l. 685. 

— Cruel, of a Child. 

Clif. Chaplain, away ! thy priesthood 
saves thy life. 
As for the brat of this accursed duke, 
Whose father slew my father, — he shall die. 
Tut. And I, my lord, will bear him com- 
pany. 
Clif. Soldiers, away with him. 
Tut. Ah, Clifford ! murder not this inno- 
cent child, 
Lest thou be hated both of God and man. 
Clif. How now! is he dead already? Or, 
is it fear, 
That makes him close his eyes ? — I '11 open 
them. 
Rut. So looks the pent-up lion o'er the 
wretch 



MURDER. 



393 



MURDER. 



That trembles under his devouring paws ; 
And so he walks, insulting o'er his prey, 
And so he comes, to rend, his limbs asun 

der. — 
Ah, gentle Clifford, kill me with thy sword 
And not with such a cruel threat'ning look. 
Sweet Clifford, hear me speak before I die : — 
I am too mean a subject for thy wrath, 
Be thou reveng'd on men, and let me live. 
Clif. In vain thou speak'st, poor boy ; my 

father's blood 
Hath stopp'd the passage where thy words 

should enter. 
Rut. Then let my father's blood open it 

again ; 
He is a man, and, Clifford, cope with him. 
Clif. Had I thy brethren here, their lives, 

and thine, 
Were not revenge sufficient for me ; 
No, if I digged up thy forefathers' graves, 
And hung their rotten coffins up in chains, 
It could not slake mine ire, nor ease my 

heart. 
The sight of any of the house of York 
Is as a fury to torment my soul ; 
And till I root out their accursed line, 
And leave not one alive, I live in hell. 

Therefore 

Rut. 0, let me pray before I take my 

death : — 
To thee I pray : Sweet Clifford, pity me ! 
Clif. Such pity as my rapier's point af- 
fords. 
Rut. I never did thee harm: Why wilt 

thou slay me ? 

Clif. Thy father hath. 

Rut. But 't was ere I was born; 

Thou hast one son, for his sake pity me ; 

Lest, in revenge thereof, — sith God is just, — 

He be as miserably slain as I. 

Ah, let me live in prison all my days ; 

And when I give occasion of offence, 

Then let me die, for now thou hast no cause. 

Clif. No cause ? 

Thy father slew my father; therefore, die. 

Rut. Dii faciant, laudis summa sit ista 

tuce ! 

H. F/.,3d. pt., I: 3. 959. 

K. John. * * 
Hear me without thine ears, and make re- 
ply 

Without a tongue, using conceit alone, 



Without eyes, ears, and harmful sound of 

words ; 
Then, in despite of broad-eyed watchful 

day, 
I would into thy bosom pour my thoughts ; 
But ah, I will not : — Yet I love thee well ; 
And, by my troth, I think, thou lov'st me 
well. 
Hub. So well, that what you bid me un- 
dertake, 
Though that my death were adjunct to my 

act, 
By heaven, I 'd do 't. 

K. John. Do not I know, thouwould'st? 
Good Hubert, Hubert, Hubert, throw thine 

eye 
On yon young boy : I '11 tell thee what, my 

friend, 
He is a very serpent in my way ; 
And, wheresoe'er this foot of mine doth 

tread. 
He lies before me : Dost thou understand 

me? 
Thou art his keeper. 

Hub. And I will keep him so, 

That he shall not offend your majesty. 
K. John. Death. 
Hub. My lord. 

K. John. A grave. 

Hub. He shall not live. 

K. John. Enough. 

I could be merry now : Hubert, I love thee, 
K. «/"., Ill: 3. 661. 

— Forbidden. 

Iago. Though in the trade of war I have 

slain men, 

Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience, 

To do no contriv'd murder ; I lack iniquity 

Sometimes, to do me service : Nine or ten 

times 
I had thought to have yerk'd him here un- 
der the ribs. 

0., I : 2. 1493. 

— Its certain Signs. 
War. As surely as my soul intends to 
live 
With that dread King that took our state 

upon him, 
To free us from his Father's Avrathful curse, 
I do believe that violent hands were laid 



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394 



MURDER. 



Upon the life of this thrice-famed duke. 
Suf. A dreadful oath, sworn with a sol- 
emn tongue ! 
What instance gives lord Warwick for his 

vow ? 
War. See, how the blood is settled in 

his face ! 
Oft have I seen a timely-parted ghost, 
Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and 

bloodless, 
Being all descended to the labouring heart; 
Who, in the conflict that it holds with death, 
Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the 

enemy ; 
Which with the heart there cools and ne'er 

returneth 
To blush and beautify the cheek again. 
But, see, his face is black, and full of blood ; 
His eye-balls further out than when he liv'd, 
Staring full ghastly like a strangled man : 
His hair uprear'd, his nostrils stretch'd 

with struggling; 
His hands abroad display'd, as one that 

grasp 'd 
And tugg'd for life, and was by strength 

subdu'd. 
Look oh the sheets, his hair, you see, is 

sticking ; 
His Avell-proportion'd beard made rougli and 

rugged, 
Like to the summer's corn by tempest lodu'd. 
It cannot be, but he was murder'd here ; 
The least of all these signs were probable. 
//. YL, 2pt.,III: 2. 928. 

— Its Sacrilege. 
Macb. Len. What 's the matter? 

Macd. Confusion now hath made his 



masterpiece 



Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope 
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole 

thence 
The life o' the building. 

Jf., II : 3. 1366. 

— Mercenary Motives to. 

Edm. Come hither, captain ; hark. 
Take thou this note; go, follow them to 

prison : 
One step, I have advanc'd thee ; if thou dost 
As this instructs thee, thou dost make thy 

way 



To noble fortunes : Know thou this, — that 

men 
Are as the time is : to be tender-minded 
Does not become a sAvord : — Thy great em- 
ployment 
Will not bear question ; either say, thou 'It 

do 't, 
Or thrive by other means. 

Off. I '11 do 't, my lord. 

Edm. About it; and write happy, when 
thou hast done. 
Mark, — I say, instantly; and carry it so, 
As I have set it down. 

Capt. I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried 
oats ; 
If it be man's work, I will do it. 

K.L.,V: 3. 1481. 

— Of Banquo. 

Macb. * * There 's blood upon thy 

face. 
Mur. 'T is Banquo's then. 
Macb. 'T is better thee without, than he 
within. 
Is he despatch'd? 

Mur. My lord, his throat is cut ; that I 

did for him. 
Macb. Thou art the best o' the cut- 
throats : Yet he 's good, 
That did the like for Fleance ; if thou didst 

it, 
Thou art the nonpareil, 

Mur. Most royal sir, 

Fleance is 'scap'd. 

Macb. Then comes my fit again : I had 
else been perfect; 
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock ; 
As broad, and general, as the casing air; 
But now, I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, 

bound in 
To saucy doubts and fears. But Banquo 's 
safe ? 
Mur. Ay, my good lord : safe in a ditch 
he bides, 
With twenty trenched gashes on his head ; 
The least a death to nature. 

Macb. Thanks for that : 

There the grown serpent lies ; the worm, 

that 's fled, 
Hath nature that in time will venom breed, 
No teeth for the present. 

3f., Ill : 4. 1371. 



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395 



MURDER. 



— Of Henry VI. 

K. Hen. * * 

Ah, kill me with thy weapon, not with words : 

My breast can better brook thy dagger's 
point, 

Than can my ears that tragic history. — 

But wherefore dost thou come? is ! t for my 
life? 
Glo. Think'stthou, lam an executioner? 
K. Hen. A persecutor, I am sure, thou 
art; 

If murdering innocents be executing, 

Why, then thou art an executioner. 

Glo. Thy son I kill'd for his presump- 
tion. 
K. Hen. Hadst thou been kill'd, when 
first thou didst presume, 

Thou hadst not liv'd to kill a son of mine. 

And thus I prophesy, that many a thous- 
and, 

Which now mistrust no parcel of my fear ; 

And many an old man's sigh, and many a 
widow's, 

And many an orphan's water-standing eye, — 

Men for their sons', wives for their hus- 
bands' fate, 

And orphans for their parents' timeless 
death, — 

Shall rue the hour that ever thou wast born. 

The owl shriek'd at thy birth, an evil sign ; 

The night-crow cried, aboding luckless time ; 

Dogs howl'd, and hideous tempests shook 
down trees ; 

The raven rook'd her on the chimney's top, 

And chattering pies in dismal discords sung. 

Thy mother felt more than a mother's pain, 

And yet brought forth less than a mother's 
hope ; 

To wit, — an indigest deformed lump, 

Not like the fruit of such a goodly tree. 

Teeth hadst thou in thy head, when thou 
wast born, 

To signify, — thou cam'st to bite the world : 

And, if the rest be true which I have heard, 

Thou cam'st 

Glo. I '11 hear no more ; — Die, prophet, 
in thy speech ; 

For this, amongst the rest, was I ordain'd. 
K. Hen. Ay, and for much more slaugh- 
ter after this. 

O God ! forgive my sins, and pardon thee ! 
If. VI., 3pt., V: 6. 991. 



— Of the King of Denmark. 
Ham. Murder? 

Ghost. Murder most foul, as in the best 
it is ; 
But this most foul, strange, and unnatural. 
Ham. Haste me to know it ; that I, with 
wings as swift 
As meditation, or the thoughts of love, 
May sweep to my revenge. 

Ghost. I find thee apt ; 

And duller should 'st thou be than the fat 

weed 
That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, 
Would'st thou not stir in this. Now, Ham- 
let, hear : 
'T is given out, that sleeping in mine orchard, 
A serpent stung me ; so the whole ear of 

Denmark 
Is by a forged process of my death 
Rankly abus'd : but know, thou noble youth, 
The serpent that did sting thy father's life, 
Now wears his crown. 

Ham. my prophetic soul ! my uncle ! 
H.,1: 5. 1399. 

— Premeditated. 

Ant. * * 
Thaliard, behold, here 's poison, and here 's 

gold; 
We hate the prince of Tyre, and thou must 

kill him : 
It fits thee not to ask the reason why, 
Because we bid it. 

P.,1: 1. 1644. 

— Proposal to Commit. 

K. Rich. Dar'st thou resolve to kill a 

friend of mine? 
Tyr. Please you ; but I had rather kill 

two deep enemies. 
K.Rich. Why, then thou hast it; two 
deep enemies, 
Foes to my rest, and my sweet sleep's dis- 
turbers, 
Are they that I would have thee deal upon : 
Tyrrel, I mean those bastards in the Tower. 
Tyr. Let me have open means to come 
to them. 
And soon I '11 rid you from the fear of 
them. 
K. Rich. Thou sing'st sweet music. 
Hark, come thither, Tyrrel; 



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Go, by this token ; — Rise, and lend thine 

ear : 
There is no more but so : — Say, it is done, 
And I will love thee, and prefer thee for it. 
Tyr. I will despatch it straight. 

R. III., IV : 2. 10^2. 

— Revealed for Revenge. 

Pern. O death, made proud with pure 
and princely beauty? 
The earth had not a hole to hide this deed. 
Sal. Murder, as hating what himself 
hath done, 
Doth lay it open, to urge on revenge. 

Big. Or, when he doom'd this beauty to 
a grave, 
Found it too precious-princely for a grave. 
K. J., IV : 3. 669. 

— Traitorous. 

War. It is reported, mighty sovereign, 
That good duke Humphrey traitorously is 

murder'd 
By Suffolk and the cardinal Beaufort's 

means. 
The commons, like an angry hive of bees, 
That want their leader, scatter up and down, 
And care not who they sting in his revenge. 
Myself have calm'd their spleenful mutiny, 
Until they hear the order of his death. 
K. Hen. That he is dead, good War- 
wick, 't is too true • 
But how he died, God knows, not Henry : 
Enter his chamber, view his breathless 

corpse, 
And comment then upon his sudden death. 
H. VI., 2 pt., HI : 2. 927. 

— Under doubtful Impulse. 

Hod. I have no great devotion to the 
deed : 
And yet he has given me satisfying reasons : 
'T is but a man gone: — forth, my sword ; 
he dies. 

0., V: 1. 1526. 

— Villainous to Know of. 

Pom. Ah, this thou should'st have done, 
And not have spoken on 't ! In me, 't is vil- 

lany ; 
In thee, it had been good service. Thou 
must know 



'T is not my profit that does lead mine 
honour ; 

Mine honour, it. Repent, that e'er thy 
tongue 

Hath so betray'd thine act : Being done un- 
known, 

I should have found it afterwards well 
done ; 

But must condemn it now. Desist, and 
drink. 

A. C, II : 7. 1556. 

— Will out. 

Macb. It will have blood; they say, 
blood will have blood ; 
Stones have been known to move, and trees 

to speak ; 
Augurs, and understood relations, have 
By magot-pies and choughs, and rooks, 

brought forth 
The secret'st man of blood. 

M., Ill : 4. 1373. 

MURDERED.— Avenging Ghosts. 

Macb. Blood hath been shed ere now, i' 

the olden time, 
Ere human statute purg'd the gentle weal ; 
Ay, and since too, murders have been per- 

form'd 
Too terrible for the ear : the times have 

been, 
That, when the brains were out, the man 

would die, 
And there an end : but now, they rise 

again, 
With twenty mortal murders on their 

crowns, 
And push us from our stools : This is more 

strange 
Than such a murther is. 

M., Ill : 4. 1372. 

— Wounds of the, Bleed. 

Glo. Stay you, that bear the corse, and 

set it down. 
Anne. What black magician conjures up 
this fiend, 
To stop devoted charitable deeds? 

Glo. Villains, set down the corse ; or, 
by Saint Paul, 
I '11 make a corse of him that disobeys. 
1 Gent. My lord, stand back, and let the 
coffin pass. 



MURDERED. 



397 



MURDERERS. 



Glo. Unmannered dog ! stand thou when 

I command : 
Advance thy halberd higher than my breast, 
Or, by Saint Paul, I'll strike thee to my 

foot, 
And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy bold- 
ness. 
Anne. What, do you tremble? are you 

all afraid? 
Alas, I blame you not ; for you are mortal, 
And mortal eyes cannot endure the devil. — 
Avaunt, thou dreadful minister of hell ! 
Thou had'st but power over his mortal body, 
His soul thou canst not have ; therefore, be 

gone. 
Glo. Sweet saint, for charity, be not so 

curst. 
Anne. Foul devil, for God's sake,, hence, 

and trouble us not ; 
For thou hast made the happy earth thy 

hell, 
Fill'd it with cursing cries, and deep ex- 
claims. 
If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds, 
Behold this pattern of thy butcheries : — 
O, gentlemen, see, see ! dead Henry's wounds 
Open their congeal'd mouths, and bleed 

afresh ! 
Blush, blush, thou lump of foul deformity ; 
For 't is thy presence that exhales this blood 
-From cold and empty veins, where no blood 

dwells ; 

Thy deed, inhuman and unnatural. 

O God, which this blood mad'st, revenge his 

death ! 
O earth, which this blood drink'st, revenge 

his death! 
Either, heaven, with lightning strike the 

murderer dead, 
Or, earth, gape open wide, and eat him 

quick ; 
As thou dost swallow up this good king's 

blood, 
Which his hell-govern'd armhath butchered ! 
Glo. Lad}', you know no rules of charity, 
Which renders good for bad, blessings for 

curses. 
Anne. Villain, thou know'st no law of 

God nor man; 
No beast so fierce, but knows some touch of 

pity. 

R.III.,1: 2. 1003. 



MURDERER— Mother of a. 

Duch. ill-dispersing wind of misery ! 

my accurs'd womb, the bed of death ; 

A cockatrice hast thou hatch 'd to the world, 
Whose unavoided eye is murtherous ! 

R. III., IV: 1. 1031. 

— Offered imperial Honors. 

Cit. Live, Brutus, live ! live ! 

1 Cit. Bring him with triumph home un- 

to his house. 

2 Cit. Give him a statue with his ances- 

tors. ' 

3 Cit. Let him be Caesar. 

4 Cit. Caesar's better parts 
Shall now be crown'd in Brutus. 

1 Cit. We '11 bring him to his house 

with shouts and clamours. 
Bru. My countrymen, 

2 Cit. Peace; silence! Brutus speaks. 
1 Cit. Peace, ho ! 

Bru. Good countrymen, let me depart 

alone, 
And, for my sake, stay here with Antony : 
Do grace to Caesar's corpse, and grace his 

speech 
Tending to Caesar's glories ; which Mark 

Antony, 
By our permission, is allow'd to make. 

1 do entreat you, not a man depart, 
Save I alone, till Antony have spoke. 

J. C, III : 2. 1339. 

— Sought for. 

Boling. Call forth Bagot : 

Now Bagot, freely speak thy mind ; 

What thou dost know of noble Gloster's 

death ; 
Who wrought it with the king, and who 

perform'd 
The bloody office of his timeless end. 

R. II., IV : 1. 707. 

MURDERERS.— Of heretical Kings. 

Pand. * * 
And blessed shall he be, that doth revolt 
From his allegiance to an heretic ; 
And meritorious shall that hand be call'd, 
Canonized, and worshipp'd as a saint, 
That takes away by any secret course 
Thy hateful life. 

K. J., Ill: 1. 658. 



MURDERESS. 



398 



MUSIC. 



MURDERESS.— Confession of a. 

Cym. most delicate fiend ! 

Who is 't can read a woman? — Is there more? 
Cor. More, sir, and worse. She did 
confess, she had 

For you a mortal mineral; which, being 
took, 

Should by the minute feed on life, and, 
ling'ring, 

By inches waste you : In which time she 
purpos'd, 

By watching, weeping, tendance, kissing, to 

O'ercome you with her show ; yes, and in 
time, 

(When she had fitted you with her craft,) to 
work 

Her son into the adoption of the crown. 

But failing of her end by his strange ab- 
sence, 

Grew shameless-desperate; open'd, in de- 
spite 

Of heaven and men, her purposes ; repented 

The evils she hatch'd were not effected : so, 

Despairing, died. 

Cym.,V: 5. 1626. 

MURMURING. — Threatened. 

Pro. If thou murmur'st, I will rend an 
oak, 
And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till 
Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters. 

T., 1 : 2. ll. 

MUSIC— (See Love.) Bottom's Ear 
for. 

Bot. I have a reasonable good ear in 
music : let us have the tongs and the bones. 

M. N., IV: 1. 338. 

— Its Power. 
Art. * * Then I beat my tabor, 
At which, like unback'd colts, they prick'd 

their ears, 
Advanc'd their eyelids, lifted up their noses, 
As they smelt music. 

T., IV : 1. 28. 

Lor. * * 
Come, ho ! and wake Diana with a hymn ; 
With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' 

ear, 
And draw her home with music. 



Jes. I am never merry when I hear 

sweet music. 
Lor. The reason is, your spirits are at- 
tentive : 
For do but note a wild and wanton herd, 
Or race of youthful and unhandled colts, 
Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neigh- 
ing loud, 
Which is the hot condition of their blood ; 
If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, 
Or any air of music touch their ears, 
You shall perceive them make a mutual 

stand, 
Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze, 
By the sweet power of music : Therefore, 

the poet 
Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, 

and floods, — 
Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of 

rage, 
But music for the time doth change his na- 
ture ; 
The man that hath no music in himself, 
Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet 

sounds, 
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; 
The motions of his sprit are dull as night, 
And his affections dark as Erebus : 
Let no such man be trusted. — Mark the 
music. 

M. V., V : 1. 389. 

p r0m * * 
For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' 

sinews, 
Whose golden touch could soften steel and 

stones, 
Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans 
Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. 
T. G., Ill : 2. 64. 

Duke. 'T is good : though music oft hath 

such a charm, 

To make bad good, and good provoke to 

* harm. 

M.M.,IV: 1. 163. 

— Miserable. 

K. Rich * * How sour sweet music is, 
when time is broke, and no proportion kept. 

R.IL,V: 5. 716. 

Suf. * * 
Their music, frightful as the serpent's hiss. 
//. F/.,2pt.,III: 2. 930. 



MUSIC. 



399 



MUSIC. 



Cal. Be not afeard; the isle is full of 

noises, 
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, 

and hurt not. 
Sometimes a thousand twangling instru- 
ments 
Will hum about mine ears, and sometimes 

voices, 
That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, 
Will make me sleep again : and then, in 

dreaming, 
The clouds, methought, would open, and 

show riches, 
Ready to drop upon me, that when I wak'd, 

I cry'd to dream again. 
Ste. This will prove a brave kingdom to 
me, where I shall have my music for noth- 
ing. 

T.,I1I: 2. 24. 

—Ravishes the Soul. 

Bene. Now, "Divine air!" now is his 
soul ravished ! — Is it notstrangethatsheep's 
guts should hale souls out of men's bodies ? — 
Well, a horn for my money, when all 's done. 
* * An he had been a dog that should 
have howl'd thus, they would have hang'd 
him : and I pray God his bad voice bode 
no mischief! I had as lief have heard the 
night-raven, come what plague could have 
come after it. 

M A., U : 3. 235. 

— Relation to Love. 

Duke. * * 
How dost thou like this tune? 

Vio. It gives a very echo to the seat 
Where Love is throned. 

Duke. Thou dost speak masterly. 

T. JUT., II : 4. 550. 

— Shut out. 

Shy. What ! are there masques ? Hear 

you me, Jessica; 
Lock up my doors ; and when you hear the 

drum, 
And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd 

fife, 
Clambef not you up to the casements 

then, 
Nor thrust your head into the public 

street, 
To gaze on Christian fools with varnish 'd 

faces : 



But stop my house's ears, I mean my case- 
ments ; 
Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter 
My sober house. — 

M. V., II : 5. 371. 

K. Hen. I pray you take me up, and bear 
me hence 
Into some other chamber : softly, 'pray. 
Let there be no noise made, my gentle 

friends ; 
Unless some dull and favourable hand 
Will whisper music to my weary spirit. 
War. Call for the music in the other 

room. 
K. Hen. Set me the crown upon my pil- 
low here. 
Cla. His eye is hollow, and he changes 

much. 
War. Less noise, less noise. 

H., IV., 2pt., IV: 4. 801. 

— Suitable for Defeat or Success. 

For. * * 
Let music sound, while he doth make his 

choice ; 
Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like 

end, 
Fading in music : that the comparison 
May stand more proper, my eye shall be 

the stream 
And watery death-bed for him. He may 

win ; 
And what is music then? then music is 
Even as the flourish when true subjects 

bow 
To a new-crowned monarch : such it is, 
As are those dulcet sounds in break of 

day, 
That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's 

ear, 
And summon him to marriage. 

M. F.,ni: 2. 377. 

— When discordant. 
K. Rich. Music do I hear? 
Ha, ha! keep time: — How sour sweet 

music is, 
When time is broke, and no proportion 
kept! 

R. II, V : 5. 716. 



MUTABILITY. 



4OO 



NAME. 



MUTABILITY.— Of human Nature. 

Apem. * * 

We make ourselves fools, to disport our- 
selves ; 

And spend our flatteries, to drink those men, 

Upon whose age we void it up again, 

With poisonous spite, and envy. 

* * Those, that dance before me now, 

Would one day stamp upon me : It has been 
done ; 

Men shut their doors against a setting sun. 
T. A., 1 : 2. 1291. 



MYSTERIES. — Abound. 

Ham. * * 
There are more things in heaven and earth, 

Horatio, 
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 

R., I: 5. 1401. 

— Solved, when Known. 

Duke. * * Put not yourself into amaze- 
ment how these things should be ; all diffi- 
culties are but easy when they are known. 

M. M.,IV: 2. 166. 



N 



NAIADS.— Summoned. 

Iris. You nymphs calTd Naiads, of the 
winding brooks, 
With your segd'd crowns, and ever harm- 
less looks, 
Leave your crisp channels, and on this 

green land 
Answer your summons. 

T., IV: 1. 97. 

NAME.— A hated. 

Yo. Siw. What is thy name? 
Mach. Thou 'It be afraid to hear it. 

Yo. Siw. No ; though thou call 'st thy- 
self a hotter name 
Than any is in hell. 

Mach. My name ? s Macbeth. 

Yo. Siw. The devil himself could not 
pronounce a title 
More hateful to mine ear. 

Mach. No, nor more fearful. 

Yo. Siw. Thou liest, abhorred tyrant; 
with my sword 
I '11 prove the lie thou speak'st. 

31., V : 7. 1384. 

— Good, precious. 

Iago. Good name, in man, and woman, 

dear my lord, 
Is the immediate jewel of their souls : 
Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 't is 

something, nothing; 



'T was mine, 't is his, and has been slave to 

thousands ; 
But he, that niches from me my good name, 
Robs me of that, which not enriches him, 
And makes me poor indeed. 

O., Ill : 3. 1511. 

—Despised. 

Rom. As if that name, 

Shot from the deadly level of a gun, 
Did murder her ; as that name's cursed hand 
Murder'd her kinsman. — O tell me, friar, 

tell me, 
In what vile part of this anatomy 
Doth my name lodge ! tell me, that I may 

sack 
The hateful mansion. 

B.J.,III: 3. 1263. 

— Heroic, honorable Achieved. 

Her. Know, Rome, that all alone Mar- 
cius did fight 
Within Corioli' gates : where he hath won, 
With fame, a name to Caius Marcius ; these 
In honour follows, Coriolanus : — 
Welcome to Rome, renowned Coriolanus ! 
All. Welcome to Rome, renowned Cori- 
olanus ! 

Men. A hundred thousand welcomes : I 
could weep, 
And I could laugh ; I am light, and heavy : 
Welcome : 



NAME. 



4OI 



NATURE. 



A curse begin at very root of his heart, 
That is not glad to see thee ! 
* * 

Cor. Know, good mother, 

I had rather be their servant in my way, 
Than sway with them in theirs. 

C., II: 1. 1161. 

— Inspiration in a great. 

K. Rich. I had forgot myself: Am I not 
king? 
Awake, thou sluggard majesty ! thou sleep'st. 
Is' not the king's name forty thousand names ? 
Arm, arm, my name ! a puny subject strikes 
At thy great glory. — Look not to the ground, 
Ye favourites of a king : are we not high? 
High be our thoughts : I know my uncle York 
Hath power enough to serve our turn. 

E. II, Ill: 2. 701. 

— Knowledge of Desired. 

Fer. * * I do beseech you, 
(Chiefly, that I might set it in my prayers,) 
What is your name? 

T., Ill: 1. 22. 

— "What is in a. 

Jul. Romeo, Romeo ! wherefore art 
thou, Romeo? 
Deny thy father, and refuse thy name : 
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, 
And I '11 no longer be a Capulet. 

Rom. Shall I hear more, or shall I speak 
at this? 

Jul. 'T is but thy name that is my enemy ; 
Thou art thyself though, not a Montague. 
What 's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, 
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part 
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name ! 
What 's in a name ? that which we call a rose, 
By any other name would smell as sweet; 
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd. 
Retain that dear perfection which he owes, 
Without that title : — Romeo, doffthy name ; 
And for that name, which is no part of thee, 
Take all myself. 

E. J., II : 2. 1251. 

NATIONALITY.— No Man's Business. 

Mac. Of my nation? What ish my na- 
tion? What ish my nation? Who talks of 
my nation, ish a villain, and a bastard, and 
a knave, and a rascal. 

//. r.,III: 2. 833. 



NATIVITY.— A rough. 

Per. Now, mild may be thy life ! 

For a more blust'rous birth had never 

babe : 
Quiet and gentle thy conditions ! 
For thou 'rt the rudeliest welcomed to this 

world, 
That e'er was prince's child. Happy what 

follows ! 
Thou hast as chiding a nativity, 
As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can 

make, 
To herald thee from the womb : even at the 

first, 
Thy loss is more than thy portage quit, 
With all thou canst find here. — Now the 

good gods 
Throw their best eyes upon it ! 

P., Ill : 1. 1655. 

NATURE. — Base, dangerous. 

Ham. * * 
'T is dangerous, when the baser nature 

comes 
Between the pass and fell incensed points 
Of mighty opposites. 

H., V : 2. 1433. 

— Bounteous in Supply. 

Tim. * * 
Why should you want? Behold, the earth 

hath roots ; 
Within this mile break forth a hundred 

springs ; 
The oaks bear mast, the briers scarlet 

hips ; 
The bounteous housewife, nature, on each 

bush 
Lays her full mess before you? Want? why 

want? 

T. A., IV: 3. 1310. 

— Cannot be Destroyed. 

Boling. Then, England's ground, fare- 
well ; sweet soil, adieu; 
My mother, and my nurse, that bears me 

yet! 
Where-e'er I wander, boast of this I 

can, — 
Though banish'd, yet a trueborn English- 
man. 

li. II., 1 : 3. 691. 



NATURE. 



402 



NECESSITIES. 



— (See Grafting.) Cannot be Im- 
proved. 

King. * * 
Labouring art can never ransom Nature 
From her inaidable estate. 

A. W., II: 1.503. 

— Impartial. 

Per. * * 
The self-same sun that shines upon his court 
Hides not his visage from our cottage, but 
Looks on alike. 

W. T., IV: 3. 606. 

— Its Voices. 

Bel. * * 
How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature. 
Cym., Ill : 3. 1607. 

Cor. * * 
My wife comes foremost ; then the honour'd 

mould 
Wherein this trunk was fram'd, and in her 

hand 
The grandchild to her blood. But, out, af- 
fection ! 
All bond and privilege of nature, break ! 
Let it be virtuous, to be obstinate. — 
What is that curt'sy worth? or those doves' 

eyes, 
Which can make gods forsworn? — I melt, 

and am not 
Of stronger earth than others. My mother 

bows ; 
As if Olympus to a molehill should 
In supplication nod : and my young boy 
Hath an aspect of intercession, which 
Great nature cries, " Deny not." — Let the 

Voices 
Plough Rome, and harrow Italy; I '11 never 
Be such a goslin to obey instinct; but 

stand, 
As if a man were author of himself, 
And knew no other kin. 

C, V: 3. 1188. 

— Makes the "World akin. 

Ulyss. * * 
One touch of nature makes the whole 

world kin 

That all, with one consent, praise new-born 

gawds, 



Though they are made and moulded of 

things past; 
More laud give to dust, that is a little gilt. 
T. 0., III: 3. 1125. 

— Shocked. 

Len. The night has been unruly : Where 
we lay, 

Our chimneys were blown down : and, as 
they say, 

Lamentings heard i' the air ; strange screams 
of death ; 

And prophecy ing, with accents terrible, 

Of dire combustion, and confus'd events, 

New hatch'd to the woeful time. The ob- 
scure bird 

Clamour'd the livelong night : some say, the 
earth 

Was feverous, and did shake. 

M.,ll: 3. 1366. 

—Will out. 

Shal. Bodykins, master Page, though I 
now be old, and of the peace, if I see a 
sword out, my finger itches to make one : 
though we are justices, and doctors, and 
churchmen, master Page, we have some 
salt of our youth in us ; we are the sons of 
women, master Page. 

M. W., II : 3. 101. 

NAVY.— Foams the Ocean. 

Pom. * * And that is it 
Hath made me rig my navy : at whose bur- 
then 
The anger'd ocean foams ; with which I 

meant 
To scourge the ingratitude that despiteful 

Rome 
Cast on my nobler father. 

A. C, II : 6. 1554. 

NEATNESS.— No Guarantee. 

2 Lord. I will never trust a man again, 
for keeping his sword clean : nor believe he 
can have everything in him, by wearing his 
apparel neatly 

A. W., IV : 3. 520. 

NECESSITIES.— Make vile things 
possible. 
Lear. * * Where is this straw, my fel- 
low? 
The art of our necessities is strange, 
And can make vile things precious. 

K. L., Ill : 2. 1464. 



NECESSITY. 



4°3 



NEEDLEWORK. 



NECESSITY. — A Teacher. 

Gaunt. All places that the eye of heaven 
visits, 
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : 
Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; 
There is no virtue like necessity. 

R. II, 1 : 4. (590. 

— Cannot Compel. 

Lear. Return to her, and fifty men dis- 
missed? 

No, rather I abjure all roofs, and choose 

To wage against the enmity o' the air ; 

To be a comrade with the wolf and owl, — 

Necessity's sharp pinch ! — Return with her? 

Why, the hot-blooded France, that dower- 
less took 

Our youngest born, I could as well be 
brought 

To knee his throne, and, squire-like, pen- 
sion beg 

To keep base life afoot: — Return with 
her? 

Persuade me rather to be slave and sump- 
ter 

To this detested groom. 

K. L., II : 4. 1461. 

— Defies Oaths. 

Biron. Necessity will make us all for- 
sworn 
Three thousand times within this three 
years' space : 
For every man with his affects is born ; 
Not by might master 'd, but by special 
grace. 
If I break faith, this word shall speak for 

me, — 
1 am forsworn on mere necessity. 

L. L.,1: 1. 273. 

— Its Influence. 

Blanch. The lady Constance speaks not 
from her faith, 
But from her need. 

K. J., Ill : 1. 659 

— Made a Virtue. 

2 Out. * * 
To make a virtue of necessity. 
And live, as we do, in this wilderness? 

T. G.,TV: 1. 65. 



— Must Rule us. 

Bast. * * 
In at the window, or else o'er the hatch : 
Who dares not stir by day, must walk by 
night. 

K.J.,1: 1. 648. 

— Villainy Charged to. 

Edm. This is the excellent foppery of 
the world ! that, when we are sick in fort- 
une, (often the surfeit of our own behav- 
iour,) we make guilty of* our disasters, the 
sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were 
villains by necessity ; fools, by heavenly 
compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treach- 
ers, by spherical predominance ; drunkards, 
liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obe- 
dience of planetary influence ; and all that 
we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. 

K.L.,I: 2. 1448. 



NEED. — Nature's Giving beyond. 

Lear. 0, reason not the need : our 

basest beggars 
Are in the poorest thing superfluous : 
Allow not nature more than nature needs, 
Man's life is cheap as beast's : thou art a 

lady ; 
If only to go warm were gorgeous, 
Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous 

wear'st, 
Which scarcely keeps thee warm. 

E. X.,11: 4. 1461. 

NEEDLEWORK. — Marina's Employ- 
ment. 
Gove. * * 
Be 't when she weav'd the sleided silk 
With fingers, long, small, white as milk ; 
Or when she would with sharp neeld wound 
The cambric, which she made more sound 
By hurting it. 

P. IV. : Ind., 1659. 

— Perfection in. 

Goic. * * With her neeld composes 
Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, 

or berry ; 
That even her art sisters the natural roses ; 
Her inkle, silk, twin with the rubied cherry. 

P., V: 1. 1666. 



NEGLECT. 



4O4 



NEWS. 



NEGLECT.— Criminal. 

K. Hen. Thus ever did rebellion find re- 
buke, 

Ill-spirited "Worcester! did we not send 
grace, 

Pardon, and terms of love to all of you? 

And would'st thou turn our offers contrary? 

Misuse the tenor of thy kinsman's trust ? 

Three knights upon our party slain to-day, 

A noble earl, and many a creature else, 

Had been alive this hour, 

If, like a Christian, thou hadst truly borne 

Betwixt our armies true intelligence. 

H. IV., 1 pt, V : 5. 762. 

— Its Consequences. 

Fab. * * You are now sailed into the 
north of my lady's opinion , where you will 
hang like an icicle on a Dutchman's beard, 
unless you do redeem it by some laudable 
attempt, either of valour or policy. 

T.2?., Ill: 2. 556. 

— Self. 

Dau. Turn head, and stop pursuit: for 

coward dogs 
Most spend their mouths, when what they 

seem to threaten, 
Runs far before them. Good my sovereign, 
Take up the English short; and let them 

know 
Of what a monarchy you are the head : 
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin 
As self-neglecting. 

H. F.,II: 4. 830. 

— Undeserved 

Achil. I do believe it — for they pass'd 
by me, 
As misers do by beggars ; neither give to me 
Good word, nor look : What are my deeds 
forgot. 

T. C, III : 3. 1125. 

NEGLIGENCE. — Attempts Excuse. 

Cam. My gracious lord, 

I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful ; 
In every one of these no man is free, 
But that his negligence, his folly, fear, 
Amongst the infinite doings of the world, 
Sometime puts forth : 

W. T.,1 : 2. 584. 



— No Excuse for. 

Leon. * * Or else thou must be 
counted 
A servant grafted in my serious trust, 
And therein negligent. 

W. T., 1 : 2. 584. 

— WillfuJ 
Cam. * * In your affairs, my lord, 
If ever I were wilful-negligent, 
It was my folly ; if industriously 
I play'd the fool, it was my negligence, 
Not weighing well the end. 

W. T. t 1 : 2. 584. 

NEGRO. — Admired. 

Pro. * * Black men are pearls in 



beauteous ladies' eyes 



T. G., V : 2. 70. 



NEIGHBORS.— Bad, an Irritation. 

K Hen. We do not mean the coursing 
snatchers only, 
But fear the main intendment of the Scot, 
Who hath been still a giddy neighbour to 

us ; 
Eor you shall read, that my great grand- 
father 
Never went with his forces into France, 
But that the Scot on his unfurnish'd king- 
dom 
Came pouring, like the tide into a breach, 
With ample and brim fulness of his force ; 
Galling the gleaned land with hot essays ; 
Girding with grievous siege, castles and 

towns ; 
That England, being empty of defence, 
Hath shook, and trembled at the ill neigh- 
bourhood. 

//. P., I: 1. 822. 

NEWS. — Abundant. 

Peto. * * 
And there are twenty weak and wearied 

posts, 
Come from the north : and, as I came 

along, 
I met, and overtook, a dozen captains, 
Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the tav- 
erns. 

2T.IV.,2pt. t lI: 4. 789. 



NEWS. 



4°5 



NEWS. 



— All-absorbing. 

Hub. Old men, and beldams, in the streets 
Do prophesy upon it dangerously : 
Young Arthur's death is common in their 

mouths : 
And when they talk of him, they shake their 

heads, 
And whisper one another in the ear; 
And he that speaks doth gripe the hearer's | 

wrist; 
While he that hears makes fearful action, 
With wrinkled brows, with nods, with roll- 
ing eyes. 
I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, 
And whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, 
With open mouth swallowing a tailor's 

news ; 
Who, with his shears and measure in his 

hand, 
Standing on slippers, (Avhich his nimble 

haste 
Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet,) 
Told of a many thousand Avarlike French, 
That were embatteled and rank'd in Kent : 
Another lean unwash'd artificer 
Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur's death. 
K.J.,TV: 2. 667. 

— Anxiety for 

North. What news, lord Bardolph? ev- 
ery minute now 
Should be the father of some stratagem : 
The times are wild; contention, like a horse 
Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose, 
And bears down all before him. 

If. IV., 2pt.,I: 1. 774. 

—Bad. 

Hub. O, my sweet sir, news fitting to 
the night, — 
Black, fearful, comfortless, and horrible. 
Bast. Show me the very wound of this 
ill news : 
I am no woman, I '11 not swoon at it. 

K. J., V : 6. 675. 

Cleo. Well, go to, I will ; 

But there 's no goodness in thy face : If 

Antony 
Be free, and healthful, — why so tart a 

favour 



To trumpet such good tidings ? If not well, 
Thou shouldst come like a fury crown'd 

with snakes. 
Not like a formal man. 

A. C, II : 5. 1552. 

— Bad, an Irritation. 

K. Rich. Out on ye, owls ! nothing but 
songs of death? 
There, take thou that, till thou bring better 
news. 
3 Mess. The news I have to tell your 
majesty, 

Is, that, by sudden floods and fall of 

waters, 
Buckingham's army is dispers'd and scat- 

ter'd ; 
And he himself wander'd away alone, 
No man knows whither. 

K. Rich. 0, I cry you mercy : 

There is my purse, to cure that blow of 
thine. 

R. III., IV: 4. 1040. 

— Bad, Anything rather than. 

Mess. He is married, madam. 

Cleo The gods confound thee ! dost thou 

hold there still ? 
Mess. Should I lie, madam? 
Cleo. 0, I would, thou didst; 

So half my Egypt were submerg'd, and 

made 
A cistern for scal'd snakes ! 

A. C, II : 5. 1553. 

— Bad, Bearer of, Hated. 

Const. * * 
Fellow, be gone ; I cannot brook thy sight ; 
This news hath made thee a most ugly man. 
Sal. What other harm have I, good 
lady, done, 
But spoke the harm that is by others done? 
Const. Which harm within itself so hei- 
nous is, 
As it makes harmful all that speak of it 

K. J., Ill: 1. 657. 

— Bad, Causes Deafness. 

Val. My ears are stopp'd, and cannot 
hear good news, 
So much of bad already hath possess 'd 
them. 

T. G., Ill : 1. 61. 



NEWS. 



406 



NEWS. 



— Bad, dangerous to Tell. 

Tro. * * Hector is gone ! 
Who shall tell Priam so, or Hecuba? 
Let him, that will a screech-owl aye he call'd, 
Go in to Troy, and say there — Hector 's 

dead : 
There is a word will Priam turn to stone ; 
Make wells and Niobes of the maids and 

wives, 
Cold statues of the youth ; and, in a word, 
Scare Troy out of itself. 

T. C, V : 11. 1148. 

— Bad, Effect on the Teller. 

Mess- The nature of bad news infects 

the teller. 
Ant. When it concerns the fool, or cow- 
ard. — On : 
Things, that are past, are done, with me. — 

'T is thus : 
Who tells me true, though in his tale lie 

death, 
I hear him as he flatter'd. 

A. C.,1: 2 1542. 

— Bad, its Midwife. 

Queen. So, Green, thou art the midwife 
to my woe, 
And Bolingbroke my sorrow's dismal heir : 
Now hath my soul brought forth her prod- 
igy; 
And I, a gasping new-deliver'd mother, 
Have woe to woe, sorrow to sorrow join'd. 
R. II, II : 2. 696. 

—Bad, of a Dart. 
Mes. Seek him, Titinius : whilst I go to 
meet 
The noble Brutus, thrusting this report 
Into his ears : I may say, thrusting it ; 
For piercing steel, and darts envenomed, 
Shall be as welcome to the ears of Brutus, 
As tidings of this sight. 

J. C.,V: 3 1350. 

— Bad, should Tell Itself. 

Cleo. * * 
Though it be honest, it is never good 
To bring bad news: Give to a gracious 

message 
An host of tongues ; but let ill tidings tell 
Themselves, when they be felt. 

A. C, II : 5. 1553. 



— Baleful, Wounds. 

War. How now, fair lords? What fare? 

what news abroad? 
Rich. Great lord of Warwick, if we 
should recount 
Our baleful news, and, at each word's deliv- 
erance, 
Stab poniards in our flesh till all were told. 
The words would add more anguish than 
the wounds. 

valiant lord, the duke of York is slain. 

II. IV., 3 pt., II : 1. 963. 

— Bearers Dismissed. 

Const. * * 
Tell me, thou fellow, is not France for- 
sworn? 
Envenom him with words ; or get thee 

gone, 
And leave those woes alone, which I alone, 
Am bound to under-bear. 

K. J., Ill : 1. 657. 

— Bringer of bad. 

North * * 
Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news 
Hath but a losing office ; and his tongue 
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, 
Kemember'd knolling a departing friend. 

//. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 1. 775. 

— Bringer of bad, Hated. 

Jul. What devil art thou, that dost tor- 
ment me thus ? 
This torture should be roar'd in dismal 

hell. 
Hath Borneo slain himself ? say thou but I, 
And that bare vowel, 7, shall poison more 
Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice : 

1 am not I, if there be such an I • 

Or those eyes shut, that make thee answer, 

/. 
If he be slain, say — I ; or if not, no: 
Brief sounds determine of my weal, or 

woe. 

R. J., Ill : 2. 1261. 

— Distasteful. 

Cleo. * * 
Horrible villain ! or I '11 spurn thine eyes 
Like balls before me ; I '11 unhair thy head ; 



NEWS. 



4O7 



NEWS. 



Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd 

in brine, 
Smarting in ling'ring pickle. 

* * 

Mess* * * He 's married, madam. 
Cleo. Rogue, thou hast liv'd too long. 

A. C.,n: 5. 1552. 

— Effect of bad. 

Fal. * * Thy father's beard is turned 
white with the news ; you may buy land now 
as cheap as stinking mackerel. 

H. IV., 1 pt., II : 4. 742. 

— Good. 

Sic. What 's the news ? 

Mess. Good news, good news; — The la- 
dies have prevail'd, 
The Voices are dislodg'd, and Marcius gone : 
A merrier day did never yet greet Rome, 
No, not the expulsion of the Tarquins. 

C, V: 4. 1191. 

— Good, gladly Heard. 

Nor. O, fear him not ; 

His spell in that is out : the king hath found 
Matter against him, that for ever mars 
The honey of his language. No, he 's set- 
tled, 
Not to come off, in his displeasure. 

Sur. Sir, 

I should be glad to hear such news as this 
Once every hour. 

H. VIII., Ill : 2. 1076. 

— Haste in Bearing. 

Tra. * * After him, came, spurring 

hard, 
A gentleman, almost forspent with speed, 
That stopp'd by me to breathe his bloodied 

horse : 
He ask 'd the way to Chester; and of him 
I did demand, what news from Shrewsbury. 
He told me, that rebellion had bad luck, 
And that young Harry Percy's spur was cold ; 
With that, he gave his able horse the head, 
And, bending forward, struck his armed 

heels 
Against the panting sides of his poor jade 
Up to the rowel-head : and, starting so. 
He seem'd in running to devour the way, 
Staying no longer question. 

H. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 1. 774. 



— 111. 
K. John. * * 

Now, what says the world 
To your proceedings? do not seek to stuff 
My head with more ill news, for it is full. 

K. J., IV : 2. 667. 

— Impossibility of Believing. 
Const. Gone to be married ! gone to 

swear a peace ! 
False blood to false blood join'd ! Gone to 

be friends ! 
Shall Lewis have Blanch? and Blanch those 

provinces? 
It is not so ; thou hast misspoke, misheard ; 
Be well advis'd, tell o'er thy tale again : 
It cannot be ; thou dost but say, 't is so ; 
I trust, I may not trust thee ; for thy word 
Is but the vain breath of a common man : 
Believe me, I do not believe thee, man; 
I have a king's oath to the contrary. 
Thou shalt be punish'd for thus frighting me, 
For I am sick, and capable of fears ; 
Oppress'd with wrongs, and therefore full of 

fears ; 
A widow, husbandless, subject to fears ; 
A woman, naturally born to fears ; 
And though thou now confess, thou didst 

but jest, 
With my vex'd spirits I cannot take a truce, 
But they will quake and tremble all this day. 
What dost thou mean by shaking of thy head? 
Why dost thou look so sadly on my son? 
What means that hand upon that breast of 

thine? 
Why holds thine eye that lamentable rheum, 
Like a proud river peering o'er its bounds? 
Be these sad signs confirmers of thy words? 
Then speak again ; not all thy former tale, 
But this one word, whether thy tale be true. 
Sal. As true, as, I believe, you think 

them false, 
That give you cause to prove my saying true. 
K.J., III: 1. 656. 

— Indefinite. 

K. Rich. My mind is chang'd. — Stanley, 

what news with you? 
Stan. None good, my liege, to please 

you with the hearing ; 
Nor none so bad, but well may be reported. 



NEWS. 



408 



NIGHT. 



K. Rich. Heyday, a riddle ! neither good 
nor bad ! 
What need'st thou run so many miles about, 
When thou may'st tell thy tale the nearest 

way? 
Once more, what news? 

Stan. Richmond is on the seas. 

K. Rich. There let him sink, and be the 
seas on him ! 
White-liver 'd runagate. 

R. III., IV : 4. 1039. 

— Told merrily. 

Jul. Now, good sweet nurse, — O lord! 
why look'st thou sad? 
Though news be sad, yet tell them merrily ; 
If good, thou sham'st the music of sweet 

news 
By playing it to me with so sour a face. 

R. J., 11: 5. 1257. 

— Varied and discordant. 

Oxf. I like it well, that our fair queen 
and mistress 
Smiles at her news, while Warwick frowns 
at his. 
Prince. Nay, mark, how Lewis stamps 
as he were nettled : 
I hope, all 's for the best. 

K. Lew. Warwick, what are thy news? 

and yours, fair queen? 
Q. Mar. Mine, such as fill my heart 

with unhop'd joys. 
War. Mine, full of sorrow and heart's 
discontent. 

H. VI., 3 pt., Ill : 3. 976. 

— Villainous. 

Fal. * * There 's villanous news 
abroad. 

H. VI., 1 pt., II : 4. 741. 

— Wonderful. 

2 Gen. * * Such a deal of wonder is 
broken out within this hour, that ballad- 
makers cannot be able to express it. 

W. r., V : 2. 614. 

NIGGARDLINESS. — Diabolical. 

Aber. * * 
Peep through each part of him : Whence 

has he that ? 
If not from hell, the devil is a niggard ; 

H. VIIL, I: 1. 1057. 



NIGHT. — A Moonlight. 

Lys. * * 
To-morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold 
Her silver visage in the wat'ry glass, 
Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass, 
(A time that lovers' flights doth still con- 
ceal.) 

M.N., I: 1. 323. 

— (See Rest.) 

Lor. * * 
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this 

bank! 
Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music 
Creep in our ears : soft stillness, and the 

night, 
Become the touches of sweet harmony. 
Sit, Jessica. Look, how the floor of heaven 
Is thick inlaid with patens of bright gold. 
There 's not the smallest orb which thou be- 

hold'st, 
But in his motion like an angel sings, 
Still quiring to the young-ey'd cherubin : 
Such harmony is in immortal souls : 
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay 
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. — 
M. V., V : 1. 388. 

Lor. The moon shines bright : — In such 
a night as this, 

When the sweet wind did gently kiss the 
trees, 

And they did make no noise, — in such a 
night, 

Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, 

And sigh'd his sotfl toward the Grecian tents, 

AVhere Cressid lay that night. 
Jes. In such a night, 

Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew ; 

And saw the lion's shadow ere himself, 

And ran dismay'd away. 

Lor. In such a night, 

Stood Dido with a willow in her hand 

Upon the wild sea-banks, and wav'd her love 

To come again to Carthage. 

Jes. In such a night, 

Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs 

That did renew old iEson. 

Lor. In such a night, 

Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew ; 

And with an unthrift love did run from Ven- 
ice, 

As far as Belmont. 



NIGHT. 



4O9 



NIGHT. 



Jes. In such a night, 

Did young Lorenzo swear he lov'd her 

well ; 
Stealing her soul with many vows of faith, 
And ne'er a true one. 

Lor. In such a night, 

Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrew. 

Slander her love, and he forgave it her. 

Jes. I would out-night you, did no body 

come : 

But, hark. I hear the footing of a man. 

M. V., V : 1. 388. 

— A perfect. 

Jul. * * Come, civil night, 
Thou sober-suited matron, all in black. 

R.J.,lll: 2. 1260. 

Hor. * * 
In the dead waist and middle of the night. 

If., I: 2. 1395. 

Por. This night methinks is but the day- 
light sick ; 
It looks a little paler : 't is a day, 
Such as the day is when the sun is hid. 

M. V., V : 1. 389. 

— A -witching Time. 

Ham. * * 
'T is now the very witching time of night, 
When churchyards yawn, and hell itself 

breathes out 
Contagion to this world. 

H. III., II : 2, 1416. 

— Darkness of. 

Lady M. * * Come, thick night, 
And pale thee in the dunnest smoke of 
hell. 

M.,1: 5. 1361. 

Macb. * * Come, feeling night, 
Skarf up the tender eye of pitiful day ; 
And, with thy bloody and invisible hand, 
Cancel, and tear to pieces, that great bond 
Which keeps me pale! — Light thickens; 

and the crow 
Makes wing to the rooky wood : 
Good things of day begin to droop and 

drowse ; 
Whiles night's black agents to their prey do 

rouse. 

M., Ill: 2. 1370. 



— Eternal. 

K. Rich. * * Bid him bring his power 
Before sun-rising, lest his son George fall 
Into the blind cave of eternal night. 

R. III.. V. 3 : 1043. 

— Its Coverture. 

War. *. * 
That as Ulysses, and stout Diomede, 
With sleight and manhood stole to Rhesus' 

tents, 
And brought from thence the Thracian fatal 

steeds ; 
So we, well cover'd with the night's black 

mantle, 
At unawares may beat down Edward 
And seize himself. 

//. VI., 3pt., IV: 2. 980. 

— Loves Opportunity. 

Jul. * * 
Come, gentle night; come, loving, black- 

brow'd night, 
Give me my Romeo : and, when he shall die, 
Take him and cut him out in little stars, 
And he will make the face of heaven so fine, 
That all the world will be in love with night, 
And pay no worship to the garish sun. 

R. J., Ill : 2. 1261. 

— Puck's Description of 

Pack. Now the hungry lion roars, 

And the wolf behowls the moon; 
Whilst the heavy ploughman snores, 

All with weary task fordone. 
Now the wasted brands do glow, 

Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud 
Puts the wretch, that lies in woe, 

In remembrance of a shroud. 
Now it is the time of night, 

That the graves, all gaping wide, 
Every one lets fortli his sprite, 

In the church-way-paths to glide : 
And Ave fairies, that do run 

By the triple Hecate's team, 
From the presence of the sun, 

Following darkness like a dream, 
Now are frolic ; not a mouse 
Shall disturb this hallow'd house : 
I am sent with broom before, 
To sweep the dust behind the door. 

M.2T.,V: 1. 345. 



NIGHT. 



4IO 



NOBILITY. 



— The Time for Villainy. 

Cap. The gaudy, blabbing, and remorse- 
ful day 

Is crept into the bosom of the sea ; 

And now loud-howling wolves arouse the 
jades 

That drag the tragic melancholy night ; 

Who, with their drowsy, slow, and flagging 
wings 

Clip dead men's graves, and from their mis- 
ty jaws 

Breathe foul contagious darkness in the air. 
U. VI, 2 pt., IV : 1. 932. 

— Time to Call up Spirits. 

Boling. Patience, good lady ; wizards 
know their times : 

Deep night, dark night, the silence of the 
night, 

The time of night when Troy was set on fire ; 

The time when screech-owls cry, and ban- 
dogs howl, 

And spirits walk, and ghosts break up their 
graves, 

That time best fits the wcrk we have in hand. 
H. VI, 2pt., I: 4. 914. 

— When tedious. 

Chos. The country cocks do crow, the 

clocks do toll, 

And the third hour of drowsy morning name. 

Proud of their numbers, and secure, in soul, 

The confident and over-lusty French, 

Do the low-rated English play at dice ; 

And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, 

Who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp 

So tediously away. 

H. V., TV: Chorus. 839. 

NIGHTINGALE. — Made a Confidant. 

Val. * * 
And to the nightingale's complaining notes 
Tune my distresses, and record my woes. 

T. G., V : 4. 71. 

NO. — In Love, Yes. 

Jul. * * 
Since maids, in modesty, say '*No" to that 
Which they would have the profferer con- 
strue " Ay." 
Fie, fie ! how wayward is this foolish love, 
That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse, 
And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod. 

T. G., I : 2. 49. 



NOBILITY.— True, cannot Falter. 

Post. * * 
With their own nobleness, (which could have 

turn'd 
A distaff to a lance) gilded pale looks. 

Cym., Y : 3. 1622. 

1 Pat. This man has marr'd his fortune. 
Men. His nature is too noble for the 
world : 
He would not flatter Neptune for his tri- 
dent, 
Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart 's 

his mouth : 
What his breast forges, that his tongue must 

vent : 
And, being angry, does forget that ever 
He heard the name of death. 

C., Ill: 1.1172. 

— True, exempt from Fear. 

Bast. It lies as slightly on the back of 
him, 
As great Alcides' shoes upon an ass. 

K. J., II : l. 651. 

1 Gent. My gracious lord, entreat him, 
speak him fair. 
Suf. Suffolk's imperial tongue is stern and 

rough, 
Us'd to command, untaught to plead for fa- 
vour. 
Far be it, we should honor such as these 
With humble suit : no, rather let my head 
Stoop to the block, than these knees bow to 

any, 
Save to the God of heaven, and to my king ; 
And sooner dance upon a bloody pole, 
Than stand uncover'd to the vulgar "room. 
True nobility is exempt from fear : — 
More can I bear, than you dare execute. 
Cap. Hale him away, and let him talk no 

more. 
Suf. Come, soldiers, show what cruelty 
ye can, 
That this my death may never be forgot ! — 
Great men oft die by vile bezonians : 
A Eoman sworder and banditto slave, 
Murder'd sweet Tully ; Brutus ' bastard hand 
Stabbed Julius Caesar; savage islanders, 
Pompey the Great : and Suffolk dies by pi- 
rates. 

H. VI., 2pt.,IV: 1. 933. 



NOBLE. 



4 II 



NUN, 



NOBLE. — The, never Confounded. 

Com. The shepherd knows not thunder 

from a tabor, 

More than I know the sound of Mareius' 

tongue 

From every meaner man. 

C M I: 6. 1156. 

—The, Worth a Sacrifice. 

Arv. Poor sick Fidele ! 

I '11 willingly to him : to gain his colour, 
I 'd let a parish of such Cloten's blood, 
And praise myself for charity. 

Gym., IV : 2. 1616. 

NOMINATION.— To high Position. 

Trib. To gratify the good Andronicus, 
And gratulate his safe return to Rome, 
The people will accept whom he admits. 
Tit. Tribunes, I thank you : and this 
suit I make 
That you create your emperor's eldest 

son, 
Lord Saturnine ; whose virtues will, I 

hope, 
Reflect on Rome, as Titan's rays on earth, 
And ripen justice in this commonweal : 
Then, if you will elect by my advice, 
Crown him, and say, "Long live our em- 
peror ! " 
Marc. With voices and applause of every 
sort, 
Patricians, and plebeians, we create 
Lord Saturninus Rome's great emperor; 
And say, "Long live our emperor, Satur- 
nine ! " 

Tit. And., I: 2. 1204. 

NOSE. — A red one Ridiculed. 

Boy. * * Good Bardolph, put thy face 
between his sheets, and do the office of a 
warming-pan. 

H. V., II : 1. 825. 

— A Remarkable one. 

Dro. S. 0, sir, upon her nose, all o'er 
embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sap- 
phires, declining their rich aspect to the hot 
breath of Spain ; who sent whole armadoes 
of carracks to be ballast at her nose. 

C. E., Ill : 2. 202. 

— Why in the middle of the Face 

Fool. * * Thou canst tell, why one's 
nose stands i' the middle of his face? 



Lear. No. 

Fool. Why, to keep his eyes on either 
side his nose ; that what a man cannot 
smell out, he may spy into. 

K. L.,I: 5. 1453. 

NOTHING. — A great Deal of. 

Bass. * * 
Gratia no speaks an infinite deal of nothing. 
M. V., I: 1. 362. 

— Its Value. 

Clo. Marry, you are the wiser man ; for 
many a man's tongue shakes out his master's 
undoing. To say nothing, to do nothing, to 
know nothing, and to have nothing, is to be 
a great part of your title : which is within a 
very little of nothing. 

A. W.,II: 4. 509. 

NOVELTY. — In Request. 

Duke. * * Novelty is only in request ; 
and as it is as dangerous to be aged in any 
kind of course, as it is virtuous to be con- 
stant in any undertaking. 

M. M., Ill : 2. 162. 

Ulyss. * * All, with one consent, 
praise new-born gauds, 
Though they are made and moulded of things 
past. 

T. C, III : 3. 1125. 

NUMBERS. — Odd, Divinity in 

Fal. Prithee, no more prattling: — go. 
I '11 hold : This is the third time ; I hope, 
good luck lies in odd numbers. Away, go ; 
they say there is divinity in odd numbers, 
either in nativity, chance, or death. 

M. W., V: 1. 117. 

NUN — Her Life. 

The. * * Question your desires, 
Know of your youth, examine well your 
blood, 
1 Whether, if you yield not to your father's 
choice, 
You can endure the livery of a nun ; 
For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, 
To live a barren sister all your life, 
Chanting faint hymns to. the cold fruitless 

moon. 
Thrice blessed they that master so their 

blood, 
To undergo such maiden pilgrimage. 

M. N.,1: 1. 322. 



OAK. 



412 



OATH. 



o 



OAK.— Gnarled. 

The unwedgeable and gnarl- 



Isab. * 
ed oak. 



M.M., II: 2. 152. 



A mouth-filling One. 

* 



OATH. 

Hot. 

Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, 
A good mouth-filling oath; and leave "In 

sooth," 
And such protest of pepper-gingerbread, 
To velvet guards, and Sunday-citizens. 

H., IV., 1 pt., Ill : 1. 747. 

—A Plea. 

SJty. An oath, an oath, I have an oath 
in heaven : 
Shall I lay perjury upon my soul? 
No, not for Venice. 

M. V., IV: 1. 385. 

— An Outlaw's. 

3 Out. By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's 



fat friar. 



T. <?., IV : 1. 65. 



— Binding. 

K. Hen. What think you, captain Fluel- 
len? is it fit this soldier keep his oath? 

Flu. He is a craven and a villain else, 
an 't please your majesty, in my conscience. 

K. Hen. It may be, his enemy is a gen- 
tleman of great sort, quite from the answer 
of his degree. 

Flu. Though he be as goot a gentleman 
as the tevil is, as Lucifer and Belzebub him- 
sef, it is necessary, look your grace, that he 
keep his vow and his oath : if he be per- 
jured, see you now, his reputation is as arrant 
a villain, and a Jack-sauce, as ever his plack 
shoe trod upon Got's ground and his earth, 
in my conscience la. 

K. Hen. Then keep thy vow, sirrah, 
when thou meet'st the felloAv. 

Will. So I will, my liege, as I live. 

H. V., IV : 7. 849. 



— Exchanged for Paradise. 

Long. * * What fool is not so wise, 
To lose an oath, to win a paradise ! 

L. L., IV : 3. 287. 

— Loud, not alarming. 

Pist. An oath of mickle might : and fury 
shall abate. 

H. V., II : 1. 825. 

Sir To. * * For it comes to pass oft, 
that a terrible oath, with a swaggering ac- 
cent sharply twanged off, gives manhood 
more approbation than ever proof itself 
would have earned him. 

T. N., Ill : 4. 559. 

— Made binding by Religion. 

Luc. Who should I swear by? thou be- 

liev'st no god ; 
That granted, how canst thou believe an 

oath? 
Aar. What if I do not? as, indeed', I do 

not: 
Yet, — for I know thou art religious, 
And hast a thing within thee, called con- 
science ; 
With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies, 
Which I have seen thee careful to observe, — 
Therefore I urge thy oath: — For that I 

know, 
An idiot holds his bauble for a god, 
And keeps the oath, which by that god he 

swears ; 
To that I '11 urge him : — Therefore, thou 

shalt vow 
By that same god, what god soe'er it be, 
That thou ador'st and hast in reverence, — 
To save my boy, to nourish and bring him 

up; 
Or else I will discover nought to thee. 

Tit. And., V: 1. 1226. 

— Villainous Excuses for Disre- 
garding. 

York. I took an oath, that he should 
quietly reign. 



OATH. 



4 T 3 



OBLIVION. 



Edw. But, for a kingdom, any oath may 
be broken : 
I 'd break a thousand oaths, to reign one 
year. 
Rich. An oatli is of no moment, being 
not took 
Before a true and lawful magistrate, 
That hath authority over him that swears : 
Henry had none, but did usurp the place ; 
Then, seeing 't was he that made you to de- 
pose, 
Your oath, my lord, is vain and frivolous. 

H. VI, 3 pt., 1 : 2. 958. 

OATHS.— Idle. 

Biron. I '11 lay my head to any good 
man's hat, 
These oaths and laws will prove an idle 
scorn. 

L. L., I: 2. 274. 

Cas. The gods are deaf to hot and pee- 
vish vows : 
They are polluted offerings, more abhorr'd 
Than spotted livers in the sacrifice. 

T. C., V : 3. 1139. 

— Melt before Temptation. 
Pro. Look thou be true : do not give 
dalliance 
Too much the rein : the strongest oaths are 

straw 
To the fire i' the blood : be more abstemi- 
ous, 
Or else, good night your vow ! 

T., IV : l. 26. 

— Neutralized. 

Hel. * * 
Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing 

weigh : 
Your vows to her and me, put in two scales, 
Will even weigh, and both as light as tales. 
M. 2f.. in ■ 2. 334. 

— Numerous. 

Pro. * * 
Fye, fye, unreverend tongue ! to call her 

bad, 
Whose sovereignty so oft thou hast preferr'd, 
With twenty thousand soul-confirming 
oaths. 

T. G., II : 6. 58. 



— Of Deceitful. 

Jul. That is the least, Lucetta, of my 
fear : 
A thousand oaths, an ocean of his tears, 
And instances of infinite of love, 
Warrant me welcome to my Proteus. 

Luc. All these are servants to deceitful 

men. 

r. G.,Il: 7. 59. 

— Sinful may be Broken. 

Sal. It is great sin, to swear unto a sin ; 
But greater sin, to keep a sinful oath. 
Who can be bound by any solemn vow 
To do a murderous deed, to rob a man, 
To force a spotless virgin's chastity, 
To reave the orphan of his patrimony, 
To wring the widow from her custom'd 

right ; 
And have no other reason for this wrong, 
But that he was bound by a solemn oath? 

H. rr.,2pt., V: 1. 944. 

—Worthless. 

Touch. * * If you swear by that that 
is not, you are not forsworn : no more was 
this knight, swearing by his honour, for lie 
never had any. 

A. F.,1: 2. 400. 

Pist. * * 
Trust none ; 

For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer- 
cakes, 
And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck ; 
Therefore, caveto be thy counsellor. 

II. V., II: 3. 829. 

OBEDIENCE. — Compelled. 

Gar. Which reformation must be sud- 
den too, 

My noble lords : for those, that tame wild 
horses, 

Pace them not in their hands to make them 
gentle ; 

But stop their mouths with stubborn bits, 
and spur them, 

Till they obey the manage. 

H. VIII., V : 2. 1090. 

OBLIVION. — Deep. 

Buck. * * 
In the swallowing gulf 
Of dark forgetfulness and deep oblivion. 

R. Ill, III : 7. 1028. 



OBLIVION. 



414 



OFFENCE. 



Glo. * * 
And all the clouds, that lower'd upon otir 

house, 
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. 

R. III., I: 1. 1001. 

— Of good Deeds. 

Ulyss. Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his 

back, 

Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, 

A great-siz'd monster of ingratitude : 

Those scraps are good deeds past, which are 

devour'd 

As fast as they are made, forgot as soon 

As done. 

T. C, III : 3. 1125. 

OBSCURITY.— Its Happiness. 

Grif. * * 
His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him ; 
For then, and not till then, he felt himself, 
And found the blessedness of being little. 

//. VIII., IV : 2. 1085. 

OBSTACLES.— Must be Removed. 

K. Edw. Brave followers, yonder stands 
the thorny wood, 
Which, by the heavens' assistance, and your 

strength, 
Must by the roots be hewn up yet ere night. 
E. VI., 3 pt., V : 4. 989. 

Macb. The prince of Cumberland ! — That 

is a step 

On which I must fall down, or else o'er-leap, 

For in my way it lies. 

jr., I: 4. 1300. 

Buck. Now, my lord, what shall we do if 
we perceive 
Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots ? 
Glo. Chop off his head, man ; — somewhat 
we Avill do : — 
And, look, when I am king, claim thou of me 
The earldom of Hereford, and all the mov- 
ables 
Whereof the king my brother was possess'd. 
R. III., Ill : 1. 1022. 

K. Edw. Once more we sit in England's 

royal throne, 

Repurchas'd with the blood of enemies. 

What valiant foemen, like to autumn's corn, 

Have we mow'd down, in tops of all their 

pride. 

B. VI., 3 pt., V : 7. 992. 



West. But there 's a saying, very old and 

true, — 
; 'If that you will France win, 
Then with Scotland first begin : " 
For once the eagle England being in prey, 
To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot 
Comes sneaking, and so sucks her princely 

eggs ; 
Playing the mouse, in absence of the cat, 
To spoil and havoc more than she can eat. 

E. V., 1 : 2. 822. 

OCCUPATION. — Othello's, gone. 

0. * * O now, for ever, 

Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell con- 
tent ! 
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, 
That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! 
Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill 

trump, 
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, 
The royal banner ; and all quality, 
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious 

war! 
And O, you mortal engines, whose rude 

throats 
The immortal Jove's dread clamours coun- 
terfeit, 
Farewell ! Othello's occupation r s gone ! 

O., Ill : 3. 1514. 

OCEAN.— Its Girdle. 

K. Hen. * * 
The beachy girdle of the ocean, 
Too wide for Neptune's hips. 

H. 7F.,2pt., Ill: 2. 790. 



In Dress. 

How oddly he is suited • 



ODDITY. 

For. * * How oddly he is suited ! I 
think he bought his doublet in Italy, his 
round hose in France, his bonnet in Ger- 
many, and his behaviour everywhere. 

M. V, I: 2. 364. 

OFFENCE.— Improperly Charged. 

Gon. * * How have I offended? 
All 's not offence that indiscretion finds, 
And dotage terms so. 

K. Z., II: 4. 1461. 

— To be Funished. 

King. * * 
Where the offence is let the great ax fall. 

E., IV : 5. 1426. 



OFFENCES. 



4*5 



OMENS. 



OFFENCES.— In Ignorance. 

Will. All offences, my liege, come from 
the heart : never came any from mine, that 
might offend your majesty. 

K. Hen. It was ourself thou didst 
abuse. 

Will. Your majesty came not like your- 
self: you appeared to me but as a common 
man ; witness the night, your garments, 
your lowliness ; and what your highness 
suffered under that shape, I beseech you, 
take it for your own fault, and not mine : 
for had you been as I tqok you for, I made 
no offence ; therefore, I beseech your high- 
ness, pardon me. 

K. Hen. Here, uncle Exeter, fill this 
glove with crowns, 
And give it to this fellow. — Keep it, fellow : 
And wear it for an honour in thy cap, 
Till I do challenge it. 

H. V., IV : 8. 850. 

— To be Overlooked. 

Cas. * * 
In such a time as this, it is not meet 
That every nice offence should bear his 
comment. 

J. C, IV : 3. 1344. 

OFFENDERS.— No Right to Judge. 

Por. To offend, and judge, are distinct 
offices, 
And of opposed natures. 

M. V., II : 9. 374. 

OFFER. — Any, for ordinary Feople. 

Ros. * * 
I see no more in you than in the ordinary 
Of nature's sale-work. 

* * 

'T is such fools as you 
That make the world full of ill-favour'd 

children : 
'T is not her glass, but you, that flatters 

her; 
And out of you she sees herself more 

proper 
Than any of her lineaments can show her. 
But, mistress, know yourself; down on 

your knees, 
And thank Heaven, fasting, for a good man's 

love : 
For I must tell you friendly in your ear, 



Sell when you can : you are not for all 

markets : 
Cry the man mercy ; love him ; take his offer. 

A. F.,III: 5. 427. 

OLIVE. — Sign of Peace. 

Cces. The time of universal peace is 
near : 
Prove this a prosperous day, the three- 
nook 'd world 
Shall bear the olive freely. 

A. C., TV: 6. 1570. 

OMEN — An Evil. 

Cas. Messala, 

This is my birth-day; as this very day 
Was Cassius born. Give me thy hand, 

Messala : 
Be thou my witness, that, against my will, 
As Pompey was, am I compelled to set 
Upon one battle all our liberties. 
You know, that I held Epicurus strong, 
And his opinion : now I change my mind, 
And partly credit things that do presage. 
Coining from Sardis, on our former ensign 
Two mighty eagles fell; and there they 

perch'd, 
Gorging and feeding from our soldier's 

hands ; 
Who to Phillipi here consorted us ; 
This morning are they fled away, and gone : 
And in their steads do ravens, crows, and 

kites, 
Ply o'er our heads, and downward look on 

us, 
As we were sickly pre}* ; their shadows seem 
A canopy most fatal under which 
Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost. 
J. C.,V: 1. 1349. 

OMENS. — Fearful. 

Cap. * * 
The bay-trees in our country are all with- 

er'd, 
And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven ; 
The pale-fac'd moon looks bloody on the 

earth, 
And lean-look 'd prophets whisper fearful 

change ; 
Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and 

leap. 

B. II., II: 4. 699. 



OMISSION. 



416 



OPPORTUNITY. 



OMISSION. — Its Danger. 

Pair. * * 
Omission to do what is necessary 
Seals a commission to a blank of danger. 

T. C, III : 3. 1126. 

OMNIPOTENCE. — Its Ministers. 

Htl. * * 
He that of greatest works is finisher 
Oft does them by the weakest minister : 
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, 
When judges have been babes. 

A. W.,1I: 1. 503. 

ONCE. — Bad as a Million. 

Post. Spare your arithmetic : never 
count the turns ; Once, and a million ! 

Cym., II : 4. 1603. 

OPINION— A Fool. 

Sim. Opinion 's but a fool, that makes 
us scan 
The outward habit by the inward man. 

P., II : 2. 1651. 

— A Sovereign. 

Duke. * * Yet opinion, a sovereign 
mistress of effects, throws a more safer voice 
on you. 

0.,l: 3. 1497. 

— Adhered to. 

Ver. If I, my lord, for my opinion bleed, 
Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, 
And keep me on the side where still I am. 
H. VI., 2pt.,II: 4. 875. 

Ther. * * A plague of opinion! a man 
may wear on both sides, like a leather jer- 
kin. 

T. (7., Ill: 3. 1126. 

— Anxiety Concerning. 

Jaq. Provided that you weed your bet- 
ter judgments 
Of all opinion that grows rank in them. 

A. F.,II: 7. 418. 

Gra. * * 
I '11 tell thee more of this another time : 
But fish not with this melancholy bait, 
For this fool gudgeon, this opinion. 

M. V., I: 1. 362. 



— (See Ingratitude.) Public. 

Nest. * * As Ulysses says, opinion 
crowns 
With an imperial voice. 

T. C, 1 : 3. 1109. 

OPPORTUNITY.— Easily Supplied. 

Sic. This, as you say, suggested 

At some time when his soaring insolence 
Shall touch the people, (which time shall 

not want, 
If he be put upon 't ; and that 's as easy, 
As to set dogs on sheep,) will be his fire 
To kindle their dry stubble ; and their blaze 
Shall darken him for ever. 

C, II : 1. 1162. 

— For wrong Doing Everywhere. 

Aid. * * Every lane's end, every 
shop, church, session, hanging, yields a 
careful man work. 

W. T., IV: 3. 608. 

—Like the Tide. 

Bru. * * 
There is a tide in the affairs of men, 
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fort- 
une ; 
Omitted, all the voyage of their life 
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries, 
On such a full sea are we now afloat : 
And we must take the current when it 

serves, 
Or lose our ventures. 

J. C..IV: 3. 1346. 

— Plead as an Excuse. 

K. John. * * 

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, 

Makes ill deeds done ! Hadest not thou been 

by, 
A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, 
Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame, 
This murder had not come into my mind : 
But, taking note of thy abhorr'd aspect, 
Finding thee fit for bloody villainy, 
Apt, liable, to be employ 'd in danger, 
I faintly broke with thee of Arthur's death ; 
And thou, to be endeared to a king, 
Made it no conscience to destroy a prince. 

Hub. My lord, 

K. John. Hadst thou but shook thy head, 
or made a pause, 



OPPORTUNITY. 



4i; 



ORIGIN. 



When I spake darkly what I purposed ; 
Or turn'd an eye of doubt upon my face, 
As bid me tell my tale in express words ; 
Deep shame had struck me dumb, made me 

break off, 
And those thy fears might have wrought 

fears in me : 
But thou didst understand me by my signs, 
And didst in signs again parley with sin, 
Yea, without stop, didst let thy heart con- 
sent, 
And, consequently, thy rude hand to act 
The deed, which both our tongues held vile 

to name. — 
Out of my sight, and never see me more ! 

K. J., IV: 2. 668. 

— Should be Improved. 

Clar. A little fire is quickly trodden out ; 

Which, being sufFer'd, rivers cannot quench. 

H. VI, 3pt., IV: 8. 985. 

— Wisely Selected. 

Stan. Take all the swift advantage of 
the hours. 

R. III., IV: 1. 1031. 

Men. I '11 undertake it : 

I think, he "11 hear me. Yet to bite his lip, 
And hum at good Cominius, much unhearts 

me. 
He was not taken well ; he had not din'd : 
The veins unfill'd, our blood is cold, and then 
We pout upon the morning, are unapt 
To give or to forgive ; but when we have 

stuffd 
These pipes and these conveyances of our 

blood 
With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls 
Than in our priest-like fasts ; therefore I '11 

watch him 
Till he be dieted to my request, 
And then I '11 set upon him. 

Bru. You know the very road into his 

kindness, 
And cannot lose your way. 

C, V : 1. 1186. 

OPPRESSION. — Offensive. 

Hip. I love not to see wretchedness o'er- 
charg'd, 
And duty in his service perishing. 

M. N., V : 1. 342. 



—Proved. 

Dro. E. I am an ass, indeed ; you may 
prove it by my long ears. I have served 
him from the hour of my nativity to this in- 
stant, and have nothing at his hands for 
my service but blows : when I am cold, he 
heats me with beating ; when I am warm, he 
cools me with beating; I am wak'd with it, 
when I sleep ; rais'd with it, when I sit ; 
driven out of doors with it, when I go from 
home ; welcom'd home with it, when I re- 
turn : nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a 
beggar wont her brat; and, I think, when 
he hath lam'd me, I shall beg with it from 
door to door. 

C. E., IV : 2. 207. 

— Resented. 

Fal. * * The camomile, the more it 
is trodden on, the, faster it grows. 

H. IV., 1 pt., II : 4. 742. 

Q. Kath. * * These exactions, 
Whereof my sovereign would have note, 

they are 
Most pestilent to the hearing ; and, to bear 

them. 
The back is sacrifice to the load. 

H. VIII., 1: 2. 1060. 

— Resistance to. 

Clif. * * 
To whom do lions cast their gentle looks? 
Not to the beast that would usurp their den. 
Whose hand is that the forest bear doth lick? 
Not his, that spoils her young before her 

face. 
Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal 

sting? 
Not he, that sets his foot upon her back. 
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden 

on : 
And doves will peck, in safeguard of their 

brood. 

//. F/.,3pt., II: 2. 964. 

ORDER — Taught by the Bees. 

Cant. For so work the honey bees ; 
Creatures, that, by a rule in nature, teach 
The act of order to a peopled kingdom. 

H. V., 1 : 21. 822. 

ORIGIN. — Despising our. 

Alb. O Goneril ! 

You are not worth the dust which the rude 
wind 



ORIGIN. 



418 



OUTLAWS. 



Blows in your face. — I fear your disposi- 
tion : 
That nature, which contemns its origin, 
Cannot be border'd certain in itself; 
She that herself will sliver and disbranch 
From her material sap, perforce must wither, 
And come to deadly use. 

K. L., IV : 2. 1472. 

ORNAMENT. — Deceptive. 

Bass. * * 
The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. 
* * 

Thus ornament is but the guiled shore 
To a most dangerous sea. 

M. FV.III: 2. 377. 

VaL * * 

Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, 

More than quick words, do move a woman's 

mind. 

T. G., Ill : 1. 60 

ORPHEUS. — Power of his Music. 

Q. Kath. * * 

Orpheus with his lute made trees, 
And the mountain-tops, that freeze, 

Bow themselves, when he did sing: 
To his music, plants, and flowers, 
Ever sprung; as sun, and showers, 

There had heen a lasting spring. 
Every thing that heard him play, 
Even the hillows of the sea, 

Hung their heads, and then lay hy. 
In sweet music is such art; 
Killing care, and grief of heart, 

Fall asleep, or, hearing, die. 

H. VIII., Ill : 4. 1074. 

OSTENTATION— A Maggot. 

Biron. * * 
O ! never will I trust to speeches penn'd, 

Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue ; 
Nor never come in visor to my friend ; 

Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's 
song : 
Taffata phrases, silken terms precise, 

Three-pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation, 
Figures pedantical ; these summer-flies 

Have blown me full of maggot ostentation. 
L. L. t V : 2. 298. 

— Leads Captive. 

La Cap. * * 
That book in many's eyes doth share the 

glory 
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story : 
B. J., 1 : 3. 1246. 



OUTLAW.— Wretched. 

Hot. * * Sick in the world's regard, 
wretched and low, 
A poor unminded outlaw sneaking home. 

H. IV., 1 pt., IV : 3. 755. 

OUTLAWS. — Their friendship. 

3 Out. By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's 
fat friar, 
This fellow were a king for our wild faction ! 

1 Out. We '11 have him ; sirs, a word. 
Speed. Master, be one of them ; it 's an 

honourable kind of thievery. 
VaL Peace, villain ! 

2 Out. Tell us this : Have you anything 

to take to ? 
VaL Nothing but my fortune. 

3 Out. Know, then, that some of us are 

gentlemen, 
Such as the fury of ungovern'd youth, 
Thrust from the company of awful men : 
Myself was from Verona banished, 
For practising to steal away a lady, 
An heir, and near allied unto the duke. 
2 Out. And I from Mantua, for a gentle- 
man, 
Whom, in my mood, I stabb'd unto the heart. 

1 Out. And I, for such like petty crimes 

as these. 
But to the purpose, — for we cite our faults, 
That they may hold excus'd our lawless 

lives, 
And, partly, seeing you are beautified 
With goodly shape ; and by your own report 
A linguist ; and a man of such perfection, 
As we do in our quality much Avant. 

2 Out. Indeed, because you are a ban- 

ish'd man, 
Therefore, above the rest, we parley to you : 
Are you content to be our general ? 
To make a virtue of necessity, 
And live, as we do, in this wilderness ? 

3 Out. What say'st thou? wilt thou be 

of our consort ? 
Say, ay, and be the captain of us all : 
We '11 do thee homage, and be rul'd by thee, 
Love thee as our commander, and our king. 

1 Out. But if thou scorn our courtesy, 

thou die st. 

2 Out. Thou shalt not live to brag what 

we have offer 'd. 



OUTLAWS. 419 PAINTING. 


Val. I take your offer, and will live with 


Ham. * * 


you, 


I have shot my arrow o'er the house, 


Provided that you do no outrages 


And hurt my brother. 


On silly women, or poor passengers. 


H., V : 2. 1435. 


3 Out. No, we detest such vile base prac- 




tices. 


OVERTHROW. — Sudden. 


Come, go with us, we '11 bring thee to our 


Sal. * * 


crews, 


I see thy glory, like a shooting star, 


And show thee all the treasure we have got ; 


Fall to the base earth from the firmament ! 


Which, with ourselves, all rest at thy dis- 


B. II, II : 4. 699. 


pose. 

T. G., IV : 1. 65. 


OVERTURES. — Dishonorable, Re- 




sented. 


OVERREACHING. —Punished. 


K. Edw. Sweet widow, by my state I 


Laer. Why, as a woodcock to my own 


swear to thee, 


springe, Osric ; 


I speak no more than what my soul intends ; 


I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery. 


And that is, to enjoy thee for my love. 


H., V: 2. 1436. 


L. Grey. And that is more than I will 


Glo. 


yield unto : 


But, whiles he thought to steal the single ten, 


I know, I am too mean to be your queen : 


The king was slily finger'd from the deck ! 


And yet too good to be your concubine. 


H. VI, 3 pt, V : 1. 987. 


H. r/.,3pt., Ill: 2. 973. 


P 


PAIN. — Lessened by Another's An- 


— Soon Forgotten. 


guish. 


York. Old Salisbury, who can report of 


Ben. Tut, man! one fire burns out an- 


him; 


other's burning, 


That w inter lion, who, in rage, forgets 


One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish ; 


Aged contusions and all brush of time ; 


Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turn- 


And, like a gallant in the bloom of youth, 


ing; 


Repairs him with occasion? 


One desperate grief cures with another's 


//. VI, 2pt., V: 3. 945. 


languish : 




Take thou some new infection to thy eye, 


PAINTING. — Admirable. 


And the rank poison of the old will die. 


Poet. Admirable : How this grace 


R. J., 1 : 2. 1245. 


Speaks his own standing; what a mental 


— Quickens Intellect. 


power 


K. Hen. 'T is good for men to love their 


This eye shoots forth ! how big imagination 


present pains, 


Moves in this lip ! to the dumbness of the 


Upon example ; so the spirit is eased : 


gesture 


And, when the mind is quicken'd, out of 


One might interpret. 


doubt, 


Pain. It is a pretty mocking of the life. 


The organs, though defunct and dead before, 


Here is. a touch : Is 't good? 


Break up their drowsy grave, and newly 


Poet. I '11 say of it, 


move 


It tutors nature : artificial strife 


With casted slough and fresh legerity. 


Lives in these touches, livelier than life. 


H. V., IV : 1. 840. 


T. A., 1 : 1. 1286. 



PAINTING. 



42O 



PARDON. 



— Appreciated. 

Tim. Painting is welcome. 

The painting is almost the natural man ; 
For since dishonour traffics with man's na- 
ture, 
He is but outside : These pencil'd figures are 
Even such as they give out. I like your 

work ; 
And you shall find, I like it. 

T. A., 1 : 1. 1288. 

PARAGON.— A Male. 

Iach. He sits 'mongst men, like a de- 
scended god : 

He hath a kind of honour sets him off, 

More than a mortal seeming. Be not an- 
gry, 

Most mighty princess, that I have advent- 
ur'd 

To try your taking of a false report ; which 
hath 

Honour'd with confirmation your great 
judgment 

In the election of a sir so rare. 

Cym.,1: 7. 1597. 

— The Object of "Love. 

Rom. * * 
One fairer than my love ! the all-seeing sun 
Ne'er saw her match, since the world begun. 
R.J.,I: 2. 1245. 

PARASITE.— His Employment. 

Tra. O, sir, Lucentio slipp'd me like 
his greyhound, 
Which runs himself, and catches for his 

master. 

T. 8., V: 2. 482. 

Pro. * * He was 
The ivy which had hid my princely trunk, 
And suck'd my verdure out on 't. 

T., 1 : 2. 9. 

— Reproached. 

Ant. I found you as a morsel, cold upon 
Dead Caesar's trencher : nay, you were a 

fragment 
Of Cneius Pompey's. 

A. C, III: 11. 1566. 

— Shortens Time. 

Pol. * * 
He makes a July's day short as December. 

W. T., 1 : 2. 683. 



PARDON. — Kingly. 

Duch. Nay, do not say — stand up; 

But, pardon, first ; and afterwards, stand up. 
An if I were thy nurse, thy tongue to teach, 
Pardon — should be the first word of thy 

speech. 
I never long'd to hear a word till now ; 
Say — pardon, king; let pity teach thee how : 
The word is short, but not so short as 

sweet ; 
No word like, pardon, for kings' mouths so 
meet. 
York. Speak it in French, king; say 

" pardonnez moy." 
Duch. Dost thou teach pardon pardon to 
destroy? 
Ah, my sour husband, my hard-hearted lord, 
That sett'st the word itself against the 

word ! — 
Speak, pardon, as 't is current in our land; 
The chopping French we do not understand. 
Thine eye begins to speak, set thy tongue 

there : 
Or, in thy piteous heart plant thou thine 

ear; 
That, hearing how our plants and prayers 

do pierce, 
Pity may move thee, pardon to rehearse. 
Boling. Good aunt, stand up. 
Duch. I do not sue to stand, 

Pardon is all the suit I have in hand. 

Boling. I pardon him, as God shall par- 
don me. 
Duch. O happy vantage of a kneeling 
knee ! 
Yet I am sick for fear : speak it again ; 
Twice saying pardon, doth not pardon 

twain, 
But makes one pardon strong. 

Boling. With all my heart 

I pardon him. 

Duch. A god on earth thou art. 

R. II., V : 3. 715. 

— Prayed, for Enemies. 

Glo. * * 
God pardon them that are the cause there- 
of! 
Riv. A virtuous and a christian-like con- 
clusion, 
To pray for them that have done scath to us. 
R. III., I: 4. 1010. 



PARENTAGE. 42 1 PATIENCE. 


PARENTAGE. — Sorrow at. 


— Ties the Tongue. 


Jes, * * 


Orl. What passion hangs these weights 


Alack, what heinous sin is it in me, 


upon my tongue? 


To be asham'd to be my father's child ! 


A. Y., 1 : 2. 412. 


But though I am a daughter to his blood, 




I am not to his manners : 


— Woman's, Feigned. 


M. V., II : 3. 370. 


Oth. Ay j you did wish, that I would 




make her turn : 


PARENTS.— Blessed by Children. 


Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on, 


Lor. * * 


And turn again; and she can weep, sir, 


If e'er the Jew her father come to heaven, 


weep : 


It will be for his gentle daughter's sake : 


And she 's obedient, as you say, — obedient, 


And never dare misfortune cross her foot, 


Very obedient : — Proceed you in your tears. 


Unless she do it under this excuse, — 


Concerning this, sir, — -O well-painted pas- 


That she is issue to a faithless Jew. 


sion! 


M. Y., II : 4. 370. 


O., IV: 1. 1521. 


PARTING. — Hasty. 


PASSIONS. — Bad, Mistake Tools. 


Mor. * * 


K. John. * * 


Portia, adieu ! I have too griev'd a heart 


Forgive the comment that my passion made 


To take a tedious leave ; thus losers part. 


Upon thy feature ; for my rage was blind, 


M. P., II: 7. ^.73. 


And foul imaginary eyes of blood 


Pro. * * 
Julia, farewell! — What! gone without a 


Presented thee more hideous than thou art. 


K. J., IV : 2. 668. 


word? 




Ay, so true love should do : it cannot speak; 


PAST.— Without Remedy. 


For truth hath better deeds than words to 


Mac. * * Things without remedy, 


grace it. 


Should be without regard : what 's done, is 


T. G., II : 2. 54 


done. 


Jul. Farewell! — God knows when we 


if., IH: 2. 1370. 


shall meet again. 




I have a faint cold fear thrills through my 


PATCHING.— Only Mends. 


veins, 


Clo. * * Anything that 's mended is 


That almost, almost freezes up the heat of 


but patched : virtue that transgresses is 


life. 


but patched with sin ; and sin that amends 


R. J., IV: 3. 1270. 


is but patched with virtue. 




T. N., 1 : 5. 544. 


— Sorrowful. 




Q. Mar. * * Even thus two friends 


PATIENCE.— A Nurse. 


condemn'd 


Pro. Cease to lament for that thou canst 


Embrace, and kiss, and take ten thousand 


not help, 


leaves, 


And study help for that which thou la- 


Loather a hundred times to part than die 


ment'st. 


H. VI., 2pt.,III: 2. 930. 


Time is the nurse and breeder of all good. 




T. G., Ill: 1. 62. 


PASSION.— Destroys Itself. 




K. lien. * * Give him line and scope : 


—Becomes Despair. 


Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, 


Duch. Call it not patience, Gaunt, it is 


Confound themselves with working. 


despair. 


H. IV., 2 pt., IV : 4. 800. 


R. II., 1 : 2. 687. 



PATIENCE, 



422 



PATIENCE. 



— Cowardice Mistaken for. 

Buck. * * 
That which in mean men we entitle — pa- 
tience, 
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. 

R. II, I: 2. 687. 

— Deeply Wronged. 

Leon. * * Men 
Can counsel, and speak comfort to that grief 
Which they themselves not feel ; but, tast- 
ing it, 
Their counsel turns to passion, which before 
Would give preceptial medicine to rage, 
Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, 
Charm ach with air, and agony with words : 
No, no ; 't is all men's office to speak pa- 
tience 
To those that wring under the load of sor- 
row : 
But no man's virtue, nor sufficiency, 
To be so moral, when he shall endure 
The like himself: therefore give me no 

counsel : 
My griefs cry louder than advertisement. 

M. A., V : 1. 249. 

— Essential to Success. 

Pan. * * He, that will have a cake 
out of the wheat, must needs tarry the 
grinding. 

Tro. Have I not tarried? 

Pan. Ay, the grinding; but you must 
tarry the bolting. 

Tro. Have I not tarried? 

Pan. Ay, the bolting; but you must 
tarry the leavening. 

Tro. Still have I tarried. 

Pan. Ay, to the leavening; but here's 
yet in the word — hereafter, the kneading, 
the making of the cake, the heating of the 
oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay 
the cooling too, or you may chance to burn 
your lips. 

Tro. Patience herself, what goddess e'er 
she be, doth lesser blench at sufferance than 
I do. 

T. C, 1 : 1. 1102. 

— How Exhausted. 

Wor. In faith, my lord, you are too wil- 
ful-blame ; 
And since your coming hither have done 
enough 



To put him quite beside his patience. 

You must needs learn, lord, to amend this 

fault : 
Though sometimes it shows greatness, cour- 
age, blood, 
(And that 's the dearest grace it renders 

you,) 
Yet oftentimes it doth present harsh rage, 
Defect of manners, want of government, 
Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain : 
The least of which, haunting a nobleman, 
Loseth men's hearts ; and leaves behind a 

stain 
Upon the beauty of all parts besides, 
Beguiling them of commendation. 

//. IV., l pt., Ill : 1. 746. 

— Invoked. 

Isab. And is this all? 

Then, oh, you blessed ministers above, 
Keep me in patience; and, with ripened 

time, 
Unfold the evil which is here wrapp'd up 
In countenance ! 

M. M., V : 1. 171. 

— Looking like. 

Per. * * Yet thou dost look 
Like Patience, gazing on kings' graves, and 

smiling 
Extremity out of act. 

P., V: 1. 1668. 

—Noted. 
Gut. I do note, 

That grief and patience, rooted in him both, 
Mingle their spurs together. 

Cym., IV : 2. 1615. 

— Opposed to Fury. 

Ant. * * I do oppose 
My patience to his fury ; and am arm'd 
To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, 
The very tyranny and rage of his. 

M. V., IV: 1. 382. 

—Plods. 

Nym. * * It must be as it may; 
though patience be a tired mare, yet she 
will plod. 

H. F.,11: 1. 825. 



PATIENCE. 



4 2 3 



PEACE. 



—Poor without it. 

Iago. How poor are they, that have not 

patience ! — 
What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? 
Thou know'st, we work by wit, and not by 

witchcraft ; 
And wit depends on dilatory time. 
Does 't not go well? Cassio hath beaten 

thee, 
And thou, by that small hurt, hast cashier'd 

Cassio : 
Though other things grow fair against the 

sun, 
Yet fruits, that blossom first, will first be 

ripe. 

0., II: 3. 1508. 

— Recommended. 
Queen. * * O gentle son, 

Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper 
Sprinkle cool patience. 

H. t III : 4. 1419. 

— Smiling at Grief. 
Vio. * * 

She sat, like Patience on a monument, 
Smiling at grief. 

T. N., II: 4. 551. 

PATRIOTISM.— A Mother's. 

Vol. * * Had I a dozen sons, — each 
in my love alike, and none less dear than 
thine and my good Marcius, — I had rather 
had eleven die nobly for their country, than 
one voluptuously surfeit out of action. 

C., I: 3. 1153. 

— National 

Mar. * * 
And help to set a head on headless Rome. 

T. A., 1 : 2. 1203. 

Wol. * * 
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy coun- 
try's, 
Thy God's, and truth's. 

H. VIII., in: 2. 1082. 

PATRIOTS.— Their Grief. 

Macd. Bleed, bleed, poor country ! 
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, 
For goodness dares not check thee ! wear 
thou thy wrongs. 

Mai. * * 
I think, our country sinks beneath the yoke ; 



It weeps, it bleeds ; and each new day a gash 
Is added to her wounds. I think, withal, 
There would be hands uplifted in my right; 
And here, from gracious England, have I of- 
fer 
Of goodly thousands : But, for all this, 
When I shall tread upon the tyrant's head, 
Or wear it on my sword, yet my poor coun- 
try 
Shall have more vices than it had before : 
More suffer, and more sundry ways than 

ever, 
By him that shall succeed. 

M., IV : 3. 1378. 

PEACE. — A Comma between Amities. 

Bam. * * 
As peace should still her wheaten garland 

wear, 
And stand a comma 'tween their amities. 

H. V., 2. 1433. 

— A Ground of Joy. 

P. John. The word of peace is render'd : 

Hark, how they shout ! 
Mowb. This had been cheerful, after vic- 
tory. 
Arch. A peace is of the nature of a con- 
quest ; 
For then both parties nobly are subdued, 
And neither party loser. 

H. IV., 2pt.,IV: 2. 798. 

— Cause of Effeminacy. 

2 Serv. Why, then we shall have a stir- 
ring world again. This peace is nothing, but 
to rust iron, increase tailors, and breed bal- 
lad-makers. 

1 Serv. Let me have war, say I ; it ex- 
ceeds peace, as far as day does night ; it 's 
sprightly, waking, audible, and full of vent. 
Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy ; mulled, 
deaf, sleepy, insensible ; a getter of more bas- 
tard children, than wars a destroyer of men. 

C-.IV: 5. 1182. 

— Conditions of Lasting. 
Arch. 'Tis very true : — 

And therefore be assur'd, my good lord mar- 
shal, 
If we do now make our atonement well, 
Our peace will, like a broken limb united, 
Grow stronger for the breaking. 

H. JT.,2pt., IV: 1. 797. 



PEACE. 



424 



PEACE. 



— Conduct becoming. 
K. Hen. * * 

In peace, there 's nothing so becomes a man, 
As modest stillness, and humility. 

H. F., Ill: 1. 831. 

— Commanded. 

May. Nought rests for me, in this tumult- 
uous strife, 
But to make open proclamation : — 
Come, officer ; as loud as e'er thou canst. 

Off. ' ' All manner of men, assembled here 
in arms this day, against God's peace and the 
king's, we charge and command you, in his 
highness' name, to repair to your several 
dwelling-places ; and not to wear, handle, or 
use, any sword, weapon, or dagger, hence- 
forward, upon pain of death." 

H. VI, 1 pt., T ; 3. 869. 

— Effeminate. 

York. * * 
Shall we at last conclude effeminate peace ? 

H. VI, 1 pt., V : 4. 896. 

— From above. 

Sooth. 
The fingers of the powers above do tune 
The harmony of this peace. 

Cym. t V : 5 1632. 

— Hatred of, 

Mai. * * 
Had I power, I should 
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, 
Uproar the universal peace, confound 
All unity on earth. 

J/., IV: 3. 1379. 

— Impossible. 

rand. * * 
France, thou may'st hold a serpent by the 

tongue, 
A cased lion by the mortal paw, 
A fasting tiger safer by the tooth, 
Than keep in peace that hand which thou 
dost hold. 

K. «/., Ill : 1. 659. 

—Its fat Ribs. 

K. John. * * The fat ribs of peace. 

K. J., Ill : 3. 661. 



— Its gentle Eyes. 

Bast. And snarleth in the gentle eyes of 
peace. 

K. J., IV : 3. 670. 

— Love's Reviver. 
Claud, * * 
But now I am return'd, and that war- 
thoughts 
Have left their places vacant, in their rooms 
Come thronging soft and delicate desires, 
All prompting me how fair young Hero is, 
Saying, — I lik'd her ere I went to wars. 

M. A., 1 : 2. 228. 

— Perpetual. 

Richm. * * 
In God's name, cheerly on, courageous 

friends. 
To reap the harvest of perpetual peace 
By this one bloody trial of sharp war. 

Ii. III., V : 2. 1042. 

— Scatters Armies. 

Hast. My lord, our army is dispers'd al- 
ready : 
Like youthful steers unyoked, they take 

their courses 
East, west, north, south; or, like a school 

broke up, 
Each hurries toward his home, and sporting- 
place. 

H. IF., 2 pt., IV : 2. 798. 

— Soldiers never Pray for. 

1 Gent. * * There 's not a soldier of us 
all, that, in the thanksgiving before meat, 
doth relish the petition well that prays for 
peace. 

M. M., 1 : 2. 144. 

— Time to Prepare for "War. 

Dau. My most redoubted father, 

It is most meet we arm us 'gainst the foe : 
For peace itself should not so dull a king- 
dom, 
(Though war, nor no known quarrel, were 

in question,) 
But that defences, musters, preparations, 
Should be maintain 'd, assembled, and col- 
lected, 
As were a war in expectation. 
Therefore, I say, 't is meet we all go forth, 



PEACE. 



4 2 5 



PENALTIES. 



To view the sick and feeble parts of France : 

And let us do it with no show of fear ; 

No, with no more, than if we heard that 

England 
Were busied with a Whitsun morris-dance. 
//. V., II • 4. 829. 

— Universal. 

West. * * 
There is not now a rebel's sword unsheath'd, 
But peace puts forth her olive everywhere. 
//. IV., 2pt., IV: 4. SOI. 

PEACEMAKERS.— Blessed. 

Old M. God's benison go with you : and 
with those 
That would make good of bad, and friends 
of foes. 

Jr., II : 4. 1368. 

PEDANTRY.— A Scholastic. 



Mar 



a school i' the church. 



— Catechetical. 



Like a pedant that keeps 



T.X., III: 2. 557 



Natli. A most singular and choice epi- 
thet. 

Hoi. He draweth out the thread of his 
verbosity finer than the staple of his argu- 
ment. I abhor such fanatical fantasms, 
such insociable and point-devise compan- 
ions ; such rackers of orthography, as to 
speak, dout, fine, when he should say, 
doubt; det, when he should pronounce 
debt; — d, e, b, t; not d, e, t: — he clepeth 
a calf, cauf ; half, hauf ; neighbor, vocatur, 
nebour; neigh abbreviated, ne. This is 
abhominable (which he would call abomina- 
ble) : it insinuateth me of insanie ; Ne 
intelligis, domine? to make frantic, luna- 
tic. 

Nath. Laus Deo! bone intelligo. 



Boyet. 

By heaven, that thou art lair is most infallible; 
true, that thou art beauteous : truth itself, that thou 
art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than 
beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commisera- 
tion on thy heroical vassal ! The magnanimous and 
most illustrate king Cophetua set eye on the perni- 
cious and indubitate beggar Penelophon; and he it 
was that might rightly 6ay, veni, vidi, vici; which 
to annotanize in the vulgar (O base and obscure vul- 
gar!) videlicet, he came, 6aw, and overcame: he 
cams, one ; saw, two ; overcame, three. Who came? 
the king; Why did he come? to see; Why did he 
see? to overcome: To whom came he? to the beg- 
gar; What saw he? the beggar: Who overcame 
he? the beggar: The conclusion is victory: On 
whose side? the king's: the captive is enrich'd; On 
whose side? the beggar's: The catastrophe is a 
nuptial; On whose side? the king's? — no, on both 
in one, or one in both. lam the king; for so stands 
the comparison : thou the beggar; for so witness- 
oth thy lowliness. Shall I command thy love? I 
may: Shall I enforce thy love? 1 could: Shall I 
entreat thy love? I will : What shalt thou exchange 
for rasrs? robes; For tittles, titles; For thyself? 
me. Thus, expecting thy reply, I profane my lips 
on thy foot, my eyes on thy picture, and my heart 
on thy every part. 

Thine, in the dearest design of industry, 
Don Adbiano de Arjiado. 

L.L., IV: 1. 283. 

— Described by a Pedant. 

Hoi. Novi hominem tanquam te : His 
humour is lofty, his discourse peremptory, 
his tongue filed, his eye ambitious, his gait 
majestical, and his general behaviour vain, 
ridiculous, and thrasonical. He is too 
picked, too spruce, too affected, too odd, as 
it were, too peregrinate, as I may call it. 



Hoi. Born 



bone for bene : Priscian 



a little scratch'd ; 'twill serve. 

L.L., V: 1. 291. 

— Love's big "Words. 

Host. * * 
He '11 speak like an Anthropophaginian un- 



to thee. 



M. W..1V: 5. 114. 



PEDLER — A Versatile. 

Serv. He hath ribands of all the colours 
i' the rainbow; points, more than all the 
lawyers in Bohemia can learnedly handle, 
though they come to him by the gross ; ink- 
les, caddisses, cambrics, lawns; why, he 
sings "em over, as they were gods or god- 
desses ; you would think a smock were a 
she-angel : he so chants to the sleeve-hand, 
and the work about the square on 't. 

W. T., IV: 3. 603. 

PEEVISHNESS. — Protest against. 

Gra. Let me play the fool : 

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles 

come : 
And let my liver rather heat with wine, 
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. 
Why should a man, Avhose blood is warm 

within, 
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? 
Sleep when he wakes, and creep into the 

jaundice 
By being peevish? 

M. V., 1 : 1. 362. 

PENALTIES. — Held in Terror. 

Duke. Now, as fond fathers, 

Having bound up the threatening twigs of 

birch, 
Only to stick it in their children's sight, 



PENALTIES. 426 PERILS. 


For terror, not to use, in time the rod 


— Out of Defect. 


Becomes more mock'd than fear'd; so our 


Eno. I saw her once 


decrees, 


Hop forty paces through the public street : 


Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead ; 


And having lost her breath, she spoke, and 


And liberty plucks justice by the nose ; 


panted, 


The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart 


That she did make defect, perfection, 


Goes all decorum. 


And, breathless, power breathe forth. 


M. M., 1:4. 6. 


A. C, II: 2. 1550. 


— Slumbering. 


PERFIDY. — Its Punishment. 


Duke. We have strict statutes, and most 


Men. * * You are they 


biting laws, 


That made the air unwholesome, when you 


(The needful bits and curbs to headstrong 


cast 


steeds,) 


Your stinking, greasy caps, in hooting at 


Which for this fourteen years we have let 


Coriolanus' exile. Now he 's coming; 


sleep ; 


And not a hair upon a soldier's head, 


Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave. 


Which will not prove a whip; as many 


That goes not out to prey. 


coxcombs, 


M. M., 1 : 3. 146. 


As you threw caps up, will he tumble down, 




And pay you for your voices. 'T is no 


PEOPLE— The. 


matter ; 


Cor. * * The beast 


If he could burn us all into one coal, 


With many heads butts me away. 


We have deserv'd it. 

C, IV : 6. 1184. 


CIV: 1. 1177. 






PERDL. — Extreme. 


PERCEPTION.— Unrecognized. 


Lucy. * * 


Luc. Ay, madam, you may say what 


Who now is girdled with a waist of iron, 


sights you see; 


And hemm'd about with grim destruction. 


I see things too, although you judge I wink. 


77. VI, lpt., IV: 3. 887. 


T. G.,1: 2. 50. 






— Revealed. 


PERFECTION.— In Woman. 


Wor. Peace, cousin, say no more 


Ant. * * 


And now I will unclasp a secret book, 


The senate-house of planets all did sit, 


And to your quick-conceiving discontents 


To knit in her their best perfections. 


I '11 read you matter deep and dangerous ; 


P., I: 1. 1642. 


As full of peril and advent'rous spirit, 




As to o'er-walk a current, roaring loud, 


— Of Manhood. 


On the unsteadiest footing of a spear. 


Ant. * * 


H. IV., 1 pt., 1 : 3. 732. 


His life was gentle ; and the elements 


PERILS. — Great. 


So mixed in him, that Nature might stand 




up, 
And say to all the world, "This was a 


Ant. * * Brutus and Cassius, 


Are levying powers : we must straight make 


man ! " 


head : 


J. C.,V: 5. 1352. 


Therefore, let our alliance be combin'd, 




Our best friends made, and our best means 


Iach. * * The love I bear him 


stretch 'd out; 


Made me to fan you thus ; but the gods made 


And let us presently go sit in council, 


you, 


How covert matters may be best disclos'd, 


Unlike all others, chaffless. 


And open perils surest answered. 


Cym., 1:7. 1597. 


J. C, IV : 1. 1343. 



PERJURER. 427 PERSISTENCE. 


PERJURER. — Deliverance by a. 


— Defies Repulse. 


Sil. Had I been seized by a hungry lion, 


Ant. * * 


I would have been a breakfast to the beast, 


Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose 


Rather than have false Proteus rescue me ! 


That you resolv'd t' effect. 


0, heaven be judge how I love Valentine, 


T., Ill : 3. 24. 


Whose life 's as tender to me as my soul ; 




And full as much (for more there cannot 


— Ends in Success. 


be) 


Mess. * * 


I do detest false perjur'd Proteus : 


But Hercules himself must yield to odds ; 


Therefore be gone, solicit me no more. 


And many strokes, though with a little 


T. G., V : 4. 71. 


ax, 




Hew down and fell the hardest timber'd 


PERJURY. — Punished. 


oak. 


Biron. Thus pour the stars down plagues 


H. VI, 3pt.,ll: 1. 962. 


for perjury. 




L. L.,V: 2. 298. 


PERSISTENCE — A Woman's. 


PERMISSION. — Equal to Command. 


Lady. * * 




I will have more, or scold it out of him. 


Duke. * * 






Said I for this, the girl was like him ? I '11 


Sith 't was my fault to give the people 






Have more, or else unsay 't. Now, while 'tis 


scope, 


hot. 


'T would be my tyranny to strike and gall 
them 


I '11 put it to the issue. 


For what I bid them do : For we bid this be 


H. VIII., V: 1. 1089. 


done, 




When evil deeds have their permissive pass, 


— Demands a Time. 


And not the punishment. 


Des. But shall 't be shortly ? 


M. M., 1 : 3. 146. 


Oth. The sooner, sweet, for you. 




Des. Shall 't be to-night at supper ? 


PERPLEXITY. — Caused by Enemies. 


Oth. No, not to-night. 


K. Hen. Thus stands my state, 'twixt 


Des. To-morrow dinner then ? 


Cade and York distress'd ; 


Oth. I shall not dine at home ; 


Like to a ship, that, having scap'd a tem- 


I meet the captains at the citadel. 


pest, 


Des. Why then, to-morrow night; or 


Is straightway calm'd and boarded with a 


Tuesday morn ; 


pirate. 


Or Tuesday noon, or night; or Wednesday 


H. VI, 2 pt., IV : 9. 940. 


morn. 




* * When shall he come ? 


PERSEVERANCE. — Commended. 


Tell me, Othello. I wonder in my soul, 


Queen. * * 


What you could ask me, that I should 


Prefer you to his daughter : Frame your- 


deny, 


self 


Or stand so mammering on. 


To orderly solicits ; and be friended 


O., Ill: 3. 1510. 


With aptness of the season : make denials 




Increase your services : so seem, as if 


— In one Idea. 


You were inspird to do those duties which 


Ham. " O Jephthah, judge of Israel," — 


You tender to her; that you in all obey 


what a treasure hadst thou ! 


her, 


Pol. What a treasure had he, my lord ? 


Save when command to your dismission 


Ham. Why — " One fair daughter, and no 


tends, 


more, 


And therein you are senseless. 


The which he loved passing well." 


Gym., II: 3. 1600. 


Pol. Still on my daughter. 



PERSISTENCE. 



428 



PHARISEEISM. 



Ham. Am I not i' the right, old Jeph- 

thah? 
Pol. If you call me Jephthah, my lord, 
I have a daughter, that I love passing well. 

//., IT : 2. 1407. 

— In Seeking Audience. 

Mai. Madam, yond young fellow swears 
he will speak with you. I told him you were 
sick ; he takes on him to understand so much, 
and therefore comes to speak with you. I 
told him you were asleep ; he seems to have 
a foreknowledge of that too, and therefore 
comes to speak with you. What is to be 
said to him, lady? he 's fortified against any 
denial. 

OIL Tell him he shall not speak with me. 

Mai. H' as been told so ; and he says, 
he '11 stand at your door like a sheriffs post, 
or be the supporter to a bench, but he '11 
speak with vou. 

T. AT.,1: 5. 545. 

— In Wrong. 

Hect. * * Thus to persist 
In doing wrong, extenuates not wrong, 
But makes it much more heavy. 

T. O.. II; 2. 1115. 

PERSONALITY. — Identified by 
Mark. 

lack. * * On her left breast, 
A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson 

drops 
I' the bottom of a cowslip. 

Cym., II : 2. 1599. 

— Its dwelling place. 
Rom. * * O tell me, friar, tell me, 
In what vile part of this anatomy 
Doth my name lodge? tell me, that I may 

sack 
The hateful mansion. 

R. J., Ill: 3. 1263. 

— Lost in the Mass. 

Ant. S. * * 
I to the world am like a drop of water, 
That-in the ocean seeks another drop; 
Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, 
Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself. 

0. E., 1 : 2. 194. 

PERSUASION. — Power of. 

Claud. * * Bid herself assay him; 
I have great hope in that : for in her youth 



There is a prone and speechless dialect, 

Such as moves men ; beside, she hath pros- 
perous art 

When she will play with reason and dis- 
course, 

And well she can persuade. 

3f. M. x 1 : 2. 146. 

PESTILENCE. — Sure Death. 

Scar. * * Like the token'd pestilence, 
Where death is sure. 

A. C, III: 8. 1563. 

PETARD. — Hoisting its Engineer. 

Ham. * * 
For 't is the sport, to have the engineer 
Hoist with his own petar. 

a, ill: 4. 1420. 

PETITIONS— For Justice. 

Sat. Why, lords, what wrongs are these? 
Was ever seen 

An emperor of Rome thus overborne, 

Troubled, confronted thus ; and, for the ex- 
tent 

Of regal justice, us'd in such contempt? 

My lords, you know, as do the mightful 
gods, 

However these disturbers of our peace 

Buzz in the people's ears, there nought hath 
pass'd, 

But even with law, against the wilful sons 

Of old Andronicus. 

* * 

And now he writes to heaven for his re- 
dress : 

See, here 's to Jove, and this to Mercury ; 

This to Apollo ; this to the god of war : 

Sweet scrolls to fly about the streets of 
Rome ! 

What 'a this, but libelling against the senate, 

And blazoning our injustice everywhere? 

A goodly humor, is it not, my lords? 

As who would say, in Rome no justice 
were. 

Tit. And., IV : 4. 1223. 

PHARISEEISM.— In Governments. 

Claud. * * But this new governor 
Awakes me all the enrolled penalties, 
Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung 
by the wall 



PHARISEEISM. 



429 



PITY 



So long, that nineteen zodiacs have gone 

round, 
And none of them been worn ; and, for a 

name, 
Now puts the drowsy and neglected act 
Freshly on me ; — 'tis surely, for a name. 

M. M.,I: 3. 146. 

PHILOSOPHE R— Tooth-ache Con- 
quers. 

Leon. * * 
For there was never yet philosopher 
That could endure the tooth-ach patiently. 
M. A., V : 1. ifi49. 

PHILOSOPHY.— Adversity's Milk. 

Fri. Adversity's sweet milk, philoso- 
phy. 

R. J., Ill : 3. 1263. 

— Natural. 

Touch. * * Hast any philosophy in 
thee, shepherd? 

Co?\ No more, but that I know, the more 
one sickens, the worse at ease he is ; and 
that he that wants money, means, and con- 
tent, is without three good friends : That the 
property of rain is to wet. and fire to burn : 
That good pasture makes fat sheep, and that 
a great cause of the night is lack of the sun : 
That he that hath learned no wit by nature 
nor art, may complain of good breeding, or 
comes of a very dull kindred. 

Touch. Such a one is a natural philoso- 
pher. 

A. Y., Ill : 2. 421. 

— Never Dreams. 
Ham. * * 
There are more things in heaven and earth, 

Horatio, 
Than are dreamt of in our philosophy. 

IT., I: 5. 1406. 

PHYSIC. —Rejected. 

Macb. Throw physic to the dogs, I '11 



none of it. 



.\f.,V: 3. 1383. 



— Source of "Wretchedness. 

Lear. * * Take physic, pomp ; 
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. 

K. L., Ill : 4. 1465. 



PICTURES. — Perfect. 

2 Serv. Dost thou love pictures? we will 

fetch thee straight 
Adonis, painted by a running brook; 
And Cytherea all in sedges hid, 
Which seem to move and wanton with her 

breath 
Even as the waving sedges play with wind. 
Lord. We '11 show thee Io, as she was a 

maid ; 
And how she was beguiled and surpris'd, 
As lively painted as the deed was done. 

3 Serv. Or Daphne, roaming through a 

thorny wood ; 
Scratching her legs that one shall swear she 

bleeds ; 
And at that sight shall sad Apollo weep, 
So workmanly the blood and tears are 

drawn. 

T. S. : Ind. ; 2. 453. 

PIETY— Blackens Evil. 

Leon. * * How he glisters 
Through my rust ! and how his piety 
Does my deeds make the blacker ! 

W.T., III: 2. 595. 

PIRATES. — Famous. 

Mess. * * 
Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates, 
Make the sea serve them ; which they ear 

and wound 
With keels of every kind. 

A. 6'., I: 4. 1545. 

PITILESSNESS. —An Adversary's. 

Duke. I am sorry for thee : thou art 
come to answer 
A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch 
Uncapable of pity, void and empty 
From any dram of mercy. 

M. V., IV : 1. 382. 

PITY. — A Hindrance to Crime. 

Hub. * * 
How now, foolish rheum. 
Turning dispiteous torture out of door ! 
I must be brief; let resolution drop 
Out at mine eyes, in tender womanish 
tears. 

K. J., IV: 1. 664. 



— (See Forbearance.) A new-born 
Babe. 

Mach. * * 

And pity, like a naked new-born babe, 

Striding the blast. 

31., 1 : 7. 1362. 

— A Weakness. 

Leon. * * 

Hoav sometimes nature will betray its folly, 

Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime 

To harder bosoms ! 

W. T., 1 : 2. 582. ' 

— Advised. 

Duke. * * Stand at her doors, 
And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall 

grow, 
Till thou have audience. 

T.N., I: 4. 543 

— Drives out Pity. 

Bru. O Antony! beg not your death of 

us. 
Thouyh now we must appear bloody and 

cruel, 
As, by our hands, and this our present act, 
You see we do ; yet see you but our hands, 
And this the bleeding business they have 

done : 
Our hearts you see not, they are pitiful ; 
And pity to the general wrong of Rome 
(As fire drives out fire, so pity, pity,) 
Hath done this deed on Caesar. For your 

part, 
To you our swords have leaden points, Mark 

Antony : 
Our arms in strength of malice, and our 

hearts, 
Of brother's temper, do receive you in 
With all kind love, good thoughts, and rev- 
erence. 

./. G„ III : 1. 1337. 

— Excited by Beauty. 

Oth * * Yet I '11 not shed her blood ; 
Nor scar that whiter skin.of hers than snow, 
And smooth as monumental alabaster. 

0., V : 2. 1528. 

— Excited by Shipwreck. 

Mir. * * O, I have suffered 
With those that I saw suffer ! a brave vessel. 



Who had no doubt some noble creature in 

her, 
Dash'd all to pieces. O, the cry did knock 
Against my very heart ! Poor souls ! they 

perish'd. 
Had I been any god of power, I would 
Have sunk the sea within the earth, or ere 
It should the good ship so have swallow'd, 

and 
The freighting souls within her. 

T„ 1 : 2. 8. 

— Grows passionate. 

Avf. * * O, let me twine 
Mine arm about that body, where against 
My grained ash an hundred times hath broke, 
And scar'd the moon with splinters. 

C, IV : 5. 1181. 

— Implored. 

Puc. Look on thy country * * 
As looks the mother on her lovely babe, 
When death doth close his tender dying eyes. 
H. VI, 1 pt., Ill : 3. 883. 

— Invoked. 

Imo. * * But if there be 
Yet left in heaven as small a drop of pity 
As a wren's eye, fear'd gods, a part of it ! 

Cym.,IY: 2. 1618. 

— Invoked of Stones. 

Q. Eliz. Stay yet ; look back, with me, 
unto the Tower. — 
Pity, you ancient stones, those tender babes, 
Whom envy hath immur'd within your walls ! 
Rough cradle for such little pretty ones ! 
Rude ragged nurse ! old sullen play-fellow 
For tender princes, use my babies well! 
So foolish sorrow bids your stones farewell. 
R. III., IV : 1. 1031. 

— Shown in Justice. 

hah. Yet show some pity. 

Ang. I show it most of all, when I show 

justice ; 

For then I pity those I do not know, 

Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall ; 

And do him right, that, answering one foul 

wrong, 
Lives not to act another. 

31. 31., II : 2. 152. 



PITY. 



431 



POETRY. 



— The Virtue of the Law. 
Aid. * * Pity is the virtue of the law, 
And none but tyrants use it cruelly. 

T. ^4., Ill: 5. 1301. 

— Threatened. 

Oli. Tell him he shall not speak with me. 

Mai. H' as been told so ; and he says, 
he '11 stand at your door like a sheriff's post, 
or be the supporter to a bench, but he '11 
speak with you. 

T. N., 1 : 5. 545. 

PLAGIARISM. — Of Pedants. 

Moth. They have been at a great feast 
of langauges, and stol'n the scraps. 

* * 

Cost. 0, they have liv'd long on the 
alms-basket of words ! 

L. Z,., V: 1. 292. 

Biron. This fellow picks up wit, as pig- 
eons peas, 
And utters it again when Jove doth please. 
He is wit's peddler, and retails his wares 
At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, 
fairs. 

L. Z., V: 2. 297. 

PLAGUE. — Quickly Caught. 

Oli. * * 
Even so quickly, may one catch the plague. 

T. JV., 1 : 5. 547. 

PLAUSIBILITY. — Its deceptive 
Power. 

Tarn. If Tamora entreat him, then he 
will: 
For I can smooth, and fill his aged ear 
With golden promises ; that were his heart 
Almost impregnable, his old ears deaf, 
Yet should both ear and heart obey my 
tongue. 

Tit. And., IV: 4. 1225. 

PLEASURE. — Its Minimum. 

Bene. You take pleasure, then, in the 
message? 

Beat. Yea, just so much as you may 
take upon a knife's point, and choke a daw 
withal. You have no stomach, signior? 
fare you well. 

M. A.,\\: 2. 237. 



— Like a Barber's Chair. 
Clo. It is like a barber's chair that fits 
all. 

A. W., II : 2. 504. 

— Shortens Time. 

Iago. * * 
Pleasure and action, make the hours seem 
short. 

0., II : 3. 1508. 

PLODDING. — Tiresome. 

Biron. * * 
Why, universal plodding prisons up 
The nimble spirits in the arteries ; 
As motion, and long-during action, tires 
The sineAvy vigour of the traveller. 

L. L., IV: 3. 290. 

POET. — His Powers. 

The. * * 
And, as imagination bodies forth 
The forms of things unknown, the poet's 

pen 
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy 

nothing 
A local habitation and a name. 

M.Ji., V: 1. 341 

POETRY. — Insincerity of. 

Touch. No, truly; for the truest poetry 
is the most feigning ; and lovers are given 
to poetry ; and what they swear in poetry, 
may be said, as lovers, they do feign. 

A. Y.,JII: 3. 425. 

— Love-sick. 

Duke. Ay, much is the force of heaven- 
bred poesy. 
Pro. ' Say that upon the altar of her 
beauty 

You sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your 
heart : 

Write till your ink be dry; and with your 
tears 

Moist it again ; and frame some feeling line. 

That may discover such integrity : 

For Orpheus' lute was strung with poets' 
sinews, 

Whose golden touch could soften steel and 
stones, 

Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans 



POETRY. 



432 



POISON. 



Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on 
sands. 

After your dire lamenting elegies, 

Visit by night your lady's chamber-win- 
dow 

With some sweet consort : to their instru- 
ments 

Tune a deploring dump, the night's dead 
silence 

Will well become such sweet complaining 
grievance. 

This, or else nothing, will inherit her. 

T. G., Ill : 2. 64. 

— Spirit of, Invoked. 

Arm. * * Assist me, some extempo- 
ral god of rhyme, for I am sure, I shall turn 
sonneteer. Devise, wit ! write, pen ! for I 
am for whole volumes in folio. 

L. L., 1 : 2. 276. 

— Spontaneity of True. 

Poet. A thing slipp'd idly from me. 

Our poesy is as a gum, which oozes 
From whence 't is nourish'd : The fire i' 

the flint 
Shows not, till it be struck; our gentle 

flame 
Provokes itself, and, like the current, flies 
Each bound it chases. 

T. A., 1 : 1. 1286. 

— That Sets the Teeth on Edge. 

Hot. Marry, and I 'm glad of it with all 
my heart ; 

I had rather be a kitten, and cry — mew, 

Than one of these same metre ballad-mon- 
gers : 

I had rather hear a brazen canstick turn'd. 

Or a dry wheel grate on an axletree ; 

And that would set my teeth nothing on 
edge. 

Nothing so much as mincing poetry : 

'T is like the forc'd gait of a shuffling 
nag. 

H.IV.,\ pt., Ill: 1. 745. 

POISON.— Instant and Fatal. 

Rom. Come hither, man. — I see that 
thou art poor ; 
Hold, there is forty ducats : let me have 



A dram of poison; such soon-speeding geer 
As will disperse itself through all the 

veins. 
That the life-weary taker may fall dead ; 
And that the trunk may be discharg'd of 

breath 
As violently, as hasty powder fir'd 
Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb. 

R. J., V : 1. 1274. 

— Obtained by Pretences. 

Queen. Despatch. 

Now, master doctor ; have you brought 

those drugs? 
Cor. Pleaseth your highness, ay : here 

they are, madam ; 
But I beseech your grace, (without offence ; 
My conscience bids me ask;) wherefore 

you have 
Commanded of me these most poisonous 

compounds, 
Which are the movers of a languishing 

death ; 
But, though slow, deadly? 

Queen. I do wonder, doctor. 

Thou ask'st me such a question : Have I 

not been 
Thy pupil long? Hast thou riot learn'd me 

how 
To make perfumes? distil? preserve? yea, 

so, 
That our great king himself doth woo me 

oft 
For my confections? Having thus far pro- 
ceeded, 
(Unless thou think 'st me devilish,) is 't not 

meet 
That I did amplify my judgment in 
Other conclusions? I will try the forces 
Of these thy compounds on such creatures 

as 
We count not worth the hanging, (but none 

human,) 
To try the vigour of them, and apply 
Allayments to their act, and by them gather 
Their several virtues, and effects. 
Cor. Your highness 

Shall from this practice but make hard 

your heart : 
Besides, the seeing these effects will be 
Both noisome and infectious. 

Cym.,I: 6.1594. 



POISON. 



433 



POPULARITY. 



— Stealthy. 
Ghost. * * 
The leperous distilment ; whose effect 
Holds such an enmity with blood of man. 
That, swift as quicksilver, it courses 

through 
The natural gates and alleys of the body ; 
And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset 
And curd, like eager droppings into milk, 
The thin and wholesome blood : so did it 

mine ; 
And a most instant tetter bark'd about, 
Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome 

crust, 

All my smooth body. 

H., 1 : 5. 1400. 

POISONER. — A would-be. 

Cor. I do not like her. She doth think, 

she has 
Strange lingering poisons : I do know her 

spirit, 
And will not trust one of her malice with 
A drug of such damn'd nature : Those she 

has, 
Will stupify and dull the sense awhile : 
Which first, perchance, she '11 prove on cats, 

and dogs ; 
Then afterward up higher ; but there is 
No danger in what show of death it makes, 
More than the locking up the spirits a time, 
To be more fresh, reviving. She is fool'd 
With a most false effect. 

Gym., I: 6. 1595- 

POLICY. — Above Conscience. 

1 St ran. * * But I perceive, 
Men most learn now with pity to dispense : 
For policy sits above conscience. 

T.A.,III: 2. 1298. 

POLITICIAN.— A Dissembler. 

Lear. * * Get thee glass eyes ; 
And, like a scurvy politician, seem 
To see the things thou dost not. 

A'. L., IV : 6. 1476. 

POMP.— Earthly. 

Nor. * * 
All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods. 

* * 

Their dwarfish pages were 
As cherubims, all gilt. 

H. VIII., I: 1. 1057. 



POOR.— Have strong Breaths. 

1 Cit. * * They say poor suitors have 
strong breaths ; they shall know we have 
strong arms too. 

Cor., 1:1. 1149. 



POPULACE. — A poor Dependence. 

Ant. * * Our slippery people 
(Whose love is never link'dto the deserver, 
Till his deserts are past.) 

A. C, 1: 2. 1543. 

Arch. Let us on ; 

And publish the occasion of our arms. 
The commonwealth is sick of their own 

choice, 
Their over greedy love hath surfeited : — 
A habitation giddy and unsure 
Hath he, that buildeth on the Amlgar heart. 
//. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 3. 779. 

— Has no Knowledge. 

Vol. I would, he had? — 'T was you in- 
cens'd the rabble : 
Cats, that can judge as fitly of his worth, 
As I can of those mysteries which heaven 
Will not have earth to know. 

C, IV : 2. 1178. 

POPULARITY.— How Obtained. 

K. Rich. He is our cousin, cousin ; but 
't is doubt, 

When time shall call him home from ban- 
ishment. 

Whether our kinsman come to see his 
friends. 

Ourself, and Bushy, Bagot here, and 
Green, 

Observ'd his courtship to the common peo- 
ple : — 

How he did seem to dive into their hearts, 

With humble and familiar courtesy ; 

What reverence he did throw away on 
slaves ; 

Wooing poor craftsmen, with the craft of 
smiles, 

And patient underbearing of his fortune, 

As 't were, to banish their affects with 
him. 

Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench ; 

A brace of draymen bid — God speed him 
well, 



POPULARITY. 



434 



PORTENTS. 



And had the tribute of his supple knee, 
With — "Thanks, my countrymen, my lov- 
ing friends ;" — 
As were our England in reversion his, 
And he our subjects' next degree in hope. 

R. II, 1 : 4. 691. 

POPULATION. — Tends to Poverty. 

Lavn. Truly, the more to blame he : we 
were Christians enow before : e'en as many 
as could well live, one by another. This 
making of Christians will raise the price of 
hogs ; if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we 
shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals 
for money. 

M. V., Ill: 5. 381. 

PORTENTS. — Admonitory 

3 Cit. When clouds are seen, wise men 

put on their cloaks ; 
When great leaves fall, then winter is at 

hand ; 
When the sun sets, who doth not look for 

night? 
Untimely storms make men expect a dearth : 
All may be well ; but, if God sort it so, 
'T is more than we deserve, or I expect. 

2 Cit. Truly, the hearts of men are full 

of fear : 
You cannot reason almost with a man 
That looks not heavily, and full of dread. 

3 Cit. Before the days of change, still is 

it so : 
By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust 
Ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see 
The water swell before a boist'rous storm. 
But leave it all to God. 

B. Ill, II : 3. 1018. 

— Braving Them. 

Casca. Who ever knew the heavens 

menace so? 
Cas. Those, that have known the earth 
so full of faults. 
For my part, I have walk'd about the 

streets, 
Submitting me unto the perilous night; 
And, thus unbraced, Casca, as you see, 
Have bar'd my bosom to the thunder-stone : 
And, when the cross blue lightning seem'd 

to open 
The breast of heaven, I did present myself 
Even in the aim and very flash of it. 



Casca. But wherefore did you so much 
tempt the heavens? 
It is the part of men to fear and tremble, 
When the most mighty gods, by tokens, send 
Such dreadful heralds to astonish us. 

J. C., I: 3. 1327. 

— Foolish to Notice. 

Glend. I cannot blame him : at my na- 
tivity, 
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, 
Of burning cressets ; and, at my birth, 
The frame and huge foundation of the earth 
Shak'd like a coward. 

Hot. Why, so it would have done 

At the same season, if your mother's cat 

had 
But kitten'd, though yourself had ne'er been 
born. 
Glend. I say, the earth did shake when 

I was born. 
Hot. And I say, the earth was not of my 
mind, 
If you suppose, as fearing you it shook. 
Glend. The heavens were all on fire, the 
earth did tremble. 

H. IV., lpt.,III: 1. 744. 

— Interpreted. 

Cas. * * 

Why all these fires, why all these gliding 
ghosts, 

Why birds, and beasts, from quality and 
kind ; 

Why old men fools, and children calculate ; 

Why all these things change, from their or- 
dinance, 

Their natures, and pre-formed faculties, 

To monstrous quality ; why, you shall find, 

That heaven hath infus'd them with these 
spirits, 

To make them instruments of fear, and warn- 
ing, 

Unto some monstrous state. Now could I, 
Casca, 

Name to thee a man most like this dreadful 
night ; 

That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and 
roars 

As doth the lion in the Capitol : 

A man no mightier than thyself or me, 



PORTENTS. 



435 



PORTENTS. 



In personal action ; yet prodigious grown, 
And fearful, as these strange eruptions are. 
Casca. 'T is Caesar that you mean : Is it 

not, Cassius ? 
Gas. Let it be who it is. 

J. C 1 : 3. 1327. 

— Of approaching Danger. 

Gal. Caesar, I never stood on ceremonies, 
Yet now they fright me. There is one 

within, 
Besides the things that Ave have heard and 

seen, 
Recounts most horrid sights seen by the 

watch. 
A lioness hath whelped in the streets : 
And graves have yawn'd, and yielded up their 

dead : 
Fierce fiery warriors fight upon the clouds, 
In ranks, and squadrons, and right form of 

war, 
Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol : 
The noise of battle hurtled in the air, 
Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan; 
And ghosts did shriek, and squeal about the 

streets. 

Caesar ! these things are beyond all use, 
And I do fear them. 

J. C, II : 2. 1333. 

— Of Evil. 

K. Rich. * * 
Tell the clock there. — Give me a calen- 
dar. — 
Who saw the sun to-day ? 

Rat. Not I, my lord. 

K. Rich. 
Then he disdains to shine ; for, by the book, 
He should have brav'd the east an hour 

ago: 
A black day will it be to somebody. — 
Ratcliff, 

Rat. My lord ? 

K. Rich. The sun will not be seen to-day ; 
The sky doth frown and lour upon our army. 

1 would, these dewy tears were from the 

ground. 
Not shine to-day ! Why, what is that to me, 
More than to Richmond ? for the self-same 

heaven, 
That frowns on me, looks sadly upon him. 
R. III., V : 3. 1045. 



— Of Misfortune. 

Cap. 'T is thought, the king is dead ; we 

will not stay. 
The bay-trees in our country are all wither'd, 
And meteors fright the fixed stars of heaven ; 
The pale-fac'd moon looks bloody on the 

earth, 
And lean-look'd prophets whisper fearful 

change ; 
Rich men look sad, and ruffians dance and 

leap,— 

The one, in fear to lose what they enjoy, 

The other, to enjoy by rage and war; 

These signs forerun the death or fall of 

kings. 

R. II, II : 4. 699. 

— The Teaching of heavenly. 

Edw. Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three 

suns? 
Rich. Three glorious suns, each one a 

perfect sun ; 
Not separated with the racking clouds, 
But sever'd in a pale clear-shining sky. 
See, see ! they join, embrace, and seem to 

kiss, 
As if they vow'd some league inviolable : 
Now are they but one lamp, one light, one 

sun. 
In this the heaven figures some event. 

Edtv. 'T is wondrous strange, the like yet 

never heard of. 
I think, it cites us, brother, to the field ; 
That we, the sons of brave Plantagenet, 
Each one already blazing by our meeds, 
Should, notwithstanding, join our lights to- 
gether, 
And over-shine the earth, as this the 

world. 
Whate'er it bodes, henceforward will I 

bear 
Upon my target three fair shining suns. 

II. F7.,3pt., II: 1. 962. 

— Their Significance. 

Gla. The river have thrice fiow'd, no ebb 
between : 
And the old folk, time's doting chronicles, 
Say, it did so, a little time before 
That our great grandsire, Edward, sick'd and 
died. 

H. 7F.,2pt.,IV: 4. 801. 



PORTENTS. 



436 



POSSESSED. 



Casca. * * O Cicero, 
I have seen tempests, when the scolding 

Avinds 
Have riv'd the knotty oaks ; and I have seen 
The ambitious ocean swell, and rage, and 

foam, 
To be exalted with the threat'ning clouds : 
But never till to-night, never till now, 
Did I go through a tempest dropping fire. 
Either there is a civil strife in heaven ; 
Or else the world, too saucy with the gods, 
Incenses them to send destruction. 

Cic. Why, saw you anything more won- 
derful ? 
Casca. A common slave (you know him 
well by sight,) 
Held up his left hand, which did flame, and 

burn 
Like twenty torches join'd ; and yet his hand, 
Not sensible of fire, remain'd unscorch'd. 
Besides, (I have not since put up my sword,) 
Against the Capitol I met a lion, 
Who glar'd upon me, and went surly by, 
Without annoying me : And there were drawn 
Upon a heap a hundred ghastly women, 
Transformed with their fear; who swore, 

they saw 
Men, all in fire, walk up and down the 

streets. 
And, yesterday, the bird of night did sit, 
Even at noon-day, upon the market-place, 
Hooting, and shrieking. When these prodi- 
gies 
Do so conjointly meet, let not men say, 
" These are their reasons, — They are natu- 
ral ; " 
For, I believe, they are portentous things 
Unto the climate that they point upon. 

J. C.,l: 3. 1326. j 

PORTRAIT — Lover's Devotion to a. 

Pro. Madam, if your heart be so obdu- 
rate, 
Vouchsafe me yet your picture for my love, 
The picture that is hanging in your cham- 
ber; 
To that I '11 speak, to that I '11 sigh and 

weep : 
For, since the substance of your perfect self 
Is else devoted, I am but a shadow, 
And to your shadow will I make true love. 
T. G., IV : 2. 67. 



— The Eloquence of a perfect. 

Bass. * * 
Fair Portia's counterfeit ? What demi-god 
Hath come so near creation ? Move these 

eyes ? 
Or whether, riding on the balls of mine, 
Seem they in motion ? Here are sever'd lips, 
Parted with sugar breath ; so sweet a bar 
Should sunder such sweet friends. Here, in 

her hairs, 
The painter plays the spider ; and hath woven 
A golden mesh t' entrap the hearts of men, 
Faster than gnats in cobwebs : But her 

eyes, — 
How could he see to do them? having made 

one, 
Methinks it should have power to steal both 

his, 
And leave itself unfurnish'd. 

M. F.,III: 2. 377. 

POSITION. — Demands Respect. 

Duke. Respect to your great place ! and 
let the devil 
Be sometime honour'd for his burning 
throne ! 

Jf.M.,V- 1. 173. 

— Gives Importance. 

Q. Mar. * * 
Small curs are not regarded, when they 

grin; 
But great men tremble, when the lion 

roars ; 
And Humphrey is no little man in England. 
H. VI., 2pt., Ill: 1. 922. 

— Subordinate, inevitable. 

Dogb. * * Well said, i' faith, neigh- 
bour Verges : — well, God 's a good man ; an 
two men ride of a horse, one must ride be- 
hind. 

3F.JL, III: 5. 243. 

POSSESSED.— With five Fiends. 

Edg. * * Five fiends have been in 
poor Tom at once; of lust, as Obidicut ; 
Hobbididance, prince of dumbness ; Mahu, 
of stealing; Modo, of murder ; and Flibber- 
tigibbet, of moppinand mowing; who since 
possesses chamber-maids and waiting-wo- 
men. 

A-.Z..IV: 1. 1471. 



POSSESSION. 437 POVERTY. 


POSSESSION —Belongs to Power. 


To build his fortune, I will strain a little, 


K. Rich. Well you deserve : — they well 


For 't is a bond in men. Give him thy 


deserve to have, 


daughter : 


That know the strong'st and surest way to 


What you bestow, in him I '11 counterpoise, 


get. 


And make him Aveigh with her. 


R. II, Ill : 3. 705. 


T. A., I: 1. 1288. 


— Not always of Right. 


—Incentive to Crime. 


Eli. Your strong possession, much more 


Ap. Such mortal drugs I have ; but 


than your right ; 


Mantua's law 


Or else it must go wrong with you, and me ; 


Is death, to any he that utters them. 


So much my conscience whispers in your 


Rom. Art thou so bare, and full of 


ear; 


wretchedness, 


Which none but heaven, and you, and I, 


And fear'st to die? famine is in thy cheeks, 


shall hear. 


Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes, 


K.J.,1: 1. 646. 


Contempt and beggary hang upon thy back ; 


( 


The world is not thy friend, nor the world's 


POVERTY. — Contented, is Rich. 


law ; 


Iago. Poor and content is rich, and rich 


The world affords no law to make thee rich ; 


enough : 


Then be not poor, but break it, and take 


But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, 


this. 


To him that ever fears he shall he poor : — 


Ap. My poverty, but not my will, con- 


Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe de- 


sents. 


fend 


Rom. I pay thy poverty, and not thy 


From jealousy ! 


will. 


0., Ill : 3. loll. 


Ap. Put this in any liquid thing you 
will, 
And drink it off; and, if you had the 


— Diminishes Power. 


Phry. Thy lips rot oft ! 


strength 


Tim. I will not kiss thee ; then the rot 


Of twenty men, it would despatch you 


returns 


straight. 


To thine own lips again. 


R. J., V : 1. 1274. 


Alcih. How came the noble Timon to 




this change? 


— Its Distractions. 


Tim. As the moon does, by wanting 


Fal. My lord, this is a poor mad soul : 


light to give : 


and she says, up and down the town, that 


But then renew I could not, like the moon ; 


her eldest son is like you : she hath been in 


There were no suns to borrow of. 


good case, and the truth is, poverty hath 




distracted her. But for these foolish officers, 


T. A., IV: 3. 1306. 


I beseech you, I may have redress against 




them. 


— Honest, Enriched. 


H. /F.,2pt.,II: 1. 781. 


Tim. The man is honest. 




Old Ath. Therefore he will be, Timon : 


— Its Plea. 


His honesty rewards him in itself, 


Val. Then know, that I have little wealth 


It must not bear my daughter. 


to lose; 


Tim. Does she love him? 


A man I am, cross'd with adversity ; 


Old Ath. She is young, and apt : 


My riches are these poor habiliments, 


Our own precedent passions do instruct us 


Of which if you should here disfurnish 


What levity 's in youth. 


me, 


* * 


You take the sum and substance that I 


Tim. This gentleman of mine hath serv'd 


have. 


me long ; 


T. 0., IV : 1. 65. 



POVERTY. 



438 



POWER. 



— Not desirable. 

Clo. No, madam, 't is not so well that I 
am poor; though many of the rich are 
damn'd. 

A. IF.. I: 3. 499. 



— Revenges Itself in Words. 

1 Var. Serv. How ! what does his cash- 
ier'd worship mutter? 

2 Var. Serv. "No matter what; he's poor, 
and that's revenge enough. Who can speak 
broader than he that has no house to put his 
head in ? such may rail against great build- 
ings 

T. A., Ill: 4. 1300. 

— Walks alone. 

Serv. As we do turn our backs 

From our companion thrown into his grave, 
So his familiars to his buried fortunes 
Sink all away ; leave their false vows with 

him, 
Like empty purses pick'd : and his poor 

self, 
A dedicated beggar to the air, 
With his disease of all shunn'd poverty, 
Walks like contempt, alone. 

T. A., IV: 2. 1304. 

POWER. — Disarmed. 

Hast. * * 
So that his power, like a fangless lion, 
May offer, but not hold. 

H. IV., 2 pt., IV : 1. 797. 



— Personified. 

Cas. * * Now could I, Casca, 

Name to thee a man most like this dreadful 

night ; 
That thunders, lightens, opens graves, and 

wars 
As doth the lion in the Capitol. 

J. C, I. 3. 1327. 

— Prematurely Grasped. 

Prin. Hen. * * My gracious lord ! my 

father ! — 
This sleep is sound indeed ; this is a sleep, 
That from this golden rigo hath divorc'd 
So many English kings. Thy due, from me, 
Is tears, and heavy sorrows of the blood; 
Which nature, love, and filial tenderness, 
Shall, O dear father, pay thee plenteously : 
My due, from thee, is this imperial crown ; 
Which, as immediate from thy place and 

blood, 
Derives itself to me. Lo, here it sits, — 
Which heaven shall guard : and put the 

world's whole strength 
Into one giant arm, it shall not force 
This lineal honour from me : This from thee 
Will I to mine leave, as 't is left to me. 

H. 7F-,2pt.,iy: 4. 802. 

—Talked of. 

Cap. * * (As, you know 

What great ones do, -the less will prattle of.) 

T. N. % 1 : 2. 541. 



— Its Tyranny. 

York. * * 



— Tyrannical Use of. 

Isab. * * O, it is excellent 

Whose smile and frown, like to Achille's rp,. *,„„„ , • + ,„ „4.„^„^.u v.,*:* 4„ + ._ 

I 1 o nave a giant s strength : but it is tyran- 
nous 
To use it like a giant. 



spear, 
Is able with the change to kill and cure 



H. VI., 2 pt., V : 1. 943. 



M. J/., II: 2. 152. 



— Magnanimously Retained. 

Bast. * * 
That hand, which had the strength, even at 
your door, 
To cudgel you, and make you take the 
hatch : 
To dive, like buckets, in concealed wells : 
To crouch in litter of your stable planks ; 
To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chests and 
trunks. 

K. J., V : 2. 673. 



— Waxing. 
Pom. * * 

My power's a crescent, and my any wrong 

hope 
Says it will come to the full. 

A. C, II : 1. 1547. 

— With Ignorance. 

Isab. * * But man, proud man ! 
Dress'd in a little brief authority, — 
Most ignorant of what he 's most assur'd, 



POWER. 



439 



PRAISES. 



His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, 
Plays such fantastic tricks before high 

heaven, 
As make the angels weep : who, with our 

spleens, 
Would all themselves laugh mortal. 

M. 31., IT : 2. 152. 

PRAISE. — Common, inadequate. 

Biron. * * 

0, but for my love, day would turn to 
night ! 
Of all complexions, the cull'd sovereignty 
Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek ; 
Where several worthies make one dignity ; 
Where nothing wants, that want itself 
doth seek. 
Lend me the flourish of all gentle tongues ; 
Fie, painted rhetoric ! O, she needs it not : 
To things of sale a seller's praise belongs ; 
She passes praise ; then praise too short 
doth blot. 

L. L., IV : 3. 289. 

— Envenoms Enemies. 

Adam. * * 

Your praise has come too swiftly home be- 
fore you. 

Know you not, master, to some kind of men 

Their graces serve them but as enemies? 

No more do yours ; your virtues, gentle 
master, 

Are sanctified and holy traitors to you. 

O, what a world is this, when what is comely 

Envenoms him that bears it. 

A. Y., II : 3. 415- 

— Equivocal. 

Bene. Why, i' faith, methinks she 's too 
low for a high praise, too brown for a fair 
praise, and too little for a great praise : on- 
ly this commendation I can afford her, — 
that were she other than she is, she were 
unhandsome ; and being no other but as she 
is, I do not like her. 

M.A., I: 1. 227. 

— Pattens. 
Her. What? have I twice said well? 
when was 't before ? 
I prithee, tell me : Cram's with praise, and 

makes 's 
As fat as tame things. 

W. T. % I; 2. 582. 



— Fulsome, Rebuked. 

Alex. They say he is a very man per se, 
And stands alone. 

Cres. So do all men ; unless they are 
drunk, sick, or have no legs. 

T. C.,I: 2. 1104 

— Illimitable. 

Cant. * * 
And make your chronicle as rich with praise, 
As is the ooze and bottom of the sea 
With sunken wreck and sumless treasuries. 
H. V., 1 : 2. 822. 

— Ironical. 

Clo. Marry, sir, they praise me, and 
make an ass of me ; now my foes tell me 
plainly I am an ass, so that by my foes, sir, 
I profit in the knowledge of myself. 

T. N., V : 1. 565. 

— Most in mere Mention. 

Eno. Would you praise Caesar, say, — 
Caesar ; — go no further. 

A. C, III: 2. 1558. 

— Outstripped. 

Pro. * * 0, Ferdinand, 

Do not smile at me that I boast her off, 
For thou shalt find she will outstrip all 

praise, 
And make it halt behind her. 

T.,IV: 1. 26. 

— Verbal. 

Ber. His good remembrance, sir, 

Lies richer in your thoughts than on his 

tomb ; 

So in approof lives not his epitaph, 

As in your royal speech. 

A. W., 1 : 2. 498. 

—Withheld. 

Her. * * One good deed dying tongue- 
less 
Slaughters a thousand, waiting upon that. 
Our praises are our wages : You may ride 's 
With one soft kiss, a thousand furlongs, ere 
With spur we heat an acre. 

W. T., 1 : 2. 582 

PRAISES. — A Debt 

Gow. * * Marina gets 

All praises, which are paid as debts, 

And not as given. 

P., IV: 2. 1659. 



PRAISES. 



44O 



PRAYERS. 



— Withheld. 

Ulyss. * * I will not praise thy Avis- 
dom, 
"Which like a bourn, a pale, a shore, con- 
fines 
Thy spacious and dilated parts. 

T. C, II : 3. 1118. 

PRAYER. — (See Denial.) A Fault. 

Quick. * * An honest, willing, kind 
fellow, as ever servant shall come in house 
withal ; and, I warrant you, no tell-tale, nor 
no breed-bate : his worst fault is that he is 
given to prayer ; he is something peevish 
that way ; but nobody but has his fault. 

M. W., 1 : 4. 93. 

— A King's. 

K. Hen. O God of battles ! steel my 
soldiers' hearts ! 

Possess them not with fear ; take from 
them now 

The sense of reckoning, if the opposed 
numbers 

Pluck their hearts from them ! — Not to- 
day, O Lord, 

not to-day, think not upon the fault 
My father .made in compassing the crown ! 

1 Richard's body have interred new ; 

And on it havebestow'd more contrite tears, 
Than from it issued forced drops of blood. 
Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay, 
Who twice a day their wither'd hands hold 

up 
Toward heaven, to pardon blood; and I 

have built 
Two chantries, where the sad and solemn 

priests 
Sing still for Richard's soul. More will I 

do: 
Though all that I can do,. is nothing worth ; 
Since that my penitence comes after all, 
Imploring pardon. 

//. r., TV: 1. 843. 

— Distracted by Desire. 

Ang. When I would pray and think, I 

think and pray 
To several subjects. Heaven hath ray 

empty words ; — - 
Whilst my invention, hearing not my 

tongue, 



Anchors on Isabel. Heaven in my mouth. 

As if I did but only chew his name ; 

And in my heart, the strong and swelling 

evil 
Of my conception. 

M. M., II: 4. 154. 

— More than Words. 

King. My words fly up, my thoughts re- 
main below : 
Words, without thoughts, never to heaven 
go. 

H., 111:3. 1418. 

— Richmond's. 

Richm. * * 
O Thou ! whose captain I account myself, 
Look on my forces with a gracious eye ; 
Put in their hands thy bruising irons of 

wrath, 
That they may crush down with a heavy 

fall 
The usurping helmets of our adversaries ! 
Make us thy ministers of chastisement, 
That we may praise thee in thy victory ! 
To thee I do commend my watchful soul, 
Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes ; 
Sleeping, and waking, O, defend me still ! 

R. III., V : 3. 1043. 

PRAYERS. — Intercessory. 

Isab. Not with fond shekels of the tested 
gold, 
Or stones, whose rates are either rich or 

poor 
As fancy values them ; but with true prayers 
That shall be up at heaven, and enter 

there, 
Ere sunrise : praj r ers from preserved souls, 
From fasting maids, whose minds are dedi- 
cate 
To nothing temporal. 

M. M.,l\: 2. 153. 

— Of Some, a Curse. 

Glo. The church ! where is it ? Had not 
churchmen pray'd, 
His thread of life had not so soon decay 'd : 
None do you like but an effeminate prince, 
Whom, like a school-hoy. you may over- 
awe. 

//. VI., lpt., I: 1. 864. 



PREACHER. 



44 I 



PREFERMENT. 



PREACHER. — Should be pure. 

Duke. # * 
He who the sword of heaven will bear 
Should be as holy as severe ; 

M. M.. Ill : 2. 162. 

PRECEPT.— And bad Example. 

Clar. Hast thou that holy feeling in thy 
soul, 
To counsel me to make my peace with God, 
And art thou yet to thy own soul so blind, 
That thou wilt war with God by murdering 
me? 

R. III., 1 : 4. 1013. 

— Contradicted by Practice. 
Oph. But, good my brother, 

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, 

Show me the steep and thorny way to 
heaven, 

Whilst, like a puffd and reckless liber- 
tine, 

Himself the primrose path of dalliance 
treads, 

And recks not his own read. 

H., 1 : 3. 1397. 

PRECOCITY. — Extraordinary. 

Mess. * * He hath borne himself be- 
yond the promise of his age : doing, in the 
figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion. 

M. A., 1 : 1. 225. 

— In cutting Teeth. 

York. Marry, they say, my uncle grew 
so fast, 
That he could gnaw a crust at two hours 

old; 
'T was full two years ere I could get a tooth. 
Grandam, this would have been a biting 
jest. 
Q. Eliz. A parlous boy : Go to, you are 

too shrewd. 
Arch. Good madam, be not angry with 

the child. 
Q. Eliz. Pitchers have ears. . 

R. III., II : 4. 1019. 

— In Theft. 

Ores. Is he so young a man and so old a 



lifter? 



T. C., I: 2. 1105. 



PRECURSORS— Of fierce Events. 

Ilor. A mote it is, to trouble the mind's 
eye. 
In the most high and palmy state of Rome, 
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, 
The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted 

dead 
Did squeak and gibber in-the Roman streets. 
* * 
As, stars with trains of fire and dews of 

blood, 
Disasters in the sun ; and the moist star, 
Upon whose influence Neptune's empire 

stands, 
Was sick almost to dooms-day with eclipse. 
And even the like precurse of fierce events, 
As Harbingers preceding still the fates, 
And prologue to the omen coming on, — 
Have heaven and earth together demonstra- 
ted 
Unto our elimatures and countrymen. 

ff.,I\ 1. 1392. 

— Of War. 

Mar. Good now, sit down, and tell me, 

he that knows. 
Why this same strict and most observant 

watch 
So nightly toils the subject of the land? 
And why such daily cast of brazen can- 
non, 
And foreign mart for implements of war ; 
Why such impress of shipwrights, whose 

sore task 
Does not divide the Sunday from the 

week : 
What might be toward, that this sweaty 

haste 
Doth make the night joint-labourer with the 

day ; 
Who is 't. that can inform me? 

H., 1 : 1. 1392. 

PREFERMENT— Not by Gradation. 

Iago. But there 's no remedy, 't is the 
curse o' service ; 
Preferment goes by letter, and affection, 
Not by the old gradation, where each sec- 
ond 
Stood heir to the first. 

<?., 1 : 1. 1491. 



PREMEDITATION . 



44 2 



PRETENSION. 



PREMEDITATION.— An Unfairness. 

Win. Com'st thou with deep premedi- 
tated lines, 
With written pamphlets studiously devis'd, 
Humphrey of Gloster? if thou canst ac- 
cuse, 
Or aught intend'st to lay unto my charge, 
Do it without invention suddenly ; 
As I with sudden and extemporal speech 
Purpose to answer what thou canst object. 
IT. F7.,lpt.,III: 1. 878. 

PREMONITION. — Of coming Evil. 

York. I shall not sleep in quiet at the 

Tower. 
Glo. Why, what would you fear? 
York. Marry, my uncle Clarence' angry 
ghost, 
My grandam told me, he was murder'd 
there. 
Prince. I fear no uncles dead. 
Glo. Nor none that live, I hope. 
Prince. An if they live, I hope, I need 
not fear. 
But come, my lord, and, with a heavy 

heart, 
Thinking on them, go I unto the Tower. 

R. III., Ill : 1. 1021. 

PREPARATION. — Suitable. 

Bap. * * 
But be thou arm'd for some unhappy 
words. 
Pet. Ay, to the proof; as mountains are 
for -winds, 
That shake not, though they blow perpet- 
ually. 

T. S.,IL: 1. 463. 

PREPARATIONS.— Needful to Suc- 
cess. 
North. I knew of this before ; but, to 
speak truth, 
This present grief had wip'd it from my 

mind. 
Go in with me ; and counsel every man 
The aptest May for safety, and revenge : 
Get posts, and letters, and make friends with 

speed ; 
Never so few, and never yet more need. 

H. IV., 2pt,I: 1. 776. 



PRESENT— The most Reliable. 

Ulyss. * * 
The present eye praises the present object. 
T. C., III: 3. 1125. 

PRESENTIMENT — Of Evil. 

K. Rich. Give me a bowl of wine : 
I have not that alacrity of spirit, 
Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have. 
— So, set it down. — Is ink and paper ready? 
R. III.,V: 3. 1043. 

PRESUMPTION. — Threatened. 

Mrs. Ford. Go to, then : we '11 use this 
unwholesome humidity, this gross watery 
pumpion ; we '11 teach him to know turtles 
from jays. 

M. W., Ill : 3. 104. 

PRETENSION— A disgraceful Fail- 
ure. 

Cost. O, sir, you have overthrown Ali- 
sander the conqueror ! You will be scrap'd 
out of the painted cloth for this : your lion, 
that holds his poll-ax sitting on a close 
stool, will be given to Ajax ; he will be the 
ninth Worthy. A conqueror, and afeared 
to speak ! run away for shame, Alisander. 
There, an 't shall please you; a foolish 
mild man ; an honest man, look you, and 
soon dashed ! He is a marvellous good 
neighbour, in sooth ; and a very good 
bowler : but, for Alisander, alas ! you see 
how 't is ; —a little o'erparted : — But there 
are Worthies a coming will speak their 
mind in some other sort. 

L. L.,V: 2. 300. 

—Easily Tested. 

Fal. * * But, Hal, I pr'ythee, trouble 
me no more with vanity. I would to God, 
thou and I knew where a commodity of 
good names were to be bought : An old 
lord of the council rated me the other day 
in the street about you, sir; but I marked 
him not : and yet he talked very wisely ; 
but I regarded him not : and yet he talked 
wisely, and in the street too. 

P. lien. Thou did'st well; for wisdom 
cries out in the streets, and no man regards 
it. 

Fal. O thou hast damnable iteration; 
and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. 
Thou hast done much harm upon me, Hal, — 
God forgive thee for it ! Before I knew 
thee, Hal, I knew nothing; and now am I, 
if a man should speak truly, little better 
than one of the wicked. I must give over 
this life, and I will give it over; by the 



PRETENSION. 



443 



PRIDE. 



Lord, an I do not, I am a villain ; I '11 be 
damned for never a king's son in Christen- 
dom. 

P. Hen. Where shall Ave take a purse to- 
morrow, Jack? 

Fal. Where thou wilt, lad, I '11 make 
one ; an I do not, call me villain, and baffle 
me. 

P. lien. I see a good amendment of life 
in thee ; from praying, to purse-taking. 

H. 7F.,lpt.,I: 2. 729. 



—False. 

Ham. * * 
Of shreds and patches. 



A king 

H., Ill : 4. 1419. 



PRICE.— The World a great. 

Des. Wouldst thou do such a deed for 

all the world? 
Emil. The world is a huge thing : 't is a 
great price 
For a small vice. 

0., IV: 3. 1525. 

PRIDE. — A Mother's. 

Vol. I pray you, daughter, sing; or ex- 
press yourself in a more comfortable sort : - 
If my son were my husband, I should 
freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he 
won honour, than in the embracements of 
his bed, where he would show most love. 
When yet he was but tender-bodied, and 
the only son of my womb ; when youth 
with comeliness plucked all gaze his way ; 
when, for a day of king's entreaties, a 
mother should not sell him an hour from 
her beholding ; I, — considering how honour 
would become such a person ; that it was 
no better than picture-like to hang by the 
wall, if renown made it not stir, — was 
pleased to let liim seek danger where he 
was like to find fame. To a cruel war I 
sent him ; from whence he returned, his 
brows bound with oak. I tell thee, daugh- 
ter, — I sprang not more in joy at first hear- 
ing he was a man-child, than now in first 
seeing he had proved himself a man. 

Vir. But had he died in the business, 
madam? how then? 

C., I: 3. 1153. 

— Condemned. 

Bru. He 's poor in no one fault, but stored 
with all. 

Sic. Especially, in pride. 

Bru. And topping all others in boasting. 



Men. * * You talk of pride : O, that 
you could turn your eyes towards the napes 
of your necks, and make but an interior sur- 
vey of your good selves ! O, that you could ! 

Bru. What then, sir ? 

Men. Why, then you should discover a 
brace of unmeriting, proud, violent, testy 
magistrates, (alias, fools.) as any in Rome. 

C., II: 1. 1160. 

— Flows as the Sea. 

Jaq. Why, who cries out on pride, 
That can therein tax any private party? 
Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea, 
Till that the wearer's very means do ebb ? 
What woman in the city do I name, 
When that I say, The city-woman bears 
The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders? 
Who can come in, and say that I mean her, 
When such a one as she, such is her neigh- 
bour? 

A. Y.,II: 7. 418. 

— From Hell. 

Aber. I cannot tell 

What heaven hath given him, let some graver 

eye 
Pierce into that ; but I can see his pride 
Peep through each part of him : Whence has 

he that ? 
If not from hell, the devil is a niggard ; 
Or has given all before, and he begins 
A new hell in himself. 

H. VIII., I: 1. 1057. 

—Hateful. 

Ajax. I do hate a proud man, as I hate 
the engendering of toads. 

T. a, II : 3. 1117. 



— How Fed. 

Ajax. Why should a man be proud ? How 
doth pride grow ? I know not what pride is. 

Agam. Your mind 's the clearer, Ajax, and 
your virtues the fairer. He that is proud, 
eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his 
own trumpet, his own chronicle ; and what- 
ever praises itself but in the deed, devours 
the deed in the praise. 

T. C, II: 3. 1117. 

Cleo. See, Caesar! O, behold, 
How pomp is follow'd. 

A. C, V : 2. 1579. 



PRIDE. 



444 



PRIDE. 



— Infects Others. 

Ulyss. * * The seeded pride 
That hath to this maturity blown up 
In rank Achilles, must or now be cropp'd, 
Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil, 
To overbulk us all. 

T. C., I: 3. 1111. 

— Inordinate and Incurable. 

Ulyss. Things small as nothing, for re- 
quest's sake only, 
He makes important : Possess'd he is with 

greatness ; 
And speaks not to himself, but with a pride 
That quarrels at self-breath : imagin'd worth 
Holds in his blood such swoln and hot dis- 
course, 
That, 'twixt his mental and his active parts, 
Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages, 
And batters down himself: What should I 

say? 
He is so plaguy proud, that the death tokens 

of it 
Cry — " No recovery." 

' T C, II: 3. 1117. 

— Its own Mirror. 

Ulyss. * * Pride hath no other glass 
To show itself, but pride ; for supple knees 
Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's 
fees. 

T. C, III : 3. 1123. 

— Rebuking Pride. 

Dro. S. Fly pride, says the peacock. 

C. E.,TV: 2. 206. 

— Simple, rustic. 

Cor. * * The greatest of my pride is, 
to see my ewes graze, and my lambs suck. 

A. K, III : 2. 421. 

Oli. O world, how apt the poor are to be 
proud. 

T. iV r . t ni: 1. 555. 

— The Feeding of it. 

Ajax. I '11 knead him, I will make him 

supple : 

Nest. He 's not yet thorough warm : force 
him with praises : 
Pour in, pour in ; his ambition is dry. 

T. C, II : 3. 1118. 



— Voluntary. 

Prin. All pride is willing pride, and yours 

is so. 

L. L., II : 1. 277. 

— Wounded by Neglect. 

Achil. What mean these fellows ? Know 
they not Achilles ? 

* * 

What, am I poor of late? 
'Tis certain, greatness, once fallen out with 

fortune, 
Must fall out with men too : What the de- 

clin'd is, 
He shall as soon read in the eyes of others, 
As feel in his own fall : for men, like butter- 
flies, 
Show not their mealy wings, but to the sum- 
mer; 
And not a man, for being simply man, 
Hath any honour; but honour for those 

honours 
That are without him, as place, riches, fa- 
vour, 
Prizes of accident as oft as merit : 
Which when they fall, as being slippery 

standers, 
The love that lean'd on them as slippery too, 
Do one pluck down another, and together 

Die in the fall. 

T. C in : 3. 1124. 

— Yielding to. 

Ulyss. * * Shall the proud lord, 
That bastes his arrogance with his own 

seam; 
And never suffers matter of the world 
Enter his thoughts, — save such as do revolve 
And ruminate himself, — shall he be wor- 

shipp'd 
Of that Ave hold an idol more than he ? 
No, this thrice worthy and right valiant lord 
Must not so staie his palm, nobly acquir'd; 
Nor, by my will, assubjugate his merit, 
As amply titled as Achilles is, 
By going to Achilles : 

That Mere to enlard his fat-already pride; 
And add more coals to Cancer, when he 

burns 
With entertaining great Hyperion. 
This lord go to him ! Jupiter forbid ; 
And say in thunder — "Achilles, goto him." 
T. (7., II: 3. 111S. 



PRINCES. 



445 



PROCRASTINATION. 



PRINCES.— Not Respected. 

Sim. * * 
As jewels lose their glory, if neglected, 
So princes their renown, if not respected. 

P., II: 2. 1650. 

PRISON — The World a. 

Ham. * * What have you, my good 
friends, deserved at the hands of fortune, 
that she sends you to prison hither? 

Guil. Prison, my lord ! 

Ham. Denmark 's a prison. 

Bos. Then is the world one. 

Ham. A goodly one ; in which there are 
many confines, wards, and dungeons ; Den- 
mark being one of the worst. 

Eos. We think not so, my lord. 

Ham. Why, then 't is none to you; for 
there is nothing either good or bad, but 
thinking makes it so : to me it is a prison. 

Ros. Why, then your ambition makes it 
one ; 't is too narrow for your mind. 

E., II : 1. 1406. 

PRISONERS. — Treatment of. 

Tal. With scoffs, and scorns, and con- 
tumelious taunts. 
In open market-place produc'd they me, 
To be a public spectacle to all ; 
Here, said they, is the terror of the 

French, 
The scare-crow that affrights our children 

so. 
Then broke I from the officers that led 

me ; 
And with my nails digg'd stones out of the 

ground, 
To hurl at the beholders of my shame. 
My grisly countenance made others fly ; 
None durst come near for fear of sudden 

death. 
In iron walls they deem'd me not secure; 
So great fear of my name 'mongst them 

was spread, 
That they suppos'd I could rend bars of 

steel, 
And spurn in pieces posts of adamant : 
Wherefore a guard of chosen shot I had, 
That walk'd about me every minute-while ; 
And if I did but stir out of my bed, 
Ready they were to shoot me to the heart. 
H. VI, 1 pt., 1 : 4. 870. 



PRIVATIONS. — Past. 

Cess. . Antony, 

Leave thy lascivious wassals. When thou 

once 
Wast beaten from Modena, where thou 

slew'st 
Hirtius and Pansa, consuls, at thy heel 
Did famine follow ; whom thou fought'st 

against, 
Though daintily brought up, with patience 

more 
Than savages could suffer : Thou didst drink 
The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle 
Which beasts would cough at : thy palate 

then did deign 
The roughest berry on the rudest hedge ; 
Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture 

sheets, 
The barks of trees thou browsed's.t ; on the 

Alps, 
It is reported, thou didst eat strange flesh, 
Which some did die to look on : And all this 
(It wounds thine honour, that I speak it 

now,) 
Was borne so like a soldier, that thy cheek 
So much as lank'd not. 

A. C, 1 : 4. 1545. 

i PROCRASTINATION— Dangerous. 

Alen. * * Delays have dangerous ends. 
H. VI., 1 pt., Ill : 2. 881. 

— In Paying Debts. 

Host. * * A hundred mark is a long 
score for a poor lone woman to bear : and I 
have borne, and borne, and borne ; and have 
been fubbed off, and fubbed off, and fubbed 
off, from this day to that day, that it is a 
shame to be thought on. There is no hon- 
esty in such dealing. 

H. TV., 2 pt., II : 1. 780. 

Macb. * * 
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 
Creeps in this petty pace from day to-day 
To the last syllable of recorded time. 

M., V : 5. 1383. 

— To be Avoided. 

Pain. True ; 
When the day serves, before black-corner'd 

night, 
Find what thou want'st by free and offer 'd 

light. 



PROCRASTINATION. 



446 



PROGNOSTICATION. 



King. * * 
Let 's take the instant by the forward top ; 
For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees 
Th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time 
Steals, ere we can effect them. 

A. W.,V: 3. 526. 

PRODIGAL. — Course and End. 

Gru. * * 
How like a younker, or a prodigal, 
The scarfed bark puts from her native bay, 
HuggM and embraced by the strumpet wind ! 
How like a prodigal doth she return ; 
With over-weather'd ribs, and ragged sails, 
Lean, rent, and beggar'd by the strumpet 
wind. 

M. V., II: 6. 371. 

— Irremediable. 

Luc. Serv. * * A prodigal course 
Is like the sun's ; but not, like his, recover- 
able. 

T.A., III: 4. 1299. 

PRODIGALITY. —Assumed. 

Ely. The strawberry grows underneath 
the nettle, 
And wholesome berries thrive and ripen 

best, 
Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality ; 
And so the prince obscur'd his contempla- 
tion 
Under the veil of wildness ; which, no doubt, 
Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night, 
Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty. 

H. V., I: 1. 820. 

— Its Excess. 

Flav. * * Our vaults have wept 
With drunken spilth of wine. 

T. A., II : 2. 1296. 

— Makes Days short. 
Luc. Serv. Ay, but the days are waxed 
shorter with him : 
You must consider, that a prodigal course 
Is like the sun's ; but not, like his, recover- 
able. 
I fear, 't is deepest winter in lord Timon's 

purse ; 
That is, one may reach deep enough, and yet 
Find little. 

T. A.. Ill: 2. 1299. 



PROFANITY. — Aggravates Sin. 

Luc. * * 
111 deeds are doubled with an evil word. 

C. E.,JI\: 2. 201. 

— Woman's. 
Hot. * * 'Heart, you swear like a 



unfit-maker's wife. 



H. IV., lpt.,III: 2. 747. 



PROFFERS.— Deserve Reward. 

King. * * 
Proffers not took reap thanks for their re- 
ward. 

A. W., II : 1 . 504. 

PROGNOSTICATION.— In Harmony 
with Fear. 

App. Macbeth ! Macbeth ! Macbeth ! be- 
ware Macduff; 
Beware the thane of Fife. — Dismiss me : — 
Enough. 
Macb. Whate'er thou art, for thy good 
caution, 
Thou hast harp'd my fear aright. 

M., IV : 1. 1375. 

— Misleading. 

App. Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! 

Macb. Had I three ears, I 'd hear thee. 
App. Be bloody, bold, 

And resolute : laugh to scorn the power of 

man, 
For none of woman born shall harm 
Macbeth. 
Macb. Then live, Macduff: What need 
I fear of thee? 
But yet I '11 make assurance double sure, 
And take a bond of fate : thou shalt not 

live; 
That I may tell pale-hearted fear, it lies, 
And sleep in t spite of thunder. — What is 

this, 
That rises like the issue of a king ; 
And wears upon his baby brow the round 
And top of sovereignty? 

All. Listen, but speak not. 

App. Be lion-mettled, proud ; and take 
no care 
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers 

are : 
Macbeth shall never vanquish 'd be, until 



PROGNOSTCATION. 



447 



PROPHECY. 



Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill 

Shall come against him. 

Macb. That will never be ; 

Who can impress the forest ; bid the tree 

Unfix his earth-bound root? sweet bode- 
ments ! good ! 

Rebellion's head, rise never, till the wood 

Of Birnam rise, and our high-plac'd Mac- 
beth 

Shall live the lease of nature, pay his 
breath 

To time, and mortal custom. 

M.,IV: 1. 1375. 

PROMISE. — Puzzling. 

Macb. Accursed be that tongue that tells 
me so, 

For it hath cow'd my better part of man ! 

And be these juggling fiends no more be- 
lieved, 

That palter with us in a double sense ; 

That keep the word of promise to our 
ear, 

And break it to our hope. 

M., V : 7. 1385. 

PROMISES.— In Time of Peril. 

Lew. Well ; keep good quarter and good 
care to-night ; 
The day shall not be up so soon as I, 
To try the fair adventure of to-morrow. 

K. J., V . 5. 675. 

— Maidens Cautioned against. 

Mar. * * Beware of them, Diana; 
their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, 
and all these engines of lust, are not the 
things they go under : many a maid hath 
been seduced by them ; and the misery is, 
example, that so terrible shows in the wreck 
of maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade 
succession, but that they are limed with the 
twigs that threaten them. 

A. W., Ill : 5. 514. 

— Needful in Danger. 

K.John. * * 
Then pause not ; for the present time 's so 

sick, 
That present medicine must be minister'd, 
Or overthrow incurable ensues. 

K. «/., V : 1. 671. 



— Speedily Performed. 

Char. * * 
Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens, 
That one day bloom'd, and fruitful were the 
next. 

II. VI, lpt.,T; 6. 871. 

PROOF. — Indisputable. 

Buck. * * By intelligence, 
And proofs as clear as founts in July, when 
We see each grain of gravel. 

H. VIII, 1:1. 1058. 
PROPHECY.— A Fool's. 

Fool. * * 
I '11 speak a prophecy ere I go : 
When priests are more in word than matter ; 
When brewers mar their malt with water ; 
When nobles are their tailors' tutors ; 
No heretics burn'd, but wenches' suitors ; 
When every case in law is right ; 
No squire in debt, nor no poor knight : 
When slanders do not live in tongues ; 
Nor cutpurses come not to throngs ; 
When usurers tell their gold i' the field ; 
And bawds and whores do churches build ; 
Then shall the realm of Albion 
Come to great confusion. 
Then comes the time, who lives 10 see 't, 
That going shall be us'd with feet. 

K. L., Ill: 2. 1464. 

—Fulfilled. 

K.John. Is this Ascension-day? Did 
not the prophet 
Say, that, before Ascension-day at noon, 
My crown I should give off? Even so I have : 
I did suppose, it should be on constraint ; 
But, heaven be thank'd, it is but voluntary. 
K.J.,Y: 1. 671. 

— Of Elizabeth's Greatness. 

Cran. * * 

This royal infant, (heaven still move about 
her!) 

Though in her cradle, yet now promises 

Upon this land a thousand thousand bless- 
ings, 

Which time shall bring to ripeness : She 
shall be 

(But few now living can behold that good- 
ness,) 

A pattern to all princes living with her, 



PROPHECY. 



44 8 



PROSPERITY. 



And all that shall succeed : Sheba was never 
More covetous of wisdom, and fair virtue, 
Than this pure soul shall be : all princely 

graces, 
That mould up such a mighty piece as this is, 
With all the virtues that attend the good, 
Shall still be doubled on her : truth shall 

nurse her, 
Holy and heavenly thoughts still counsel 

her : 
She shall be lov'd, and fear'd : Her own 

shall bless her: 
Her foes shake like a field of beaten corn, 
And hang their heads with sorrow : Good 

grows with her : 
In her days, every man shall eat in safety 
Under his own vine, what he plants ; and ! 

sing 
The merry songs of peace to all his neigh- 
bours : 
God shall be truly known; and those about 

her 
From her shall read the perfect ways of hon- 
our, 
And by those claim their greatness, not by 

blood. 
Nor shall this peace sleep with her : But as 

when 
The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, 
Her ashes new create another heir, 
As great in admiration as herself; 
So shall she leave her blessedness to one, 
(When heaven shall call her from this cloud 

of darkness,) 
Who, from the sacred ashes of her honour, 
Shall star-like rise, as great in fame- as she 

was, 
And so stand fix'd : Peace, plenty, love, 

truth, terror, 
That were the servants to this chosen infant, 
Shall then be his, and like a vine grow to him ; 
Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall 

shine, 
His honour and the greatness of his name 
Shall be, and make new nations : He shall 

flourish, 
And, like a mountain cedar, reach his 

branches 
To all the plains about him: — Our chil- 
dren's children 
Shall see this, and bless heaven. 

//. VIII., V : 3. 1094. 



— Of Evil. 

Bast. * * 
And here 's a prophet that I brought with me 
From forth the streets of Pomfret, whom I 

found 
With many hundreds treading on his heels ; 
To whom he sung, in rude harsh-sounding 

rhymes, 
That, ere the next Ascension-day at noon, 
Your highness should deliver up your crown. 
K.John. Thou idle dreamer, wherefore , 

didst thou so? 
Peter. Foreknowing that the truth will fall 

out so. 
K. John. Hubert, away with him ; im- 
prison him. 
And on that day, at noon, whereon, he says, 
I shall yield up my crown, let him be hang'd : 
Deliver him to safety, and return, 
For I must use thee. 

K. J., IV : 2. 667. 

— Of future Greatness. 

Ban. Were such things here, as we do 
speak about? 
Or have we eaten of the insane root, 
That takes the reason prisoner? 

Mad. Your children shall be kings. 
Ban. You shall be king. 

Macb. And thane of Cawdor too ; went it 

not so? 
Ban. To the self-same tune, and words. 
31,1: 3. 1359. 

— Of Greatness. 

K. Hen. Come hither, England's hope : 

If secret powers 
Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts, 
This pretty lad will prove our country's 

bliss. 
His looks are full of peaceful majesty ; 
His head by nature fram'd to wear a crown, 
His hand to wield a sceptre ; and himself 
Likely, in time, to bless a regal throne. 
Make much of him, my lords ; for this is he, 
Must help you more than you are hurt by me. 
//. F7.,3pt.,lV: 6. 983. 

PROSPERITY. — Dangerous. 

Bru. It is the bright day, that brings forth 
the adder : 
And that craves wary walking. 

J. C., II: 1. 1329. 



PROSPERITY. 



449 



PROVIDENCE. 



— Promised. 

Lew. * * 
Come, come ; for thou shalt thrust thy hand 

as deep 
Into the purse of rich prosperity, 
As Lewis himself. 

K. J., V : 2. 672. 

— The Bond of Love. 

Cam. * * Besides, you know, 
Prosperity 's the very bond of love ; 
Whose fresh complexion and whose heart 

together 
Affliction alters. 

Per. One of these is true : 
I think affliction may subdue the cheek. 
But not take in the mind. 

W. T., IV: 3. 607. 

— Wicked, Ends tragically. 
Q. Mar. So, now prosperity begins to 
mellow, 
And drop into the rotten mouth of death. 
Here in these confines slily have I lurk'd, 
To watch the waning of mine enemies. 
A dire induction am I witness to, 
And will to France ; hoping, the conse- 
quence 
Will prove as bitter, black, and tragical. 
Withdraw thee, wretched Margaret! who 
comes here? 

R. I II, IV: 4. 1034. 

PROTESTATION.— Loud. 

Ant. * * 0, that I were 
Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar 
The horned herd ! for I have savage cause ; 
And to proclaim it civilly, were like 
A halter 'd neck, which does the hangman 

thank 
For being yare about him. — Is he whipp'd? 
A. C.,m: 11. 1567. 

— Not to be Trusted. 

Cleo. * * Though you in swearing 
shake the throned gods. 

A. CI: 3. 1544. 

— Of Love. 

Eos. * * Pray you, no more of this ; 
't is like the howling of Irish wolves against 
the moon. 

A- F., V: 2. 435. 



PROTESTATIONS. — Of Love, easily 
Broken. 
Sil. There, hold. 
I will not look upon your master's lines : 
I know they are studied with protestations, 
And full of new-found oaths, which he will 

break 
As easily as I do tear his paper. 

T. G., IV: 2. 69. 

PROVERBS.— Patch Grief. 

Leon. * * Patch grief with proverbs. 
M. A., V : 1. 249. 

Rom. * * 
For I am proverb 'd with a grandsire phase. 
R.J.,1: 4. 1247. 

— Sage Saws. 

Sir To. Come hither, knight : come 
hither, Fabian ; we '11 whisper o'er a couplet 
or two of most sage saws. 

T. A"., Ill: 4. 562. 

PROVIDENCE.— Appealed to. 

Gaunt. * * 
But since correction lieth in those hands, 
Which made the fault that we cannot cor- 
rect, 
Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven ; 
Who when he sees the hours ripe on earth, 
Will rain hot vengeance on offenders' heads. 
R. II., I: 2. 686. 

— Just. 

Claud. * * 

The word of heaven — on whom it will, it 
will ; 
On whom it will not, so ; yet still 't is just. 
M. M., 1 : 2. 145. 

— Special. 

Ham. * * 
There 's a divinity that shapes our ends, 
Rough-hew them how we will. 

H.,Y:2. 1433. 

Ham. Not a whit, we defy augury ; there 
is a special providence in the fall of a spar- 
row. If it be now, 'tis not to come : if it 
be not to come, it will be now : if it be not 
now, yet it will come : the readiness is all : 
Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows, 
what is 't to leave betimes? 

H., V : 2. 1435. 



PROVIDENCE. 



450 



PURGATORY. 



— Special Invoked. 

Adam. He that doth the ravens feed, 
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, 
Be comfort to my age. 

A. Y., II : 3. 415. 

PROVOCATION.— Of Tyranny. 

OU. * * 

Have you not set mine honour at the 

stake, 
And baited it with all th' unmuzzled 

thoughts 
That tyrannous heart can think? 

T.N., III: 1. 555. 

PRUDENCE. — Dictating Delay. 

Const. Stay for an answer to your em- 
bassy, 

Lestunadvis'd you stain your swords with 
blood : 

My lord Chatillon may from England 
bring 

That right in peace, which here we urge in 
war; 

And then we shall repent each drop of 
blood, 

That hot rash haste so indiscreetly shed. 

K. J., II: 1. 650. 

— Enjoined. 

Shy. * * 
Do as I bid you : Shut doors after you : 
Fast bind, fast find : 
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. 

M. V., II : 5. 371. 

— In Trading. 

Ulyss. * * 
Let us, like merchants, show our foulest 

wares, 
And think, perchance, they '11 sell; if not, 
The lustre of the better shall exceed, 
By showing the worst first. 

T. a, 1 : 3. 1111. 

— Shelters Itself. 

Por. Is Brutus sick? and is it physical 
To walk unbraced, and suck up the hu- 
mours 
Of the dank morning? 

J. C., II: 1. 1331. 



— The best Policy. 

Buck. This butcher's cur is venom- 
mouth'd, and I 
Have not the power to muzzle him ; there- 
fore, best 
Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's 

book 
Out-worths a noble's blood. 

H. VIII., 1 : 1. 1058. 

PRUNING.— Gives Life. 

Gard. * * All superfluous branches 
We lop away, that bearing boughs may live. 
R. II, III: 4. 706. 

PUNISHMENT.— Itself Punished. 

Ant. * * Bid that welcome > 
Which comes to punish us, and we punish it 
Seeming to bear it lightly. 

A. C IV : 12. 1575. 

— Misery of Deserved. 

Duch. Art thou gone too? All comfort 

go with thee ! 
For none abides with me : my joy is — death ; 
Death, at whose name I oft have been 

afear'd, 
Because I wish'd this world's eternity. — 
Stanley, I pr'ythee, go, and take me hence ; 
I care not whither, for I beg no favour, 
Only convey me where thou art commanded. 
IT. VI., 2pt., II: 4. 921. 

— Proper Order in. 

' Duke. Whipp'd first, sir, and hang'd 

after. 
Proclaim it, provost, round about the city. 
31. M., V: 1. 176. 

PURGATORY.— Its Horrors. 

Ghost. I am thy father's spirit ; 
Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, 
And, for the day, confin'd to lasting fires, 
Till the foul crimes, done in my days of nat- 
ure, 
Are burnt and purg'd away. But that I am 

forbid 
To tell the secrets of my prison-house, 
I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word 



PURGATORY. 



451 



PURPOSE, 



Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young 

blood ; 
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from 

their spheres ; 
Thy knotted and combined locks to part, 
And each particular hair to stand on end, 
Like quills upon the fretful porcupine ; 
But this eternal blazon must not be 
To ears of flesh and blood. — List, list, O 

list ! 
If thou didst ever thy dear father love, — 
Ham. O God ! 

Ghost. Revenge his foul and most un- 
natural murder. 

ff.,I: 5. 1399. 

PURITY.— Demands Sincerity. 

Lucio. * * 

I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted ; 

By your renouncement, an immortal spirit ; 

And to be talked with in sincerity, 

As with a saint. 

M. 3f.,I: 4. 147. 

— Whiter than Snow. 
Jul. * * 

For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night 
Whiter than new snow on a raven's back. 

R. J., Ill : 2. 1261. 

PURPOSE. — A Weak. 

Duke. * * A purpose 

More grave and wrinkled than the aims and 

ends 

Of burning youth. 

M. M., 1 : 3. 146. 

All-encompassing. 

Cant. * * 

As many several ways meet in one town ; 

As many fresh streams run in one self sea ; 

As many lines close in the dial's centre ; 

So may a thousand actions, once afoot, 

End in one purpose, and be all well borne 

Without defeat. 

H. V., I: 2. 823. 

— Evil Overcome. 
Hub. Well, see to live ; I will not touch 
thine eyes 
For all the treasure that thine uncle owes : 
Yet am I sworn, and I did purpose, boy, 
With this same very iron to burn them out. 
K. J., IV : 1. 665. 



— Macbeth's Infirmity of. 

Macb. I '11 go no more : 

I am afraid to think what I have done ; 
Look on 't again, I dare not. 

Lady M. Infirm of purpose ! 

Give me the daggers : The sleeping, and 

the dead, 
Are but as pictures : 't is the eye of child- 
hood, 
That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, 
I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, 
For it must seem their guilt. 

M., II : 2. 1365. 

— Not to be Disclosed. 

Buck. Well then, no more but this : Go, 

gentle Catesby, 
And, as it were far off, sound thou lord 

Hastings, 
How he doth stand affected to our purpose ; 
And summon him to-morrow to the Tower 
To sit about the coronation. 
If thou dost find him tractable to us, 
Encourage him, and tell him all our reasons : 
If he be leaden, icy, cold, unwilling, 
Be thou so too ; and so break off the talk, 
And give us notice of his inclination : 
For we to-morrow hold divided councils, 
Wherein thyself shalt highly be employ'd. 
R. 171., Ill: 1. 1022 

— Not to be Disguised. 

Nest. The purpose is perspicuous even 
as substance, 
Whose grossness little characters sum 

up: 
And, in the publication, make no strain. 

T. C, 1 : 3. nil. 

— Should Go with the Deed. 

Mad. Time, thou anticipat'st my dread 
exploits ; 
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, 
Unless the deed go with it ; From this mo- 
ment, 
The very firstlings of my heart shall be 
The firstlings of my hand ; And even now 
To crown my thoughts with acts, be it 

thought and done : 
The castle of Macduff I will surprise; 
Seize upon Fife ; give to the edge o' the 
sword 



PURPOSE. 



452 



PUSILLANIMITY. 



His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls 
That trace his line. No boasting like a fool ; 
This deed I '11 do, before this purpose cool : 
But no more flights ! 

31., IV: 1. 1376. 

— Singleness of. 

Cant. I this infer, — 

That manj' things, having full reference 
To one concent, may work contrariously ; 
As many arrows, loosed several ways, 
Fly to one mark. 

H. V., I: 2. 823. 

— The Slave of Memory. 

P. King. * * 
Purpose is but the slave to memory; 
Of violent birth, but poor validity : 
Which now, like fruit unripe, sticks on the 

tree; 
But fall, unshaken, when they mellow be. 
Most necessary 't is, that we forget 
To pay ourselves what to ourselves is debt : 
What to ourselves in passion we propose, 
The passion ending, doth the purpose lose. 
The violence of either grief or joy 
Their own enactures with themselves de- 
stroy : 
Where joy most revels, grief doth most la- 
ment, 
Grief joys, joy grieves, on slender accident. 

H. t III : 2. 1414. 

PURPOSES. — High. 

Hect. You are amaz'd, my liege, at her 
exclaim : 
Go in, and cheer the town : we '11 forth, and 

fight ; 
Do deeds worth praise, and tell you them at 
night. 

T. C, V : 3. 1140. 

PURSE. — Curse of an empty. 

Bagot. And that 's the wavering com- 
mons : for their love 
Lies in their purses ; and whoso empties them, 
By so much fills their hearts with deadly 
hate. 

B. II., II : 2. 697. 



PURSUIT.— Not to be Escaped from. 
Hel. The wildest hath not such a heart 

as you. 
Run when you will, the story shall be 

chang'd, 
Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase ; 
The dove pursues the griffin ; the mild 

hind 
Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless 

speed, 
When cowardice pursues, and valour flies. 
31. HT., II : 1. 323. 

PUSILLANIMITY.— Kingly. 

K. Hen. My lord of Warwick, hear me 
but one word ; — 
Let me, for this my life-time, reign as 
king. 
York. Confirm the crown to me, and to 
mine heirs, 
And thou shalt reign in quiet while thou 
liv'st. 
K. Hen. I am content : Richard Plantag- 
enet, 
Enjoy the kingdom after my decease. 

Clif. What wrong is this unto the prince 

your son ! 
War. What good is this to England, and 

himself? 
West. Base, fearful, and despairing 

Henry ! 
Clif. How hast thou injur'd both thyself 

and us ! 
West. I cannot stay to hear these articles. 
North. Nor I. 
Clif. Come, cousin, let us tell the queen 

these news. 
West. Farewell, faint-hearted and de- 
generate king, 
In whose cold blood no spark of honour 
bides. 
North. Be thou a prey unto the house of 
York, 
And die in bands for this unmanly deed ! 
Clif. In dreadful war may'st thou be 
overcome ! 
Or live in peace, abandon'd, "and despis'd ! 
E. VI., 3 pt., 1 : 1. 956. 



QUARREL. 



453 



QUARRELS. 



Q. 



QUARREL. — Patching a. 

Ant. If you '11 patch a quarrel, 
As matter whole you have not to make it 
with, 

It must not be with this. 

A. C., II: 2. 1548. 

QUARRELS. — Adultery's Opportuni- 
ty. 

Rom. The day serves well for them now. 
I have heard it said, The fittest time to cor- 
rupt a man's wife, is when she 's fallen out 
with her husband. 

C, IV : 3. 1179. 

— Cause of to be Proclaimed. 

Mar. In God's name, and the king's, say 

who thou art, 
And why thou com'st, thus knightly clad in 

arms : 
Against what man thou com'st, and what 

thy quarrel : 
Speak truly, on thy knighthood, and thy 

oath ; 
And so defend thee, heaven, and thy valour. 
R. II, 1 : 3. 687. 

— Cursed. 

Em. * * 
And the best quarrels, in the heat, are 

curs'd 
By those that feel their sharpness. 

K. L., V : 3. 1482. 

— Discretion in Avoiding. 

D. Pedro. As Hector, I assure you : 
and in the managing of quarrels, you may 
see he is wise ; for either he avoids them 
with great discretion, or undertakes them 
with a Christian-like fear. 

M. A., II : 2. 236. 

•r- Final Appeal in. 
Gaunt. * * 
Put we our quarrel to the will of heaven ; 
Who when he sees the hours ripe on earth, 
Will rain hot vengeance on offenders' heads. 
B. II., 1 : 2. 686. 



— Foreign. 

K. Hen. * * Therefore, my Harry, 
Be it thy course, to busy giddy minds 
With foreign quarrels; that action, hence 

borne out, 
May waste the memory of the former days. 
More would I, but my lungs are wasted so, 
That strength of speech is utterly denied me. 
How I came by the crown, O God, forgive ! 
And grant it may with thee in true peace 

live ! 

//. IF., apt., IV: 4. 804. 

— Mistaken. 

D. Pedro. Welcome, signior : You are al- 
most come to part almost a fray. 

Claud. We had lik'd to have had our two 
noses snapp'd off with two old men without 
teeth. 

D.Pedro. Leonato and his brother. What 
think'st thou? Had we fought, I doubt we 
should have been too young for them. 

Bene. In a false quarrel there is no true 
valour : I came to seek you both. 

M. A., V : 1. 250. 

—Private, monstrous. 

Oth. * * Give me to know 
How this foul rout began, who set it on ; 
And he that is approv'd in this offence, 
Though he had twinn'd with me, both at a 

birth, 
Shall lose me. — What ! in a town of war, 
Yet wild, the people's hearts brimful of fear, 
To manage private and domestic quarrel, 
In night, and on the court and guard of 

safety ! 
'T is monstrous. — Iago, who began it? 

0., II: 3. 1506. 

— Public, lead to private. 
Bast. An if thou hast the mettle of a 
king, — 
Being wrong'd, as we are, by this peevish 

town, — 
Turn thou the mouth of thy artillery, 



QUARRELS. 



454 



QUARRELSOMENESS. 



As we will ours, against these saucy walls : 

And when that we have dash 'd -them to the 
ground, 

Why, then defy each other ; and, pell- 
mell, 

Make work upon ourselves, for heaven, or 
hell. 

K. J., II : 2. 654. 

— Woman's. 
Pis. * * As quarrellous as the weasel. 
Cym., Ill- 4. 1610. 

QUARRELSOME.— (See Advice.) 
The seventh Cause. 

Touch. Upon a lie seven times removed; — 
Bear your body more seeming, Audrey : — 
as thus, sir. I did dislike the cut of a cer- 
tain courtier's beard ; he sent me word, if I 
said his beard was not cut well, he was in the 
mind it was. This is call'dthe " Retort court- 
eous." If I sent him word again, it was not 
well cut, he would send me word, he cut it 
to please himself. This is call'd the " Quip 
modest." If again, it was not well cut, he 
disabled my judgment. This is call'd the 
" Reply churlish. " If again, it was not well 
cut, he would answer, I spake not true. This 
is call'd the ' ' Reproof valiant. " If again, it 
was not well cut, he would say, I lie. This 
is call'd the " Countercheck quarrelsome :" 
and so to "Lie circumstantial," and the "Lie 
direct." 

Jaq. And how oft did you say, his beard 
was not Avell cut? 

Touch. I durst go no further than the 
"Lie circumstantial," nor he durst not give 
me the " Lie direct : " and so we measur'd 
swords, and parted. 

Jaq. Can you nominate in order now the 
degrees of the lie? 

Touch. O sir, we quarrel in print, by the 
book, as you have Books for Good Manners. 
I will name you the degrees. The first, the 
Retort courteous ; the second, the Quip mod- 
est; the third, the Reply churlish; thefourth, 
the Reproof valiant; the fifth, the Counter- 
check quarrelsome ; the sixth, the Lie with 
circumstance ; the seventh, the Lie direct. All 
these you may avoid, but the lie direct ; and 
you may avoid that too, with an If. 

A. F.,V: 4.436. 

— Of Friends. 
Bru. Sheath your dagger ; 

Be angry when you will, it shall have scope : 
Do what you will, dishonour shall be hu- 
mour. 
O, Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb 



That carries anger as the flint bears fire ; 
Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, 
And straight is cold again. 

Cas. Hath Cassius liv'd 

To be but mirth and laughter to his Brutus, 
When grief, and blood ill-temper 'd, vexeth 
him? 
Bru. When I spoke that, I was ill-tem- 

per'd too. 
Cas. Do you confess so much? Give me 

your hand. 
Bru. And my heart too. 

J. C, IV : 3. 1345. 

QUARRELSOMENESS. — Cured 

by Combat. 

Ulyss. * * 
Two curs shall tame each other : Pride 

alone 
Must tarre the mastiffs on, as 't were their 
bone. 

T. C.,1: 3. 1111. 

— Deprecated. 

Flu. By this day and this light, the fellow 
has mettle enough in his pelly : — Hold, there 
is twelve pence for you, and I pray you to 
serve Got, and keep you out of prawls, and 
prabbles, and quarrels, and dissensions, and, 
I warrant you, it is the petter for you. 

n. V., IV: 8. 850. 

— Easily Provoked. 

Mer. Nay, an there were two such, we 
should have none shortly, for one would kill 
the other. Thou! why, thou wilt quarrel with 
a man that hath a hair more, or a hair less, in 
his beard, than thou hast : thou wilt quarrel 
with a man for cracking nuts, having no other 
reason, but because thou hast hazel eyes. 
What eye, but such an eye, would spy out 
such a quarrel? Thy head is as full of quar- 
rels, as an egg is full of meat; and yet thy 
head hath been beaten as addle as an egg, for 
quarrelling. Thou hast quarrelled with a man 
for coughing in the street, because he hath 
wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in the 
sun ; didst thou not fall out with a tailor for 
wearing his new doublet before Easter? with 
another, for tying his new shoes with old rib- 
bons? and yet thou wilt tutor me from quar- 
elling! 

Ben. An I were so apt to quarrel as thou 
art, any man should buy the fee-simple of my 
life for an hour and a quarter. 

Mer. The fee-simple ! O simple ! 

R. J., Ill : 1. 1258. 



QUIETNESS. 455 RAGE. 


QUIETNESS. — Prized above Home. 


— Apt, 'worth Keeping. 


3 Watch. Ay ; but give me worship and 


Pan. What a pair of spectacles is here ; 


quietness, 


Let me embrace too : "0 heart," — as the 


I like it better than a dangerous honour. 


goodly saying is, — 


If Warwick knew in what estate he stands, 








Why sigh'stthou without breaking? 


'T is to be doubted, he would waken him. 






where he answers again, 


H. VI, 3pt., IV: 3. 981. 


O 7 




Because thou canst not ease thy smart, 




By silence, nor by speaking. 


— Superlative. 






There never was a truer rhyme. Let us 


Surry. * * 


cast away nothing, for we may live to have 


In earth as quiet as thy father's skull. 


need of such a verse ; we see it, we see it. — 


R. II, IV : 1. 708. 


How now, lambs? 




T. C., IV: 2. 1129. 


QUOTATIONS.— (See Scripture.) A 




Weapon. 


— At Command. 


Dro. E. * * Have at you with a prov- 


Jaq. * * 


verb. 


Full of wise saws and modern instances. 


C. E. t HL: 1. 200. 


A. F.,11: 7. 419. 


R 


RABBLE.— Concessions to, "Weak- 


RAGE.— Deaf. 


ness. 


K. Rich. * * 


Mar. * * With these shreds 


In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. 


They vented their complainings ; which be- 


R.II.,1: 1. 684. 


ing answer'd, 




And a petition granted them, a strange 


— Desperate. 


one, 


Lucy. * * 


(To break the heart of generosity, 


0, were mine eye-balls into bullets turn'd, 


And make bold power look pale,) they 


That I, in rage, might shoot them at your 


threw their caps 


faces ! 


As they would hang them on the horns o' 


H. VI., IV : 7. 891. 


the moon, 
Shouting their emulation. 


— Great, only Allayed by Blood. 


Men. What is granted them? 


K. John. * * I am burned up with in- 


Mar. Five tribunes, to defend their vul- 


flaming wrath ; 


gar wisdoms, 
Of their own choice : One 's Junius Bru- 


A rage, whose heat hath this condition, 


That nothing can allay, nothing but blood, 


tus, 


The blood, and dearest-valu'd blood of 


Sieinius Velutus, and I know not — 'Sdeath ! 


France. 


The rabble should have first unroof'd the 


* * 


city, 


K. Phi. Thy rage shall burn thee up, 


Ere so prevail'd with me : it will in time 


and thou shaltturn 


Win upon power, and throw forth greater 


To ashes, ere our blood shall quench that 


themes 


fire : 


For insurrections arguing. 


Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy. 


(7., I: 1. 1151. 


K. J., Ill : 1. 660. 



RAGE. 



45^ 



RASCALS. 



— Its foolish Acts. 

Clif. So cowards fight, when they can fly 
no further ; 
So doves do peck the falcon's piercing 

talons ; 
So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their 

lives, 
Breathe out invectives 'gainst the officers. 
H. VI, 3 pt., 1 : 4. 960. 

— Stormy 

Aar. * * But if you brave the Moor, 
The chafed boar, the mountain lioness, 
The ocean swells not so as Aaron storms. 

Tit. And., IV : 2. 1222. 

— To be Restrained. 

Men. One word more, one word. 

This tiger-footed rage, when it shall find 
The harm of unscann'd swiftness, will, too 

late, 
Tie leaden pounds to his heels. 

<7.,iri: 2. 1173. 

— Unquenchable. 

Mar. *Now let hot iEtna cool in Sicily, 
And be my heart an ever-burning hell ! 

Tit. And., Ill: 1. 1216. 

—Withstood. 

K. Rich. Rage must be withstood : — 

Give me his gage: — lions make leopards 
tame. 

R. IT., 1 : 1. 686. 

RAILING. — Desperate. 

Cleo. No, let me speak; and let me rail 
so high, 
That the false housewife Fortune break her 

wheel, 
Provok'd by my offence. 

A. C, IV: 13. 1575. 

RAIMENT.— Christopher Sly's. 

Sly. * * Ne'er ask me what raiment 
I '11 wear ; for I have no more doublets than 
backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no 
more shoes than feet; nay. sometime, more 
feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes 
look through the over-leather. 

T. S., Ind: 2. 453. 



RANCOR— Not Disguised. 

Glo. * * 
Rancour will out : Proud prelate, in thy 

face 
I see thy fury. 

H. F7.,2pt., I: 1. 908. 

RANK. — Disregarded. 

Ham. * * The age is grown so picked, 
that the toe of the peasant comes so near 
the heel of the courtier, he galls his kibe. 

H., V: l. 1430. 

RANSOM. — A horrible. 

Aar. Titus Andronicus, my lord the 
emperor 
Sends thee this word, — That, if thou love 

thy sons, 
Let Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus, 
Or any one of you, chop off your hand, 
And send it to the king : he for the same, 
Will send thee hither both thy sons alive ; 
And that shall be the ransom for their fault. 
Tit. And., Ill : 1. 1215. 

— High, for Life. 

Duke. * * 
Again, if any Syracusan born, 
Come to the bay of Ephesus, — he dies, — 
His goods confiscate to the duke's dispose, 
Unless a thousand marks be levied, 
To quit the penalty, and to ransom him. 
Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, 
Cannot amount unto a hundred marks ; 
Therefore, by law thou art condemn'd to 
die. 

O. E., 1 : 1. 192. 

RARITY. — Extreme. 

Ros. * * 
As rare as phoenix. 



A. Y.,IV: 



431. 



RASCALS.— Their Deserts. 

Emil. * * 
O, heaven, that such companions thou 'dst 

unfold, 
And put in every honest hand a whip, 
To lash the rascal naked through the world, 
Even from the east to the west. 

0.,IV: 2. 1523. 



RASHNESS. 



457 



REBELLION. 



RASHNESS. — Impolitic. 

Nor. Be advis'd : 

Heat not a furnace for jour foe so hot 
That it do singe yourself: We may outrun, 
By violent swiftness, that which we run at, 
And lose by over-running. 

Nor. Stay, my lord, 

And let your reason with your choler ques- 
tion 
What 't is you go about : To climb steep 

hills, 
Requires slow pace at first : Anger is like 
A full-hot horse; who being allow'd his 
way, 

Self-mettle tires him. 

H. VII L, 1:1. 1058. 

READINESS.— Gained by Practice. 

Escal. I thought, by your readiness in 
the office, you had continued in it some 
time : You say, seven years together? 

31. 31., II; l. 151. 

READING.— Dogberry's Opinion of. 

Dogb. Come hither, neighbour Seacoal. 
God hath bless'd you with a good name : to 
be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune ; 
but to write and read comes by nature. 
2 Watch. Both which, master constable, — 
Dogb. You have; I knew it would be 
your answer. Well, for your favour, sir, 
why, give God thanks, and make no boast 
of it; and for your writing and reading, let 
that appear when there is no need of such 
vanity. 

31. A.,1\I: 3. 240. 

— Reasoning against. 
King. How well he 's read, to reason 
against reading. 

L. L.,I: l. 272. 

REASON — Its Antiquity. 

Fab. I will prove it legitimate, sir, upon 
the oaths of judgment and reason. 

Sir To. And they have been grand jury- 
men, since before Noah was a sailor. 

T. N. t III: 2. 556. 

— To be Listened to. 

Con. You should hear reason. 

D. John. And when I have heard it, what 
blessing bringeth it? 

Con. If not a present remedy, at least a 
patient sufferance. 

31. A., I: 3. 229. 



— Too Abundant. 

Tro. * * 
You fur your gloves with reason. Here are 

your reasons : 
You know, an enemy intends you harm ; 
You know, a sword employ 'd is perilous, 
.And reason flies the object of all harm. 

T. C, II : 2. 1114. 

— Too much Regarded. 

Tro. * * Nay, if we talk of reason, 
Let 's shut our gates, and sleep. 

T. C, II : 2. 1114. 

REASONING — Subtile. 

Speed. The shepherd seeks the sheep, 
and not the sheep the shepherd ; but I seek 
my master, and my master seeks not me : 
therefore, I am no sheep. 

Pro. The sheep for fodder follow the 
shepherd, the shepherd for food follows not 
the sheep ; thou for wages followest thy 
master, thy master for wages follows not 
thee : therefore, thou art a sheep. 

Speed. Such another proof will make me 
cry '-baa." 

T. G.,I: 1. 48. 

REASONS. — Plenty as Blackberries. 

Poins. Come, your reason, Jack, your 
reason. 

Fal. What, upon compulsion? No ; were 
I at the strappado, or all the racks in the 
world, I would not tell you on compulsion. 
Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons 
were as plenty as blackberries, I would give 
no man a reason upon compulsion, I. 

//. IV., 1 pt., II : 4. 740. 

— Strong, their Effect. 

Lew. Strong reasons make strong ac- 
tions : Let us go ; 
If you say, ay, the king will not say, no. 

K. J., Ill : 4. 663. 

—The Want of. 
Hel. No marvel, though you bite so 
sharp at reasons, 
You are so empty of them. 

T. C., II: 2. 1114. 

REBELLION — Justified by Oppres- 
sion. 
Wor. You took occasion to be quickly 
woo'd 
To gripe the general sway into your hand : 



REBELLION. 



458 



REBUKE. 



Forgot your oath to us at Doncaster, 
And, being fed by us, you us'd us so, 
As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird, 
Useth the sparrow : did oppress our nest : 
Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk, 
That even our love durst not come near 

your sight, 
For fear of swallowing; but with nimble 

wing 
AVe were enforc'd, for safety sake, to fly 
Out of your sight, and raise this present 

head : 
Whereby we stand opposed by such means 
As you yourself have forg'd against yourself; 
By unkind usage, dangerous countenance, 
And violation of all faith and troth 
Sworn to us in your younger enterprise. 

H. IV., Ipt., V: 1. 757. 

— Must be Crushed. 

K. Hen. * * 
Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, 
Meeting the check of such another day : 
And since this business so fair is done, 
Let us not leave till all our own be won. 

H. IV., Ipt., V: 5. 762. 

— Poor Fighting for. 

Mor. * * 

And they did fight with queasiness, con- 
straint, 

As men drink potions ; that their weapons 
only 

Seem'd on our side, but, for their spirits 
and souls, 

This word, rebellion, it had froze them up, 

As flsh are in a pond. 

II. IV., 2pt., I: 1. 776. 

— Position Endangered by. 
West. * * If that rebellion 
Came like itself, in base and abject routs, 
Le 1 on by bloody youth, guarded with rags, 
And countenanc'd by boys, and beggary; 
I say, If damn'J commotion so appear'd, 
In his true, native, and most proper shape, 
You, reverend father, and these noble lords, 
Had not been here, to dress the ugly form 
Of base and bloody insurrection 
With your fair honours. You, lord arch- 
bishop. — 
Whose see is by a civil peace maintained ; 



Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath 
touched ; 

Whose learning and good letters peace hath 
tutor'd ; 

Whose white investments figure innocence, 

The dove and very blessed spirit of peace, — 

Wherefore do you so ill translate your- 
self, 

Out of the speech of peace, that bears such 
grace, 

Into the harsh and boist'rous tongue of 
war? 

Turning your books to graves, your ink 
to blood, 

Your pens to lances ; and your tongue di- 
vine 

To a loud trumpet, and a point of war? 

H. IV., 2 pt., IV : 1. 795. 

— To be Deplored. 

K. Hen. * * I will weep for thee ; 
For this revolt of thine, methinks, is like 
Another fall of man. 

H. V., II: 2. 828. 

REBUKE. — Kills the Sensitive. 

Queen. Royal sir, 

Since the exile of Posthumus, most retir'd 
Hath her life been ; the cure whereof, my 

lord, 
'T is time must do. 'Beseech your majes- 
ty, 
Forbear sharp speeches to her : She 's a lady 
So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes, 
And strokes death to her. 

Cym,.,IH: 5. 1610. 

— Resentment tinder. 

K. Rich. a lunatic lean-witted fool, 

Presuming on an ague's privilege, 
Dar'st with thy frozen admonition 
Make pale our cheek; chasing the royal 

blood, 
With fury, from his native residence. 
Now by my seat's right royal majesty, 
Wert thou not brother to great Edward's 

son, 
This tongue that runs so roundly in thy 

head j 
Should run thy head from thy unreverend 

shoulders. 

R. II., II : 1. 693. 



RECANTATION. 



459 



RECOLLECTIONS. 



RECANTATION. — Impossible. 

Boling. * * Ere my tongue 

Shall wound mine honour with such feeble 

wrong, 
Or sound so base a parle, my teeth shall tear 
The slavish motive of recanting fear ; 
And spit it bleeding in his high disgrace, 
Where shame doth harbour, even in Mow- 
' bray's face. 

R. II. 1 : 1. 686. 

RECEPTIVITY. — Broad. 

1 Gent. * * 

Puts him to all the learnings that his time 
Could make him the receiver of; which he 

took, 
As we do air, fast as 't was ministered. 

Cym., I: 1. 1589. 

RECKLESSNESS.— In Bestowing 
Gifts. 

Sen. And late, five thousand to Varro ; 

and to Isadore 
He owes nine thousand ; besides my former 

sum, 
Which makes it five and twenty. — Still in 

motion 
Of raging waste ? It cannot hold ; it will not. 
If I want gold, steal but a beggar's dog, 
And give it Timon, why, the dog coins gold : 
If I would sell my horse, and buy twenty 

more 
Better than he, why, give my horse to 

Timon, 
Ask nothing, |»ive it him, it foals me, straight, 
And able horses : No porter at his gate ; 
But rather one that smiles, and still invites 
All that pass by. It cannot hold ; no reason 
Can found his state in safety. 

T.A.,Il: 1. 1293. 

— Its Cause 

2 Mur. I am one, my liege, 
Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world 
Have so incens'd, that I am reckless what 

I do to spite the world. 

-V. in., I : 1. 1369. 

— Its Tolly. 

Will. * * 
That 's a perilous shot out of an elder gun. 
H. V., IV: 1. 842. 



— Of Consequences. 

Hot. And if the devil come and roar for 
them, 
I will not send them : — I will after straight, 
And tell him so ; for I will ease my heart, 
Although it be with hazard of my head. 
North. What, drunk with choler? stay, 
and pause awhile ; 
Here comes your uncle. 

Hot. Speak of Mortimer? 

'Zounds, I will speak of him; and let my 

soul 
Want mercy, if I do not join with him : 
Yea, on his part, I '11 empty all these veins, 
And shed my dear blood drop by drop i' the 

dust, 
But I will lift the down-trod Mortimer 
As high i' the air as this unthankful king, 
As this ingrate and canker'd Bolingbroke. 
II. IV., 1 pt., 1 : 3. 732. 

— Of Life. 

Prov. A man that apprehends death no 
more dreadfully but as a drunken sleep; 
careless, reckless, and fearless of what 's 
past, present, or to come ; insensible of 
mortality, and desperately mortal. 

JA. JI., IV : 2. 165. 

1 Mur. And I another, 

So weary with disasters, tugg'dwith fortune, 
That I would set my life on any chance, 
To mend it, or be rid on 't. 

M., IH: 2. 1369. 

RECKONING. — For Tapsters only. 

Arm. I am ill at reck'ning; it fits the 
spirit of a tapster. 

Moth. You are a gentleman. 

L.L., I: 2. 275. 

RECOGNITION. — Signs for. 

Page. The night is dark ; light and spir- 
its will become it well. Heaven prosper 
our sport ! No man means evil but the dev- 
il, and we shall know him by his horns. 

JI. W.,V: 2. 117. 

RECOLLECTIONS. — Sad, best 
Stifled. 

Pro. There, sir, stop; 
Let us not burden our remembrances with 
A heaviness that's gone. 

T., V: 1. 32. 



RECOMPENSE. 



460 



REFORMATION. 



RECOMPENSE.— Stains Glory. 

Poet. When we for recompense have 
prais'd the vile, 
It stains the glory in that happy verse 
Which aptly sings the good. 

T. A., I: 1. 1286. 

RECOVERY. — From Insanity. 

Phys. Be comforted, good madam : the 
great rage, 
You see, is cur'd in him : and yet it is dan- 
ger 
To make him even o'er the time he has 

lost. 
Desire him to go in; trouble him no more, 
Till further settling. 

K. L., IV: 7. 1479. 

RECREATION. 

Abb. * * 
.Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue 
But moody and dull melancholy, 
Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair, 
And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop 
Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life? 

C. E„ V : 1. 210. 

REDEMPTION— Eternal Hoped for. 

K. Edw.. Why, so : — now have I done a 

good day's work : — 
You, peers, continue this united league : 
I every day expect an embassage 
From my Redeemer to redeem me hence ; 
And more in peace my soul shall part to 

heaven, 
Since I have made my friends at peace on 

earth. 

R. III., II : 1. 1014 

REDRESS.— Not Sought of the Devil. 

Duke. Relate your wrongs : In what? By 
whom? Be brief; 
Here is Lord Angelo shall give you justice ! 
Reveal yourself to him. 

Tsab. O, worthy duke, 
Yci I i 1 me seek redemption of the devil : 
Hear me yourself; for that which I must 

speak 
Must either punish me, not being believ'd, 
Or wring redress from you : hear me, O, hear 
me here. 

M.M.,V: 1. 170. 



REDUNDANCY —Ridiculous. 

Sal. To guard a title that was rich before, 
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 
To throw a perfume on the A r iolet, 
To smooth the ice, or add another hue 
Upon the rainbow, or with taper-light 
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to gar- 
nish, 
In wasteful and ridiculous excess. 

K.J.,IV: 2. 665. 

REFINEMENT. — Simulated. 

Mai. * * 

I will be proud, I will read politic authors, 
I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross 
acquaintance, I will be point device, the 
very man. 

T. N., II : 5. 553. 

REFORMATION — Obscures Faults. 

P. Hen. * * 
And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, 
My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, 
Shall show more goodly, and attract more 

eyes, 
Than that which hath no foil to set it off. 

H. /F.,lpt.,I: 2. 730. 

— Promised by Villainy. 

Fal. I '11 follow, as they say, for reward. 
He that rewards me, heaven reward him ! 
If I do grow great, I '11 grow less ; for I '11 
purge and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a 
nobleman should do. 

H. IV., 1 pt., V : 4. 762. 

— Sudden and Complete. 

Cant. The courses of his youth promis'd 
it not. 
The breath no sooner left his father's body, 
But that his wildness, mortified in him, 
Seem'd to die too : yea, at that very mo- 
ment, 
Consideration like an angel came, 
And whipped the offending Adam out of him : 
Leaving his body as a paradise, 
To envelop and contain celestial spirits. 
Never was such a sudden scholar made : 
Never came reformation in a flood, 
With such a heady current, scouring faults ; 
Nor never Hydra-headed wilfulness 
So soon did lose his seat, and all at once, 
As in this king. 

H. V., I: 1. 820. 



REGICIDE. 



461 



RELENTLESSNESS. 



REGICIDE.— Foresworn. 

Cam. * * If I could find example 

Of thousands that had struck anointed kings 

And flourish'd after, I 'd not do 't : but since 

Nor brass, nor stone, nor parchment, bears 

not one, 

Let villanv itself forswear 't. 

W. T., 1 : 2. 585. 

REGRET. — For Injuries. 

Leon. 0, my brother, 

(Good gentleman !) the wrongs I have done 

thee stir 
Afresh within me ; and these thy offices, 
So rarely kind, are as interpreters 
Of my behind-hand slackness. 

W. T. t V : 1. 613. 

— Overwhelming. 

Eno. * * Canidius, and the rest 

That fell away, have entertainment, but 

No honourable trust. I have done ill ; 

Of which I do accuse myself so sorely, 

That I will joy no more. 

A. C, IV : 6. 1570. 

— Sours present Pleasure. 

Ant. * * 
There 's a great spirit gone ! Thus did I 

desire it : 
What our contempts do often hurl from us, 
We wish it ours again ; the present pleasure, 
By repetition souring, does become 
The opposite of itself: she 's good, being 

gone ; 
The hand could pluck her back, that shov'd 

her on. 
I must from this enchanting queen break 

off; 
Ten thousand harms, more than the ills I 

know, 

Mv idleness doth hatch. 

A. C, 1 : 2. 1542. 

REIN. — Giving the, Safe. 

Ant. * * 
When she will take the rein, I let her run ; 
But she '11 not stumble. 

W. T., II : 3. 591. 

RELATIONSHIP. — Adopted. 

Isab. Adoptedly; as school-maids change 
their names, 
By vain, though apt, affection. 

M. 3f., I: 4. 147. 



RELENTING. — A Sign of Cowardice. 

Clar. Relent, and save your souls. 

1 Murd. Relent! 't is cowardly, and 

womanish. 
Clar. Not to relent, is beastly, savage, 

devilish. — 
Which of you, if you were a prince's son, 
Being pent from liberty, as I am now, — 
If two such murderers as yourselves came 

to you, — 
Would not entreat for life? — 
My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks ; 
0, if thine eye be not a flatterer, 
Come thou on my side, and entreat for me. 
As you would beg, were you in my distress. 
A begging prince what beggar pities not? 

2 Murd. Look behind you, my lord. 

1 Murd. Take that, and that ; if all this 
will not do, 
I '11, drown you in the malmsey-butt within. 
R. III., 1 : 4. 1013. 

RELENTLESSNESS.— Deaf to Rea- 
son. 
Shy. I '11 have rny bond ; I will not hear 
thee speak : 

I '11 have my bond ; and, therefore, speak no 
more. 

I '11 not be made a soft and dull-ey'd fool, 

To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and 
yield 

To Christian intercessors. Follow not; 

I '11 have no speaking ; I will have my bond. 
M. V., Ill : 3. 380. 

— Hard. 

Bern. * * Be your heart to them, 
As unrelenting flint to drops of rain. 

Tit. And., II: 3. 1211. 

— Has its Roots in Hate. 

Bass. Do all men kill the things they do 
not love? 

Shy. Hates any man the thing he Avould 
not kill? 

Bass. Every offence is not a hate at first. 

Shy. What, wouldst thou have a serpent 
sting thee twice? 

Ant. I pray you, think you question 
with the Jew, 
You may as well go stand upon the beach, 
And bid the main flood bate his usual height ; 



RELENTLESSNESS. 



462 



REMORSE. 



You may as well use question with the 

wolf, 
Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the 

lamb ! 
You may as well forbid the mountain pines 
To wag their high tops, and to make no 

noise, 
When they are fretten with the gusts of 

heaven ; 
You may as well do anything most hard, 
As seek to soften that (than which what's 

harder?) 

M. V., IV: l. 383. 

RELIABILITY. —Immovable. 

Mar. Dumain is mine, as sure as bark 
on tree. 

L. L., V : 2. 297. 

RELIANCE. — Self. 

Cleo. My resolution, and my hands, I '11 
trust ; 
None about Caesar. 

A. C, IV: 13. 1575. 

REMEDIES — Have those We Seek. 

Hel. Our remedies oft in ourselves do 

lie, 
Which we ascribe to heaven : the fated sky 
Gives us free scope ; only, doth backward 

pull 
Our slow designs, when we ourselves are 

dull. 
What power is it which mounts my love so 

high, 
That makes me .see, and cannot feed mine 

eye? 
The mightiest space in fortune nature 

brings 
To join like likes, and kiss like native 

things. 
Impossible be strange attempts to those 
That weigh their pains in sense ; and do sup- 
pose 
What hath been cannot be. 

A. W. t 1 : 1. 497. 

REMEDY. — Should Follow Knowl- 
edge. 

Agam. The nature of the sickness found, 
Ulysses, 
What is the remedy? 

T. C, 1 : 3. 1109. 



— Suited to Disease. 

D. Pedro. What need the bridge much 
broader than the flood ? 
The fairest grant is the necessity : 
Look, what will serve is fit : 'tis once, thou 

lovest ; 
And I will fit thee with the remedy. 

M. A., 1 : 1. 228. 

REMONSTRANCE— With Mur- 
derers. 

Clar. Are you call'd forth from out a 
world of men, 

To slay the innocent? What is my offence ! 

Where is the evidence that doth accuse me? 

What lawful quest have given their verdict 
up 

Unto the frowning judge? or who pro- 
nounc'd 

The bitter sentence of poor Clarence' death ? 

Before I be convict by course of law, 

To threaten me with death is most unlawful. 

I charge you, as you hope for any goodness, 

By Christ's dear blood, shed for our griev- 
ous sins, 

That you depart, and lay no hands on me ; 

The deed you undertake is damnable. 

1 Murd. What we will do, we do upon 

command. 

2 Murd. And he, that hath commanded, 

is our king. 
Clar. Erroneous vassal ! the great King 

of kings 
Hath in the table of his law commanded, 
That thou shalt do no murder : Wilt thou 

then 
Spurn at his edict, and fulfil a man's? 
Take heed ; for he holds vengeance in his 

hand, 
To hurl upon their heads that break his law. 
R. III., 1 : 4. 1012. 

REMORSE— A Murderer's. 

Exton. As full of valour, as of royal 

blood : 

Both have I spilt ; O, would the deed were 

good ! 

Tor now the devil, that told me — I did well, 

Says, that this deed is chronicled in hell. 

This dead king to the living king I '11 bear ; 

Take hence the rest, and give them burial 

here. 

R. II, V : 5. 717. 



REMORSE. 



4 6 3 



REMORSE. 



— Growth of. 

Friar. * * 
When lie shall hear she died upon his 

words, 
The idea of her life shall sweetly creep 
Into his study of imagination ; 
And every lovely organ of her life 
Shall come apparell'd in more precious 

habit, 
More moving-delicate, and full of life, 
Into the eye and prospect of his soul, 
Than when she liv'd indeed. 

M.A.,IV: 1. 246. 

— Immediate. 

Oth. * * 
O, insupportable ! O heavy hour! 
Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse 
Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted 

globe 
Should yawn at alteration. 

0..V: 2. 1529. 

— Invoking Help. 

King. * * 
O limed soul ; that struggling to be free, 
Art more engag'd ! Help, angels, make assay ! 
Bow, stubborn knees ! and, heart, with 

strings of steel, 
Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. 

#.,111:3. 1417. 

— Its Bodings. 

Oth. * * 0, it comes o'er my memory, 
As doth the raven o'er the infected house, 
Boding to all, — he had my handkerchief. 

0., IV: 1. 1518. 

— Macbeth's immediate. 

Macb. I have done the deed : — Didst thou 
not hear a noise? 

Lady M. I heard the owl scream, and the 
crickets cry. 
Did not you speak? 

Macb. When? 

Lady M. Now. 

Macb. As I descended? 

Lady M. Ay. 

Macb. Hark! — 

Who lies i' the second chamber? 

Lady M. Donalbain. 

Macb. This is a sorry sight. 



Lady M. A foolish thought, to say a sorry 

sight. 
Macb. There 's one did laugh in his sleep, 
and one cried, "murder! " 
That they did wake each other ; I stood and 

heard them : 
But they did say their prayers, and address'd 

them 
Again to sleep. 

Lady M. There are two lodg'd together. 
Macb. One cried, " God bless us ! " and, 
" Amen, " the other ; 
As they had seen me, with these hangman's 

hands. 
Listening their fear, I could not say, amen, 
When they did say, God bless us. 
* * 

Lady M. Consider it not so deeply. 
Macb. But wherefore could not I pro- 
nounce, amen? 
I had most need of blessing, and amen 
Stuck in my throat. 

Macb. I '11 go no more : 

I am afraid to think what I have done ; 
Look on 't again, I dare not. 

M., II : 2. 1364. 

— Othello's bitter. 

Oth. * * 
Be not afraid, though you do see me weap- 

on'd; 
Here is my journey's end, here is my butt, 
And very sea-mark of my utmost sail. 
Do you go back dismay'd? 't is a lost fear ; 
Man but a rush against Othello's breast, 
And he retires : — Where should Othello go? 
Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr'd 

wench ! 
Pale as thy smock ! when we shall meet at 

compt, 
This look of thine will hurl my soul from 

heaven, 
And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my 

girl? 

Even like thy chastity. — 

cursed, cursed slave?— Whip me, ye devils, 

From the possession of this heavenly sight ! 

Blow me about in winds ! roast me in sul- 

- phur ! 

Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire ! — 

O Desdemona ! Desdemona! dead? 

Dead? 0! O! O! 

0., V:2. 1532. 



REMORSE. 



464 



REPENTANCE. 



— Unavailing. 
2 Murd. A bloody deed, and desperately 
despatched ! 
How fain, like Pilate, would I wash my hands 
Of this most grievous guilty murder done ! 
K.JIL, I: 4. 1014. 

REMORSELESSNESS.— Murders In- 
nocence. 
Rich. * * 
Who not contented that he lopp'd the branch 
In hewing Rutland when his leaves put forth, 
But set his murdering knife unto the root 
From whence that tender spray did sweetly 
spring. 

H VI., 3 pt., II : 6. 969. 

— Towards a Rival. 

1 Play. * * 
And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall 
On Mars's armour, forg'd for proof eterne, 
With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding 

sword . 
Now falls on Priam. 

//., II : 2. 1408. 

REMUNERATION.— Latin for three 
Farthings. 

Now will I look to his remuneration. Re- 
muneration. O, that 's the Latin word for 
three farthings : three farthings — remuner- 
ation. — What's the price of this inkle? a 
penny : — No, I '11 give you a remuneration : 
why, it carries it. —Remuneration! — why, 
it is a fairer name than a French crown. I 
will never buy and sell outofthis word. 

Biron. O, my good knave Costard ! ex- 
ceedingly well met. 

Cost. Pray jou, sir, how much carnation 
ribbon may a man buy for a remuneration? 

Biron. What is a remuneration? 

Cost. Marry, sir, half-penny farthing. 

Biron. O, why then, three-farthings-worth 
of silk. 

Cost. I thank your worship : God be with 
you ! 

L. L. t III : 1. 281. 

RENOWN.— Sought. 

Lew. * * 
To outlook conquest, and to win renown 
Even in the jaws of danger and death. 

X.J.,V: 2. 673. 



REPARATION— For Slander De- 
manded. 

Leon. I cannot bid you bid my daughter 
live ; 
That were impossible : but I pray you 

both, . 
Possess the people in Messina here 
How innocent she died : and, if your love 
Can labour aught in sad invention, 
Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb, 
And sing it to her bones ; sing it to-night : — 
To-morrow morning come you to my house ; 
And since you could not be my son-in- 
law, 
Be yet my nephew : my brother hath a 

daughter, 
Almost the copy of my child that 's dead, 
And she alone is heir to both of us ; 
Give her the right you should have given her 

cousin, 
And so dies my revenge. 

M.A., V: 1. 252. 

REPARTEE. — Sharp. 

1 Lord. Hang thyself. 

Apem. No, I will do nothing at thy bid- 
ding ; make thy requests to thy friend. 

2 Lord. Away, unpeaceable dog, or I '11 
spurn thee hence. 

Apem. I will fly, like a dog, the heels 
of the ass. 

T. A., 1 : 1. 1289. 

REPENTANCE. — A. 

Fal. I would all the world might be coz- 
ened : for I have been cozened and beaten 
too. If it should come to the ear of the 
court, how I have been transformed, and 
how my transformation hath been wash'd 
and cudgelFd, they would melt me out of 
my fat, drop by drop, and liquor fishermen's 
boots with me. I warrant, they would whip 
me with their fine wits, till I were as crest- 
fall'n as a dried pear. I never prosper 'd 
since I forswore myself at primero. Well, 
if my wind were but long enough to say my 
prayers, I would repent. 

M. W.,IV: 5.115. 

— A sorrowful. 
Pro. * * If hearty sorrow 
Be a sufficient ransom for offence, 
I tender 't here : I do as truly suffer 
As e'er I did commit. 

T. G. t V : 4. 72. 



REPENTANCE. 



4 6 5 



REPETITIONS. 



— Demand for Popular. 
Flu. * * 
Assemble all the poor men of your sort; 
Draw them to Tyber banks, and weep your 

tears 
Into the channel, till the lowest stream 
Do kiss the most exalted shores of all. 
See, whe'r their basest metal be not mov'd; 
They vanish tongue-tied in their guiltiness. 
J. C, 1 : 1. 1323. 

— Impossible, if Delayed. 

Fal. * * Well, I '11 repent, and that 
suddenly, while I am in some liking; I 
shall be out of heart shortly, and then I 
shall have no strength to repent. An I have 
not forgotten what the inside of a church is 
made of, I am a pepper-corn, a brewer's 
horse : the inside of a church ! Company, 
villanous company, hath been the spoil of 
me. 

H.IV., lpt., Ill: 3. 749. 

—Its Difficulty. 

King. * * 
0, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven ; 
It hath the primal eldest curse upon 't. 
A brother's murder ! ; — Pray can I not, 
Though inclination be as sharp as will : 
My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent : 
And, like a man to double business bound, 
I stand in pause where I shall first begin, 
And both neglect. What if this cursed hand, 
Were thicker than itself with brother's 

blood? 
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heav- 
ens, 
To wash it white as snow ! 

H., Ill : 3. 1417. 

— Leads to obedience. 

Sal. * * 
And, like a bated and retired flood, 
Leaving our rankness and irregular course, 
Stoop low within those bounds we have 

overlook'd, 
And calmly run over obedience, 
Even to our ocean. 

K. J., V : 4. 674. 

—Real. 

Art. * * Is nothing but heart's sor- 
row, 

And a clear life ensuing. 

T., Ill : 3. 25. 



— Self -Flattery, a Bar to. 

Ham. * * Mother, for love of grace, 
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, 
That not your trespass, but my madness 

speaks : 
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, 
Whilst rank corruption, mining all within, 
Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven ; 
Repent what 's past; avoid what is to come ; 
And do not spread the compost on the weeds, 
To make them ranker. 

//., Ill : 4. 1420. 

— Should Appease the "Wronged. 
Val. Then I am paid, 

And once again I do receive thee honest : — 

Who by repentance is not satisfied 

Is nor of heaven, nor earth, for these are 

pleas'd ; 
By penitence th' Eternal's wrath 's appeas'd. 

T. <?., V : 4. 72. 

— True. 

Juliet. I do confess it, and repent it, 

father. 
Duke. 'T is meet so, daughter ; but lest 
you do repent, 
As that "the sin liath brought you to this 

shame, — 
Which sorrow is always toward ourselves, 

not heaven ; 
Showing, we would not spare heaven, as 

we love it, 
But as we stand in fear : 

Juliet. I do repent me, as it is an evil ; 
And take the shame with joy. 

M. M.,11: 3. 154. 

REPETITIONS.— Not to be Ap- 
proved. 

K. Phi. * * 
It ill beseems this presence, to cry aim 
To these ill-tuned repetitions. 

K. J., II : 1. 651. 

— Troublesome. 

Pern. But that your royal pleasure must 
be done, 
This act is as an ancient tale new told; 
And,- in the last repeating, troublesome, 
Being urged at a time unseasonable. 

K. J.. IV: 2. 666. 



REPRESSION. 



4 66 



REPROACH. 



REPRESSION. — Enforced. 

Gard. Go, bind thou up yon' dangling 
apricocks, 
Which, like unruly children, make their 

sire 
Stoop with oppression of their prodigal 

weight : 
Give some supportance to the bending 

twigs. — 
Go thou, and like an executioner, 
Cut off the heads of too-fast-growing sprays, 
That look too lofty in our commonwealth : 
All must be even in our government. 

R. II, Ill : 4. 706. 

REPROACH. 

Abb. * * 
Thou say'st his meat was sauc'd with thy 
upbraidings. 

C.E.,V: 1. 210. 

— Bitter self. 

Ham. * * I am myself indifferent 
honest; but yet I could accuse me of such 
things, that it were better, my mother had 
not borne me : I am very proud, revenge- 
ful, ambitious ; with more offences at my 
beck, than I have thoughts to put them in, 
imagination to give them shape, or time to 
act them in : What should such fellows as I 
do crawling between earth and heaven ! 

JT M 111:1. 1411. 

— Hamlet's, of his Mother. 
Queen. What shall I do? 

Ham. Not this, by no means, that I bid 

you do : 
Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed ; 
Pinch wanton on your cheek; call you, his 

mouse; 
And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses, 
Or padling in your neck with his damn'd 

fingers, 
Make you to ravel all this matter out, 
That I essentially am not in madness, 
But mad in craft. 'T were good, you let 

him know : 
For who, that 's but a queen, fair, sober, 

wise, 
Would from a paddock, from a bat, a gib, 
Such dear concernings hide? who would do 

so? 
No, in despite of sense, and secrecy, 



Unpeg the basket on the house's top, 
Let the birds fly ; and, like the famous ape, 
To try conclusions, in the basket creep, 
And break your own neck down. 

H., Ill : 4. 1420. 

— Of Caesar's Murderers. 

Ant. Villains, you did not so, when 

your vile daggers 
Hack'd one another in the sides of Caesar : 
You show'd your teeth like apes, and 

fawn'd like hounds, 
And bow"d like bondmen, kissing Caesar's 

feet; 
Whilst damned Casca, like a cur, behind, 
Struck Caesar on the neck. 

J. C.,V:l. 1348. 

— Self, for Desertion. 

Eno. I am alone the villain of the earth, 
And feel I am so most. O Antony, 
Thou mine of bounty, how would'st thou 

have paid 
My better service, when my turpitude 
Thou dost so crown with gold ! This blows 

my heart 
If swift thought break it not, a swifter mean 
Shall outstrike thought: but thought will 

do 't, I feel. 
I fight against thee ! — No : I will go seek 
Some ditch, wherein to die ; the foul'st best 

fits 

My latter part of life. 

A. C, IV: 6. 1570. 

— Solemn Language of. 

Alon. * * 
The name of Prosper ; it did base my tres- 
pass. 

T., Ill : 3. 25. 

— Unslum bering. 

Hot. * * • 
He said, he would not ransom Mortimer; 
Forbad my tongue to speak of Mortimer ; 
But I will find him when he lies asleep, 
And in his ear I '11 holla — Mortimer ! 
Nay, 

I '11 have a starling shall be taught to speak 
Nothing but Mortimer, and give it him, 
To keep his anger still in motion. 

Wor, Hear you, 

Cousin; a word. 



REPROACH. 



467 



REPUTATION. 



Hot. All studies here I solemnly defy, 
Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke, 
And that same sword-and-buckler prince of 

Wales, 
But that I think his father loves him not, 
And would be glad he met with some mis- 
chance, 
I 'd have him poison'd with a pot of ale. 

H. IV., 1 pt., 1 : 3. 733. 

REPROACHES. — Unanswered by the 
Dead. 

War. From off the gates of York fetch 

down the head, 
Your father's head, which Clifford placed 

there : 
Instead whereof, let this supply the room ; 
Measure for measure must be answered. 
Edw. Bring forth that fatal screech-owl 

to our house, 
That nothing sung but death to us and ours : 
Now death shall stop his dismal threatening 

sound, 
And his ill-boding tongue no more shall 

speak. 
Rich. What, not an oath? nay, then the 

world goes hard, 
When Clifford cannot spare his friends an 

oath ; — 
I know by that, he 's dead ■ And, by my 

soul, 
If this right hand would buy two hours' 

life, 
That I in all despite might rail at him, 
This hand should chop it off; and with the 

issuing blood 
Stifle the villain, whose unstaunched thirst 
York and young Rutland could not satisfy. 
H. F7.,3pt.,II: 6. 970. 

REPROOF. — Mocked. 

OIL * * 
There 's something in me that reproves my 

fault ; 
But such a headstrong potent fault it is, 
That it but mocks reproof. 

T. N., Ill : 4. 560. 

REPUTATION. — A, second to None. 

Mer. How is the man esteem'd here in 
the city? 



Ang. Of very reverent reputation, sir, 
Of credit infinite, highly belov'd, 
Second to none that lives here in the city : 
His word might bear my wealth at any 
time. 

C.E.,V: 1. 209. 

— An honorable. 

Nor. * * My dear, dear lord, 
The purest treasure mortal times afford, 
Is — spotless reputation ; that away, 
Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. 
A jewel in a ten-times-barr'd-up chest 
Is — a bold spirit in a loyal breast. 
Mine honour is my life ; both grow in one ; 
Take honour from me, and my life is done : 
Then, dear my liege, mine honour let me 

try; 
In that I live, and for that will I die. 

R. II, 1 : 1. 686. 

— Injured. 

Pol. O, then my best blood turn 

To an infected jelly. 

* * 

Turn then my freshest reputation to 
A savour that may strike the dullest nos- 
tril. 

W. T., II : 2. 586. 

— Its Loss. 

Nor. * * 
Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. 
R. II, I : l. 686. 

Edg. Know, my name is lost ; 

By treason's tooth-gnawn, and canker-bit. 

K. L., V: 3. 1483. 

Cas. Reputation, reputation, reputation ! 
0, I have lost my reputation ! I have lost 
the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what 
remains is bestial. — My reputation, Iago, 
my reputation. 

Iago. As I am an honest man, I thought 
you had received some bodily wound ; there 
is more offence in that, than in reputation. 
Reputation is an idle and most false imposi- 
tion; oft got without merit, and lost without 
deserving : You have lost no reputation 
at all, unless you repute yourself such a 
loser. 

0., II: 3. 1507. 



REPUTATION. 



468 



RESIGNATION. 



— Self -Destroyed. 

Achil. I see, my reputation is at stake : 
My fame is shrewdly gor'd. 

Patr. O, then beware ; 

Those wounds heal ill, that men do give 
themselves. 

T. C, III: 3. 1126. 

RESEMBLANCE.— To Father. 

King. Youth, thou bear'st thy 

father's face ; 
Frank Nature, rather curious than in haste, 
Hath well composed thee. Thy father's 

moral parts 
May'st thou inherit too. 

A. W., 1 : 2. 498. 

RESENTMENT. —Bitterly Expressed. 

Tim Thou sun, that comfort'st, burn ! 

Speak, 
For each true word, a blister ! and each 

false 
Be as caut'rising to the root o' the tongue, 
Consuming it with speaking ! 

1 Sen. Worthy Timon, 

Tim. Of none but such as you, and you 

of Timon. 

2 Sen. The senators of Athens greet 

thee, Timon. 
Tim. I thank them ; and would send 
them back the plague, 
Could I but catch it for them. 

T. A., V : 2. 1313. 

— Natural. 

Clif. * * 
To whom do lions cast their gentle looks ? 
Not to the beast that would usurp their 

den. 
Whose hand is that the forest bear doth 

lick? 
Not his, that spoils her young before her 

face. 
Who 'scapes the lurking serpent's mortal 

sting? 
Not he, that sets his foot upon her back. 
The smallest worm will turn, being trodden 

on; 
And doves will peck, in safeguard of their 

brood. 

H. VI., 3 pt., II : 2. 964. 



— Spent on Anything. 

Bene. Ho ! how you strike like the 
blind man ; 't was the boy that stole your 
meat and you '11 beat the post. 

M.A.,II: 1. 232. 

— Weak and foolish. 

Ant. * * He makes me angry : 

And at this time most easy 't is to do 't ; 

When my good stars, that were my former 
guides, 

Have empty left their orbs, and shot their 
fires 

Into the abism of hell. If he mislike 

My speech, and what is done ; tell him, he has 

Hipparchus, my enfranchis'd bondman, 
whom 

He may at pleasure whip, or hang, or tort- 
ure, 

As he shall like, to quit me : Urge it thou : 

Hence, with my stripes, begone. 

A. C, III: 11. 1567. 

RESIGNATION— Perfect. 
Vio. * * 

She sat, like Patience on a monument, 

Smiling at grief. 

T. jr., II : 4. 551- 

Art. * * 
Nay, hear me, Hubert ! drive these men 

away, 
And I will sit as quiet as a lamb. 

K. J., IV: 1. 665. 

Lear. * * 
Unburden'd crawl toward death. 

K. L., 1 : 1. 1443. 

Glo. I do remember now; henceforth 
I '11 bear 
Affliction, till it do cry out itself, 
Enough, enough, and die. 

K.L., IV: 6. 1475. 

—To Death. 

Ant. * * 
Grieve not that I am fall'n to this for you, 
For herein Fortune shows herself more kind 
Than is her custom : it is still her use, 
To let the wretched man outlive his wealth, 
To view with hollow eye, and wrinkled brow, 
An age of poverty ; from which ling'ring 

penance 
Of such misery doth she cut me off. 

If. V., IV : 1. 385. 



RESPECTABILITY. 



469 



RESPONSIBILITY. 



RESPECTABILITY.— Desired by the 

Infamous. 
Bast. * * 
Then, good my mother, let me know my 

father ; 
Some proper man, I hope; Who was it 

mother ? 

Lady. F. King Richard Coeur-de-lion was 
thy father ; 
By long and vehement suit I was seduc'd 
To make room for him in my husband's 

bed:— 
Heaven lay not my transgression to my 

charge ! — 
Thou art the issue of my dear offence, 
Which was so strongly urg'd, past my de- 
fence. 

~ K. J., 1 : 1. 649. 

RESPONSIBILITY. — Cannot be 
Shifted. 

K. Hen. So, if a son, that is by his father 
sent about merchandise, do sinfully mis- 
carry upon the sea, the imputation of his 
wickedness, by your rule, should be impos- 
ed upon his father that sent him : or if a 
servant, under his master's command, trans- 
porting a sum of money, be assailed by 
robbers, and die in many irreconciled iniq- 
uities, you may call the business of the 
master, the author of the servant's damna- 
tion : — But this is not so: the king is not 
bound to answer the particular endings of 
his soldiers, the father of his son, nor the 
master of his servant ; for they purpose not 
their death, when they purpose their ser- 
vices. Besides, there is no king, be his 
cause never so spotless, if it come to the ar- 
bitrement of swords, can try it out with all 
unspotted soldiers. Some, peradventure, 
have on them the guilt of premeditated and 
contrived murder; some, of beguiling vir- 
gins witli the broken seals of perjury ; some, 
making the wars their bulwark, that have 
before gored the gentle bosom of peace with 
pillage and robbery. Now, if these men 
have defeated the law, and outrun native 
punishment, though they can outstrip men, 
they have no wings to fly from God : war 
is his beadle, war is his vengeance; so that 
here men are punished, for before-breach of 
the king's laws, in now the king's quarrel : 
Avhere they feared the death, they have borne 
life away ; and where they would be safe, 
they perish : Then if they die unprovided, 
no more is the king guilty of their damna- 
tion than he was before guilty of those im- 
pieties for the which they are now visited. 
Every subject's duty is the king's ; but ev- 
ery subject's soul "is his own. Therefore 



should every soldier in the wars do as ev- 
ery sick man in his bed, wash every mote 
out of his conscience: and dying so, death 
is to him advantage ; or not dying, the time 
was blessedly lost, wherein such prepara- 
tion was gained : and, in him that escapes, 
it were not sin, to think, that making God so 
free an offer, he let him outlive that day to 
see his greatness, and to teach others how 
they should prepare. 

H. 7., IV: 1. 841. 

— Personal, to God. 

K. h'ich. * * Show us the hand of God 
That hath dismissed us from our steward- 
ship ; 
For well we know, no hand of blood and bone 
Can grip the sacred handle of our sceptre, 
Unless he be profane, steal or usurp. 

B. II, Ill: 3. 704. 

K. John. From whom hast thou this 
great commission, France, 
To draw my answer from thy articles? 
K. Phi. From that supernal judge, that 
stirs good thoughts 
In any breast of strong authority, 
To look into the blots and stains of right. 
That judge hath made me guardian to this 

boy : 
Under whose warrant, I impeach thy Avrong ; 
And, by whose help, I mean to chastise it. 
K.J.,U: 1. 650. 

REST.— Ignored in Peril. 

2 Watch. What, will he not to bed? 

1 Watch. Why, no : for he hath made a 

solemn vow 
Never to lie and take his natural rest, 
Till Warwick, or himself, be quite sup- 

press'd. 

2 Watch. To-morrow then, belike, shall 

be the day, 
If Warwick be so near as men report. 

H. VI., 3 pt., IV : 3. 980. 

—Its inevitable Demands. 
War. Forspent with toil, as runners 
with a race, 
I lay me down a little while to breathe : 
For strokes received, and many blows re- 
paid, 
Have robb'd my strong-knit sinews of their 

strength, 
And, spite of spite, needs must I rest awhile. 
H. 77.,3pt.,II: 3. 966. 



RESTITUTION. 



470 



RETRIBUTION. 



RESTITUTION. — Hateful. 

P. Henry. O my sweet beef, I must still 
be good angel to thee : — The money is paid 
back again. 

Fal. O, I do not like that paying back, 
't is a double labour. 

H. IV., lpt., Ill: 3. 751. 

RESTLESSNESS.— Frets. 

Poins. * * I have removed FalstafFs 
horse, and he frets like a gummed velvet. 

'ff.IV., lpt., II: 2. 735. 

RESTRAINT.— Impossible. 

Macb. Who can be wise, amaz'd, tem- 
perate, and furious, 
Loyal and neutral in a moment? No man : 
The expedition of my violent love 
Out-ran the pauser reason. 

M.,ll: 2. 1367. 

— Rebelled against. 

Ang. * * The state whereon I studied 
Is like a good thing, being often read, 
Grown fear'd and tedious ! yea, my gravity, 
Wherein (let no man hear me) I take pride, 
Could I, with boot, change for an idle plume, 
Which the air beats for vain. O place ! O 

form! 
How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, 
Wrench awe from fools, and tie the wiser 

souls 
To thy false seeming ! Blood, thou art 

blood : 
Let 's write good angel on the devil's horn, 
'T is not the devil's crest. 

M. M., II : 4. 154. 

RESULTS. — Greater than the Agent. 

Itel. * * 
He that of greatest works is finisher 
Oft does them by the weakest minister : 
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown, 
When judges have been babes. Great 

floods have flown 
From simple sources ; and great seas have 

dried, 
When miracles have by the great'st been 

denied. 
Oft expectation fails, and most oft there 
Where most it promises ; and often it hits, 
Where hope is coldest, and despair most 

shifts. 

A. W..II: 1. 503. 



— Must Have a Cause. 

Cant. It must be so; for miracles are 
ceas'd; 
And therefore we must needs admit the 

means, 
How things are perfected. 

H. V., 1 : 1. 820. 

— No Proof of Justice. 

Tro. Why, brother Hector, 

We may not think the justness of each act 
Such and no other than event doth form it. 
" T. C., II : 2. 1115. 

RETORT. — Wordy. 

Pisi. Solus, egregious dog? O viper vile ! 
The solus in thy most marvellous face ; 
The solus in thy teeth, and in thy throat, 
And in thy hateful lungs, yea, in thy maw, 

perdy ; 
And which is worse, within thy nasty mouth ! 
H. V,. II : 1. 825. 

RETREAT. — Honorable. 

Touch. Come, shepherd, let us make an 
honourable retreat ; though not with bag 
and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage. 

A. Y., Ill : 2. 422. 

RETRIBUTION— Belongs to God. 

2 Murd. And that same vengeance doth 
he hurl on thee, 
For false forswearing, and for murder too : 
Thou did'st receive the sacrament, to fight 
In quarrel of the house of Lancaster. 

1 Murd. And, like a traitor to the name 

of God, 

Didst break that vow ; and, with thy treach- 
erous blade, 

Unrip'dst the bowels of thy sovereign's son. 

2 Murd. Whom thou wast sworn to cher- 

ish and defend. 
1 Murd. How canst thou urge God's 
dreadful law to us. 
When thou hast broke it in such dear de- 
gree? 
Clar. Alas ! for whose sake did I that ill 
deed? 
For Edward, for my brother, for his sake : 
He sends you not to murder me for this : 
For in that sin he is as deep as I. 
If God will be avenged for the deed, 



RETRIBUTION. 



471 



RETRIBUTION. 



0, know you, that he doth it publicly ; 
Take not the quarrel from his powerful 

arm; 
He needs no indirect nor lawless course, 
To cut off those who have offended him. 
1 Murd. Who made thee then a bloody 
minister, 
When gallant-springing, brave Plantagenet, 
That princely novice, was struck dead by 
thee? 
Clar. My brother's love, the devil, and 

my rage. 
1 Murd. Thy brother's love, our duty, 
and thy fault, 
Provoke us hither now to slaughter thee. 

R. III., 1 : 4. 1013. 

— Comes Surely. 

JEmil. Arm, arm, my lords ; Rome never 

had more ca,use ! 
The Goths have gather'd head ; and with a 

power 
Of high resolved men, bent to the spoil, 
They hither march amain, under conduct 
Of Lucius, son to old Andronicus ; 
Who threats, in course of this revenge, to do 
As much as ever Coriolanus did. 

Sat. Is warlike Lucius general of the 

Goths? 
These tidings nip me ; and I hang the head 
As flowers with frost, or grass beat down 

with storms : 
Ay, now begin our sorrows to approach ; 
'T is he the common people love so much ; 
Myself hath often over-heard them say, 
(When I have walked like a private man,) 
That Lucius' banishment was wrongfully, 
And they have wish'd that Lucius were their 

emperor. 

Tit. And., TV: 4. 1224. 

— Just. 

Edg. * * 
The gods are just, and of our pleasant 

vices 
Make instruments to scourge us. 

K. L., V : 3. 1483. 

Ham. * * 
For 't is the sport, to have the engineer, 
Hoist with his own petar. 

H.,lll: 4.1420. 



— Measured as We Measure. 

Duke. * * 
An Angelo for Claudio, death for death ! 
Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers 

leisure ; 
Like doth quit like, and Measure still for 

Measure. 
Then, Angelo, thy fault 's thus manifested : 
Which, though thou wouldst deny, denies 

thee vantage : 
We do condemn thee to the very block 
Where Claudio stoop'd to death, and with 

like haste ; 

Away with him ! 

M. M., V : 1. 175. 

— Most horrible Imaginable. 
Tit. Come, come, Lavinia; look, thy 

foes are bound ; — 
Sirs, stop their mouths, let them not speak 

to me ; 
But let them hear what fearful words I utter. 
O villains, Chiron and Demetrius ! 
Here stands the spring whom you have 

stain'd with mud ; 
This goodly summer with your winter mix'd. 
You kill'd her husband; and, for that vile 

fault, 
Two of her brothers were condemn 'd to 

death : 
My hand cut off, and made a merry jest; 
Both her sweet hands, her tongue, and that, 

more dear 
Than hands or tongue, her spotless chastity, 
Inhuman traitors, you constrain'dand forc'd. 
What would you say, if I should let you 

speak? 
Villains, for shame you could not beg for 

grace. 
Hark, wretches, how I mean to martyr you. 
This one hand yet is left to cut your throats, 
Whilst that Lavinia 'tween her stumps doth 

hold 
The bason, that receives your guilty blood. 
You know, your mother means to feast with 

me, 
And calls herself, Revenge, and thinks me 

mad, — 
Hark, villains ; I will grind your bones to 

dust, 
And with your blood and it, I '11 make a 

paste ; 



RETRIBUTION, 



472 



REVENGE. 



And of the paste a coffin I will rear, 

And make two pasties of your shameful 

heads : 
And bid that strumpet, your unhallow'd 

dam, 
Like to the earth, swallow her own increase. 
This is the feast that I have bid her to, 
And this the banquet she shall surfeit on ; 
For worse than Philomel you us'dmy daugh- 
ter, 
And worse than Progue I will be reveng'd : 
And now prepare your throats. — Lavinia, 

come, 
Receive the blood : and, when that they are 

dead, 
Let me go grind their bones to powder small, 
An.l with this hateful liquor temper it ; 
And in that paste let their vile heads be 

bak'd. 
Come, come, be every one officious 
To make this banquet; which I wish may 

prove 
More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' 

feast. 
So, now bring them in, for I will play the 

cook, 
And see them ready 'gainst their mother 

comes. 

Tit. And., V: 2. 1229. 

— Suited to the Crime. 

Goth. Renowned Lucius, from our troops 
I strayed, 
To gaze upon a ruinous monastery, 
And as I earnestly did fix mine eye 
Upon the wasted building, suddenly 
I heard a child cry underneath a wall : 
I made unto the noise ; when soon I heard 
The crying babe controll'd with this dis- 
course : 
'•Peace, tawny slave; half me, and half 

thy dam 
Did not thy hue bewray whose brat thou 

art, 
Had nature lent thee but thy mother's look, 
Villain, thou might's have been an emperor : 
But where the bull and cow are both milk 

white, 
They never do beget a coal-black calf. 
Peace, villain, peace!" — even thus he rates 

the babe, 

" For I must bear thee to a trusty Goth ; 



Who, when he knows thou art the empress' 

babe, 
Will hold thee dearly for thy mother's sake. " 
With this my weapon drawn, I rush'd upon 

him, 
Surpris'd him suddenly; and brought him. 

hither. 
To use as you think needful of the man. 
Luc. O worthy Goth ! this is the incar- 
nate devil, 
That robb'd Andronicus of his good hand : 
This is the pearl that pleas'd your empress' 

eye; 
And here 's the base fruit of his burning lust. 
Say, wall-ey'd slave, whither would'st thou 

convey 
This growing image of thy fiend-like face? 
Why dost not speak? What! deaf? No; 

not a word? 
A halter, soldiers ; hang him on this tree, 
And by his side his fruit of bastard}'. 

Tit. And., V 1. 1225. 

— Swiftness of. \ 
K. John. * * 
Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France ; 
For ere thou canst report I will be there, 
The thunder of my cannon shall be heard : 
So, hence ! Be thou the trumpet of our 

wrath, 
And sullen presage of your own decay. 

K. J., 1 : 1. 646. 

REUNION. — Taught. 

Mar. * * 
O, let me teach you how to knit again 
This scatter'd corn into one mutual sheaf, 
These broken limbs again into one body. 

Tit. And., V: 3. 1*30. 

REVENGE. — A Jew's. 

Salar. Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, 
thou wilt not take his flesh? What 's that 
good for? 

Shy. To bait fish withal ! if it will feed 
nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He 
hath disgrac'd me, and hindered me half a 
million ; laughed at my losses, mocked at 
my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my 
bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine ene- 
mies ; and what 's his reason? I am a Jew. 
Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, 
organs, dimensions, senses, affections, pas- 
sions? fed with the same food, hurt Aviththe. 
same weapons, subject to the same diseases, 



REVENGE. 



473 



REVENGE. 



healed by the same means, warmed and 
cooled by the same winter and summer, as 
a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not 
bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if 
you poison us, do we not die? and if you 
wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are 
like you in the rest, we will resemble you in 
that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is 
his humility? revenge. If a Christian wrong 
a Jew, what should his sufferance be by 
Christian example? why, revenge. The vil- 
lainy you teach me I will execute; and it 
shall go hard but I will better the instruc- 
tion. 

M. V., Ill : 1. 375. 



— A Medicine. 
Mai. Be comforted : 
Let 's make us med'cines of our great re- 
venge, 
To cure this deadly grief. 

M., IV: 3. 1380. 

— A Solace. 

Tro. * * 

Stay yet; — You vile abominable tents, 

Thus proudly pight upon our Phrygian 
plains, 

Let Titan rise as early as he dare, 

I '11 through and through you! — and thou, 
great-siz'd coward ! 

No space of earth shall sunder our two 
hates : 

I '11 haunt thee like a wicked conscience 
still, 

That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy's 
thoughts. 

Strike a free march to Troy ! — with com- 
fort go : 

Hope of revenge shall hide our inward woe. 
T. C.,V: 11. 1143. 

— Bitter and eternal. 

Mar. O, calm thee, gentle lord ! al- 
though, I know, 
There is enough written upon this earth, 
To stir a mutiny in the mildest thoughts, 
And arm the minds of infants to exclaims. 
My lord, kneel down with me : Lavinia, 

kneel ; 
And kneel, sweet boy, the Roman Hector's 

hope ; 
And swear with me, — as with the woeful 
feere, 



And father, of that chaste dishonour'd 

dame, 
Lord Junius Brutus sware for Lucrece* 

rape, — 
That we will prosecute, by good advice, 
Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths, 
And see their blood, or die with this re- 
proach. 
Tit. 'T is sure enough, an you knew 

how, 
But if you hurt these bear-whelps, then 

beware : 
The dam will wake ; and, if she wind you 

once, 
She 's with the lion deeply still in league, 
And lulls him while she playeth on her 

back, 
And, when he sleeps, will she do what she 

list. 
You 're a young huntsman, Marcus ; let it 

alone ; 
And, come, I will go get a leaf of brass, 
And with a gad of steel will write these 

words, 
And lay it by : the angry northern wind 
Will blow these sands, like Sybil's leaves, 

abroad, 
And where 's your lesson then? — Boy, what 

say you? 
Mar. heavens, can you hear a good 

man groan, 
And not relent, or not compassion him? 
Marcus, attend him in his ecstacy ; 
That hath more scars of sorrow in his heart, 
Than foemen's marks upon his batter'd 

shield; 
But yet so just, that he will not revenge : — 
Revenge the heavens for old Andronicus ! 

Tit. And., IV : 1. 1219. 

— Blind. 

War. * * 
The commons, like an angry hive of bees 
That want their leader, scatter up and down, 
And care not who they sting in his revenge. 
//. F/.,2pt.,III: 2. 928. 

— Cherished in Madness. 

Lear. If thou wilt weep my fortunes, take 
my eyes. 
I know thee well enough ; thy name is Glos- 
ter: 



REVENGE. 



474 



REVENGE. 



Thou must be patient; we came crying 

hither. 
Thou know'st, the first time that we smell 

the air, 
We wawl, and cry : — I will preach to thee ; 

mark me. 
Glo. Alack, alack the day ! 
Lear. When we are born, we cry, that we 

are come 
To this great stage of fools ; — 'T is a good 

plot ; 
It were a delicate stratagem, to shoe 
A troop of horse with felt : I '11 put it in 

proof; 
And when I have stolen upon these sons-in- 
law, 
Then, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill. 

K. L.,IV: 6. 1476. 

— Commands its Slaves. 

Tit. Art thou Revenge ? and art thou sent 
to me, 
To be a torment to mine enemies? 

Tarn. I am ; therefore come down, and 

welcome me. 
Tit. Do me some service, ere I come to 
thee. 
Lo, by thy side, where Rape, and Murder, 

stands ; 
Now give some 'surance that thou art Re- 
venge, 
Stab them, or tear them on thy chariot 

wheels ; 
And then I '11 come, and be thy waggoner, 
And whirl along with thee about the globes. 
Provide thee proper palfreys, black as jet, 
To hale thy vengeful waggon swift away, 
And find out murderers in their guilty caves : 
And when thy car is loaden with their heads, 
I will dismount, and by the waggon wheel, 
Trot, like a servile footman, all day long. 
Even from Hyperion's rising in the east, 
Until his very downfall in the sea : 
And day by day I '11 do this heavy task, 
So thou destroy Rapine and Murder there. 
Tit. And., V : 2. 1227. 

— Counter. 

Tarn. Know thou, sad man, I am not 
Tamora; 
She is thy enemy, and I thy friend : 



I am Revenge ; sent from the infernal king- 
dom, 
To ease the gnawing vulture of thy mind, 
By working wreakful vengeance on thy foes. 
Come down, and welcome me to this world's 

light ; 
Confer with me of murder and of death : 
There 's not a hollow cave, or lurking-place, 
No vast obscurity, or misty vale, 
Where bloody murder, or detested rape, 
Can couch for fear, but I will find them out, 
And in their ears tell them my dreadful 

name, 
Revenge, which makes the foul offender 
quake. 

Tit. And., V : 2. 1227 

— Deaf to Reason. 

Hect. * * For pleasure and revenge 
Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice 
Of any true decision. 

T. C, II : 5. 1115. 

— Impassioned Cry for. 
Q. Mar. Bear with me ; I am hungry 

for revenge, 
And now I cloy me with beholding it. 
Thy Edward he is dead, that kill'd my Ed- 
ward; 
Thy other Edward dead, to quit my Edward ; 
Young York he is but boot, because both 

they 
Match not the high perfection of my loss. 
Thy Clarence he is dead, that stabb'd my 

Edward ; 
And the beholders of this tragic play, 
The adulterate Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, 

Grey, 
Untimely smother'd in their dusky graves. 
Richard yet lives, hell's black intelligencer : 
Only reserv'd their factor, to buy souls, 
And send them thither : But at hand, at 

hand, 
Ensues his piteous and unpitied end : 
Earth gapes, hell burns, fiends roar, saints 

pray, 
To have him suddenly conveyed from 

hence : — 
Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I pray, 
That I may live to say, The dog is dead ! 

R. III., IV: 4. 1035. 



REVENGE. 



475 



REVENGE. 



— Insatiable. 

Oth. Had all his hairs been lives, my 
great revenge 
Had stomach for them all. 

0., V : 2. 1529. 

— Must be prompt 

Bast. Art thou gone so? I do but stay 

behind, 
To do the office for thee of revenge ; 
And then my soul shall wait on thee to 

heaven, 
As it on earth hath been thy servant still. — 
Now, now, you stars, that move in your 

right spheres, 
Where be your powers? Show now your 

mended faiths ; 
And instantly return with me again, 
To push destruction, and perpetual shame. 
Out of the Aveak door of our fainting 

land : 
Straight let us seek, or straight we shall be 

sought ; 
The Dauphin rages at our very heels. 

K.J.,Y: 7. 676. 

— No Valor. 

1 Sen. * * 
To revenge is no valour but to bear. 

T. A., Ill : 5. 1301. 

— Sought ever. 
York. * * 

My brain, more busy than the labouring 
spider, 

Weaves tedious snares to trap mine ene- 
mies. 

H. r/.,2pt.,III: l. 925. 

— Speedy. 

Ham. Haste me to know it; that I, with 
wings as swift 
As meditation, or the thoughts of love, 
May sweep to my revenge. 

If., I: 5. 1399. 

— The Bitterest. 

Ham. Now might I do it, pat, now he is 
praying ; 
And now I '11 do 't; — and so he goes to 
heaven : 



And so am I reveng'd? That would be 
scann'd 

A villain kills my father, and, for that, 

I, his sole son, do this same villain send 

To heaven. 

Why, this is hire and salary, not re- 
venge. 

He took my father grossly, full of bread ; 

With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as 
May; 

And, how his audit stands, who knows, save 
heaven? 

But, in our circumstance and course of 
thought, 

'T is heavy with him : And am I then re- 
veng'd, 

To take him in the purging of his soul, 

When he is fit and season'd for his passage? 

No. 

Up, sword; and know thou a more horrid 
hent : 

When he is drunk, asleep, or in his rage ; 

Or in the incestuous pleasures of his bed ; 

At gaming, swearing ; or about some act 

That has no relish of salvation in 't ; 

Then trip him, that his heels may kick at 
heaven ; 

And that his soul may be as damn'd and 
black 

As hell, whereto it goes. My mother stays : 

This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. 

H., Ill: 3. 1417. 

— Threatened. 

Tal. * * 
Your hearts I '11 stamp out with my horse's 

heels, 
And make a quagmire of your mingled 
brains. 

//. VI., 1 pt., 1 : 4. 870. 

— Waiting. 
Com. I tell you, he does sit in gold, his 
eye 
Red as 't would burn Rome ; and his injury. 

C, V : 1. 1186. 

Men. * * 
Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground, 
I have tumbled past the throw ; and in his 

praise 
Have, almost, stamp'd the leasing. 

C., V: 2. 1187. 



REVENGE. 



47 6 



RIGHTS. 



— Watchful. 
Shy. * * 
If I can catch him once upon the hip, 
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I hear 
him. 

M. V., 1 : 3. 365. 

K. Hen. * * 
Thou hid'st a thousand daggers in thy 

thoughts ; 
Which thou hast whetted on thy stony 

heart, 
To stab at half an hour of my life. 

H. 7F.,2pt., IV: 4. 803. 

REVERENCE.— How Shown. 

Suf. * * Rather let my head 
Stoop to the block, than these knees bow to 

any 
Save to the God of heaven, and to my king. 
H. VI., 2pt.,IV: 1. 933. 

REVERSES.— Signs of Complete. 

K. Rich. Sing, 

For night-owls shriek, where mounting larks 
should. 

R.H., HI: 3. 705. 

REWARD.— Follows Deserving. 

Dun. * * 
But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall 

shine 
On all deservers. 

M., 1 : 4. 1360. 

—Taken with Thanks. 

Ham. * * 
A man that fortune's buffets and rewards 
Hast ta 'en with equal thanks. 

jf.,lH:2. 1413. 

RHETORIC. — Silent. 

Boyet. * * 
By the heart's still rhetoric, disclosed with 
eyes. 

L. L., II: 1. 279. 

RHYME.— Its Difficulties. 

Bene, An old, an old instance, Beatrice, 
that liv'd in the time of good neighbours : 
if a man do not erect in this age li is own 
tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in 
monuments than the bells ring, and the 
widow weeps. 

M. A., V : 2. 253. 



RHYMES— Must Build Our own. 

Bene. Marry, I cannot show it in rhyme : 
I have tried ; I can find out no rhyme to 
"lady" but "baby," an innocent rhyme; 
for "scorn," "horn," a hard rhyme; for 
"school," "fool," a babbling rhyme ; very 
ominous endings. No, I was not born un- 
der a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in 
festival terms. 

M.A.,V: 2. 253. 

RICHES. — End in Poverty. 

Duke. * * If thou art rich, thou 'rt 
poor ; 
For, like an ass whose back with ingots 

bows, 
Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, 
And Death unloads thee. 

M. M., Ill : 1. 156. 

— Lead to Wooing. 

Fent. Why, thou must be thyself. 
He doth object, I am too great of birth ; 
And that my state being gall'd with my ex- 
pense, 
I seek to heal it only by his wealth. 
Besides these, other bars he lays before 

me, — 
My riots past, my wild societies ; 
And tells me, 't is a thing impossible 
I should love thee, but as a property. 

Anne. May be, he tells you true. 

Fent. No, heaven so speed me in my time 
to come ! 
Albeit, I will confess thy father's wealth 
Was the first motive that I woo'dthee Anne : 
Yet, wooing thee, I found thee of more value 
Than stamps in gold, or sums in sealed bags : 
And 't is the very riches of thyself 
That now I aim at. 

M. W., Ill : 4. 107. 

RIGHTS. — A poor Man's. 

2 Fish. Help, master, help ; here 's a fish 
hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in 
the law ; 't will hardly come out. 

P., II : 1. 1649. 

— Whence Obtained. 

K. Phi. From that supernal judge, that 
stirs good thoughts 
In any breast of strong authority, 
To look into the blots and stains of right. 

K. J., II: 1. 650. 



RING. 



477 



RIVAL. 



RING.— The Value Depends upon the 
Giver. 

Bass. This ring, good sir, — alas, it is a 
trifle ; 
I will not shame myself to give you this. 

Por. I will have nothing else but only this ; 
And now, methinks, I have a mind to it. 
Bass. There 's more depends on this than 
on the value. 
The dearest ring in Venice will I give you, 
And find it out by proclamation ; 
Only for this I pray you pardon me. 

Por. I see, sir, you are liberal in offers : 
You taught me first to beg; and now me- 
thinks 
You teach me how a beggar should be an- 
swer'd. 
Bass. Good sir, this ring was given me by 
my wife ; 
And, when She put it on, she made me vow 
That I should neither sell, nor give, nor lose it. 
Por. That 'scuse serves many men to save 
their gifts. 
An if 3'our wife be not a mad woman, 
And know how well I have deserv'd this ring, 
She would not hold out enemy for ever, 
For giving it to me. Well, peace be with you ! 
Ant. My lord Bassanio, let him have the 
ring; 
Let his deservings, and my love withal, 
Be valued against your wife's commandment. 
Bass. Go, Gratiano ; run and overtake 
him; 
Give him the ring ; and bring him, if thou 

canst, 
Unto Antonio's house : — away, make haste. 
M. V., TV: 1. 387. 

RIPENESS.— Perfect. 

Hoi. The deer was, as you know, san- 
guis, — in blood ; ripe as a pomewater. 

L. L., IV : 2. 285- 

RISING— Early, a Matter of Surprise. 
1 Gent. But I much marvel that your 

lordship, having 
Rich tire about you, should at these early 

hours 

Shake off the golden slumber of repose. 

It is most strange, 

Nature should be so conservant with pain, 

Being thereto not compell'd. 

P., in: 2. 1656. 



— Early, Accounted for. 

Ben. Madam, an hour before the wor- 
shipp'd sun 
Peer'd forth the golden window of the east, 
A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad ; 
Where,- — underneath the grove of syca- 
more, 
That westward rooteth from the city's side, — 
So early walking did I see your son. 

R.J.,1: l. 1243- 

— Early, Condemned. 

Por. Brutus, my lord ! 

Bru. Portia, what mean you? Where- 
fore rise you now? 
It is not for your health thus to commit 
Your weak condition to the raw-cold morn- 
ing. 

J. C., II: 1. 1331. 

— Early, Ridiculed. 

Fri. * * Benedicite ! 

What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? — 
Young son, it argues a distemper'd head, 
So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed : 
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, 
And where care lodges, sleep will never 

lie; 
But where unbusied youth with unstufTd 

brain 
Doth couch his limbs, their golden sleep 

doth reign : 
Therefore thy earliness doth me assure, 
Thou art up-rous'd by some distemp'rature ; 
Or if not so, then here I hit it right — 
Our Romeo hath not been in bed to-night. 

B.J.,II: 3. 1253. 

RIVAL. — Concern Respecting. 

Cleo. * * 
AVhat majesty is in her gait? Remember, 
If e'er thou look 'dst on majesty. 

Mess. She creeps ; 

Her motion and her station are as one ; 
She shows a body rather than a life ; 
A statue, than a breather. 

Cleo. Guess at her years, I prithee. 

Mess. Madam, 

She was a widow. 

Cleo. Widow? — Chairman, 

hark. 

Mess. And I do think she 's thirty. 



RIVAL. 



47 8 



RIVALRY. 



Cleo. Bear'st thou her face in mind ? Is 't 

long, or round ? 
Mess. Round even to faultiness. 
Cleo. For the most part too, they are 
foolish that are so. 
Her hair, what colour? 

Mess. Brown, madam : And her forehead 
As low as she would wish it. 

Cleo. There 's gold for thee. 

A. C., Ill: 3. 1559. 

— Death of a, Bemoaned. 

Agr. A rarer spirit never 

Did steer humanity : but you, gods, will 

give us 
Some faults to make us men. Caesar is 

touch'd. 
Nee. When such a spacious mirror 's 

set before him, 
He needs must see himself. 

Ccbs. O Antony ! 

I have follow'd thee to this; — But we do 

lance 
Diseases in our bodies : I must perforce 
Have shown to thee such a declining day, 
Or look on thine ; we could not stall to- 
gether 
In the whole world : But yet let me lament 
With tears as sovereign as the blood of 

hearts, 
That thou, my brother, my competitor 
In top of all design, my mate in empire, 
Firend and companion in the front of war, 
The arm of mine own body, and the heart 
Where mine his thoughts did kindle, — that 

our stars, 
Unreconcilable, should divide 
Our equalness to this. 

A. C, V : 1. 1577. 

— Instruction Sought of a. 
Hel. O happy fair ! 

Your eyes are lode-stars ; and your tongue's 

sweet air 
More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear, 
When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds 

■ appear. 
Sickness is catching; O, were favour so, 
Your words I 'd catch, fair Hermia, ere I 

go; 
My ear should catch your voice, my eye 
your eye, 



My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet 

melody. 
Were the world mine, Demetrius, being 

bated, 
The rest I '11 give to be to you translated. 
O, teach me how to look ; and with what 

art 
You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart. 

M. Jf., I: 1. 323. 

RIVALRY.— Female, bitter. 

Q. Mar. Not all these lords do vex me 
half so much, 
As that proud dame, the lord protector's 

wife. 
She sweeps it through the court with troops 

of ladies, 
More like an empress than duke Hum- 
phrey 's wife ; 
Strangers in court do take her for the queen : 
She bears a duke's revenues on her back, 
And in her heart she scorns our pover- 

erty : 
Shall I not live to be aveng'd on her ? 
Contemptuous base-born callat as she is, 
She vaunted 'mong her minions t' other day, 
The very train of her worst wearing-gown 
Was better worth than all my father's lands, 
Till Suffolk gave two dukedoms for his 
daughter. 

H. VI., 2pt.,I: 3. 912. 

— Sometimes innocent 

P. Hen. * * 
Two stars keep not their motion in one 
sphere. 

H. IV., lpt.,V: 4. 760. 

Her. I frown upon him, yet he loves me 
still. 

Hel. O, that your frowns would teach 
my smiles such skill ! 

Her. I gave him curses, yet he gives me 
love. 

Hel. O, that my prayers could such af- 
fection move ! 

Her. The more I hate, the more he fol- 
lows me. 

Hel. The more I love, the more he 
hateth me. 

Her. His folly, Helena, is none of mine. 
M. N. t 1 : 1. 323. 



RIVALS. 



479 



ROSES. 



RIVALS. — How Disposed of. 

Som. It is too late ; I cannot send them 
now ; 
This expedition was by York, and Talbot, 
Too rashly plotted ; all our general force 
Might with a sally of the very town 
Be buckled with : the over-daring Talbot 
Hath sullied all his gloss of former honour, 
By this unheedful, desperate, wild advent- 
ure : 
York set him on to fight, and die in shame, 
That, Talbot dead, great York might bear 
the name. 

H. VI., 1 pt., IV : 4. 888. 

ROBBERY.— A Vocation. 

Fal. Why, Hal, 't is my vocation, Hal ; 
't is no sin for a man to labour in his voca- 
tion. Poins ! — Now shall we know if Gads- 
hill have set a match. O, if men were to 
be saved by merit, what hole in hell were 
hot enough for him? This is the most om- 
nipotent villain that ever cried, Stand, to a 
true man. 

H. IV., lpt.,I: 2. 729. 

ROGUE. — A versatile One. 

Ant. * * I know this man well : he 
hath been since an ape-bearer ; then a proc- 
ess-server, a bailiff; then he compassed a 
motion of the prodigal son, and married a 
tinker's wife within a mile where my land 
and living lies ; and, having flown over 
many knavish professions, he settled only 
in rogue : some call him Autolycus. 

W. T.,IV: 2. 600. 
ROMAN.— The noblest. 

Ant. This was the noblest Roman of 
them all. 
All the conspirators, save only he, 
Did that they did in envy of great Caesar ; 
He, only, in a general honest thought, 
And common good to all, made one^of them. 
His life was gentle ; and the elements 
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, 
And say to all the world, "this was a man ! " 
J. C., V : 5. 1352. 

ROMANS.— Not all Born in Rome. 

Men. I would they were barbarians, (as 
they are, 
Though in Rome litter'd,) not Romans, (as 

they are not, 
Though calv'd i' the porch o' the Capitol.) 

C., III : 1. 1171. 



ROME. — Abhorred. 

K. Hen. I may perceive, 

These cardinals trifle with me : I abhor 
This dilatory sloth, and tricks of Rome. 
My learn 'd and well-beloved servant, Cran- 

mer, 
Pr'ythee return ! with thy approach, I know, 
My comfort comes along. Break up the 

court, 
I say, set on. 

H. VIII., II : 4. 1074. 

ROSES.— Origin of the Factions of 
the. 

Som. Let him that is no coward, nor no 
flatterer, 
But dare maintain the party of the truth, 
Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me. 
War. I love no colours ; and, without 
all colour 
Of base insinuating flattery, 
I pluck this white rose, with Plantagenet. 
Suf. I pluck this red rose, with young 
Somerset ; 
And say withal, I think he held the right. 
Ver. Stay, lords, and gentlemen ; and 
pluck no more, 
Till you conclude, — that he, upon whose 

side 
The fewest roses are cropp'd from the tree, 
Shall yield the other in the right opinion. 
Som. Good master Vernon, it is well ob- 
jected ; 
If I have fewest, I subscribe in silence. 
Plan. And I. 

Ver. Then, for the truth and plainness 
of the case, 
I pluck this pale, and maiden blossom here, 
Giving my verdict on the white rose side. 
Som. Prick not your finger as you pluck 
it off; 
Lest, bleeding, you do paint the white rose 

red, 
And fall on my side so against your will. 
Ver. If I, my lord, for my opinion 
bleed, 
Opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, 
And keep me on the side where still I am. 
* * 

Som. Ay, thou shalt find us ready for thee 
still : 
And know us, by these colours, for thy foes : 



ROSES. 



480 



RUMOR. 



For these my friends, in spite of thee, shall 

wear. 
Plan. And, by my soul, this pale and 

angry rose, 
As cognizance of my blood-drinking hate, 
Will I for ever, and my faction, wear ; 
Until it wither with me to my grave, 
Or flourish to the height of my degree. 

War. * * 
And here I prophesy, — This brawl to-day, 
Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, 
Shall send, between the red rose and the 

white, 
A thousand souls to death and deadly night. 
H. F/.,lpt.,II: 4. 875. 

ROUGHNESS.— A wise. 

Pet. Why, that is nothing; for I tell 

you, father, 
I am as peremptory as she proud-minded ; 
And where two raging fires meet together, 
They do consume the thing that feeds their 

fury: 
Though little fire grows great with little 

wind, 
Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all : 
So I to her, and so she yields to me ; 
For I am rough, and woo not like a babe. 

T. S.,Il: 1. 463. 

ROUT. —A complete. 

Post. No blame be to you, sir; for all 
was lost, 

But that the heavens fought : The king him- 
self 

.Of his wings destitute, the army broken, 

And .but the backs of Britons seen, all fly- 
ing 

Through a straight lane ; the enemy full- 
hearted, 

Lolling the tongue with slaughtering, having 
work 

More plentiful than tools to do 't, struck 
down 

Some mortally, some slightly touch'd, some 
falling 

Merely through fear : that the strait pass was 
damned 

With dead men, hurt behind, and cowards 
living 

To die with lengthen'd shame. 

Cym. f V: 3. 1622. 



ROYSTERERS. — Time no Object to. 

Fal. Now, Hal, what time of day is it, 
lad? 

P. Henry. Thou art so fat-witted, with 
drinking of old sack, and unbuttoning thee 
after supper, and sleeping upon benches 
after noon, that thou hast forgotten to de- 
mand that truly which thou would 'st truly 
know. * * I see no reason, why thou 
should'st be so superfluous to demand the 
time of the day. 

H.IV.> lpt.,1: 2. 728. 

RUDENESS.— Of Speech, Rebuked. 

Gon. My lord Sebastian, 

The truth you speak doth lack some gentle- 
ness, 
And time to speak it in ; you rub the sore, 
When you should bring the plaster. 

T., II : 1. 16. 

RUIN. — Foreseen. 

Q. Eliz. Ah me, I see the ruin of my 
house ! 
The tiger now hath seiz'd the gentle hind; 
Insulting tyranny begins to jet 
Upon the innocent and awless throne : — 
Welcome, destruction, blood, and massa- 
cre, 
I see, as in a map, the end of all. 

R. III., II : 4. 1019. 

— Utter. 

Ely. This would drink, deep. 

Cant. 'T would drink the cup and all. 

H.V.,1:1. 820. 

RULER. — His Presence Strengthens. 
Glo. Now will it best avail your majes- 
ty, 
To cross the seas, and to be crown'd in 

France : 
The presence of a king engenders love 
Amongst his subjects, and his loyal friends ; 
As it disanimates his enemies. 

//. IV., lpt.,III: 1. 880. 

RUMOR. — Doubles. 

War. * * 
Rumour doth double, like the voice and 

echo, 
The numbers of the fear'd. 

H. /F..III: 2. 790. 



RUMOR. 



SAFETY. 



— Injures. 
Rum. * * From Rumour's tongues 
They bring smooth comforts false, worse 
than true wrongs. 

H. IV., 2pt.,Ind.: 773. 

— Its Methods. 
Rum. Open your ears ; For which of 
you will stop 
The vent of hearing, when loud Rumour 

speaks? 
I, from the orient to the drooping west, 
Making the wind my post-horse, still un- 
fold 
The acts commenced on this ball of earth : 
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride ; 
The which in every language I pronounce, 



Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. 
I speak of peace, while covert enmity, 
Under the smile of safety, wounds the 

world : 
And who but Rumour, who but only I, 
Make fearful musters, and prepar'd defence ; 
Whilst the big year, swoll'n with some other 

grief, 
Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war. 
And no such matter? Rumour is a pipe 
Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures ; 
And of so easy and so plain a stop, 
That the blunt monster with uncounted 

heads, 
The still discordant wavering multitude, 
Can play upon it. 

H. IV., 2 pt., Ind. : 773. 



SACRIFICES. — Ad manes fratrum. 

Luc. Give us the proudest prisoner of the 
Goths, 
That we may hew his limbs, and, on a pile, 
Ad manes fratrum sacrifice his flesh, 
Before this earthly prison of their bones ; 
That so the shadows be not unappeas'd, 
Nor we disturb 'd with prodigies on earth. 

Tit. And., 1 : 2. 1202 

— Honored of the gods. 

Lear. Upon such sacrifices, my Corde- 
lia, 
The gods themselves throw incense. 

K. L., V : 3. 1481. 

SADNESS. — Indefinable. 

Ant. In sooth, I know not why I am so 
sad : 
It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; 
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, 
What stuff 't is made of, whereof it is born, 
I am to learn ; 

And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, 
That I have much ado to know myself. 

M. V., 1 : 1. 361. 



— Real and affected. 

Arth. Mercy on me ! 

Methlnks, nobody should be sad but I : 
Yet, I remember, when I was in France, 
Young gentlemen would be as sad as night, 
Only for wantonness. 

K. J., IV : 1. 664. 

— Respects not Promise. 

Bushy. Madam, your majesty is too much 
sad : 
You promis'd, when you parted with the king, 
To lay aside life-harming heaviness, 
And entertain a cheerful disposition. 

R. II., II : 2. 695. 

SAFETY. 

Ccbs. * * Yet, if I knew 
What hoop should hold us staunch, from 

edge to edge 
O' the world I would pursue it. 
* * 

Igr. To hold you in perpetual amity, 
To make you brothers, and to knit your 

hearts 
With an unslipping knot, take Antony 
Octavia to his wife. 

A. C, II : 2. 1549. 



SAFETY. 



482 



SANGUINITY, 



— Assured. 

Mar. Come I too late? 

Corn. Ay, if you come not in the blood of 
others, 
But mantled in your own. 

Mar. O ! let me clip you 

In arms as sound, as when I woo'd ; in heart 
As merry, as when our nuptial day was 

done, 
And tapers burn'd to bedward. 

C, I: 6. 1156. 

— In Crime, endangered. 

Macb. * * To be thus, is nothing; 
But to be safely thus : — Our fears in Ban- 
quo 
Stick deep ; and in his royalty of nature 
Reigns that which would be fear'd : 'tis much 

he dares ; 
And, to that dauntless temper of his mind, 
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his val- 
our 
To act in safety. There is none but he 
Whose being I do fear : and under him 
My genius is rebuk'd ; as, it is said, 
Mark Antony's was by Caesar. 

3f., Ill : 1. 1369. 

— In Defence. 

Hast. 'T is better using France, than 
trusting France : 
L et us be backed with God, and with the 

seas, 
Which he hath given for fence impregna- 
ble ; 
And with their helps only defend ourselves; 
In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies. 

H. VI., 3pt., IV: 1. 979. 



SANCTION.— High, Given unworthily. 

West. When ever yet was your appeal 

denied? 
Wherein have you been galled by the king? 
What peer hath been suborn* d to grate on 

you? 
That you should seal this lawless bloody 

book 
Of forg'd rebellion with a seal divine, 
And consecrate commotion's bitter edge? 

H. IV., 2pt., IV: 1. 795. 



SANCTUARY.— None for Children. 

Buck. You are too senseless-obstinate, 

my lord, 
Too ceremonious, and traditional : 
Weigh it but with the grossness of this 

age, 
You break not sanctuary in seizing him. 
The benefit thereof is always granted 
To those whose dealings have deserv'd the 

place, 
And those who have the wit to claim the 

place : 
This prince hath neither claim'd it, nor de- 
serv'd it; 
And therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have 

it: 
Then, taking him from thence that is not 

there, 
You break no privilege nor charter there. 
Oft have I heard of sanctuary men ; 
But sanctuary children, ne'er till now. 

R. J II., Ill: 1. 1020. 

—Right of, inviolate. 

Card. My lord of Buckingham, if my weak 
oratory 
Can from his mother win the duke of York, 
Anon expect him here : But if she be obdu- 
rate 
To mild entreaties, God in heaven forbid 
We should infringe the holy privilege 
Of blessed sanctuary ! not for all this land, 
Would I be guilty of so deep a sin. 

R. III., Ill : l. 1020. 

SANGUINITY.— Not to be Trusted. 
Gon. Here is everything advantageous 

to life. 
Ant. True; save means to live. 
Seb. Of that there 's none, or little. 
Gon. How lush and lusty the grass 

looks ! how green ! 
Ant. The ground, indeed, is tawny. 
Seb. With an eye of green in 't. 
Ant. He misses not much. 
Seb. No ; he doth but mistake the truth 

totally. 
Gon. But the rarity of it is, which is in- 
deed almost beyond credit, — 

Seb. As many vouch'd rarities are. 

7*., II : 1. 15. 



SATIETY. 



483 



SCAR. 



SATIETY. — Sought. 

Luc. * * 
And am to Padua come, as he that leaves 
A shallow plash, to plunge him in the deep, 
And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst. 

T. 6T. t I: 1. 455. 

SATIRE— Defied. 

Bene. I '11 tell the what, prince ; a col- 
lege of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of 
my humour : Dost thou think I care for a 
satire, or an epigram? 

M. A , V : 4. 255. 

SATIRIST. — His Misrepresentations. 

Ulyss. * * Patroclus, 

Upon a lazy bed the livelong day 
Breaks scurril jests ; 
And with ridiculous and awkward action 
(Which, slanderer, he imitation calls.) 
He pageants us. 

T. C, 1 : 3. 1109. 

Ulyss. * * And at this sport, 
Sir Valour dies; cries, "Oh! — enough, 

Patroclus ; — 
Or give me ribs of steel ! I shall split all 
In pleasure of my spleen." And in this 

fashion, 
All our abilities, gifts, natures, shapes, 
Severals and generals of grace exact, 
Achievements, plots, orders, preventions, 
Excitements to the field, or speech for 

truce, 
Success or loss, what is, or is not, serves 
As stuff for these two to make paradoxes. 

T. C, 1 : 3. 1109. 

— Infamous. 

Beat. Why, he 's the prince's jester, — a 
very dull fool ; only his gift is in devising 
impossible slanders ; none but libertines de- 
light in him ; and the commendation is not 
in his wit, but in his villainy ; for he both 
pleaseth men and angers them, and then 
they laugh at him and beat him. 

M.A.,U: 1. 231. 



— Invoked. 

St7- To. * * Let there be gall enough 
in thy ink ; though thou write with a goose- 
pen, no matter : About it. 

T. &., Ill : 2. 556. 



— "Well-known. 
Ros. Oft have I heard of you, my lord 
Biron, 
Before I saw you : and the world's large 

tongue 
Proclaims you for a man replete with 

mocks ; 
Full of comparisons and wounding flouts, 
Which you on all estates will execute, 
That lie within the mercy of your wit. 

L. L., V: 2. 303. 

SATISFACTIO N.— In Circumstan- 
tial Evidence. 
Iago. * * But yet, I say, 
If imputation, and strong circumstances, 
Which lead directly to the door of truth, 
Will give you satisfaction, you may have 
it, 

0., Ill : 3. 1514. 

SAVINGS.— Proffered to a Patron's 
Son. 

Adam. But do not so : I have five hun- 
dred crowns, 
The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father, 
Which I did store to be my foster-nurse, 
When service should in my old limbs lie 

lame, 
And unregarded age in corners thrown. 
Take that : and He that doth the ravens 

feed, 
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, 
Be comfort to my age ! Here is the gold ; 
All this I give you. 

A. Y., II: 3. 415. 

SCANDAL. — Inevitable. 

Duke. No might nor greatness in mor- 
tality 
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding cal- 
umny 
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so 

strong, 
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ! 
M.M., III: 2. 161. 

SCAR. — Nobly got, an Honor. 

Laf. A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, 
is a good livery of honour ; so, belike, is that. 

A. W., IV: 5.524. 



SCHOLARS. 



484 



SCRIPTURE. 



SCHOLARS. — Agreement between. 

King. * * 
My fellow-scholars, and to keep those stat- 
utes 
They are recorded in this schedule here : 
Your oaths are pass'd, and now subscribe 

your names, 
That his own hand may strike his honour 

down, 
That violates the smallest branch herein : 
If you are arm'd to do, as sworn to do, 
Subscribe to your deep oaths, and keep 
them too. 

L. L., I : l. 271. 

SCHOOLMASTER.— A faithful. 

Pro. * * And here 
Have I, thy schoolmaster, made thee more 

profit 
Than other princess can, that have more 

time 
For vainer hours, and tutors not so careful. 

T.,I: 2. 10. 



— Praised. 

Nath. Sir, I praise the Lord for you, 
and so may my parishioners ; for their sons 
are well tutor'd by you, and their daughters 
profit very greatly under you : you are a 
good member of the commonwealth. 

L. Z.,IV: 2. 286. 



SCORN. — Dreaded. 

Oth. Had it pleas'd heaven 

To try me with affliction; had he rain'd 
All kinds of sores, and shames, on my bare 

head ; 
Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips ; 
Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes ; 
I should have found in some part of my 

soul 
A drop of patience : but (alas I) to make me 
A fixed figure, for the time of scorn 
To point his slow unmoving finger at, — 
O! O! 

O., IV : 2. 1522. 

— Feared. 

Ulyss. * * 
And we were better parch in Afric sun, 
Than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes. 
T. C., I: 3. 1111. 



— Tearless. 

Lys. Why should you think that I 

should woo in scorn? 
Scorn and derision never come in tears : 
Look, when I vow, I weep ; and vows so 
born, 
In their nativity all truth appears. 
How can these things in me seem scorn to 

you, 
Bearing the badge of faith to prove them 
true? 

J/. M. t III : 2. 334. 

SCORPIONS.— Of the Mind. 

Macb. O, full of scorpions is my mind, 
dear wife ! 
Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, 
live. 
Lady M. But in them nature's copy 's 

not eterne. 
Macb. There 's comfort yet; they are 
assailable ; 
Then be thou jocund : ere the bat hath 

flown 
His cloister'd flight ; ere, to black Hecate's 

summons, 
The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy 

hums, 
Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall 

be done 
A deed of dreadful note. 

M. f III : 2. 1370. 

SCRIPTURE.— The Devil Quotes. 

Glo. * * 

But then I sigh, and, with a piece of script- 
ure, 

Tell them — that God bids us do good for 
evil : 

And thus I clothe my naked villany 

With old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ ; 

And seem a saint, when most I play the 
devil. 

R. III., I: 3. 1010. 

Ant. Mark you this, Bassanio. 

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. 
An evil soul, producing holy witness, 
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek ; 
A goodly apple rotten at the heart; 
0, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! 

M. Y., 1 : 1. 365. 



SCULPTOR. 



48s 



SEASONS. 



SCULPTOR. — The Triumph of His 
Art. 

Leon. * * 
Would you not deem it breath'd? and that 

those veins 
Did verily bear blood? 

Pol. Masterly done : 
The very life seems warm upon her lip. 
Leon. The fixture of her eye has motion 
in 't, 
As we are mock'd with art. 

W. T., V : 3. 617. 

SCULPTURE. — Its Perfection. 

3 Gent. No : the princess hearing of her 
mother's statue, which is in the keeping of 
Paulina, — a piece many years in doing, and 
now newly perform'd by that rare Italian 
master, Julio Romano ; who, had he himself 
eternity, and could put breath into his 
work, would beguile nature of her custom, 
so perfectly he is her ape : he so near to 
Hermione hath done Hermione, that they 
say, one would speak to her, and stand in 
hope of answer : thither, with all greediness 
of affection, are they gone ; and there they 
intend to sup. 

W. T., V : 2. 615. 

— Perfect. 

lack. The chimney 
Is south the chamber; and the chimney- 
piece, 
Chaste Dian, bathing : never saw I figures 
So likely to report themselves : the cutter 
Was as another nature, dumb ; outwent 

her, 
Motion and breath left out. 

Cym., II : 4. 1603. 

SEA.— A stormy. 

Mir a. * * 
The sky, it seems, would pour down stink- 
ing pitch, 
But that the sea, mounting to th' welkin's 

cheek, 
Dashes the fire out. 

T., 1 : 2. 8. 

Mon. * * 
If it hath ruffian'd so upon the sea, 
What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on 

them, 
Can hold the mortise? 

O., 11:1. 1500. 



— Its Rage. 

Pet. * * 
Have I not heard the sea, pufTd up with 

winds, 
Rage like an angry boar, chafed with 
sweat? 

T. S., 1 : 2. 460. 

SEA-SICKNESS.— Beauty a Cure for. 

Pro. O ! a cherubim 

Thou wast that did preserve me ! Thou 

didst smile, 
Infused with a fortitude from heaven, 
(When I have deck'd the sea with drops full 

salt; 
Under my burthen groan'd;) which rais'd in 

me 

An undergoing stomach, to bear up 

Against what should ensue. 

T., 1 : 2. 10. 

SEA-WATER. — Cleans Garments. 

Gon. That our garments, being, as they 
were, drench'd in the sea, hold, notwith- 
standing, their freshness and glosses ; being 
rather new dy'd, than stain 'd with salt water. 

T., II : 1. 15. 

SEARCH. — A fruitless. 

Ben. Go, then; for 't is in vain 

To seek him here, that means not to be 

found. 

R.J. ,11: l. 1251. 

SEASON. — Out of. 

1 Murd. * * Right, as snow in harvest. 
R.III.,1: 4. 1013. 

SEASONS.— Fairies Cause their Con- 
fusion. 

Tito,. * * 
The seasons alter : hoary -headed frosts 
Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose ; 
And on old Hyems' thin and icy crown, 
An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds 
Is, as in mock'ry, set. The spring, the 

summer, 
The chilling autumn, angry winter, change 
Their wonted liveries ; and the mazed world, 
By their increase, now knows not which is 

which : 
And this same progeny of evils comes 
From our debate, from our dissension. 

M. N., II: 1. 326. 



SECLUSION 



486 



SECRETS. 



SECLUSION. — Desirable before great 
Events. 

Jul. * * 
I pray thee, leave me to myself to-night; 
For I have need of many orisons 
To move the heavens to smile upon my 

state, 
Which, well thou know'st, is cross and full 
of sin. 

R.J., IV: 3. 1270. 

— Loved for its own Sake. 

Duke. My holy sir, none better knows 
than you 
How I have ever lov'd the life removed ; 
And held in idle price to haunt assemblies, 
Where youth, and cost, and witless bravery 
keep. 

M. M., 1 : 3. 146. 

— Not to be disturbed. 

Ben. * * 
Towards him I made ; but he was 'ware of 

me, 
And stole into the covert of the wood : 
I, measuring his affections by my own, — 
That most are busied when they are most 

alone, — 
Pursu'd my humour, not pursuing his, 
And gladly shunn'd who gladly fled from 

me. 

B.J.,1: 1. 1243. 

SECRET. — How kept. 

Nurse. Is your man secret? Did you 
ne'er hear say — 
Two may keep counsel, putting one away? 
R. J., II: 4. 1256. 

Opk. 'T is in my memory lock'd, 

And you yourself shall keep the key of it. 

//.,!: 3. 1396. 



SECRETS. — A dangerous Possession, j 

Thai. * * Well, I perceive he was a 
wise fellow, and had good discretion, that 
being bid to ask what he would of the king, 
desired he might know none of his secrets. 
Now do I see he had some reason for it : for 
if a king bid a man be a villain, he is bound 
by the indenture of his oath to be one. 

P., I: 3. 1846. 



— (See Discretion.) A Wife's 
Right to Share. 

Por. * * What, is Brutus sick ; 
And Mill he steal out of his wholesome bed, 
To dare the vile contagion of the night? 
And tempt the rheumy and unpurged air 
To add unto his sickness? No, my Brutus ; 
You have some sick offence within your 

mind, 
Which, by the right and virtue of my place, 
I ought to know of: And, upon my knees, 
I charm you, by my once commended beauty, 
By all your vows of love, and that great vow 
Which did incorporate and make us one, 
That you unfold to me, yourself, your half, 
Why you are heavy ; and what men to-night 
Have had resort to you ; for here have been 
Some six or seven, who did hide their faces 
Even from darkness. 

Brn. Kneel not, gentle Portia. 

Por. I should not need, if you were 

gentle Brutus. 
Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus, 
Is it excepted, I should know no secrets 
That appertain to you? Am I yourself, 
But, as it were, in sort, or limitation ; 
To keep with you at meals, comfort your 

bed, 
And talk to you sometimes? Dwell I but 

in tlie suburbs 
Of your good pleasure? If it be no more, 
Portia is Brutus' harlot, not his wife. 

J. C., II: 1. 1331. 

— Danger of Knowing. 

Luc. Fire that's closest kept burns most 

of all. 

T. G., II : 2. 49. 

Per. * * The great Antiochus 
('Gainst whom I am too little to contend, 
Since he 's so great, can make his will his 

act.) 
Will think me speaking, though I swear to 

silence ; 
Nor boots it me to say, I honour him, 
If he suspect I may dishonour him : 
And what may make him blush in being 

known, 
He '11 stop the course by which it might be 

known, 
With hostile forces he '11 o'erspread the 

land, 



SECRETS. 



487 



SECURITY 



And with the ostent of war will look so 
huge. 

Amazement shall drive courage from the 
state ; 

Our men be vanquish'd, ere they do re- 
sist, 

And subjects punish'd, that ne'er thought 
offence : 

Which care of them, not pity of myself, 

(Who am no more but as the tops of trees, 

Which fence the roots they grow by, and 
defend them,) 

Makes both my body pine, and soul to lan- 
guish, 

And punish that before, that he would pun- 
ish. 

P., 1 : 2. 1644. 

—Despised. 

Wol. May it please you, noble madam, 
to withdraw 

Into your private chamber, Ave shall give 
you 

The full cause of our coming. 

Q. Kath. Speak it here ; 

There 's nothing I have done yet, o' my 
conscience, 

Deserves a corner : 'Would, all other wo- 
men 

Could speak this with as free a soul as 
I do! 

My lords, I care not, (so much I am happy 

Above a number,) if my actions 

Were tried by every tongue, every eye saw 
them, 

Envy and base opinion set against them. 

H. VI II., Ill: 1. 1074. 

— Invoked. 

Lady M. * * 
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the 
dark. 

M., 1 : 5. 1361. 

SECURITY.— An Insult to Ask for. 

Fal. * * A rascally yea-forsooth knave ! 
to bear a gentleman in hand, and then stand 
updn security! — The whoreson smooth- 
pates do now wear nothing but high shoes, 
and bunches of keys at their girdles ; and if 
a man is thorough with them in honest tak- 
ing up, then they must stand upon — secu- 
rity. I had as lief they would put ratsbane 



in my mouth, as offer to stop it with secu- 
rity. I looked he should have sent me two- 
and-twenty yards of satin, as I am a true 
knight, and he sends me security. Well, 
he may sleep in security. 

H. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 2. 776. 



— Imagined. 

Duke. * * 
Thou foolish friar ; and thou pernicious 

woman, 
Compact with her that 's gone ! think'st 

thou thy oaths, 
Though they would swear down each par- 
ticular saint, 
Were testimonies against his worth and 

credit, 
That's seal'd in approbation? 

M. M., V: 1. 173. 

— The Criminal's chief Danger. 

Ilec. Have I not reason, beldams as you 

are, 
Saucy and overbold? How did you dare 
To trade and traffic with Macbeth, 
In riddles, and affairs of death ; 
And I, the mistress of your charms, 
The close contriver of all harms, 
Was never call'd to bear my part, 
Or show the glory of our art? 
And, which is worse, all you have done 
Hath been but for a wayward son, 
Spiteful, and wrathful ; who, as others 

do, 
Loves for his own ends, not for you. 
But make amends now : Get you gone, 
And at the pit of Acheron, 
Meet me i' the morning ; thither he 
Will come to know his destiny. 
Your vessels, and your spells, provide, 
Your charms, and everything beside : 
I am for the air ; this night I '11 spend 
Unto a dismal and a fatal end. 
Great business must be wrought ere noon : 
Upon the corner of the moon 
There hangs a vapourous drop profound; 
I '11 catch it ere it come to ground : 
And that, distill'd by magic slights, 
Shall raise such artificial sprights, 
As, by the strength of their illusion, 
Shall draw him on to his confusion : 



SECURITY. 



488 



SELF-RELIANCE. 



He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear 
His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace, and fear : 
And you all know, security 
Is mortal's chiefest enemy. 

M., Ill : b: 1373. 

SEEMING. — Better than the. 

Tit. 0, gracious emperor! O gentle 
Aaron ! 
Did ever raven sing so like a lark? 

Tit. And., Ill : 1. 1215. 

— Not Virtue. 

Claud. Out on thy seeming! I will 
write against it, — 
"You seem to me as Dian in her orb : 
As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown ; 
But you are more intemperate in your 

blood, 
Than Venus, or those pamper'd animals 
That rage in savage sensuality." 

M.A.,1V: 1. 244. 

SELF. — Knowing One's. 

Sly. What! would you make me mad? 
Am not I Christopher Sly, old Sly's son, of 
Burton-heath ; by birth a pedler, by educa- 
tion a card-maker, by transmutation a bear- 
herd, and now by present profession atinker? 
Ask Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of 
Wincot, if she know me not : if she say I 
am n.t fourteen pence on the score for 
sheer ale, score me up for the lying'st 
knave in Christendom. What! I am not 
bestraught : Here's — 

T. S., Ind.: 2. 453. 

SELF -CONCEIT.— Not to be Talked 
to. 

Flu. Captain Macmorris, when there is 
more better opportunity to be required, 
look you, I will be so bold as to tell you, I 
know the disciplines of war : and there is 
an end. 

H. V., Ill : 2. 833. 

SELF - EXAMINATION. — Desirable. 

Men. * * 0, that you could turn your 
eyes towards the napes of your necks, and 
make but an interior survey of your good 
selves ! 

C, II : 1. 1160 J 

SELFISHNESS. — A Law to Itself. 

Val. * * 
These are my mates, that make their wills 



their law. 



T. G., V : 4. 71. 



— Cruel. 

Duke. * * 
Like to the Egyptian thief, at point of death, 
Kill what I love. 

T. N., V : 1. 566. 

— Its growing Power. 

Bast. Mad Avord ! mad kings ! mad com- 
position ! 
John, to stop Arthur's title in the whole, 
Hath willingly departed with a part : 
And France, (whose armour conscience 

buckled on ; 
Whom zeal and charity brought to the field, 
As God's own soldier,) rounded in the ear 
With that same purpose-changer, that sly 

devil ; 
That broker, that still breaks the pate of 

faith ; 
That daily break-vow ; he that wins of all, 
Of kings, of beggars, old men, young men, 

maids ; — 
Who have no external thing to lose 
But the word maid, — cheats the poor maid of 
that. 

K. J., II : 2. 656. 

— Mercenary. 

Sen. * * 
If I would sell my horse, and buy twenty 

more 
Better than he, why, give my horse to Timon, 
Ask nothing, give it him, it foals me, straight, 
And able horses. 

T.A.,Il: 1. 1293. 

SELF-LOVE.— Not the vilest Sin. 

Dau. Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a 
sin 
As self-neglecting. 

//. V., II : 4. 830. 

SELF-RELIANCE. — Frames our 

Future. 

Con. * * It is impossible you should 
take true root, but by the fair Aveather that 
you make yourself: it is needful that you 
frame the season for your own harvest. 

M. JL,1: 3. 229. 

— Trusts no Agent. 

Claud. Let every eye negotiate for itself, 

And trust no agent. 

M.A.,U: 1. 232. 



SELF-WILL. 



489 



SERVANT. 



SELF-WILL.— A Growth. 

Nest. * * 
Ajax is grown self-will 'd ; and bears his head 
In such a rein, in full as proud a place 
As broad Achilles : keeps his tent like him ; 
Makes factious feasts ; rails on our state of 

war, 
Bold as an oracle : and sets Thersites 
(A slave, whose gall coins slanders like a 

mint.) 
To match us in comparisons with dirt ; 
To weaken and discredit our exposure, 
How rank soever rounded in with danger. 

t. G. t 1 : 3. 1109. 

SENILITY. — Disqualifies for Affairs. 

Pol. * * 
Is not your father grown incapable 
Of reasonable aifairs? is he not stupid 
With age, and alt'ring rheums? Can he 

speak? hear? 
Know man from man? dispute his own es- 
tate? 
Lies he not bed-rid? and again does noth- 
ing, 
But what he did being childish? 

W. T., IV : 3. 605. 

SENSUALISM.— An Idolatry. 

Biron. This is the liver vein, which 
makes flesh a deity ; 
A green goose, a goddess : pure, pure idol- 
atry. 

L. L., IV : 3. 287. 

SENSUALITY.— Leads to Uncon- 
cern. 

Tim. * * Ingrateful man, with liquor- 
ish draughts, 
And morsels unctuous, greases his pure 

mind, 
That from it all consideration slips ! 

T.A., IV: 3. 1307. 

SENTENCE— Unjust, Unmans. 

1 Gent. When he was brought again to 

the bar, — to hear 
His knell rung out, his judgment, — he was 

stirr'd 
With such an agony, he sweat extremely, 
And something spoke in choler, ill, and 

hasty : 



But he fell to himself again, and, sweetly, 
In all the rest showed a most noble patience. 

2 Gent. I do not think, he fears death. 

1 Gent. Sure, he does not, 

He never was so womanish ; the cause 
He may a little grieve at. 

//. Vin., II : 1. 1065. 

SEPARATION— Sorrowful. 

Duck. * * Bid him— O, what? — 
With all good speed at Plashy visit me. 
Alack, and what shall good old York there 

see, 
But empty lodgings and unfurnished walls, 
Unpeopled offices, untrodden stones? 
And what cheer there for welcome, but my 

groans? 
Therefore commend me ; let him not come 

there, 
To seek out sorrow that dwells everywhere : 
Desolate, desolate, will I hence, and die : 
The last leave of thee takes my weeping 

eye. 

R. II, I: 2. 687. 

— Tears at. 
Glend. A shorter time shall send me to 
you, lords, 
And in my conduct shall your ladies come, 
From whom you now must steal, and take 

no leave ; 
For there will be a world of water shed, 
Upon the parting of your wives and you. 

H. IV., 1 pt., Ill : 1. 745. 

SERMONS.— In Stones. 

Duke S. * * 
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 
A. ¥., II : 1. 414. 

SERVANT — A faithful. 

Flav. I beg of you to know me, good my 
lord, 
To accept my grief, and, whilst this poor 

wealth lasts, 
To entertain me as your steward still. 

Tim. Had I a steward 
So true, so just, and now so comfortable? 
It almost turns my dangerous nature mild. 
Let me behold thy face.— Surely, this man 
Was born of woman. — 
Forgive my general and exceptless rashness, 



SERVANT. 



49O 



SERVANT. 



You perpetual-sober gods ! I do proclaim 
One honest man, — mistake me not, — but 

one ; 
No more, I pray, — and he 's a steward. — 
How fain Avould I have hated all mankind ! 
And thou redeem'st thyself; but all, save 

thee, 
I fell with curses. 
Methinks, thou art more honest now, than 

wise, 
For, by oppressing and betraying me, 
Thou might'st have sooner got another ser- 
vice ; 
For many so arrive at second masters, 
Upon their first lord's neck. But tell me 

true, 
(For I must ever doubt, though ne'er so 

sure,) 
Is not thy kindness subtle, covetous, 
If not a usuring kindness ; and as rich men 

deal gifts, 
Expecting in return twenty for one? 

T. A., IV: 3. 1311. 

— A treacherous. 

Kent. That such a slave as this should 
wear a sword, 
Who wears no honesty . Such smiling rogues 

as these, 
Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain 
Which are too intrinse t' unloose : smooth 

every passion 
That in the natures of the lords rebels ; 
Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods ; 
Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks 
With every gale and vary of their masters, 
As knowing nought, like dogs, but follow- 
ing. — 
A plague upon your epileptic visage ! 
Smile you my speeches, as I were a fool? 
Goose, if I had you upon Sarum plain, 
I M drive ye cackling home to Camelot. 

K. L.,U: 2. 1456. 

— Of universal Adaptation. 

Lear. What dost thou profess? What 
wouldst thou with us? 

Kent. I do profess to be no less than I 
seem ; to serve him truly that he will put 
mo in trust: to love him that is honest; to 
converse with him that is wise, and says 
little ; to fear judgment ; to fight when I can- 
not choose ; and to eat no fish. 



Lear. What art thou? 

Kent. A very honest-hearted fellow, and 
as poor as the king. 

Lear. If thou be as poor for a subject, 
as he is for a king, thou art poor enough. 
What wouldst thou? 

Kent. Service. 

Lear. Whom wouldst thou serve? 

Kent. You. 

Lear. Dost thou know me, fellow? 

I£ent. No, sir ; but you have that in your 
countenance, which I would fain call master. 

Lear. What 's that? 

Kent. Authority. 

Lear. What services canst thou do? 

Kent. I can keep honest counsel, ride, 
run, mar a curious tale in telling it, and 
deliver a plain message bluntly : that which 
ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in ; 
and the best of me is diligence. 

Lear How old art thou? 

Kent. Not so young, sir, to love a woman 
of singing ; nor so old, to dote on her for any- 
thing : I have years on my back forty-eight. 

Lear. Follow me : thou shalt serve me : 
if I like thee no worse after dinner, I will 
not part from thee yet. 

K. Z.,I: 4. 1449- 

— Sad and civil. 

OH. Where is Malvolio? — 'he is sad, and 
civil, 
And suits well for a servant with my for- 
tunes. 

T. N~., Ill : 4. 558. 



— Treated as an Ass. 

Dro. E. I am an ass, indeed ; you may 
prove it by my long ears. I have served 
him from the hour of my nativity to this in- 
stant, and have nothing at his hands for my 
service but blows : when I am cold, he heats 
me with beating ; when I am warm, he cools 
me with beating; I am wak'd with it, when 
I sleep ; rais'd with it, when I sit ; driven out 
of doors with it, when I go from home ; wel- 
eom'd home with it, when I return: nay, I 
bear it on my shoulders, as a beggar wont 
her brat; and, I think, when he hath lam'd 
me, I shall beg with it from door to door. 

C. E., IV : 2. 207. 



—Good, do not always Obey. 

Post. * * 
Every good servant does not all commands : 
No bond, but to do just ones. 

Cym.,V: 1. 1621. 



SERVICE. 



49 I 



SHAME. 



SERVICE. — On Compulsion. 

Ang. * * 
Those he commands move only in com- 
mand, 
Nothing in love. 

W. F., 2. 1382. 

— Rendered for a Purpose. 

Iago. 0, sir, content you; 
I follow him to serve my turn upon him : 
We cannot all be masters, nor all masters 
Cannot be truly follow 'd. You shall mark 
Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave, 
That, doting on his own obsequious bond- 
age, 
Wears out his time, much like his master's 

ass, 
For nought but provender ; and when he 's 

old, cashier'd ; 
Whip me such honest knaves : Others there 

are 
Who, trimnrd in forms and visages of duty, 
Keep yet their hearts attending on them- 
selves ; 
And, throwing but shows of service on their 

lords, 
Do well thrive by them, and, when they 

have lin'd their coats, 
Do themselves homage : these fellows have 

some soul; 
And such a one do I profess myself. For, 

sir, 
It is as sure as you are Roderigo, 
Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago. 
In following him I follow but myself; 
Heaven is my judge, not I for love and 

duty, 
But seeming so, for my peculiar end : 
For when my outward action doth demon- 
strate 
The native act and figure of my heart 
In complement extern, 't is not long after 
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve 
For daws to peck at : I am not what I am. 

0., I: 1. 1491. 

— The Dictate of Gratitude. 

Lady M. All our service, 

In every point twice done, and then done 

double, 
Were poor and single business, to contend 



Against those honours deep and broad, 

wherewith 
Your majesty loads our house : For those 

of old, 
And the late dignities heap'd up to them, 
We rest your hermits. 

M., 1 : 6. 1362. 

j SHALLOWNESS. — Blind to the Fu- 
ture. 
P. John. You are too shallow, Hastings, 
much too shallow, 
To found the bottom of the after-times. 

H. IV., 2pt., IV: 2. 797. 

SHAME. — A burning. 

Oth. * * 
I should make very forges of my cheeks, 
That would to cinders burn up modesty, 
Did I but speak thy deeds. 

0., IV : 2. 1522. 

— Consequent on Defeat. 

Bour. Shame, and eternal shame, noth- 
ing but shame ! 
Let 's die in honour : Once more back again ; 
And he that will not follow Bourbon now, 
Let him go hence, and with his cap in hand 
Like a base pander. 

//. V., IV: 5. 847. 

— Consequent on Flight. 

Ant. * * 0, 

I follow 'd that I blush to look upon : 
My very hairs do mutiny, for the white 
Reprove the brown for rashness, and they 

them 
For fear and doting. 

A. C, III: 10. 1504. 

— Hiding;. 
I J am . * * 

O shame! where is thy blush? Rebellions 

hell, 
If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, 
To naming youth let virtue be as wax, 
And melt in her own fire. 

#.,111: 4. 1419. 

— Not on the Brow of the Loved. 
Jul. Blister'd be thy tongue 

For such a wish? he was not born to sham : 



Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit : 
For 't is a throne where honour may be 

crown'd 
Sole monarch of the universal earth. 
O, what a beast was I to chide at him ! 

R.J., III: 2. 1261. 

— Requires Discretion. 

Luc. * * 

What simple thief brags of his own at- 
taint? 
'T is double wrong to truant with ydur bed, 
And let her read it in thy looks at board : 
Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed ; 
C. ^., III: 2. 201. 

— Seen after its Symbols. 

Stan. Madam, your penance done, throw 
off this sheet, 
And go we to attire you for our journey. 
Duch. My shame will not be shifted with 
my sheet; 
No, it will hang upon my richest robes, 
And show itself, attire me how I can. 
Go, lead the way ; I long to see my prison. 
H. 7T.,2pt.,II: 4. 921. 

SHAMELESSNESS.— In Everything. 

York. * * 
Thou art as opposite to every good, 
As the Antipodes are unto us, 
Or as the south to the septentrion. 

IT. F/., 3pt., I: 4. 961. 

SHIPPING. — Poor. 

Queen. * * And his shipping, 
(Poor ignorant baubles !) on our terrible 

seas, 
Like egg-shells mov'd upon their surges, 

crack'd 
As easily 'gainst our rocks. 

Cym.,TH\ 1. 1605. 

SHIPWRECK. — A Clown's Descrip- 
tion of. 

Clo. I would you did but see how it 
chafes, how it rages, how it takes up the 
shore! but that 's not to the point: 0, the 
most piteous cry of the poor souls ! some- 
times to see 'em, and not to see 'em : now 
the ship boring the moon with her main- 
mast; and anon swallowed with yest and 



froth, as you 'd thrust a cork into a hogs- 
head. And then for the land-service, — To 
see how the bear tore out his shoulder-bone ; 
how he cried to me for help, and said his 
name was Antigonus, a nobleman : — But to 
make an end of the ship, — to see how the 
sea flap-dragon'd it: — but, first, how the 
poor souls roared, and the sea mock'd them ; 
— and how the poor gentleman roared, and 
the bear mock'd him, both roaring louder 
than the sea, or weather. 

W. T., Ill: 3. 597. 



SHOALS.— Their Danger. 

Salar. * * The Goodwins, I think 
they call the place ; a very dangerous flat 
arid fatal, where the carcasses of many a 
tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gos- 
sip Report be an honest woman of her 
word. 

M. F, III: 1. 375. 

SHREW. — Conquered best alone. 

Pet. * * 
How much she loves me : O, the kindest 

Kate ! 
She hung about my neck ; and kiss on 

kiss 
She vied so fast, protesting oath on oath, 
That in a twinkle she won me to her love. 
0, you are novices ! 'tis a world to see, 
How tame, when men and women are alone, 
A meacock wretch can make the curstest 

shrew. 

T. S., II: 1. 465. 

— Her Purpose. 

Kath. F faith, sir, you shall never need 

to fear ; 
I wis, it is not half way to her heart : 
But, if it were, doubt not her care should 

be 
To comb your noddle with a three-legg'd 

stool, 
And paint your face, and use you like a 

fool. * 

T. S.,I: 1. 455. 

SHRIEKS. —Terrific. 
Jul. * * Shrieks like mandrakes, torn 
out of the earth, 
That living mortals, hearing them, run 
mad. 

R. J., IV : 3. 1270. 



SICKNESS. 



493 



SICKNESS. 



SICKNESS. — Cares not for good 
News. 

K. John. Ah me ! this tyrant fever burns 
me up, 
And will not let me welcome this good 
news. 

K. J., V : 3. 674. 

— Caught of the Well. 

Cam. There is a sickness 

Which puts some of us in distemper ; but 
I cannot name the disease ; and it is caught 
Of you that yet are well. 

W. T.,I: 2. 585. 

— Caused by Joy. 

P. Humph. He much altered upon the 

hearing it. 
P. Hen. If he be sick 
With joy, he will recover without physic. 

E. IV., 2 pt., IV : 4. 802. 

— Chronic. 

King. * * Nature and sickness 
Debate it at their leisure. 

A.W.,1: 2. 498. 

—Endangers Enterprise. 
Hot. * * This sickness doth infect 

The very life-blood of our enterprise ; 

'T is catching hither, even to our camp. 

He writes me here, — that inward sick- 
ness, — 

And that his friends by deputation could 
not 

So soon be drawn ; nor did he think it 
meet 

To lay so dangerous and dear a trust 

On any soul remov'd, but on his own. 

Yet doth he give us bold advertisement, 

That with our small conjunction we should 
on, 

To see how fortune is dispos'd to us ; 

For, as he writes, there is no quailing now, 

Because the king is certainly possess'd 

Of all our purposes. What say you to it? 
Wor. Your father's sickness is a maim 

to us. 
Hot. A perilous gash, a very limb lopp'd 
off: — 

And yet, in faith, 't is not ; his present want 



Seems more than we shall find it : — were it 

good, 
To set the exact wealth of all our states 
All at one cast? to set so rich a main 
On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? 
It were not good; for therein should we 

read 
The very bottom and the soul of hope, 
The very list, the very utmost bound 
Of all our fortunes. 

H. IV, lpt., IV: 1. 752. 

— Misconceived. 
Wor. But yet, I would your father had 
been here. 
The quality and hair of our attempt 
Brooks no division ; it will be thought 
By some, that know not why he is away, 
That wisdom, loyalty, and mere dislike 
Of our proceedings, kept the earl from 

hence : 
And think, how such an apprehension 
May turn the tide of fearful faction, 
And breed a kind of question in our cause ; 
For, well you know, we of the offering side 
Must keep aloof from strict arbitrement, 
And stop all sight-holes, every loop from 

whence 
The eye of reason may pry in upon us : 
This absence of your father's, draws a cur- 
tain, 
That shows the ignorant a kind of fear 
Before not dreamt of. 

ff.IV, lpt., IV: 1. 752. 

— No Time for. 
Hot. 'Zounds ! how has he the leisure to 
be sick, 
In such a justling time? Who leads his 

power? 
Under whose government come they along? 
//. IV., lpt., IV; 1. 752. 

— "When not extreme. 
Imo. So sick I am not; — yet I am not 
well : 
But not so citizen a wanton, as 
To seem to die, ere sick : So please you, 

leave me ; 
Stick to your journal course : the breach of 
custom 



SICKNESS. 



494 



SILENCE. 



Is breach of all. I am ill ; but your being 

by me 
Cannot amend me : Society is no comfort 
To one not sociable : I am not very sick, 
Since I can reason of it. Pray you, trust 

me here : 
I '11 rob none but myself; and let me die, 
Stealing so poorly. 

Cym., IV : 2. 1614. 

SIGHING. — At small Things. 

Leon. * * And then to sigh, as 't were 
The mort o' the deer. 

W. T, 1 : 2. 582. 

— Disguised. 
Tro. I was about to tell thee, — When 
my heart, 
As wedged with a sigh, would rive in 

twain ; 
Lest Hector or my father should perceive 

me, 
I have (as when the sun doth light a 

storm.) 
Bury'd this sigh in wrinkle of a smile. 

T C 1 : 1. 1103. 

Hero. * * Like cover'd fire, 
Consume away in sighs. 

M. A., Ill : 1. 238. 

SIGHS.— Significant. 

King. There's matter in these sighs; 
these profound heaves ; 
You must translate : 't is fit we understand 
them. 

H. V., IV : 1. 1421. 

SIGNS.— Not to be Trusted. 

Q. Kath. * * 
They should be good men ; their affairs as 

righteous ; 
But all hoods make not monks. 

H. VIII., Ill : l. 1074. 

SILENCE. — A Ground of Suspicion. 

Mrs. Page. * * 
We do not act that often jest and laugh. 
'T is old but true, Still swine eat all the 
draff. 

M. W., IV: 2. 112. 



— Commendable. 

Count. * * Be check'd for silence, 
But never tax'd for speech. 

A. W.,I: 1. 496. 

Gra. Well, keep me company but two 
years more, 
Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own 
tongue. 
Ant. Farewell : I '11 grow a talker for 

this gear. 
Gra. Thanks, i' faith; for silence is on- 
ly commendable 
In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not 
vendible. 

M. V., I: 1. 362. 

— Compulsory. 
North. * * 

His tongue is now a stringless instrument. 
R. II, II : 1. 693. 

— Consistent -with Devotion. 

Kent. * * What woulds't thou do, old 

man? 
Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to 

speak, 
When power to flattery bows? To plainness 

honour 's bound, 
When majesty falls to folly. Reserve thy 

state ; 
And, in thy best consideration, check 
This hideous rashness : answer my life my 

judgment, 
Thy youngest daughter does not love thee 

least ; 
Nor are those empty hearted, whose low 

sounds 
Reverb no hollowness. 

K.Z.,1: 1. 1445. 

— Exasperating. 

Ajax. Speak, then, thou vinew'dest leav- 
en, speak : 
I will beat thee into handsomeness. 

T. C.,Tl: 1. 1112. 

— Hath cunning Power. 

Cres. * * See, see, your silence, 
Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness 

draws 
My very soul of counsel : Stop my mouth. 
T. C, III: 2. 1122. 



SILENCE. 



495 



SILENCE. 



— Invoked. 

Ham. I pray you all, 

If you have hitherto conceal'd this sight, 
Let it be tenable in your silence still; 
And whatsoever else shall hap to-night, 
Give it an understanding, but no tongue. 

H.,1: 2. 1396. 

— Not always Wisdom. 

Gra. * * 
O, my Antonio, I do know of these, 
That therefore only are reputed wise 
For saying nothing ; when, I am very 

sure, 
If they should speak, 't would almost damn 

those ears, 
Which, hearing them, would call their 

brothers fools. 

M. V., I: 1. 362. 

— On Eve of Battle. 

Gow. Captain Fluellen ! 

Flv. So ! in the name of Cheshu Christ, 
speak lower. It is the greatest admiration 
in the universal 'orld, when the true and 
auncient prerogatifes and laws of the wars 
is not kept : if you would take the pains but 
to examine the wars of Pompey the Great, 
you shall find, I warrant you, that there is 
no tiddle taddle, or pipple pabble, in Pom- 
pey's camp ; I warrant you, you shall find 
the ceremonies of the wars, and the cares of 
it, and the sobriety of it, and the modesty 
of it, to be otherwise. 

Gow. Why, the enemy is loud ; you heard 
him all night. 

Flu. If the enemy is an ass, and a fool, 
and a prating coxcomb, is it meet, think 
you, that we should also, look you, be an 
ass, and a fool, and a prating coxcomb ; in 
your own conscience now? 

Gow. I will speak lower. 

H. V.. IV : 1. 840. 

— Politic. 

Mor. With silence, nephew, be thou 
politic : 
Strong-fixed is the house of Lancaster, 
And, like a mountain, not to be remov'd. 
But now thy uncle is removing hence ; 
As princes do their courts, when they are 

cloy'd 
With long continuance in a settled place. 

H. VI., 1 pt., II : 5. 877. 



— Precursor of a Storm. 

1 Flay. * * 
But, as we often see, against some storm, 
A silence in the heavens, the rack stand 

still, 
The bold winds speechless, and the orb be- 
low 
As hush as death : anon the dreadful thunder 
Doth rend the region: So, after Pyrrhus' 

pause, 
A roused vengeance sets him a new work ; 
And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall 
On Mars's armours, forg'd for proof eterne, 
With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding 

sword 
Now falls on Priam. 

//., II : 2. 1408. 

— Preposterous. 

Mar. All lost ! to prayers, to prayers ! all 

lost ! 
Boats. What, must our mouths be cold ! 
Gon. The king and prince at prayers ! 
let us assist them, 
For our case is as theirs. 
Seb. I am out of patience. 
Ant. We are merely cheated of our lives 
by drunkards. — 
This wide-chopp'd rascal, — would, thou 

might'st lie drowning, 
The washing of ten tides ! 

Gon-. He '11 be hanged yet, 

Though every drop of water swear against it, 
And gape at wid'st to glut him. 

T.,1: 1. 8. 

— Sign of Joy. 

Claud. Silence is the perfectest herald 
of joy : 
I were but little happy if I could say how 
much. 

M.A.,U- 1- 233. 

— Sign of Sobriety. 

Luc. But in the other's silence do I see 
Maids' mild behaviour and sobriety. 

T. S.,1: 1. 455. 

— The Answer to Upbraidings. 

Plan. * * 
Which obloquy set bars before my tongue. 
H. F/..H: 5. 877. 



SILENCE. 



49 6 



SIN. 



— Unattainable. 

Bene. * * While she is here, a man 
may live as quiet in hell as in a sanctuary. 

M. A., II : 1. 232. 

SIMILARITY.— In Appearance. 

Q. Mar. * * 
For both of you are birds of self-same 
feather. 

//. VI, 3 pt., Ill : 3. 976. 

Leon. * * Almost as like as eggs. 

W. T.,I: 2.582 

Macb. * * Melted, as breath into the 
wind. 

M., 1 : 3. 1359. 

Const. * * Being as like, 
As rain to water, or devil to his dam. 

K. J., II: l. 651. 

SIMPLICITY. — Of Expression. 

K. Kick. Be eloquent in my behalf to 
her. 

Q. Eliz. An honest tale speeds best, be- 
ing plainly told. 

K. Rich. Then, in plain terms tell her 
my loving tale. 

R. III. ,1V: 4. 1038. 

The. * * 
For never anything can be amiss, 
When simpleness and duty tender it. 

M. N., V : 1. 342. 

SIN. — Ashamed of. 

Per. Few love to hear the sins they 
have to act. 

P., 1 : 1. 1643. 

— Consequences Hereditary. 

Laun. Yes, truly; — for, look you, the 
sins of the father are to be laid upon the 
children. 

M. F..III: 5. 381. 

— Cunning. 

Claud. * * 
0, what authority and show of truth 
Can cunning sin cover itself withal ! 

M.A., IV: 1. 244. 



— Gladly Borne. 

Isab. * * 
If that be sin, I '11 make it my morn prayer 
To have it added to the faults of mine, 
And nothing of your answer. 

M. M., II : 4. 155. 

— Heavy. 

Ditch. * * 
Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom, 
That they may break his foaming courser's 

back, 
And throw the rider headlong in the lists. 

R. II, 1 : 2. 687. 

— Provokes to Sin. 

Per. * * 
Antioch, farewell! for wisdom sees, those 

men 
Blush not in actions blacker than the night, 
Will shun no course to keep them from the 

light. 
One sin, I know, another doth provoke ; 
Murder 's as near to lust, as flame to 

smoke : 
Poison and treason are the hands of sin, 
Ay, and the targets, to put off the shame. 

P.,1: 1. 1644. 

— Punished. 

Aug. * * But that her tender shame 
Will not proclaim against her maiden 

loss, 
How might she tongue me? Yet reason 

dares her. No : 
For my authority bears of a credent bulk, 
That no particular scandal once can touch, 
But it confounds the breather. He should 

have liv'd, 
Save that his riotous youth, with dangerous 

sense, 
Might, in the times to come, have ta'en re- 
venge, 
By so receiving a dishonour'd life, 
With ransom of such shame. 'Would yet 

he had lived ! 
Alack, when once ouf grace we have for- 
got, 
Nothing goes right; we would, and we 
would not. 

M. J/., IV : 4. 169. 



SINS. 



497 



SINGERS. 



SINS. — Compelled. 

Tsab. Sir, believe this, 

I had rather give my body than my soul. 
Aug. I talk not of your soul. Our com- 
pelTd sins 
Stand more for number than for account. 

M. M. t II : 4. 154. 

— The blackest. 

Iago. * * Divinity of hell ! 
When devils will the blackest sins put on, 
They do suggest at first with heavenly 

shows, 
As I do now. 

<?., II: 3. 1508. 

SINCERITY. — Assaulted. 

K. Phi. * * 
And make a riot on the gentle brow 
Of true sincerity? 

K. J., Ill : 1. 659. 

— Immaculate. 

Jul. * * His words are bonds, his oaths 
are oracles ; 
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate ; 
His tears, pure messengers sent from his 

heart ; 
His heart as far from fraud as heaven from 
earth. 

T. G.,TL\ 7. 59. 

— Its Earnestness. 

Duch. Pleads he in earnest? look upon 

his face ; 
His eyes do drop no tears, his prayers are in 

jest; 
His words come from his mouth, ours from 

our breast : 
He prays but faintly, and would be denied ; 
We pray with heart, and soul, and all be- 
side ; 
His weary joints would gladly rise, I know : 
Our knees shall kneel till to the ground they 

grow : 
His prayers are full of false hypocrisy ; 
Ours, of true zeal and deep integrity. 
Our prayers do out-pray his ; then let them 

have 
That mercy, which true prayers ought to 

have. 

R. II., V : 3. 715. 



— Never dangerous. 

Cas. * * 
And be not jealous of me, gentle Brutus : 
Were I a common laugher, or did use 
To stale with ordinary oaths my love 
To every new protester ; if you know 
That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, 
And after scandal them ; or if you know 
That I profess myself in banqueting 
To all the rout, then hold me dangerous. 

J. C.,I: 2. 1324. 

— Proof of, Demanded. 

Biron. To move wild laughter in the 
throat of death? 
It cannot be ; it is impossible : 
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. 

Ros. Why, that 's the way to choke a 
gibing spirit, 
Whose influence is begot of that loose grace 
Which shallow laughing hearers give to 

fools : 
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear 
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue 
Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, 
Deaf d with the clamours of their own dear 

groans, 
Will hear your idle scorns, continue chem, 
And I will have you and that fault withal : 
But if they will not, throw away that spirit, 
And I shall find you empty of that fault, 
Right joyful of your reformation. 

Biron. A twelvemonth ! we'l, befall what 
will befall, 
I '11 jest a twelvemonth in a hospital. 

L. L., V : 2. 304. 

— Pure. 

K. Hen. * * 
And we will hear, note, and believe in heart, 
That what you speak is in your conscience 

wash'd, 
As pure as sin with baptism. 

H. V., 1 : 2. 821. 

— Unreserved. 

Duke. * * I have unclasp'd 
To thee the book even of my secret soul. 

T. &., 1 : 4. 543. 

SINGERS. — Ballad. 

Serv. O master, if you did but hear the 
pedler at the door, you would never dance 
again after a tabor and pipe : no, the bag- 



SINGERS. 



49 8 



SKILL. 



pipe could not move you ; he sings several 
tunes faster than you '11 tell money ; he ut- 
ters them as lie had eaten ballads, and all 
men's ears grew to his tunes. 

Clo. He could never come better : he 
shall come in : I love a ballad but even too 
well; if it be doleful matter, merrily set 
down, or a very pleasant thing indeed, and 
sung lamentably. 

Serv. He hath songs, for man, or wom- 
an, of all sizes ; no milliner can so fit his 
customers with gloves : he has the prettiest 
love-songs for maids ; so without bawdry, 
which is strange ; with such delicate bur- 
thens of '-dildos and fadings : " "jump her 
and thump her;" and where some stretch- 
mouth'd rascal would, as it were, mean mis- 
chief, and break a foul jape into the matter, 
he makes the maid to answer, ''Whoop, do 
me no harm, good man ; " puts him off, 
slights him, with ''Whoop, do me no harm, 
good man." 

W. T., IV: 3. 603 

— Characters of old. 

Clo. Come on, lay it by : And let 's first 
see more ballads ; we '11 buy the other 
things anon. 

Aut. Here 's another ballad, Of a fish, 
that appeared upon the coast, on Wedn's- 
day the four-score of April, forty thousand 
fadom above water, and sung this ballad 
against the hard hearts of maids : it was 
thought she was a woman, and was turn'd 
into a cold fish, for she would not exchange 
flesh with one that lov'd her : The ballad 
is very pitiful, and as true. 

Dor. Is it true, too, think you? 

Aut. Five justices' hands at it; and wit- 
nesses, more than my pack will hold. 

W. T., IV: 3. 603. 

SINGING. — Puritan. 

Clo. * * 

But one Puritan amongst them, and he 
sings psalms to hornpipes. 

W. T., IV: 2. 599. 

— Sweet. 

Pel. * * 
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. 

T. JV r ., II : 1. 463. 

SINNING.— By the Sinned-against. 

Lear. Let the great gods, 

That keep this dreadful pother o'er our 

heads, 
Find out their enemies now. Tremble, thou 

wretch, 
Thou hast within thee undivulged crimes, 



Unwhipp'd of justice : hide thee, thou bloody 

hand ; 
Thou perjured, and thou simular of virtue 
That art incestuous : Caitiff, to pieces shake, 
That under covert and convenient seeming 
Hast practis'd on man's life? — Close pent- 
up guilts, 
Kive your concealing continents, and cry 
These dreadful summoners grace. — I am a 

man 
More sinn'd against than sinning. 

K. L., Ill : 2. 1463. 

SKILL.— Better than Riches. 
Cer. I held it ever, 

Virtue and cunning were endowments greater 
Than nobleness and riches : careless heirs 
May the two latter darken and expend ; 
But immortality attends the former, 
Making a man a god. 'T is known, I ever 
Have studied physic, through which secret 

art, 
By turning o'er authorities, I have 
(Together with my practice,) made familiar 
To me and to my aid, the blest infusions 
That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones ; 
And I can speak of the disturbances 
That nature works, and of her cures ; which 

give me 
A more content in course of true delight 
Than to be thirsty after tottering honour, 
Or tie my treasure up in silken bags, 
To please the fool and death. 

P., Ill : 2. 1657. 

— Cruel for Praise. 

Prin. * * Now Mercy goes to kill, 
And shooting well is then accounted ill. 
Thus will I save my credit in the shoot : 
Not wounding, pity would not let me do 't ; 
If wounding, then it was to show my skill, 
That more for praise, than purpose, meant 

to kill. 
And, out of question, so it is sometimes ; 
Glory grows guilty of detested crimes ; 
When, for fame's sake, for praise, an out- 
ward part, 
We bend to that the working of the heart : 
As I, for praise alone, now seek to spill 
The poor deer's blood, that my heart means 
no ill. 

L. L., IV : 1. 283. 



SKILL. 



499 



SLANDER. 



— Gives Immortality. 

Count. This young gentlewoman had a 
father, (O, that had! how sad a passage 't 
is !) whose skill was almost as great as his 
honesty ; had it streteh'd so far, would have 
made nature immortal, and death should 
have play for lack of work. 'Would, for 
the king's sake, he were living ! I think it 
would be the death of the king's disease. 

A. IF., 1 r 1. 495. 

SLANDER— A Fool's. 

OIL * * 
There is no slander in an allow'd fool, 
though he do nothing but rail. 

T. JT. t 1 : 5. 544. 

— Fed by Thoughtlessness. 

Bal. Have patience, sir, O let it not be 
so. 
Herein you war against your reputation, 
And draw within the compass of suspect 
Th' unviolated honour of your wife 
Once this, — Your long experience of her 

wisdom, 
Her sober virtue, years, and modesty, 
Plead on her part some cause to you un- 
known ; 
Anil doubt not, sir, but she will well ex- 
cuse 
Why at this time the doors are made 

against you. 
Be rul'd by me ; depart in patience, 
And let us to the Tiger all to dinner : 
And, about evening, come yourself alone, 
To know the reason of this strange re- 
straint. 
If by strong hand you offer to break in, 
Now in the stirring passage of the day, 
A vulgar comment will be made of it; 
And that supposed by the common rout, 
Against your yet ungalled estimation, 
That may with foul intrusion enter in, 
And dwell upon your grave when you are 

dead : 
For slander lives upon succession ; 
For ever hous'd, where it gets possession. 

C.E., III: 1. 201. 

— How to Defeat. 

King. And let them know, both what 
we mean to do, 
And what 's untimely done : so, haply, slan- 
der, — 



Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter, 
As level as the cannon to his blank, 
Transports his poisoned shot, — may miss 

our name, 
And hit the woundless air. 

R., IV: 1. 1421. 

— Its Cunning. 

Pol. * * But breathe his faults so 
quaintly, 
That they may seem the taints of liberty, 
The flash and out-break of a fiery mind ; 
A savageness in unreclaimed blood, 
Of general assault. 

#.,11:1. 1402. 

— Its Stabs incurable. 
Aor. Myself I throw, dread sovereign, 
at thy foot. 

My life thou shalt command, but not my 
shame : 

The one my duty owes : but my fair name 

(Despite of death that lives upon my grave) 

To dark dishonour's use thou shalt not 
have. 

I am disgrac'd, impeach'd, and baffled here ; 

Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd 
spear : 

The which no balm can cure, but his heart- 
blood 

Which breath'd this poison. 

B. II., I: l. 686. 

— Its Theft. 

Iago. * * 
Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 't is 

something, nothing; 
'T was mine, 'tis his, and has been slavt' to 

thousands ; 
But he, that filches from me my good 

name, 
Robs me of that, which not enriches him, 
And makes me poor indeed. 

a, in: s. i5ii. 

— Refuge from. 

Jul. * * 
Poor wounded name ! my bosom, as a bed, 
Shall lodge thee, till thy wound be thor- , 

oughly heal'd ; 
And thus I search it with a sovereign kiss. 

T. G., 1 : 2. 50. 



SLANDER. 5OO SLAUGHTER. 


— Undermines Love. 


SLANDERER. — Cautioned. 


Pro. The best way is, to slander Valen- 


Q. Kath. If I know you well, 


tine 


You were the duke*s surveyor, and lost 


With falsehood, cowardice, and poor de- 


your office 


scent, 


On the complaint 0' the tenants : Take good 


Three things that women highly hold in 


heed, 


hate. 


You charge not in your spleen a noble per- 


Duke. Ay, but she '11 think that it is 


son, 


spoke in hate. 


And spoil your nobler soul. I say, take 


Pro. Ay, if his enemy deliver it : 


heed; 


Therefore it must with circumstance be 


Yes, heartily beseech you. 


spoken 


H. VIII., 1 : 2. 1061. 


By one whom she esteemeth as his friend. 




Duke. Then you must undertake to 


SLANDERERS.— Braggarts and 


slander him. 


Milksops. 


Pro. And that, my lord, I shall be loth 


Ant. Content yourself: God knows, I 


to do : 


lov'd my niece ; 


'T is an ill office for a gentleman, 


And she is dead, slander'd to death by vil- 


Especially against his very friend. 


lains, 


Duke. Where your good word cannot 


That dare as well answer a man, indeed, 


advantage him, 


As I dare take a serpent by the tongue : 


Your slander never can endamage him ; 


Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops! — 


Therefore the office is indifferent, 


Leon. Brother Anthony, — 


Being entreated to it by your friend. 


Ant. Hold you content : What, man ! I 


Pro. You have prevail'd, my lord : if I 


know them, yea, 


can do it, 


And what they weigh, even to the utmost 


By aught that I can speak in his dis- 


scruple : 


praise, 


Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-mongring 


She shall not long continue love to him. 


boys, 


But say, this weed her love from Valen- 


That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and 


tine, 


slander, 


It follows not that she will love sir Thurio. 


Go anticly, and show outward hideousness, 


T. £., Ill: 2. 63. 


And speak off half a-dozen dang'rous words, 




How they might hurt their enemies if they 




durst, 


— Venomous. 


And this is all ! 


Pis. What shall I need to draw my 


M.A., V: 1. 250. 


sword? the paper 


Jul. * * 


Hath cut her throat already. — No, 't is 


hateful hands, to tear such loving words ! 


slander, 


Injurious wasps ! to feed on such sweet 


Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; 


honey, 


whose tongue 


And kill the bees, that yield it, with your 


Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose 


stings ! 


breath 


T. G.,l: 2. 50. 


Hides on the posting winds, and doth be- 




lie 


SLAUGHTER. — Impending. 


All corners of the world; kings, queens, 


K. John. Then God forgive the sin of all 


and states, 


those souls, 


Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the 


That to their everlasting residence, 


grave 


Before the dew of evening fall, shall fleet, 


This viperous slander enters. 


In dreadful trial of our kingdom's king ! 


Cym., Ill : 4. 1608. 


K. J., II : 1. 652. 



SLEEP. 



501 



SLEEP. 



SLEEP. — A Balm. 

Mac. * * 
Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of 

care, 
The death of each day's life, sore labour's 

bath, 
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second 

course, 
Chief nourisher in life's feast. 

Jf., II: 2. 1365. 

— A Comforter. 

Gar. These should be hours for neces- 
sities, 
Not for delights ; times to repair our nature 
With comforting repose. 

H. VIII., V: 1. 1087- 

Cor. Phy. * * 
Our foster-nurse of nature is repose. 

K. L., IV : 4. 1473. 

Alon. What, all so soon asleep ! I wish 

mine eyes 

Would with themselves shut up my thoughts ; 

I find 

They are inclin'd to do so. 

Seb. Please you, sir, 

Do not omit the heavy offer of it : 

It seldom visits sorrow ; when it doth, 

It is a comforter. 

T., II : 1. 17. 

— A Death-like. 

Fri. * * Presently, through all thy 

veins shall run 
A cold and drowsy humour, which shall 

seize 
Each vital spirit; for no pulse shall keep 
His natural progress, but surcease to beat : 
No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou 

liv'st. 
The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade 
To paly ashes ; thy eye's windows fall, 
Like death, when he shuts up the day of life. 
R.J.,IV: 1. 1269. 

— Ambition Disturbs. 

Lady. * * 
Tell me, sweet lord, what is 't that takes 

from thee 
Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden 
sleep? 



Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the 

earth, 
And start so often when thou sitt'st alone? 
Why hast thou lost the fresh blood in thy 

cheeks : 
And given my treasures and my rights of 

thee, 
To thick-ey'd musing and curs'd melan- 
choly? 
In thy faint slumbers, I by thee have 

watch'd, 
And heard thee murmur tales of iron wars ; 
Speak terms of manage to thy bounding 

steed ; 
Cry, "Courage! to the field!" — And thou 

hast talk'd 
Of sallies and retires, of trenches, tents, 
Of palisadoes, frontiers, parapets, 
Of basilisks, of cannon, culverin, 
Of prisoners' ransom, and of soldiers slain, 
And all the 'currents of a heady fight. 
Thy spirit within thee hath been so at 

war, 
And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy 

sleep, 
That beads of sweat have stood upon thy 

brow, 
Like bubbles in a late disturbed stream : 
And in thy face strange motions have ap- 

pear'd, 
Such as we see when men restrain their 

breath 
On some great sudden hest. O, what por- 
tents are these? 
Some heavy business hath my lord in 

hand, 
And I must know it, else he loves me not. 
//. IV., lpt.,II: 3. 737. 

— Counterfeits Death. 

Obe. * * 
Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting 

sleep 
With leaden legs and batty wings doth 
creep. 

M. N., Ill : 2. 836. 

— Death's Counterfeit 

Macd. * * 
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counter- 
feit. 

JT., II : 3. 1366. 



SLEEP. 



502 



SLEEP. 



— Denied. 

Anne. * * 
For never yet one hour in his bed 
Did I enjoy the golden dew of sleep. 

R. III., IV: 1. 1031. 

— Exposition of. 

Bot. * * But, I pray you, let none of 
your people stir me ; I have an exposition 
of sleep come upon me. 

M.JV.,IV: 1. 338. 

— Forgetful. 
K. Hen. * * Sleep, gentle sleep, 
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted 

thee, 
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids 

clown, 
And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? 

H.IY., 2pt,III: 1. 789. 

— Invoked for the Loved. 

Rom. Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace 
in thy breast ! — 
'Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to 
rest! 

R. J., II: 2. 1253. 

— Its Blessedness. 

K. Hen. * * 
How many thousand of my poorest subjects 
Are at this hour asleep ! O sleep ! gentle 

sleep ! 
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted 

thee, 
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids 

down, 
And steep my senses in forgetfulness? 
Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky 

cribs, 
Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, 
And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy 

slumber ; 
Than in the perfumed chambers of the great, 
Under the canopies of costly state, 
And lull 'd with sounds of sweetest melody? 
thou dull god ! why liest thou with the vile, 
In loathsome beds ; and leav'st the kingly 

couch, 
A wateh-case, or a common 'larum bell? 
Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast 



Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his 

brains 
In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; 
And in the visitation of the winds, 
Who take the ruffian billows by the top, 
Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging 

them 
With deafning clamours in the slippery 

clouds, 
That, with the hurly, death itself awakes? 
Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose 
To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; 
And, in the calmest and most stillest night, 
With all appliances and means to boot, 
Deny it to a king ? Then, happy low, lie 

down ! 
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 

H. IV., 2 pt., Ill : 1. 789. 

— Its leaden Mace. 

Bru. * * O murd'rous slumber, 

Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy, 

That plavs thee music? 

J. G., IV : 3. 1347. 

— Labor's perfect. 

Claud. As fast lock'd up in sleep, as guilt- 
less labour 
When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones : 

He will not wake. 

M. M., IV : 2. 164. 

— Murdered by Crime. 

Lady M. These deeds must not be thought 
After these ways ; so, it will make us mad. 
Mach. Methought, I heard a voice cry, 
" Sleep no more ! 
Macbeth doth murther sleep," — the inno- 
cent sleep ; 
Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of 

care, 
The death of each day's life, sore labour's 

bath, 
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second 

course, 
Chief nourisher in life's feast. 
Lady 31. What do you mean? 
Mach. Still it cried, " Sleep no more!" 
to all the house : 
' -Glands hath murder'd sleep; and there- 
fore Cawdor 
Shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no 

more ! " 

M., II : 2. 1365. 



SLEEP. 503 SLOTH. 


— Not found with Care. 


What can man's wisdom do, 


Brit. * * 


In the restoring his bereaved sense? 


Boy ! Lucius ! Fast asleep? It is no matter : 


He, that helps him, take all my outward 


Enjoy the heavy honey -dew of slumber : 
Thou hast no figures, nor no fantasies, 


worth. 
Phy. There is means, madam : 


Which busy care draws in the brains of men ; 
Therefore thou sleep 'st so sound. 

J. C, II : 1. 1331. 

— Secrets betrayed in. 


Our foster-nurse of nature is repose, 
The which he lacks ; that to provoke in him, 
Are many simples operative, whose power 
Will close the eye of anguish. 

K. L., IV : 4. 1473. 


Iago * * 
There are a kind of men so loose of soul, 


— The Rebound from Joy. 


That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs : 
One of this kind is Cassio : 


Lys. Music? My lord, I hear — 
Per. Most heavenly music : 


In sleep I hear him say, ' ' Sweet Desdemona, 


It nips me unto list'ning, and thick slumber 


Let its be wary, let lis hide our loves ;" 


Hangs on mine eyelids ; let me rest. 


And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my 


Lys. A pillow for his head. 


hand, 


P., V : l. 1669. 


Cry, " 0, sweet creature ! " and then kiss me 
hard, 


— To be indulged. 


As if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots, 
That grew upon my lips. 

0.,III: 3. 1514. 


Pro. * * 
Thou art inclin'd to sleep ; 't is a good dull- 
ness, 


— Shuts the Eyes of Sorrow. 


And give it way. 

T., 1 : 2. 10. 


Hel. * * 
And, sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's 

Steal me awhile from mine own company. 

M.XT., Ill: 2. 337. 

— The Ape of Death. 

lack. * * 


SLEEPLESSNESS.— Excuse for Rail- 
ing. 

Jaq. 'T is a Greek invocation, to call 
fools into a circle. I '11 go sleep if I can : 
if I cannot, I '11 rail against all the first 
born of Egj'pt. 

A. Y., II : 5. 417. 


sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon 


— Sometimes admonitory. 


her! 
And be her senses but as a monument, 
Thus in a chapel lying ! 

Cym., II: 2. 1599. 


Ban. Hold, take my sword: — There's 
husbandry in heaven, 
Their candles are all out. — Take thee that 
too. 


— The Cure of Insanity. 

Cor. Alack, 't is he ; why, he was met 


A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, 
And yet I would not sleep : Merciful pow- 
ers ! 


even now 
As mad as the vex'd sea : ' singing aloud ; 
Crown 'd with rank fumiter, and furrow 

weeds, 
With harlocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo- 


Restrain in me the cursed thoughts, that 

nature 
Gives way to in repose! — Give me my 

sword. 

M., II : 1. 1363. 


flowers, 
Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow 


SLOTH. — Makes ebbing Men. 


In our sustaining corn. — A century send 


Seb. Well, I am standing water. 


forth ; 


Ant. I '11 teach you how to flow. 


Search every acre in the high-grown field, 
And bring him to our eye. 


Seb. Do so : to ebb 
Hereditary sloth instructs me. 



SLOTH. 



504 



SNOW. 



Ant. O, 

If you but knew how you the purpose cher- 
ish, 
Whiles thus you mock it ! how, in strip- 
ping it, 
You more invest it ! Ebbing men, indeed, 
Most often do so near the bottom run, 
By their own fear, or sloth. 

T.,Il: 1. 17. 

SLUTTISHNESS.— Disgusting. 

lack. * * 
Sluttery, to such neat excellence oppos'd, 
Should make desire vomit emptiness. 

Cym., 1 : 7. 1596. 

SMELL. — Villainous. 

Fal. By the lord, a buck-basket! — 
rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, 
socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins ; that, 
master Brook, there was the rankest com- 
pound of villainous smell that ever offended 
nostril. 

M. W., Ill : 5. 109. 

SMILES. — Absence of, a Sign of Jeal- 
ousy. 

Cess. * * 
Seldom he smiles ; and smiles in such a 

sort, 
As if he mock'd himself, and scorn'd his 

spirit 
That could be moved to smile at any thing. 
Such men as he be never at heart's ease. 

J. C, I: 2. 1325. 

— Becoming to Some. 

Pan. Why, you know, 't is dimpled : I 
think, his smiling becomes him better than 
any man in all Phrygia. 

T. C.,l: 2. 1105. 

— Cover Tyranny. 

Ham. * * One may smile, and smile, 
and be a villain. 

//., 1 : 5. 1400. 

Tarn. Then, all too late 1 brini? this fatal 
writ, 
The complot of this timeless tragedy ; 
And wonder greatly, that man's face can 

fold 
In pleasing smiles such murderous tyranny. 
Tit. And., II: 4. 1212. 



— Daggers in. 

Don. * * 

There 's daggers in men's smiles : the near 

in blood, 

The nearer bloody. 

M., II : 3. 1367. 

— Happy. 

Gent. * * Those happy smiles, 
That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to 

know 
What guests were in her eyes; which 

parted thence, 
As pearls from diamonds dropped. 

K. L., IV : 3. 1473. 

SMILING. — Sighing, mixed. 

Arv. Nobly he yokes 

A smiling with a sigh : as if the sigh 
Was that it was, for not being such a smile ; 
The smile mocking the sigh, that it would 

fly 
From so divine a temple, to commix 
With winds that sailors rail at. 

Qui. I do note 

That grief and patience, rooted in him both, 
Mingle their spurs together. 

Arv. Grow, patience ! 

And let the stinking elder, grief, untwine 
His perishing root, with the increasing vine. 
Cym., IV: 2. 1615. 

SNAIL.— Why it Has a Shell. 

Fool. Canst tell how an oyster makes 

his shell? 
Lear. No. 
Fool. Nor I neither ; but I can tell why 

a snail has a house. 
Lear. Why? 

Fool. Why, to put his head in ; not to 
give it away to his daughters, and leave his 
horns without a case. 

K. L., 1 : 5. 1453. 

SNORING— Meaning in. 

Seb. Thou dost snore distinctly ; 

There 's meaning in thy snores. 

r.,11: 1. 17. 

SNOW. — Abates Ardor. 

Fer. I warrant you, sir, 

The white cold virgin snow upon my heart 
Abates the ardour of my. liver. 

T., IV : 1. 27. 



SOCIETY. 



505 



SOLDIERS. 



SOCIETY. —Abhorred. 

Tim. Every grise of fortune 

Is smooth'd by that below : the learned 
pate 

Ducks to the golden fool : all is oblique; 

There 's nothing level in our cursed nat- 
ures, 

But direct villainy. Therefore, be ab- 
horr'd 

At feasts, societies, and throngs of men! 

His semblable, yea, himself, Timon dis- 
dains ; 

Destruction fang mankind ! 

T. A.,IV: 3. 1305. 

— Cold, without Women. 

Cham. * * Nay, you must not freeze ; 
Two women plac'd together makes cold 

weather : — 
One will keep them waking. 

H. VIII., I: 4. 1063. 

— No Comfort. 

lmo. * * Society is no comfort 
To one not sociable. 

C, IV: 2. 1614. 

SOLDIER. — Character of the true. 

Lart. O noble fellow ! 

Who, sensible, outdares his senseless sword, 
And, when it bows, stands up! Thou art 

left Marcius : 
A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art, 
Were not so rich a jewel. Thou wast a 

soldier 
Even to Cato's wish, not fierce and terri- 
ble 
Only in strokes ; but, with thy grim looks, 

and 
The thunder-like percussion of thy sounds, 
Thou mad'st thine enemies shake, as if the 

world 
Were feverous, and did tremble. 

C, 1 : 4. 1155. 

— Honored in Death. 

Oct. According to his virtue let us use 
him 
With all respect, and rites of burial. 
Within my tent his bones to-night shall 

lie, 
Most like a soldier, order'd honourably. 

J. C, V : 5. 1352. 



— Must be unselfish. 

Y. Clif. * * 
He that is truly dedicate to war, 
Hath no self-love ; nor he, that loves him- 
self. 
Hath not essentially, but by circumstance, 
The name of valour. 

H. VI., 2 pt., V : 2. 945. 

— Of Honor. 

Bast. * * 
A soldier, by the honour-giving hand 
Of Coeur-de-lion knighted in the field. 

K. J., I: 1. 647. 

SOLDIERS. — Full of Spirit. 

York. * * 
In them I trust ; for they are soldiers, 
Witty and courteous, liberal, full of spirit. — 
While you are thus employ'd, what resteth 

more, 
But that I seek occasion how to rise. 

H. F/.,3pt.,I: 2. 958. 

— Holiday. 

Gow. Why, 't is a gull, a fool, a rogue ; 
that now and then goes to the wars, to grace 
himself, at his return into London, under 
the form of a soldier. And such fellows 
are perfect in great commanders' names : 
and they will learn you by rote, where ser- 
vices were done; — at such and such a 
sconce, at such a breach, at such a convoy ; 
who came off bravely, who was shot, who 
disgraced, what terms the enemy stood on ; 
and this they con perfectly in the phrase of 
war, which they trick up with new-coined 
oaths : And what a beard of the general's 
cut, and a horrid suit of the camp, will do 
among foaming bottles, and ale-Mashed 
wits, is wonderful to be thought on ! but 
you must learn to know such slanders of 
the age, or else you may be marvellous 
mistook. 

H. V., Ill : 6. 836. 

— Slumbers Disturbed. 

Oth. * * T is the soldier's life, 
To have their balmy slumbers wak'd with 
strife. 

O., II : 3. 1507. 

— Stomachs, Serve them well. 

Tal. * * 
No other satisfaction do I crave, 
But only (with your patience,) that we may 



SOLDIERS. 



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SOLILOQUY 



Taste of your wine, and see what cates you 

have ; 
For soldiers' stomachs always serve them 

well. 

H. VI., 1 pt., II : 3. 874. 

SOLEMNITY. — Suitable to Acci- 
dents. 

Gut. * * All solemn things 
Should answer solemn accidents. The mat- 
ter? 
Triumphs for nothing, and lamenting toys, 
Is jollity for apes, and grief for boys. 
Is Cadwal mad? 

Cym.,IV: 2.1617. 

SOLICITOR.— A persistent one. 

Des. Do not doubt that; before Emilia 

here, 
I give thee warrant of thy place : assure 

thee, 
If I do vow a friendship, I '11 perform it 
To the last article : my lord shall never rest ; 
I '11 watch him tame, and talk him out of 

patience ; 
His bed shall seem a school, his board a 

shrift ; 
I '11 intermingle every thing he does 
With Cassio's suit : Therefore be merry, 

Cassio ; 
For thy solicitor shall rather die, 
Than give thy cause away. 

0., Ill: 3. 1509. 

SOLILOQUY. — Hamlet's. 

Ham. To be, or not to be, that is the 
question : — 
Whether 't is nobler in the mind, to suffer 
The slings and arrows of outrageous fort- 
une ; 
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, 
And, by opposing, end them? — To die, — 

to sleep, — 
Xo more ; — and, by a sleep, to say we end 
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural 

shocks 
That flesh is heir too, — 'tis a consumma- 
tion 
Devoutly to be wished. To die ; — to sleep ; 
To sleep ! perchance to dream ; — ay, there 's 
the rub ; 



For in that sleep of death what dreams may 

come, 
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, 
Must give us pause : There 's the respect, 
That makes calamity of so long life : 
For who would bear the whips and scorns 

of time, 
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's 

contumely, 
The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, 
The insolence of office, and the spurns 
That patient merit of the unworthy takes, 
When he himself might his quietus make 
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels 

bear, 
To grunt and sweat under a weary life ; 
But that the dread of something after death, 
The undiscover'd country, from whose 

bourn 
No traveller returns, puzzles the will; 
And makes us rather bear those ills we 

have, 
Than fly to others that we know not of? 
Thus conscience does make cowards of us 

all; 
And thus the native hue of resolution 
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; 
And enterprises of great pith and moment, 
With this regard, their currents turn awry, 
And lose the name of action. — Soft you, 

now ! 
The fair Ophelia : — Nymph, in thy orisons 
Be all my sins remember'd. 

Oph. Good my lord, 

How does your honor for this many a day? 
Ham. I humbly thank you; well. 

£T„ in : 1. 1410. 

— Hamlet's, at the Grave of Yorick. 

Ham. Alas, poor Yorick ! — I knew him, 
Horatio ; a fellow of infinite jest, of most ex- 
cellent fancy : he hath borne me on his back 
a thousand times ; and now, how abhorred 
in my imagination it is ! my gorge rises at 
it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed 
I know not how oft. Where be your gibes 
now? your gambols? your songs? your 
flashes of' merriment, that were wont to set 
the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock 
your own grinning? quite chap-fallen? Now 
get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, 
let her paint an inch thick, to this favor she 
must come ; make her laugh at that. 

ZT., V : 1. 1431. 



SOLILOQUY. 



507 



SOLILOQUY, 



— Macbeth's, on the Eve of Dun- 
can's Murder. 

Macb. If it were done, then 't is done, 

then 't were well 
It were done quickly : If the assassination 
Could trammel up the consequence, and 

catch, 
With his surcease, success ; that but this 

blow 
Might be the be-all and the end all here, 
But here, upon this bank and shoal of 

time, — 
We 'd jump the life to come. — But, in 

these cases, 
We still have judgment here ; that we but 

teach 
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, 

return 
To plague the inventor; this even-handed 

justice 
Commends the ingredients of our poison'd 

chalice 
To our own lips. He 's here in double trust : 
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, 
Strong both against the deed ; then, as his 

host, 
Who should against his murderer shut the 

door, 
Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this 

Duncan 
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been 
So clear in his great office, 
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongu'd 

against 
The deep damnation of his taking-off; 
And pity, like a naked new-born babe, 
Striding the blast, or heavens cherubin, 

hors'd 
Upon the sightless couriers of the air, 
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, 
That tears shall drown the wind. — I have 

no spur • 

To prick the sides of my intent, but only 
Vaulting ambition, which o'er-ieaps itself, 
And falls on the other. 

M., 1 : 7. 1362. 

— Macbeth's, on the Dagger. 
Macb. * * 
Is this a dagger, which I see before me, 
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me 
clutch thee : — 



I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. 

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible 

To feeling, as to sight? or art thou but 

A dagger of the mind, a false creation, 

Proceeding from the heat-oppress 'd brain? 

I see thee yet in form as palpable 

As this which now I draw. 

Thou marshal'st me the Avay that I was go- 
ing; 

And such an instrument I was to use. 

Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other 
senses, 

Or else worth all the rest : I see thee still ; 

And on thy blade, and dudgeon, gouts of 
blood, 

Which was not so before. — There 's no 
such thing : 

It is the bloody business, which informs 

Thus to mine eves. Now o'er the one half 
world 

Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams 
abuse 

The curtain'd sleep ; now witchcraft cele- 
brates 

Pale Hecate's offerings ; and wither'd mur- 
der, 

Alarm'd by his sentinel, the wolf, 

Whose howl 's his watch, thus with his 
stealthy pace, 

With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards 
his design 

Moves like a ghost. — Thou sure and firm- 
set earth, 

Hear not my steps, which way they walk, 
for fear 

Thy very stones prate of my where-about, 

And take the present horror from the time, 

Which now suits with it. — Whiles I threat, 
he lives ; 

Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath 
gives. 

I go, and it is done ; the bell invites me. 

Hear it not, Duncan ; for it is a knell 

That summons thee to heaven, or to hell. 

J/., II: 1. 1364. 

— Mark Antony's, on Caesar's Body. 
Ant. 0, pardon me, thou bleeding piece 
of earth, 
That I am meek and gentle with these 

butchers ! 
Thou art the ruins of the noblest man 



SOLILOQUY, 



5 08 



SOLITUDE. 



That ever lived in the tide of times. 

Woe to tlie hands that shed this costly 

blood? 
Over thy wounds now do I prophesy, — 
Which, like dumb mouths, do ope their ru- 
by lips, 
To beg the voice and utterance of my 

tongue; 
A curse shall light upon the limbs of men; 
Domestic fury, and fierce civil strife, 
Shall cumber all the parts of Italy : 
Blood and destruction shall be so in use, 
And dreadful objects so familiar, 
That mothers shall but smile, when they be- 
hold 
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of 

war; 
All pity ehok'd with custom of fell deeds : 
And Cfesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, 
With Ate by his side, come hot from hell, 
Shall in these confines, with a monarch's 

voice, 
Cry " Havoc! " and let slip the dogs of war; 
That this foul deed shall smell above the 

earth 
With carrion men, groaning for burial. 

J. a, IU: 1. 1338. 

SOLITUDE. — A desolate, Described. 

Tarn. Have I not reason, think you, to 

look pale? 
These two have 'tic'd me hither to this 

place, 
A barren detested vale, you see, it is : 
The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and 

lean, 
O'ercome with moss, and baleful misletoe. 
Here never shines the sun; here nothing 

breeds, 
Unless the nightly owl, or fatal raven. 
And, when they show'd me this abhorred pit, 
They told me, here, at dead time of the 

night, 
A thousand fiends, a thousand hissing 

snakes, 
Ten thousand swelling toads, as many 

urchins, 
Would make such fearful and confused 

cries, 
As any mortal body, hearing it, 
Should straight fall mad, or else die. sud- 
denly. 



No sooner had they told this hellish tale, 
But straight they told me, they would bind 

me here 
Unto the body of a dismal yew ; 
And leave me to this miserable death. 

Tit. And., II : 3. 1210. 

— Enforced, Suggests Thoughts. 

K. Rich. I have been studying how I may 
compare 
This prison, where I live, unto the world : 
And, for because the world is populous, 
And here is not a creature but myself, 
I cannot do it ; — yet I '11 hammer it out. 
My brain I '11 prove the female to my soul; 
My soul, the father : and these two beget 
A generation of still-breeding thoughts, 
And these same thoughts people this little 

world ; 
In humors, like the people of this world, 
For no thought is contented. The better 

sort, — 
As thoughts of things divine. — are inter- 

mix'd 
With scruples, and do set the Word itself 
Against the Word : 
As thus, — "Come, UttLe ones;" and then 

again, — 
" It is as hard to come, as for a camel 
To thread the postern of a needle's eye.'''' 
Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot 
Unlikely wonders : how these vain weak 

nails 
May tear a passage through the flinty ribs 
Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls ; 
And, for they cannot, die in their own pride. 
Thoughts tending to content, flatter them- 
selves 
That they are not the first of fortune's slaves, 
Nor shall not be the last ; like silly beggars, 
Who, sitting in the stocks, refuge their 

shame, 
That many have, and others must sit there; 
And in this thought they find a kind of ease, 
Bearing their own misfortune on the back 
Of such as have before endur'd the like. 
Thus play I, in one person, many people, 
And none contented : sometimes am I king ; 
Then, treason makes me wish myself a beg- 
gar, 
And so I am : then, crushing penury 
Persuades me I was better when a king ; 



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SOMNAMBULISM. 



Then, am I king'd again : and, by and by, 
Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, 
And straight am nothing: — but whate'er I 

am, 
Nor I, nor any man, that but man is, 
With nothing shall be pleas'd, till he be 

eas'd 
With being nothing. — Music do I hear? 
Ha, ha! keep time: — how sour sweet 

music is, 
When time is broke, and no proportion kept ! 
So is it in the music of men's lives, 
And here have I the daintiness of ear 
To check time broke in a disorder'd string ; 
But, for the concord of my state and time, 
Had not an ear to hear my true time broke. 
I wasted time, and now doth time waste 

me ; 
For now hath time made me his numbering 

clock ; 
My thoughts are minutes : and, with sighs, 

they jar 
Their watches on unto mine eyes, the out- 
ward watch, 
Whereto my finger, like a dial's point. 
Is pointing still, in cleansing them from 

tears. 
Now, sir, the sounds that tell what hour it 

is, 
Are clamorous groans, that strike upon my 

heart, 
Which is the bell; so sighs, and tears, and 

groans, 
Show minutes, times, and hours : — but my 

time 
Runs posting on in Bolingbroke's proud joy, 
While I stand fooling here, his Jack o' the 

clock. 
This music mads me ; let it sound no more ; 
For though it have holp madmen to their 

wits, 
In me, it seems, it will make wise men mad. 
Yet, blessing on his heart that gives it me ! 
For 't is a sign of love ; and love to Richard 
Is a strange brooch in this all-hating world. 
R. II., V : 5. 716. 

— Personal. 

Pro. * * 
Your message done, hie home unto my 

chamber, 
Where thou shalt find me, sad and solitary. 
T. G., IV : 3. 69. 



— Prevents Revenge. 

Apem. Thou hast cast away thyself, be- 
ing like thyself; 

A madman so long, now a fool : What, 
think'st 

That the bleak air, my boisterous chamber- 
lain, 

Will put thy shirt on warm? Will these 
moss'd trees, 

That have out-liv'd the eagle, page thy 
heels, 

And skip when thou point'st out? Will the 
cold brook, 

Candied with ice, caudle thy morning taste, 

To cure thy o'er-night's surfeit? Call the 
creatures, — 

Whose naked natures live in all the spite 

Of wreakful heaven; whose bare unhoused 
trunks 

To the conflicting elements expos'd, 

Answer mere nature, — bid them flatter thee ; 

O ! thou shalt find. 

T.A.,IV: 3. 1308. 



SOMNAMBULISM. 
Crime. 



A Revealer of 



Look, 



Doct. What is it she does nc 
how she rubs her hands. 

Gent. It is an accustomed action with 
her, to seem thus washing her hands ; I 
have known her continue in this a quarter 
of an hour. 

Lady M. Yet, here 's a spot. 

Doct. Hark, she speaks : I will set 
down what comes from her, to satisfy my 
remembrance the more strongly. 

Lady M. Out, damned spot ! out, I say ! 
One ; Two ; Why, then 't is time to do 

't : Hell is murky ! — Fie, my lord, fie ! 

a soldier, and afear'd? What need we fear 
who knows it, when none can call our 
power to account? — Yet who would have 
thought the old man to have had so much 
blood in him? 

Doct. Do you mark that? 

Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife : 

Where is she now? What, will these 

hands ne'er be clean? — No more o' that, 
my lord, no more o' that; you mar all with 
this starting. 

Doct. Go to, go to ; you have known 
what you should not. 

Gent. She has spoke what she should 
not, I am sure of that : Heaven knows what 
she has known. 

Ludy M. Here 's the smell of the blood 



SOMNAMBULISM. 



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SORROW. 



still : all the perfumes of Arabia will not 
sweeten this little hand. Oh ! oh ! oh ! 

Doct. This disease is beyond my prac- 
tice : Yet I have known those which have 
walked in their sleep, who have died holily 
in their beds. 

Lady M. Wash your hands, put on your 
night-gown; look not so pale: — I tell you 
yet again Banquo's buried; he cannot come 
out of his grave. 

Doct. Even so? 

Lady M. To bed, to bed ; there 's knock- 
ing at the gate. Come, come, come, come, 
give me your hand : What 's done, cannot 
be undone : To bed, to bed, to bed. 

M., V: 1. 1381. 

SON— A Cause of Envy. 

K. Hen. Yea, there thou mak'st me sad, 

and mak'st me sin 
In envy that my lord Northumberland 
Should be the father of so blest a son ; 
A son, who is the theme of honour's tongue ; 
Amongst a grove, the very straightest plant; 
Who is sweet fortune's minion, and her 

pride : 
Whilst I, by looking on the praise of him, 
See riot and dishonour stain the brow 
Of my young Harry.- O, that it could be 

prov'd, 
That some night-tripping fairy had ex- 

chang'd - 

In cradle-clothes our children where they 

lay, 
And call'd mine — Percy, his — Plantage- 

net! 
Then would I have his Harry, and he 

mine. 

H. IV., 1 pt., 1 : 1: 728. 

— A dissolute. 

Boling. Can no man tell of my un- 
thrifty son? 

'T is full three months, since I did see him 
last : — 

If any plague hang over us, 't is he. 

I would to God, my lords, he might be 
found : 

Inquire at London, 'mongst the taverns 
there, 

For there, they say, he daily doth frequent, 

With unrestrained loose companions ; 

Even such, they say, as stand in narrow 
lanes, 



And beat our watch, and rob our passen- 
gers ; 
While he, young, wanton, and effeminate 

boy, 
Takes on the point of honour, to support 
So dissolute a crew. 

Percy. My lord, some two days since I 
saw the prince ; 
And told him of these triumphs held at Ox- 
ford. 
Boling. And what said the gallant? 
Percy. His answer was, — he would unto 
the stews ; 
And from the commonest creature pluck a 

glove, 
And wear it as a favour ; and with that 
He would unhorse the lustiest challenger. 
Boling. As dissolute, as desperate : yet, 
through both 
I see some sparkles of a better hope, 
Which elder days may happily bring forth. 
But who comes here? 

R. II, V: 3. 714. 

SONS.— Lost, Recovered. 

Bel. * * 
Two of the sweet'st companions in the 

world : 
The benediction of these covering heavens 
Fall on their heads like dew ! for they are 

worthy 
To inlay heaven with stars. 

Cym.,V: 5. 1630. 

SORROW.— A Mixture of Smiles and 
Tears. 

Gent. Not to a rage : patience and sor- 
row strove 
Who should express her goodliest. You 

have seen 
Sunshine and rain at once : her smiles and 

tears 
Were like a better day : Those happy 

smilets, 
That play'd on her ripe lip, seem'd not to 

know 
What guests were in her eyes ; whichparted 

thence, 
As pearls from diamonds dropp'd. — In brief, 

sorrow- 
Would be a rarity most belov'd, if all 

Could so become it. 

K. L., IV: 3. 1473. 



SORROW. 



511 



SORROW. 



— A Mother's impassioned. 

Q. Mar. 0, Ned, sweet Ned ! speak to 
thy mother, boy ! 

Canst thou not speak! — O traitors! mur- 
derers ! — 

They, that stabb'd Caesar, shed no blood at 
all, 

Did not offend, nor were not worthy blame, 

If this foul deed were by, to equal it. 

He was a man ; this, in respect, a child ; 

And men ne'er spend their fury on a child. 

What's worse than murderer, that I may 
name it? 

No, no ; my heart will burst, an if I speak : 

And I will speak, that so my heart may 
burst. 

Butchers and villains, bloody cannibals ! 

How sweet a plant have you untimely 
cropp'd ! 

You have no children, butchers ! if you had, 

The thought of them would have stirr'd up 
remorse : 

But, if you ever chance to have a child, 

Look in his youth to have him so cut off, 

As, deathsmen! you have rid this sweet 
young prince ! 

* * 

Where is that devil's butcher, 

Hard-favour 'd Richard? Richard, where art 
thou? 

Thou art not here : Murder is thy alms- 
deed; 

Petitioners for blood thou ne'er put'st back. 
K. Edw. Away, I say ; I charge ye, bear 

her hence. 
Q. Mar. So come to you, and yours, as 
to this prince ! 

H. F/., 3pt., V: 5. 990. 



— Almost universal. 

3 Gent. One of the prettiest touches of 
all, and that which angl'd for mine eyes 
(caught the water, though not the fish,) 
was, when at the relation of the queen's 
death, with the manner how she came to it, 
(bravely confess'd, and lamented by the 
king,) how attentiveness wounded his 
daughter ; till, from one sign of dolour to 
another, she did, with an "alas!" I would 
fain say, bleed tears ; for, I am sure, my 
heart wept blood. Who was most marble 
there changed colour ; some swoon'd ; all 
sorrow'd : if all the world could have seen 't, 
the woe had been universal. 

W. T., V : 2. 615. 



— Becomes the Strong. 

Cleo. No, I will not; 

All strange and terrible events are welcome, 
But comforts we despise ; our size of sor- 
row, 
Proportion 'd to our cause, must be as great 
As that which makes it. 

A. C IV : 13. 1575. 

— Caused by nameless "Woe. 

Queen. * * Howe'er it be, 
I cannot but be sad ; so heavy sad, 
As — though, in thinking, on no thought I 

think, — ■ 
Makes me with heavy nothing faint and 
shrink. 
Bushy. 'T is nothing but conceit, my 

gracious lady. 
Queen. 'Tis nothing less : conceit is still 
deriv'd 
Prom some forefather grief; mine is not so ; 
For nothing hath begot my something grief; 
Or something hath the nothing that I grieve ; 
'Tis in reversion that I do possess: 
But what it is, that is not yet known ; what 
I cannot name ; 't is nameless woe, I wot. 

R. II, II: 2. 696. 

— Child of. 

P. lien. * * 
I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, 
Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, 
And, from the organ-pipe of frailty, sings 
His soul and body to their lasting rest. 

K. J., V : 7. 676. 

— Concealed. 

Mar. * * 
Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp'd, 
Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is. 
Fair Philomela, she but lost her tongue. 
And in a tedious sampler sew'd her mind : 
But, lovely niece, that mean is cut from thee ; 
A craftier Tereus hast thou met withal, 
And he hath cut those pretty fingers off, 
That better could have sew'd than Philomel. 
Oh ! had the monster seen those lily hands 
Tremble like aspen-leaves upon a lute, 
And make the silken strings delight to kiss 

them, 
He would not then have touch'd them for 
his life. 



SORROW. 



512 



SORROW. 



Or had he heard the heavenly harmony 

Which that sweet tongue hath made, 

He would have dropp'd his knife, and fell 

asleep, 
As Cerberus at the Tracian poet's feet. 
Come, let us go, and make thy father blind : 
For such a sight will blind a father's eye : 
One hour's storm will drown the fragrant 

meads ; 
What will whole months of tears thy father's 

eyes? 
Do not draw back, for we will mourn with 

thee : 
O, could our mourning ease thy misery ! 

Tit. And., II: 5. 1213 

— Contagious. 

Ant. Thy heart is big, get thee apart and 
weep. 
Passion, I see, is catching; for mine eyes, 
Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine, 
Began to water. 

J. C, III: 1. 1338 

— Demands Respect. 

Gard. Poor queen ! so that thy state 

might be no worse, 
I would my skill were subject to thy curse. 
Here did she drop a tear; here, in this 

place, 
I '11 set a bank of rue, sour herb of grace : 
Rue, even for ruth, here shortly shall be 

seen, 
In the remembrance of a weeping queen. 

R. II., Ill: 4. 707. 

— Demands Sympathy. 

Mar. Marcus, attend him in his ecstacy ; 
That hath more scars of sorrow in his heart, 
Than foe-men's marks upon his batter'd 
shield. 

Tit. And., IV : 1. 1220. 

— Destroys Sleep. 

Brak. I will, n1y lord ; God give your 
grace good rest ! — 
Sorrow breaks seasons, and reposing hours, 
Makes the night morning, and the noon-tide 

night. 
Princes have but their titles for their glories, 
An outward honour for an inward toil ; 



And, for unfelt imaginations, 
They often feel a world of restless cares : 
So that, between their titles, and low name, 
There 's nothing differs but the outward 
fame. 

It. III., 1 : 4. 1011. 

— Domestic. 

Bra. So did I yours : Good your grace, 
pardon me ; 
Neither my place, nor aught I heard of bus- 
iness, 
Hath rais'd me from my bed ; nor doth the 

general care 
Take hold on me ; for my particular grief 
Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature, 
That it engluts and swallows other sorrows, 
And it is still itself. 

0., 1 : 3. 1495. 

— Drives to Madness. 

Boy. My lord, I know not, I, nor can I 

guess, 
Unless some fit or frenzy do possess her : 
For I have heard my grandsire say full 

oft, 
Extremity of griefs would make men mad; 
And I have read that Hecuba of Troy 
Ran mad through sorrow : That made me to 

fear ; 
Although, my lord, I know, my noble aunt 
Loves me as dear as e'er my mother did, 
And would not, but in fury, fright my 

youth : 
Which made me down to throw my books, 

and fly ; 
Causeless, perhaps : But pardon me, sweet 

aunt : 
And, madam, if my uncle Marcus go, 
I will most willingly attend your ladyship. 
Tit. And., IV : 1. 1219. 

— Drowned in Vengeance. 
Mar. Now let hot iEtna cool in Sicily, 
And be my heart an ever burning hell? 
These miseries are more than may be borne. 
To weep with them that weep doth ease 

some deal ; 
But sorrow flouted at his double death. 
Luc. Ah, that this sight should make so 
deep a wound, 
And vet detested life not shrink thereat ! 



SORROW. 



5*3 



SORROW. 



That ever death should let life bear his 

name. 
Where life hath no more interest but to 

breathe. 

Tit. And., Ill : 1 1217. 

— Fathomless. 

Tit. Is not my sorrow deep, having no 
bottom? 
Then be my passions bottomless with them. 
Mar. But yet let. reason govern thy la- 
ment. 
Tit. If there were reason for these mis- 
eries, 
Then into limits could I bind my woes : 
When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth 

o'erflow? 
If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, 
Threat 'ning the welkin with his big-swoln 

face? 
And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? 
I am the sea ; hark, how her sighs do blow ! 
She is the weeping welkin, I the earth : 
Then must my sea be moved with her sighs ; 
Then must my earth with her continual 

tears 
Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd : 
"for why? my bowels cannot hide her woes, 
But like a drunkard must I vomit them. 
Then give me leave ; for losers will have 

leave 
To ease their stomachs with their bitter 
tongues. 

Tit. And., Ill : 1. 1216. 

— Great. 

Bed. Hung be the heavens with black, 
yield day to night ! 
Comets, importing change of times and 

states, 
Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky ; 
And with them scourge the bad revolting 

stars, 
That have consented unto Henry's death ! 

H. VI., 1 pt., 1 : 1. 864. 

— Heart-breaking. 

Q. Eliz. Ah, cut my lace asunder ! 
That my pent heart may have some scope to 

beat, 
Or else I swoon with this dead-killing news. 
Anne. Despiteful tidings ! O unpleasing 
news ! 



Dor. Be of God cheer : Mother, how 

fares your grace? 
Q Eliz. O Dorset, speak not to me, get 
thee gone, 

Death and destruction dog thee at thy 
heels ; 

Thy mother's name is ominous to child- 
ren ; 

If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the 
seas, 

And live with Richmond, from the reach of 
hell. 

Go, hie thee, hie thee, from this slaughter- 
house, 

Lest thou increase the number of the 
dead; 

And make me die the thrall of Margaret's 
curse, — 

Nor mother, wife, nor England's counted 
queen. 

R. III., IV: 1. 1030. 

—Inconsolable. 

Leon. * * Once a day I '11 visit 
The chapel where they lie ; and tears, shed 

there, 
Shall be my recreation : So long as Nature 
Will bear up with this exercise, so long 
I daily vow to use it. 

W. T., Ill : 2. 596. 

— Its abundant Tears. 

Ari. * * 
His tears run down his beard, like winter's 

drops 
From eaves of reeds. 

T., V: 1. 30. 

— Its bending Power. 

Sat. * * 
These tidings nip me ; and I hang the head 
As flowers with frost, or grass beat down 

with storms. 
Ay, now begin our sorrows to approach. 

Tit. And., IV: 4. 1224. 

— Its Effect on Beauty. 

Jul. She hath been fairer, madam, than 
she is : 
When she did think my master lov'd her 
well, 



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SORROW, 



She, in my judgment, was as fair as you; 
But since she did neglect her looking- 
glass, 
And threw her sun-expelling mask away, 
The air hath starv'd the roses in her 

cheeks, 
And pinch'd the lily-tincture of her face, 
That now she is become as black as I. 

T. 6., IV: 2. 69. 

— Its Effects. 

Const. * * 
And he will look as hollow as a ghost ; 
As dim and meagre as an ague's fit. 

K. J., Ill : 4. 662. 

— Its Fullness. 

Sil. * * 
I do desire thee, even from a heart 
As full of sorrows as the sea of sands. 

T. (?., IV : 2. 67. 

— Its Notes. 
Gui. Cadwal, 

I cannot sing : I '11 weep, and word it with 

thee : 
For notes of sorrow, out of tune, are worse 
Than priests and fanes that lie. 

Cym., IV : 2. 1617. 

— Its prophetic Tears. 

Cas. Cry, Trojans, cry ! lend me ten 
thousand eyes, 
And I will fill them with prophetic tears. 

T. C.,II: 2. 1114. 

— Its Sign. 

King. * * It us befitted 

To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole 

kingdom 
To be contracted in one brow of woe. 

JT., 1 : 2. 1393. 

— Its vanquishing Power. 

Glo. Ambitious churchman, leave to af- 
flict my heart ! 
Sorrow and grief have vanquish'd all my 

powers, 
And, vanquish'd as I am, I yield to thee, 
Or to the meanest groom. 

H. F/.,2pt.,II: 1. 917. 



— Its Voice. 

Pro. * * 
And left thee there ; where thou didst vent 

thy groans, 
As fast as mill-wheels strike. 

T., I: 2. 11. 

— Leads to Bitterness. 

Q. Mar. If ancient sorrow be most rev- 
erent, 
Give mine the benefit of seniory, 
And let my griefs frown on the upper hand. 
If sorrow can admit society, 
Tell o'er your woes again by viewing mine : 
I had an Edward, till a Richard kill'd him; 
I had a husband, till a Richard kill'd him ; 
Thou hadst an Edward, till a Richard kill'd 

him : 
Thou hadst a Richard, till a Richard kill'd 

him. 
Duch. I had a Richard too, and thou 

didst kill him ; 
I had a Rutland too, thou holp'st to kill 

him; 
Q. Mar. Thou hadst a Clarence too, and 

Richard kill'd him. 
From forth the kennel of thy womb hath 

crept 
A. hell-hound, that doth hunt us all to 

death : 
That dog, that had his teeth before his eyes 
To worry lambs, and lap their gentle blood; 
That foul defacer of God's handy*-work, 
That excellent grand tyrant of the earth, 
That reigns in galled eyes of weeping souls ; 
Thy womb let loose, to chase us to our 

graves. 
O upright, just and true-disposing God, 
How do I thank Thee, that this carnal cur 
Preys on the issue of his mother's body, 
And makes her pew-fellow with others' 

moan! 
Duch. O, Harry's wife, triumph not in 

my w r oes ; 
God witness with me, I have wept for thine. 
R. III., IV : 4. 1034. 

— Long-continue d. 

King. 'T is sweet and commendable in 
your nature, Hamlet, 
To give these mourning duties to your 
father : 



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SORROW. 



But, you must know, your father lost a 

father ; 
That father lost, lost his ; and the survivor 

bound 
In filial obligation, for some term 
To do obsequious sorrow : But to persevere 
In obstinate eondolement, is a course 
Of impious stubbornness ; 't is unmanly 

grief: 
It shows a will most incorrect to heaven; 
A heart unfortified, a mind impatient; 
An understanding simple and unschool'd : 
For what Ave know must be, and is as com- 
mon 
As any the most vulgar thing to sense, 
Why should we, in our peevish opposition, 
Take it to heart? Fie ! 't is a fault to heaven, 
A fault against the dead, a fault to nature, 
To reason most absurd; whose common 

theme 
Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, 
From the first corse till he that died to-day, 
" This must be so." We pray you, throw to 

earth 
This unprevailing woe; and think of us 
As of a father : for let the world take note, 
You are the most immediate to our throne ; 
And, with no less nobility of love 
Than that which dearest father bears his son, 
Do I impart toward you. For your intent 
In going back to school in Wittenberg, 
It is most retrograde to our desire : 
And we beseech you, bend you to remain 
Here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, 
Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son. 

B~„ 1 : 2. 1394. 
— Mingled. 
Tro. * * 
But sorrow, that is couch'd in seeming 

gladness, 
Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sad- 
ness. 

T. C, I: 1. 1103. 

— Not Long-lived. 

Cam. My lord, your sorrow was too sore 
laid on ; 
Which sixteen winters cannot blow away, 
So many summers dry : scarce any joy 
Did ever so long live ; no sorrow, 
But killed itself much sooner. 

W. T., V : 3. 616. 



— Not Measured by Cause. 

Hosse. * * Your cause of sorrow 
Must not be measured by his worth, for 

then 
It hath no end. 

J/., V : 7. 1385. 

— Passeth Show. 

Ham. Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I 

know not seems. 
'T is not alone my inky cloak, good mother, 
Nor customary suits of solemn black, 
Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, 
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, 
Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, 
Together with all forms, modes, shows of 

grief, 
That can denote me truly : These, indeed, 

seem, 
For they are actions that a man might play : 
But I have that within, which passeth show : 
These, but the trappings and the suits of 

woe. 

H., 1 : 2. 1394. 

— Perpetuated. 

Aar. * * 

Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their 
graves, 

And set them upright at their dear friends' 
doors, 

Even when their sorrows almost were for- 
got; 

And on their skins, as on the bark of trees, 

Have with my knife carved in Roman let- 
ters, 

"Let not your sorrow die, though I am 
dead." 

Tit. And., V: 1. 1226. 

— Playing Fool to. 

Edg. * * 
Bad is the trade that must play fool to sor- 
row, 
Angering itself and others. 

K. L., IV: 1. 1471. 

— Profound. 

Luc. * * Gentle people, give me aim 
awhile, 
For nature puts me to a heavy task ! 
Stand all aloof; but, uncle, draw you near, 
To shed obsequious tears upon this trunk. 



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SORROWS. 



Oh, take this warm kiss on thy pale cold lips, 
These sorrowful drops upon thy blood- 

stain'd face, 
The last true duties of thy noble son. 

Marc. Tear for tear, and loving kiss for 

kiss, 
Thy brother Marcus tenders on thy lips. 
Oh, were the sum of these that I should pay 
Countless and infinite, yet would I pay 

them. 
Luc. Come hither, boy ; come, come, 

and learn of us 
To melt in showers. Thy grandsire lov'd 

thee well ; 
Many a time he danc'd thee on his knee, 
Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pil- 
low ; 
Many a matter hath he told to thee, 
Meet and agreeing with thine infancy ; 
In that respect, then, like a loving child, 
Shed yet some small drops from thy tender 

spring, 
Because kind nature doth require it so : 
Friends should associate friends in grief 

and woe. 
Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave, 
Do him that kindness and take leave of him. 
Boy. O, grandsire, grandsire, even with 

all my heart 
Would I Avere dead, so you did live again! 
O, Lord, I cannot speak to him for weeping ; 
My tears will choke me if I ope my mouth. 
Tit. And., V : 3. 1231. 

— Real and affected. 

Laf. Your commendations, madam, get 
from her tears. 

Count. 'Tis the best brine a maiden can 
season her praise in. The remembrance of 
her father never approaches her heart, but 
the tyranny of her sorrows takes all liveli- 
hood from her cheek. No more of this, Hel- 
ena — go to, no more; lest it be rather 
thought you affect a sorrow, than to have. 

Hel. I do affect a sorrow, indeed, but I 
have it too. 

A. W., I: 1. 495. 

— Rebuked. 

Lear. * * 
Hysterica passio ! down, thou climbing 

sorrow, 
Thy element 's below. 

K. L., II: 4. 1459. 



— Speechless. 

Mai. Merciful heaven ! — 

What, man! ne'er pull your hat upon your 

brows ; 
Give sorrow words : the grief, that does not 

speak, 
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it 
break. 

M., IV : 3. 1380. 

— Sweet. 

Bushy. * * 
For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, 
Divides one thing entire to many objects ; 
Like perspectives, which, rightly gazed up- 
on, 
Show nothing but confusion. 

R. II, II : 2. 695. 

— Toying for a Purpose. 

King. Laertes, was your father dear to 
you? 
Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, 
A face without a heart? 

H., IV : 7. 1428. 

— Want of Sleep Increases. 

Dem. * * 
So sorrow's heaviness doth heavier grow 
For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow 
owe. 

M^N., Ill: 2. 333. 

SORROWS. — Come in Battalions. 

King. * * O Gertrude, Gertrude, 
When sorrows come, they come not single 
spies. 

H. IV., V : 5. 1424. 

— Never Come alone. 

Cle. I thought as much. 

One sorrow never comes, but brings an 
heir, 

That may succeed as his inheritor ; 

And so in ours : some neighbouring nation, 

Taking advantage of our misery, 

Hath stufPd these hollow vessels with their 
power, 

To beat us down, the which are down al- 
ready ; 

And make a conquest of unhappy me, 

Whereas no glory 's got to overcome. 

P., 1 : 4. 1647. 



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SPEECH. 



SOUL.— (See Mercy) Of Some, their 
Clothes. 

Laf. And shall do so ever, though I took 
him at 's prayers. Fare you well, my lord ; 
and believe this of me, there can be no ker- 
nel in this light nut ; the soul of this man is 
his clothes ; trust him not in matter of heavy 
consequence ; I have kept of them tame, and 
know their natures. — Farewell, monsieur : I 
have spoken better of you than you have 
or will to deserve at my hand ; but we must 
do good against evil. 

A. W., II : 5. 510. 

— Our Own. 

K. Hen. * * Every subject's duty is 
the king's; but every subject's soul is his 
own. 

H. V., IV : 1. 842. 

SOUTH. — Dew-dropping. 

Mer. * * 
Turning his face to the dew-dropping south. 
R.J.,1: 4. 1248. 

SPECULATION. — Thought Inves- 
tigating. 

Achil. * * 
For speculation turns not to itself, 
Till it hath travell'd, and is mirror'd there 
Where it may see itself. 

T. C, III : 3. 1124. 

SPEECH. — Injurious. 

D. Pedro. Runs not this speech like iron 

through your blood? 
Claud. I have drunk poison whiles he 

utter'd it. 

M.A.,V: 1. 251. 

— Mark Antony's, on the Death of 
Caesar. 

Ant. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend 
me your ears ; 
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. 
The evil, that men do, lives after them; 
The good is oft interred with their bones ; 
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus 
Hath told you, Caesar was ambitious : 
If it were so, it was a grievous fault ; 
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. 
Here under leave of Brutus, and the rest, 
(For Brutus is an honourable man ; 
So are they all, all honourable men ;) 
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. 
He was my friend, faithful and just to me : 



But Brutus says, he was ambitious ; 

And Brutus is an honourable man. 

He hath brought many captives home to 
Rome, 

Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill : 

Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? 

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath 
wept : 

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: 

Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious ; 

And Brutus is an honourable man. 

You all did see, that on the Lupercal, 

I thrice presented him a kingly crown, 

Which he did thrice refuse. Was this am- 
bition? 

Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious ; 

And, sure, he is an honourable man. 

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, 

But here I am to speak what I do know. 

You all did love him once, not without 
cause ; 

What cause withholds you then to mourn 
for him? 

judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, 

And men have lost their reason! — Bear 
with me ; 

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, 

And I must pause till it comes back to me. 

* * 

But yesterday, the word of Caesar might 
Have stood against the world : now lies he 

there, 
And none so poor to do him reverence. 

masters ! if I were dispos'd to stir 
Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, 

1 should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius 

wrong, 
Who, you all know, are honourable men : 
I will not do them wrong; I rather choose 
To wrong the dead, to wrong myself, and 

you, 
Than I will wrong such honourable men. 
But here 's a parchment, with the seal of 

Caesar, 
I found it in his closet, 't is his will : 
Let but the commons hear this testament, 
(Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,) 
And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's 

wounds, 
And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; 
Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, 
And, dying, mention it within their wills, 



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Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, 
Unto their issue. 

4 Cit. We "11 hear the will : Read it, 

Mark Antony. 
Cit. The will, the will; we will hear 

Caesar's will. 
Ant. Have patience, gentle friends, I 
must not read it ; 
It is not meet you know how Caesar lov'd 

you. 
You are not wood, you are not stones, but 

men; 
And, being men, hearing the will of Caesar, 
It will inflame you, it will make you mad : 
'T is good you know not that you are his 

heirs ; 
For if you should, O, what would come of it ! 
4 at. Read the will ; we will hear it, 
Antony ; 
You shall read us the will ; Caesar's will. 
Ant. Will you be patient? Will you 
stay a while? 
I have o'ershot myself, to tell you of it, 
I fear, I wrong the honourable men, 
Whose daggers have stabb'd Caesar; I do 
fear it. 
4 at. They were traitors : Honourable 

men! 
at. The will ! the testament ! 
2 Cit. They were villains, murderers : 

The will ! read the will ! 
Ant. You will compel me then to read 
the will? 
Then make a ring about the corpse of Caesar, 
And let me show you him that made the will. 
Shall I descend? And will you give me 
leave ? 
at. Come down. 

2 Cit. Descend. 

3 Cit. You shall have leave. 

4 Cit. A ring ; stand round. 

1 Cit. Stand from the hearse, stand from 

the body. 

2 Cit. Room for Antony; — most noble 

Antony. 
Ant. Xay, press not so upon me; stand 

far off. 
Cit. Stand back ! room ! bear back ! 
Ant. If you have tears, prepare to shed 
them now. 
You all do know this mantle : I remember 
The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 



'T was on a summer's evening, in his tent : 

That day he overcame the Nervii : — 

Look ! in this place, ran Cassius' dagger 

through, 
See, what a rent the envious Casca made : 
Through this, the well-beloved Brutus 

. stabb'd; 
And, as he pluck'd his curs'd steel away, 
Mark how the blood of Caesar follow 'd it; 
As rushing out of doors, to be resolv'd 
If Brutus so unkindly knock'd, or no; 
For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's an- 
gel : 
Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar lov'd 

him? 
This was the most unkindest cut of all : 
For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, 
Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' 

arms, 
Quite vanquish'd him : then burst his mighty 

heart ; 
And in his mantle muffling up his face, 
Even at the base of Pompey's statue, 
Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar 

fell. 
O, what a fall was there, my countrymen ! 
Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, 
Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. 
O, now you weep ; and, I perceive, you feel 
The dint of pity ; these are gracious drops. 
Kind souls, w T hat, weep you, when you but 

behold 
Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you 

here, 
Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with 

traitors. 
* * 

Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir 
you up 

To such a sudden flood of mutiny. 

They, that have done this deed, are honour- 
able ; 

What private griefs they have, alas, I know 
not, 

That made them do 't ; they are wise and 
honourable, 

And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. 

I come not, friends, to steal away your 
hearts ; 

I am no orator, as Brutus is : 

But, as you know me all, a plain blunt 
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SPEECH. 



That love my friend ; and that they know- 
full well 

That gave me public leave to speak of him. 

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, 

Action, nor utterance, nor the power of 
speech, 

To stir men's blood : I only speak right on ; 

1 tell you that, which you yourselves do 
know ; 

Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor, 
poor dumb mouths, 

And bid them speak for me : But Avere I 
Brutus, 

And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony 

Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a 
tongue 

In every wound of Caesar, that should move, 

The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. 

* * 

Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, 

His private arbours, and newly-planted or- 
chards, 

On this side Tiber ; he hath left them you, 

And to your heirs for ever, common pleas- 
ures, 

To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. 

Here was Caesar ! when comes such an- 
other? . 

J. C, III : 2. 1339. 

— Of Brutus, a Defence of Assas- 
sination. 

3 Cit. The noble Brutus is ascended : si- 
lence ! 

Bru. Be patient till the last. 
Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me 
for my cause ; and be silent that you may 
hear : believe me for mine honour ; and 
have respect to mine honour, that you may 
believe : censure me in your wisdom ; and 
awake your senses, that you may the better 
judge. If there be any in this assembly, 
any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, 
that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less 
than his. If, then, that friend demand why 
Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my an- 
swer, — not that I loved Caesar less, but 
that I loved Rome more. Had you rather 
Caesar were living, and die all slaves ; than 
that Caesar were dead, to live all free men? 
As Caesar loved me, I weep for him ; as he 
was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was 
valiant, I honour him : but, as he was am- 
bitious, I slew him : there is tears for his 
love; joy for his fortune; honour for his 
valour; and death for his ambition. Who 
is here so base, that would be a bondman? 



If any, speak : for him have I offended. 
Who is here so rude, that would not be a 
Roman? If any, speak, for him have I of- 
fended. Who is here so vile, that will not 
love his country? If any, speak : for him 
have I offended. I pause for a reply. 

Citizens. None, Brutus, none. 

Bra. Then none have I offended. I 
have done no more to Caesar, than you shall 
do to Brutus. The question of his death is 
enrolled in the Capitol; his glory not ex- 
tenuated, wherein he was worthy ; nor his 
offences enforced, for which he suffered 
death. Here comes his body, mourned by 
Mark Antony : who, though he had no hand 
in his death, shall receive the benefit of his 
dying, a place in the commonwealth ; as 
which of you shall not? With this I de- 
part, — that, as I slew my best lover for 
the good of some, I have the same dagger 
for myself, when it shall please my country 
to need my death. 

J. C, III: 2. 1339. 

I 

— Of the King of Denmark's Ghost. 

Ghost. Ay, that incestuous, that adulter- 
- - ate beast, 
With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous 

gifts, 
(0 wicked wit, and gifts, that have the 

power 
So to seduce !) won to his shameful lust 
The will of my most seeming virtuous queen : 
0, Hamlet, what afalling-off was there ! 
From me, whose love was of that dignity, 
That it went hand in hand even with the vow 
I made to her in marriage ; and to decline 
Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were 

poor 
To those of mine ! 

But virtue, as it never will be mov'd, 
Though lewdness court it in a shape of 

heaven ; 
So lust, though to a radiant angel link'd, 
Will sate itself in a celestial bed, 
And prey on garbage. 
But soft ! methinks, I scent the morning's 

air : 
Brief let me be : — Sleeping within mine or- 
chard, 
My custom always in the afternoon, 
Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, 
With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, 
And in the porches of mine ears did pour 
The leperous distilment ; whose effect 
Holds such an enmity with blood of man, 



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SPIRIT. 



That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through 
The natural gates and alleys of the body ; 
And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset 
And curd, like aigre droppings into milk, 
The thin and wholesome blood : so did it 

mine ; 
And a most instant tetter bark'd about, 
Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome 

crust, 
All my smooth body. 

Tims was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand, 
Of life, of crown, and queen, at once de- 
spatched ; 
Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, 
Unhousel'd, disappointed, unanel'd; 
No reckoning made, but sent to my account 
With all my imperfections on my head : 
O, horrible ! O, horrible ! most horrible ! 
If thou hast nature in thee, bear it not ; 
Let not the royal bed of Denmark be 
A couch for luxury and damned incest. 
But, howsoever thou pursu'st this act, 
Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul con- 
trive 
Against thy mother aught; leave her to 

heaven, 
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, 
To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at 

once ! 
The glow worm shows the matin to be near, 
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire : 
Adieu, adieu, Hamlet! remember me. 

//., 1 : 5. 1399. 

— Outspoken. 

Cor. What must I say? — 

I pray, sir, — Plague upon 't ! I cannot 

bring 
My tongue to such a pace : Look, sir ; — 

my wounds ; — 
I got them in my country's service, when 
Some certain of your brethren roar'd, and 

rah 
From the noise of our own drums. 

C, TI: 3. 1165. 

Power of Woman's. 
K. Hen. Her sight did ravish ; but her 
grace in speech, 
Her words y-clad with Avisdom's majesty, 
Makes me, from wandering, fall to weeping 
joys; 



Such is the fulness of my heart's content. — 
Lords, with one cheerful voice welcome my 
love. 

H. VI., 2pt., I: 1. 907. 

— Smooth, not natural to War- 
. riors. 

Men. Consider this : — He has been bred 
i' the wars 
Since he could draw a sword, and is ill 

school'd 
In boulted language ; meal and bran to- 
gether 
He throws without distinction. 

C, III: 1. 1173. 

— Tangled, but not impaired. 

The. His speech was like a tangled 
chain; nothing impaired, but all disor- 
dered. 

M. X., V : 1. 343. 

SPIRE. — Kisses the Clouds. 

Ulyss. * * 
Yon towers whose wanton tops do buss the 

clouds, 
Must kiss their own feet. 

T. C.,IV: 5. 1134. 

SPIRIT. — An undaunted. 

Bed. Not to be gone from hence ; for 
once I read, 
That stout Pendragon, in his litter, sick, 
Came to the field, and vanquished his foes : 
Methinks I should revive the soldiers' 

hearts, 
Because I ever found them as myself. 

Tal. Undaunted spirit in a dying breast ! 
Then, be it so : — heavens keep old Bedford 

safe ! — 
And now no more ado, brave Burgundy, 
But gather we our forces out of hand, 
And set upon our boasting enemy. 

//. TV., lpt., Ill: 2. 881. 

— Promise to Raise a. 

Hume. This they have promised, — to 
show your highness 
A spirit rais'dfrom depth of under ground, 
That shall make answer to such questions, 
As by your grace shall be propounded him. 
U. JV,2pt.,I: 2. 911. 



SPIRITS. 



521 



SPORT. 



SPIRITS. — Calling for. 

Glend. I can call spirits from the vasty 

deep. 
Hot. Why, so can I ; or so can any man : 
But will they come, when you call for them? 
//. IV., ipt.,tll; l. 745. 

— Light, Lengthen Life. 
Kath. He made her melancholy, sad, 
and heavy; 
And so she died : had she been light, like 

you, 
Of such a merry, nimble, stirring spirit, 
She might a' been a grandam ere she died : 
And so may you, for a light heart lives long. 
L. L., V: 2. 293. 

— Wild. 

Hero. * * 
I know, her spirits are as coy and wild 
As haggards of the rock. 

M. A., Ill : 1. 238. 

SPITE. — Defied. 

Oth. Let him do his spite : 
My services, which I have done the signiory, 
Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'T is yet 

to know, 
(Which, when I know that boasting is an 

honour, 
I shall promulgate, )I fetch my life and being 
From men of royal siege ; and my demerits 
May speak, unbonneted, to as proud a fort- 
une 
As this that I have reach 'd : for know, Iago, 
But that I love the gentle Desdemona, 
I would not my unhoused free condition 
Put into circumscription and confine 
For the sea's worth. 

0., I: 2. 1493. 

SPOLIATION. — In a Conquered City. 

K. lien. * * 
What rein can hold licentious wickedness, 
When down the hill he holds his fierce ca- 
reer? 
We may as bootless spend our vain com- 
mand 
Upon the enraged soldiers in their spoil, 
As send precepts to the Leviathan 
To come ashore. Therefore, you men of 
Harfleur, 



Take pity of your town, and of your peo- 

Whiles yet my soldiers are in my com- 
mand ; 
Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of 

grace 
O'erblows the filthy and contagious clouds 
Of deadly murder, spoil, and villany. 
If not, why, in a moment, look to see 
The blind and bloody soldier with foul 

hand 
Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking 

daughters ; 
Your fathers taken by the silver beards, 
And their most reverend heads dash'd tp 

the walls ; 
Your naked infants spitted upon pikes ; 
Whiles the mad mothers with their howls 

confus'd 
Do break the clouds, as did the wives of 

Jewry 
At Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen. 

R. F.,111: 3. 833. 

— Inculcated. 

K.John. Cousin, away for England; 
haste before : 
And, ere our coming, see thou shake the 

bags 
Of hoarding abbots ; angels imprisoned 
Set thou at liberty : the fat ribs of peace 
Must by the hungry now be fed upon : 
Use our commission in his utmost force. 

K. J., Ill : 3. <S6l. 

SPONGE. — Men Used as a. 

Ros. Take you for a spunge, my lord? 

Ham. Ay, sir ; that soaks up the king's 
countenance, his rewards, his authorities. 
But such officers do the king best service 
in the end : he keeps them, like an ape doth 
nuts, in the corner of his jaw ; first mouthed, 
to be last swallowed : when he needs what 
you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, 
and, spunge, you shall be dry again. 

Ros. I understand you not, my lord. 

Ham. I am glad of it : a knavish speech 
sleeps in a foolish ear. 

H., IV : 2. 1421. 

SPORT — An Index to the Wise. 

Nest. * * 
Though 't be a sportful combat, 
Yet in the trial much opinion dwells ; 



SPORT. 



522 



SPRING. 



For here the Trojans taste our dear'st repute 

With their fin'st palate : 

* * For the success, 

Although particular, shall give a scantling 

Of good or bad unto the general. 

T. C, I: 3. 1111. 

— Of gods, to Kill Men. 

Glo. * * 
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the 

gods, — 
They kill us for their sport. 

K.L,. IV: 1. 1471. 

— Overthrown by Sport. 

Prin. * * 
There 's no such sport as sport by sport 

o'erthrown ; 
To make theirs ours, and ours none but our 

own : 
So shall we stay, mocking intended game ; 
And they, well mock'd, depart away with 
shame. 

L.L., V: 2. 295. 

— The best. 

Prin. Nay, my good lord, let me o'er- 
rule you now : 
That sport best pleases that doth least know 

how : 
Where zeal strives to content, and the con- 
tents 
Die in the zeal of that which it presents, 
The form confounded makes most form in 

mirth, 
When great things labouring perish in their 
birth. 
Biron. A right description of our sport, 
my lord. 

L.L.,V: 2. 300. 

— With a Lady Denounced. 

Ilel. * * 
Can you not hate me, as I know you do, 
But you must join in souls to mock me too? 
If you were men, as men you are in show, 
You would not use a gentle lady so; 
To vow, and swear, and superpraise my 

parts, 
When I am sure you hate me with your 

hearts. 
You both are rivals, and love Hermia ; 



And now both rivals, to mock Helena : 
A trim exploit, a manly enterprise, 
To conjure tears up in a poor maid's eyes 
With your derision ! none of noble sort 
Would so offend a virgin, and extort 
A poor soul's patience, all to make you 
sport. 

M. N., Ill : 2. 334. 

SPORTS.— Ill-timed. 

Ccbs. * * If he fill'd 
His vacancy with his voluptuousness, 
Full surfeits, and the dryness of his bones, 
Call on him for 't; but, to confound such 

time, 
That drums him from his sport, and speaks 

as loud 
As his own state, and ours, — 't is to be 

chid, 
As we rate boys ; who, being mature in 

knowledge, 
Pawn their experience to their present 

pleasure, 
And so rebel to judgment. 

A. C.,I:4. 1545. 

SPRING.— Flowers of. 

Per. * * 
For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou 

let'st fall 
From Dis's waggon ! daffodils, 
That come before the swallow dares, and 

take 
The winds of March with beauty; violets, 

dim, 
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, 
Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, 
That die unmarried, ere they can behold 
Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady 
Most incident to maids ; bold oxlips, and 
The crown-imperial ; lilies of all kinds, 
The flower-de-luce being one. 

W. T., IV : 3. 602. 

— Picture of. 

Arm. * * 
When daisies pied, and violets blue, 

And lady smocks all silver white, 
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, 

To paint the meadows with delight, 
The cuckoo then, on every tree, 
Mocks married men, for thus sings he : 

Cuckoo; 
Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, 
Unpleasing to a married ear ! 



SPRING. 



5 2 3 



STATION, 



When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, 
And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, 

When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, 
And maidens hleach their summer smocks, 

The cuckoo then, on every tree, 

Mocks married men, for thus sings he : 
Cuckoo ; 

Cuckoo, cuckoo, — O word of fear, 

Unpleasing to a married ear ! 

L. L., V : 2. 304. 

— Treads on Winter. 

Cap. * * 
When well-apparell'd April on the heel 
Of limping winter treads. 

R.J.,l: 2. 1244. 

STABS. — A Breach in Nature. 

Macb. * * His gash'd stabs look'd 
like a breach in nature, 
For ruin's wasteful entrance. 

J/., II: 3. 1367. 

STAGE. — All the World a. 

Jaq. All the world 's a stage, 

And all the men and women merely play- 
ers : 
They have their exits, and their entrances ; 
And one man in his time plays many parts, — 
His act being seven ages. At first, the in- 
fant, 
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms : 
Then the whining schoolboy, with his 

satchel, 
And shining morning face, creeping like 

snail 
Unwillingly to school : and then the lover, 
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad 
Made to his mistress' eyebrow : Then a sol- 
dier, 
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the 

pard, 
Jealous in honour, sudden, and quick in 

quarrel, 
Seeking the bubble Reputation 
Even in the cannon's mouth: and then the 

justice, 
In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd, 
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, 
Full of Avise saws and modern instances, 
And so he plays his part : The sixth age 

shifts 
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon ; 



With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side, 
His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too 

wide 
For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly 

voice 
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes 
And whistles in his sound : Last scene of 

all, 
That ends this strange eventful history, 
Is second childishness, and mere oblivion; 
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans — 

everything. 

A. Y., II : 7. 419. 

— The World a. 

Ant. I hold the world but as the world, 
Gratiano ; 
A stage, where every man must play a part, 
And mine a sad one. 

M. V., I : 1. 362. 

STAINS. — That never Wash out. 

Macb. Whence is that knocking? 

How is 't with me, when every noise appals 

me? 
What hands are here? Ha! they pluck out 

mine eyes ! 
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this 

blood 
Clean from my hand ? No ; this my hand 

will rather 
The multitudinous seas incarnadine, 
Making the green — one red. 

M.,U: 2. 1365. 

STARS. — Golden Fire. 

flam. * * This brave o'erhanging fir- 
manent, this majestical roof fretted with 
golden fire. 

H., II : 2. 1406. 

Kent. It is the stars. 
The stars above us, govern our conditions ; 
Else one self mate and mate could not beget 
Such different issues. 

K. L., IV: 3. 1473. 

STATION — High. 

Q. Mar. * * 
They that stand high, have many blasts to 
shake them. 

R. III., 1 : 3. 1009. 



STATUE, 



5H 



STORM. 



STATUE. — A perfect. 

Paul. * * Prepare 
To see the life as lively mock'd, as ever 
Still sleep mock'd death. 

W. T. t V : 3. 616. 

STAY-AT-HOMES. —Dishonored. 

Par. * * 
He wears his honour in a box unseen 
That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home ; 
Spending his manly marrow in her arms, 
Which should sustain the bound and high 

curvet 
Of Mars's fiery steed. 

A. W., II : 3. 508. 

STEALING. — By Line and Level. 

Ste. I thank thee for that jest : here 's a 
garment for 't : wit shall not go unrewarded 
while I am king of this country. " Steal by 
line and level " is an excellent pass of pate ; 
there 's another garment for 't. 

T., IV : 1. 29. 

— By Proxy. 

P. Hen. I have procured thee, Jack, a 
charge of foot. 

Fal. I would, it had been of horse. 
Where shall I find one that can steal well? 
O for a fine thief, of the age of two-and- 
twenty, or thereabouts ! I am heinously un- 
provided. Well, God be thanked for these 
rebels, they offend none but the virtuous ; I 
laud them, I praise them. 

IT. IV., lpt.,111: 3. 751. 

— How made sinless. 

Lucio. Thou conclud'st like the sancti- 
monious pirate, that went to sea with the 
ten commandments, but scrap'd one out of 
the table. 

2 Gent. Thou shall not steal? 

Lucio. Ay, that he raz'd. 

*J/."j/, I: 2. 144. 

STEPMOTHER. — A kind. 

Queen. No, be assur'd, you shall not find 
me, daughter, 
After the slander of most step-mothers, 
Evil-ey'd unto you : you are my prisoner, 

but 
Your gaoler shall deliver you the keys 
That lock up your restraint. 

Cym.,l: 2. 1590. 



STOIC — A. 

Lucio. * * Upon his place, 
And with full line of his authority, 
Governs lord Angelo ; a man whose blood 
Is very snow-broth ; one who never feels 
The wanton stings and motions of the 

sense, 
But doth rebate and blunt his natural 

edge •. 
With profits of the mind, study and fast. 

M. M., I : 4. 147. 



STORM.— A Clown's Description of. 

Clo. I have seen two such sights, by sea, 
and by land; — but I am not to say, it is a 
sea, for it is now the sky ; betwixt the fir- 
mament and it you cannot thrust a bodkin's 
point. 

Shep. Why, boy, how is it? 

Clo. I would you did but see how it 
chafes, how it rages, how it takes up the 
shore ! but that 's not to the point : 0, the 
most piteous cry of the poor souls ! some- 
times to see 'em, and not to see 'em : now 
the ship boring the moon with her main- 
mast; and anon swallowed with yest and 
froth, as you 'd thrust a cork into a hogs- 
head. And then for the land-service, — To 
see how the bear tore out his. shoulder- 
bone; how he cried to me for help, and 
said his name was Antigonus, a noble- 
man : — But to make an end of the ship ; — 
to see how the sea flap-dragon d it: — but, 
first, how the poor souls roared, and the 
sea mock'd them ; — and how the poor gen- 
tlemen roared, and the bear mock'd him, 
both roaring louder than the sea. or weather. 
W. 71, 111: 3. 597. 

— At Sea, rebuked. 

Per. Thou God of this great vast, rebuke 

these surges, 
Which wash both heaven and hell: and 

thou, that hast 
Upon the winds command, bind them in 

brass, 
Having call'd them from the deep ! O still 

thy deaf'ning, 
Thy dreadful thunders ; gently quench thy 

nimble, 
Sulphureous flashes!— how, Lychorida, 
How does my queen? — Thou storm, thou! 

venomously 
Wilt thou spit all thyself? 

P., Ill: 1. 1655. 



STORY. 



525 



STUDY. 



STORY. — Of a Life. 

Alon. * I long 

To hear the story of your life, which must 
Take the ear strangely. 

T., V: 1. 34. 

STOUTNESS. — A Woman's exces- 
sive. 

Dro. S. No longer from head to foot, 
than from hip to hip : she is spherical, like a 
globe. I could find out countries in her. 

C.E., Ill: 1. 202. 

STRATAGEM — Inexplicable. 

' Aar. He, that had wit, would think that 

I had none, 
To bury so much gold under a tree, 
And never after to inherit it. 
Let him, that thinks of me so abjectly, 
Know that this gold must coin a stratagem, 
Which, cunningly effected, will beget 
A very excellent piece of villainy : 
And so repose, sweet gold, for their unrest, 
That have their alms out of the empress' 

chest. 

Tit. And., II : 3. 1209. 

— To Secure the Death of a Foe. 

King. * * I will work him 
To an exploit, now ripe in my device, 
Under the which he shall not choose but 

fall: 
And for his death no wind of blame shall 

breathe ; 
But even his mother shall uncharge the 

practice, 
And call it accident. 

£T.,IV:7. 1427. 

STRATEGY.— Before Battle. 

Richm. * * 
Give me some ink and paper in my tent; — 
I '11 draw the form and model of our battle, 
Limit eachleader-to his several charge, 
And part in just proportion our small power. 
R. III., V : 3. 1042. 

STRIFE. — Grief at Occasioning. 

Arth. * * 
I would, that I were low laid in my grave ; 
I am not worth this coil that 's made for me. 
K. J., II : 1. 651. 



STROKES. — Arbitrate the Advance 
of "War. 

Siw. The time approaches, 

That will with due decision make us know 
What we shall say we have, and what we 

owe. 
Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes re- 
late : 
But certain issue strokes must arbitrate, 
Towards which, advance the war. 

M., V: 4. 1383. 

STRUGGLE. — Vain. 

Clif. Ay, ay, so strives the woodcock 

with the gin. 
North. So doth the coney struggle in the 

net. 
York. So triumph thieves upon their 
conquer'd booty ; 
So true men yield, with robbers so o'er- 
match'd. 

H. YL, 3pt.,I: 4. 960. 

STUBBORNNESS.— Injurious. 

Mar. Thanks. — What 's the matter, you 
dissentious rogues, 
That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, 
Make yourselves scabs. 

C, 1 : 1. 1151. 

— Terrible as Storms. 

Wol. * * 
The hearts of princes kiss obedience, 
So much they love it; but, to stubborn 

spirits, 
They swell, and grow as terrible as storms. 
II. VIII., Ill: 1. 1076. 

STUDY— Excessive, foolish. 

Biron. So study evermore is over-shot; 
While it doth study to have what it would, 
It doth forget to do the thing it should : 
And when it hath the thing it hunteth most, 
'T is won, as towns with fire ; so won, so 
lost. 

L.L., I: l. 273. 

—Its Object. 
Biron. By yea and nay, sir, then I 
swore in jest. 
What is the end of study? let me know. 
King. Why, that to know, which else 
we should not know. 



STUDY. 



526 



STUMBLING. 



Biron. Things hid and barr'd, you 
mean, from common sense? 

King. Ay, that is study's godlike rec- 
ompense. 

L. L., I: 1. 272. 

— May be unreasonable. 

King. Biron is like an envious sneaping 

frost, 
That bites the first-born infants of the 

spring. 
Biron. Well, say I am ; why should 

proud summer boast, 
Before the birds have any cause to sing? 
Why should I joy in any abortive birth? 
At Christmas I no more desire a rose, 
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled 

shows ; 
But like of each thing that in season grows. 
So you, to study, now it is too late, 
Climb o'er the house to unlock the little 

gate. 

L. L., I: 1. 272. 

— Regulated by Desire 

Tra. Mi perdonate, gentle master mine, 
I am in all affected as yourself; 
Glad that you thus continue your resolve, 
To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy. 
Only, good master, while we do admire 
This virtue, and this moral discipline, 
Let's be no stoics, nor no stocks, I pray; 
Or so devote to Aristotle's checks, 
As Ovid be an outcast quite abjur'd : 
Balk logic with acquaintance that you 

have, 
And practise rhetoric in your common talk : 
Music and poesy use to quicken you ; 
The mathematics, and the metaphysics, 
Fall to them as you find your stomach 

serves ; 
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en ; 
In brief, sir, study what you most affect. 

T. 8., 1 : 1. 455. 

— Stops that Hinder it. 
Biron. Come on, then ; I will swear to 
study so, 
To know the thing I am forbid to know : 
As thus, — to study where I well may dine, 
When I to feast expressly am forbid ; 



Or study where to meet some mistress fine, 
When mistresses from common sense 
are hid ; 
Or, having sworn too hard-a-keeping oath, 
Study to break it, and not break my troth. 
If study's gain be thus, and this be so, 
Study knows that which yet it doth not 

. know : 
Swear me to this, and I will ne'er say no. 
King. These be the stops that hinder 
study quite, 
And train our intellects to vain delight. 
Biron. Why, all delights are vain; but 
that most vain, 
Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit 

pain : 
As, painfully to pore upon a book 

To seek the light of truth : while truth 

the while 

Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look : 

Light, seeking light, doth light of light 

beguile ; 

So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, 

Your light grows dark by losing of your 

eyes. 
Study me how to please the eye indeed, 

By fixing it upon a fairer eye ; 
Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed, 
And give him light that it was blinded 

by. 

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, 

That will not be deep-searched with 

saucy looks : 

Small have continual plodders ever won, 

Save base authority from others' books. 

These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, 

That give a name to every fixed star, 

Have no more profit of their shining nights 

Than those that walk, and wot not what 

they are. 

Too much to know, is to know nought but 

fame ; 

And every godfather can give a name. 

King. How well he 's read, to reason 

against reading ! 

L. L., I: 1. 272. 

STUMBLING. — A bad Omen. 

Glo. The gates made fast! — Brother, I 
like not this ; 
For many men, that stumble at the threshold, 
Are well foretold — that danger lurks within. 



STUMBLING, 



527 



SUBMISSION. 



K. Edw. Tush, man ! abodements must 
not now affright us : 
By fair or foul means we must enter in, 
For hither will our friends repair to us. 

//. VI, 3pt., IV: 7. 984. 

STUPIDITY. — Blind. 

Leon. * * Or your eye-glass 
Is thicker than a cuckold's horn. 

W. T.,I: 2. 584. 

STYLE.— And Purse do not Agree. 

Glo. Ay, uncle, we will keep it, if we 

can; 
But now it is impossible we should : 
Suffolk, the new made duke that rules the 

roast, 
Hath given the duchies of Anjou and 

Maine 
Unto the poor king Reignier, whose large 

style 
Agrees not with the leanness of his purse. 

H. VI, 2 pt., 1 : 1. 908. 

SUBJECTION.— A Woman's, perfect. 

Pet. I say it is the moon that shines so 

bright. 
Kath. I know it is the sun that shines so 

bright. 
Pet. Now, by my mother's son, and that 
's myself, 
It shall be moon, or star, or what I list, 
Or ere I journey to your father's house : 
Go on, and fetch our horses back again. 
Evermore cross 'd, and cross'd : nothing but 
cross'd! 
Ilor. Say as he says, or we shall never 

go. 
Kath. Forward, I pray, since we have 
come so far, 
And be it moon, or sun, or what you 

please : 
And if you please to call it a rush candle, 
Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me. 
Pet. I say it is the moon. 
Kath. I know it is the moon. 

Pet. Nay, then you lie ; it is the blessed 

sun. 
Kath. Then, God be bless'd, it is the 
blessed sun : 
But sun it is not, when you say it is not ; 



And the moon changes even as your mind. 
What you will have it named, even that it 

is; 
And so it shall be so for Katharine. 

Ilor. Petrucio, go thy ways ; the field is 

won. 
Pet. Well, forward, forward : thus the 

bowl should run, 
And not unluckily against the bias. 
But soft ! Company is coming here. 
Good morrow, gentle mistress : Where 

away ? 
Tell me, sweet Kate, and tell me truly too, 
Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman? 
Such war of white and red within her 

cheeks? 
What stars do spangle heaven with such 

beauty, 
As those two eyes become that heavenly 

face? 
Fair lovely maid, once more good day to 

thee : 
Sweet Kate, embrace her for her beauty's 

sake. 
Ilor. 'A will make the man mad, to 
make a woman of him. 

Kath. Young budding virgin, fair, and 

fresh, and sweet, 
Whither away? or where is thy abode? 
Happy the parents of so fair a child ; 
Happier the man, whom favorable stars 
Allot thee for his lovely bedfellow ! 

Pet. Why, how now Kate ! I hope thou 

art not mad : 
This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, with- 

er'd, 
And not a maiden, as thou say'st he is. 
Kath. Pardon, old father, my mistaking 

eyes, 
They have been so bedazzled with the 

sun, 
That everything I look on seemeth green : 
Now I perceive thou art a reverend father ; 
Pardon, I pray thee, for my mad mistak- 
ing. 

T. S., IV : 5. 478. 

SUBMISSION.— A Matter of Time. 

D. Pedro. Well, as time shall try : 
" In time the savage bull doth bear the 
yoke. " 

M.A.,I: 2. 228. 



SUBMISSION. 528 SUCCESS. 


— Complete. 


— Perfect. 


Rum. * * My office is 


Men. * * Go, you that banish'd him, 


To noise abroad, — that Harry Monmouth 


A mile before his tent fall down, and 


fell 


kneel 


Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword; 


The way into his mercy. 


And that the king before the Douglas' rage 


C, V : 1. 1186. 


Stoop'd his anointed head as low as death. 




Jl. IV., 2 pt., Ind. : 773. 


— True Wisdom. 


— Death better than. 


Ami. * * Happy is your grace, 
That can translate the stubbornness of fort- 


Ch. Just. Sweet princes, what I did, I 


une 


did in honour, 


Into so quiet and so sweet a style. 


Led by the impartial conduct of my soul ; 


A. F..II: 1. 414. 


And never shall you see, that I will beg 




A ragged and forestall'd remission. — 


SUBSTITUTE.— His Duty. 


If truth and upright innocency fail me, 


I '11 to the king my master that is dead. 


Duke. No more evasion : 


And tell him who hath sent me after him. 


We have with a leaven'd and prepared 




choice ; 


H. IV., 2 pt., V : 2. 806. 






Proceeded to you : therefore take your 


— Easiest Gained by a Smile. 


honours. 


2 Sen. What thou wilt, 


Our haste from hence is of so quick con- 


Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile, 


dition, 


Than hew to 't with thy sword. 


That it prefers itself, and leaves unques- 


1 Sen. Set but thy foot 


tion'd 


Against our rampir'd gates, and they shall 


Matters of needful value. We shall write 


ope; 


to you, 


So thou wilt send thy gentle heart before, 


As time and our concernings shall impor- 


To say thou 'It enter friendly. 


tune, 


2 Sen. Throw thy glove ; 


How it goes with us ; and do look to 


Or any token of thine honour else, 


know 


That thou wilt use the wars as thy redress, 


What doth befal you here. So, fare you 


And not as our confusion, all thy powers 


well : 


Shall make their harbour in our town, till we 


To th' hopeful execution do I leave you 


Have seal'd thy full desire. 


Of your commissions. 


T. A., V : 5. 1316. 


M. M., 1 : 1. 144. 


— Graceful. 






SUBSTITUTES. — Of no Importance. 


Page. Well, what remedy? Fenton, 




Ner. When the moon shone, we did not 


heaven give thee joy ! 




What cannot be eschew'd must be em- 


see the candle. 


brac'd. 


Por. So doth the greater glory dim the 


M. W., V : 5. 120. 


less : 




A substitute shines brightly as a king, 


— Its Meaning not known. 


Until a king be by ; and then his state 


Lucy. Submission, Dauphin? 't is a 


Empties itself, as doth an inland brook 


mere French word; 


Into the main of waters. 


We English warriors wot not what it 


31. V., V : 1. 389. 


means? 




I come to know what prisoners thou hast 


SUCCESS. — Aimed at. 


ta'en, 


Bast. * * Near or far off, well won is 


And to survey the bodies of the dead. 


still well shot. 


II. VI., lpt.,IV: 7. 890. 


A'. J., I: 1. 648. 



SUCCESS. 



529 



SUCCESS. 



— From God. 

Win. He was a king, bless'd of the King 
of kings. 

Unto the French the dreadful judgment 
day 

So dreadful will not be, as was his sight. 

The battles of the Lord of Hosts he 
fought : 

The church's prayers made him so prosper- 
ous. 

II. VI., lpt.,I: 1. 864. 

— Independent of Allies. 

Hot. You strain too far. 

I, rather, of his absence make this use; — 
It lends a lustre, and more great opinion, 
A larger dare to our great enterprise, 
Than if the earl were here : for men must 

think, 
If we, without his help, can make a head 
To push against the kingdom ; with his 

help, 
We shall o'erturn it topsy-turvey down. 

H. IV., lpt., IV: 1. 752. 

— Invoked. 

Gaunt. Heaven in thy good cause make 
thee prosperous ! 
Be swift like lightning in the execution ; 
And let thy blows, doubly redoubled, 
Fall like amazing thunder on the casque 
Of thy adverse pernicious enemy : 
Rouse up thy youthful blood, be valiant and 
live. 

R. II., I: 3.688. 

— Measured by our Desires. 

Com. Breathe you, my friends ; well 

fought : we are come off 
Like Romans, neither foolish in our stands, 
Nor cowardly in retire : believe me, sirs, 
We shall be charg'd again. Whiles we have 

struck, 
By interims, and conveying gusts, we have 

heard 
The charges of our friends: — The Roman 

gods, 
Lead their successes as we wish our own ; 
That both our powers, with smiling fronts 

encountering. 

C, I : 6. 1156. 



— Modest, Foregoes Promotion. 

Ven. * * 
Who does in the wars more than his captain 

can, 
Becomes his captain's captain : and ambition, 
The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of 

loss, 
Than gain, which darkens him. 

A. C, III: 1. 1557. 



— No great, -without Scars. 

York. * * 
I rather would have lost my life betimes, 
Than bring a burden of dishonour home, 
By staying there so long, till all were lost. 
Shew me one star character'd on thy- 

skin; 
Men's flesh preserv'd so whole, do seldom 
win. 

H. IV., 2 pt ., Ill : 1. 925. 

— Rewarded. 

Hor. * * He that runs fastest gets the 
ring. 

T. S.,I: 1. 456. 

— Worshiped. 

York. Then, as I said, the duke, great 
Bolingbroke, — 
Mounted upon a hot and fiery steed, 
Which his aspiring rider seem'd to know, — 
With slow, but stately pace, kept on his 

course, 
While all tongues cried — God save thee, 

Bolingbroke ! 
You would have thought the very windows 

spake, 
So many greedy looks of young and old 
Through casements darted their desiring 

eyes 
Upon his visage ; and that all the walls, 
With painted imag'ry, had said at once, — 
Jesu preserve thee ! welcome, Bolingbroke ! 
Whilst he, from one side to the other turn- 
ing, 
Bare-headed, lower than his proud steed's 

neck, 
Bespake them thus, — I thank you, coun- 
trymen : 
And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. 
R. IT., V: 2. 712. 



SUFFERING. 



530 



SUICIDE. 



SUFFERING.— As great as Death. 

Into. There cannot be a pineh in death 
More sharp than this is. 

Cym., I : 2. 1591. 

— Begets Sympathy. 
Lear. Pr'ythee, go in thyself; seek thine 
own ease ; 

This tempest will not give me leave to pon- 
der 

On things would hurt me more. — But I '11 
go in : 

In, boy ; go first. — You houseless poverty, 

Nay, get thee in. I '11 pray, and then I '11 
sleep. 

Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, 

That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, 

How shall your houseless heads, and unfed 
sides, 

Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, de- 
fend you 

From seasons such as these? O, I have 
ta'en 

Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; 

Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel ; 

That thou may'st shake the superflux to 
them, 

And show the heavens more just. 

K. Z„ HI : 4. 1465. 

SUFFICIENCY. — Enough. 

Mer. No, t' is not so deep as a well, nor 
so wide as a church door. 

R. J., Ill: 1. 1259. 

SUICIDE — (See Soliloquy.) A Sin. 

Cleo. * * Then, is it sin 
To rush into the secret house of death, 
Ere death dare come to us? 

A. C, IV : 13. 1576. 

— A Weakness. 

Rod. It is silliness to live, when to live 
is a torment : and then have we a prescrip- 
tion to die, when death is our physician. 

Iago. O villanous ! I have looked upon 
the world for four times seven years ! and 
since I could distinguish between a benefit 
and an injury, I never found a man that 
knew how to love himself. Ere I would 
say, I would drown myself for the love of a 
Guinea-hen, I would change my humanity 
with a baboon. 

0.. 1 : 3. 1498. 



— Antony's Intended. 

Ant. Thrice nobler than myself! 

Thou teachest me, O valiant Eros, what 
I should, and thou could'st not. My queen 

and Eros 
Have, by their brave instruction, got upon 

me 
A nobleness in record : But I will be 
A bridegroom in my death, and run into 't 
As to a lover's bed. Come then ; and, 

Eros, 
Thy master dies thy scholar ; to do thus 
I learn'd of thee. How ; not yet dead? not 

dead? — 
The guard ! — ho ! — despatch me. 

A. 0., IV: 12. 1574. 

— At the Tomb of a Lover. 
Rom. * * Ah, dear Juliet, 

Why art thou yet so fair? Shall I believe 
That unsubstantial death is amorous ; 
And that the lean abhorred monster keeps 
Thee here in dark to be his paramour? 
For fear of that, I still will stay with thee ; 
And never from this palace of dim night 
Depart again ; here, here will I remain 
With worms that are thy chamber-maids ; O, 

here 
Will I set up my everlasting rest ; 
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars 
From this world-wearied flesh. — Eyes, look 

your last ! 
Arms, take your last embrace ! and, lips, O 

you 
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous 

kiss 
A dateless bargain to engrossing death ! — 
Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury 

guide ! 
Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on 
The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark ! 
Here 's to my love ! — O, true apothecary ! 
Thy drugs are quick. — Thus with a kiss I 

die. 

R. J., V : 3. 1275. 

— Cowardly and vile. 

Bru. Even by the rule of that philoso- 
phy* 

By which I did blame Cato for the death 
Which he did give himself: — I know not 
how, 



SUICIDE. 531 SUICIDE. 


But I do find it cowardly and vile, 


Cleo. * * And it is great 


For fear of what might fall, so to prevent 


To do that thing that ends all other deeds ; 


The term of life : — arming myself with pa- 


Which shackles accidents, and bolts up 


tience, 


change. 


To stay the providence of those high powers, 


A. C V: 2. 1577. 


That govern us below. 




J. C., V : 1. 1349. 


— In our Power. 




Ant. * * 


—Defies Prohibition. 


Nay, weep not, gentle Eros ; there is left 


Into. * * Against self-slaughter 


us 


There is a prohibition so divine, 


Ourselves to end ourselves. 


That cravens my weak hand. Come, here 's 


A. C, IV : 12. 1573. 


my heart; 




Something 's afore "t : — Soft, soft; we '11 no 


— News of Antony's. 


defence ; 


Der. He is dead, Caesar; 


Obedient as the scabbard. 


Not by a public minister of justice, 


Cym., Ill : 4. 1609- 


Nor by a hired knife ; but that self hand, 




Which writ his honour in the acts it did, 


— Denied funeral Rites. 


Hath, with the courage which the heart did 


1 Priest. Her obsequies have been as far 


lend it, 


enlarg'd 


Splitted the heart. This is his sword ; 


As we have warranty : Her death was doubt- 


I robb'd his wound of it ; behold it stain'd 


ful; 


With his most noble blood. 


And, but that great command o'ersways the 


Cass. Look you sad, friends? 


order, 


The gods rebuke me, but it is a tidings 


She should in ground unsanctified have 


To wash the eyes of kings. 


lodg'd 


A. C.,V: 1. 1576. 


Till the last trumpet; for charitable prayers, 


— Of Brutus. 


Shards, flints, and pebbles, should be thrown 


on her, 


Bru. Sit thee down, Clitus : Slaying is 


Yet here she is allow'd her virgin crants, 


the word ; 


Her maiden strewments, and the bringing 


It is a deed in fashion. Hark thee, Clitus. — 


home 


Cli. What, I, my lord? No, not for all 


Of bell and burial. 


the world. 


Laer. Must there no more be done? 


Bru. Peace then, no words. 


1 Priest. No more be done ! 


Cli. I '11 rather kill myself. 


We should profane the service of the dead, 


Bru. Hark thee, Dardanius ! 


To sing nrequiem, and such rest to her 


Dar. I do such a deed? 


As to peace-parted souls. 


Cli. 0, Dardanius ! 


Laer. Lay her i' the earth ; — 


Dar. 0, Clitus ! 


And from her fair and unpolluted flesh, 


Cli. What ill request did Brutus make 


May violets spi'ing! — I tell thee, churlish 


to thee? 


priest, 


Dar. To kill him, Clitus : Look, he med- 


A ministering angel shall my sister be, 


itates. 


When thou liest howling. 


Cli. Now is that noble vessel full of 


H., V: 1. 1431. 


grief, 




That it runs over even at his eyes. 


—Extolled. 


Bru. Come hither, good Volumnius ; list 


Cas. Why, he that cuts off* twenty years 


a word. 


of life, 


Vol. What says my lord? 


Cuts off so many years of fearing death. 


Bru. Why, this, Volumnius : 


J. a, III : 1. 1336. 


The ghost of Caesar hath appeared to me 



SUICIDE, 



532 



SUICIDE. 



Two several times by night : at Sardis, once ; 
And, this last night, here in Philippi fields. 
I know my hour is come. 

Vol. Not so, my lord. 

Bru. Nay, I am sure it is, Volumnius. 
Thou seest the world, Volumnius, how it 

goes; 
Our enemies have beat us to the pit : 
It is more worthy to leap in ourselves, 
Than tarry till they push us. Good Volum- 
nius, 
Thou know'st, that we two went to school 

together : 
Even for that our love of old, I pray thee, 
Hold thou my sword-hilts, whilst I run on 
it. 
Vol. That 's not an office for a friend, 

my lord. 
Cli. Fly, fly, my lord ; there is no tar- 
rying here. 
Bru. Farewell to you ; — and you ; — 
and you, Volumnius. — 
Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep ; 
Farewell to thee too, Strato. — Country- 
men, 
My heart doth joy, that yet, in all my life, 
I found no man, but he was true to me. 
I shall have glory by this losing day, 
More than Octavius, and Mark Antony, 
By this vile conquest shall attain unto. 
So, fare you well at once ; for Brutus' 

tongue 
Hath almost ended his life's history : 
Night hangs upon mine eyes ; my bones 

would rest, 
That have but labour'd to attain this hour. 
Fly, fly, fly. 
Cli. Fly, my lord, fly. 
Bru. Hence ; I will follow thee. 

I prithee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord : 
Thou art a fellow of a good respect ; 
Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in 

it: 
Hold then my sword, and turn away thy 

face, 
While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato? 
Stra. Give me your hand first: Fare 

you well, my lord. 
Bru. Farewell, good Strato. — Caesar, 
now be still : 
I kill'd not thee with half so good a will. 

J. 0.,V: 5. 1351. 



— Of Cassius. 

Cas. Come down, behold no more. — 
O, coward that I am, to live so long, 
To see my best friend ta'en before my 

face! 
Come hither, sirrah : 
In Parthia did I take thee prisoner ; 
And then I swore thee, saving of thy life, 
That whatsoever I did bid thee do, 
Thou should'st attempt it. Come now, keep 

thine oath ! 
Now be a freeman ; and, with this good 

sword, 
That ran through Caesar's bowels, search 

this bosom. 
Stand not to answer: Here, take thou the 

hilts ; 
And, when my face is cover'd, as 't is now. 
Guide thou the sword. — Caesar, thou art 

reveng'd, 
Even with the sword that kill'd thee. 

J. a, V : 3. 1350. 

— Of Cleopatra. 

Cleo. * * Come, thou mortal wretch, 
With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate 
Of life at once untie ; poor venomous fool, 
Be angry, and despatch. 0, could'st thou 

speak ! 
That I might hear thee call great Caesar, ass 
Unpoliced ! 

Ehar. eastern star ! 

Eleo. Peace, peace ! 

Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, 
That sucks the nurse asleep? 

Ehar. O, break ! 0, break ! 

Eleo. As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as 
gentle, — 
O Antony ! — Nay, I will take thee too : — 
What should I stay — 

Ehar. In this wild world? — So, fare 
thee well. 

A. C, V : 2. 1581. 

— Of Lady Macbeth. 

Mai. * * 
Of this dead butcher, and his fiend-like 

queen ; 
Who, as 't is thought, by self and violent 

hands 
Took off her life : 

M..V: 7. 1386. 



SUICIDE. 



533 



SUITORS. 



— Of Son. 

Kent. Alack, why thus? 

Edm. Yet Edmund was belov'd ; 
The one the other poison'd for my sake, 
And after slew herself. 

K.L.,V: 3. 1484. 

— Portia's, by Swallowing Fire. 
Bru. Impatient of my absence; 

And grief, that young Octavius with Mark 

Antony 
Have made themselves so strong ; — for 

with her death 
That tidings came : — With this she fell 

distract, 
And, her attendants absent, swallow'd fire. 
Cas. And died so? 
Bru. Even so. 
Cas. ye immortal gods ! 

J. a, IV : 3. 1346. 

— Prohibition Regretted. 

Ham. 0, that this too too solid flesh 
would melt, 
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew ! 
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd 
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter ! 

H., 1 : 2. 1395. 

— The Play of Fools. 

Macb. Why should I play the Roman 
fool, and die 
On mine own sword? whiles I see lives, the 

gashes 
Do better upon them. 

M., V : 7. 1385. 



— Things better than. 

Tago. It is merely a lust of the blood, 
and a permission of the will. Come, be a 
man : Drown thyself? drown cats, and blind 
puppies. I have professed me thy friend, 
and I confess me knit to thy deserving with 
cables of perdurable toughness ; I could 
never better stead thee than now. Put 
money in thy purse ; follow these wars ; de- 
feat thy favour with an usurped beard ; I 
say, put money in thy purse. It cannot be, 
that Desdemona should long continue her 
love to the Moor, — put money in thy 
purse ; — nor he is to her : it was a violent 
commencement, and thou shalt see an an- 
swerable sequestration ; — put but money 
in thy purse. — These Moors are change- 



able in their wills; — fill thy purse with 
money : the food that to him now is as 
luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly 
as bitter as coloquintida. She must change 
for youth : when she is sated with his body, 
she will find the error of her choice. She 
must have change, she must : therefore put 
money in thy purse. If thou wilt needs 
damn thyself, do it a more delicate way 
than drowning. Make all the money thou 
can.vt : If sanctimony and a frail vow, be- 
twixt an erring barbarian and a supersubtle 
Venetian, be not too hard for my wits, and 
all the tribe of hell, thou shalt enjoy her; 
therefore make money. A pox of drowning 
thyself! it is clean out of the way : seek 
thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy 
joy, than to be drowned and go without 
her. 

0., 1 : 3. 1499. 

SUIT. — Argued. 

Des. Why, this is not a boon ; 

'T is as I should entreat you wear your 

gloves, 
Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep you 

warm ; 
Or sue to you to do peculiar profit 
To your own person : Nay, when I have a 

suit, 
Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed, 
It shall be full of poize and difficulty, 
And fearful to be granted. 

Oth. I will deny thee nothing : 

Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this, 
To leave me but a little to myself, 

O..III: 3. 1510. 

SUITORS.— Variety in. 

Por. I pray thee, overname them ; and 
as thou namest them, I will describe them ; 
and according to my description, level at 
my affection. 

Ner. Eirst, there is the Neapolitan 
prince. 

Por. Ay, that 's a colt, indeed, for he 
doth nothing but talk of his horse ; and he 
makes it a great appropriation to his own 
good parts that he can shoe him himself.* 
* * 

Ner. Then is there the county Palatine. 

Por. He doth nothing but frown ; as 
who should say, "An you will not have 
me, choose." He hears merry tales, and 
smiles not: I fear he will prove the weep- 
ing philosopher when he grows old, being 
so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. 
I had rather to be married to a death's head 



SUITORS. 



534 



SUPEREXCELLENCE. 



with a bone in his month, than to either of 
these. God defend me from these two ! 

Ner. How say you by the French lord, 
monsieur le Bon? 

Por. God made him, and therefore let 
him pass for a man. In truth, I know it is 
a sin to be a mocker. But he! why, he 
hath a horse better than "he Neapolitan's ; a 
better bad habit of frowning than the count 
Palatine : he is every man in no man : if a 
throstle sing, he falls straight a cap'nng; 
he will fence with his own shadow. If I 
should marry him I should marry twenty 
husbands : If he would despise me I would 
forgive him ; for if he love me to madness I 
shall never requite him. 

Ner. What say you then to Faulcon- 
bridge, the young baron of England? 

Por. You know I say nothing to him; 
for he understands not me, nor I him : he 
hath neither Latin, French, nor Italian ; 
and you will come into the court and swear 
that I have a poor pennyworth in the En- 
glish. He is a proper man's picture. But, 
alas ! who can converse with a dumb show? 
How oddly he is suited ! I think he bought 
his doublet in Italy, his round hose in 
France, his bonnet in Germany, and his be- 
haviour everywhere. 

Ner. What think you of the Scottish 
lord, his neighbour? 

Por. That he hath a neighbourly charity 
in him ; for he borrowed a box of the ear of 
the Englishman, and swore he would pay 
him again when he was able. I think the 
Frenchman became his surety, and sealed 
under for another. 

Ner. How like you the young German, 
the duke of Saxony's nephew! 

Por. Very vilely in the morning, when 
he is sober ; and most vilely in the after- 
noon, when he is drunk: when he is'best, 
he is a little worse than a man ; and when 
he is worst, he is little better than a beast. 
An the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I 
shall make shift to go without him. 

M. V., 1: 1. 363. 



SUMMONS. — A loud one Invoked. 

Agam. Here art thou in appointment 
fresh and fair, 
Anticipating time with starting courage. 
Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy, 
Thou dreadful Ajax ; that the appalled air 
May pierce the head of the great combatant, 
And hale him hither. 

Ajax. Thou, trumpet, there 's my purse. 
Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen 
pipe: 



Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek 
Out-swell the cholic of puffd Aquilon : 
Come, stretch thy chest, and let thy eyes 

spout blood ; 
Thou blow'st for Hector. 

i'. C, IV: 5. 1131. 

SUN".— Impartial. 

Per. * * 
The self-same sun that shines upon his 

court 
Hides not his visage from our cottage, but 
Looks on alike. 

W. T., IV : 3. 606. 

SUNRISE.— On Ocean. 

Obe. But we are spirits of another sort : 
I with the morning's love have oft made 

sport ; 
And, like a forester, the groves may tread, 
Even till the eastern gate, all fiery-red, 
Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams, 
Turns into yellow gold his salt green streams. 
M. N., Ill : 2. 337. 

SUNSET.— A fine. 

Richm. The weary sun hath made a 
golden set, 
And, by the bright track of his fiery car, 
Gives tokens of a goodly day to-morrow. 

R.IIf.,V: 3. 1042. 

— A rainy. 

Sal. * * 
Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west. 

R. II., II: 4. 699. 

— Fiery. 

Vio. * * 
As doth that orbed continent the fire 
That severs day from night. 

T. v., V : 1. 568. 

SUPEREXCELLENCE — Profes- 
sion of, Suspicious. 

Duke. * * 
He who the sword of heaven will bear 
Should be as holy as severe ; 
Pattern in himself to know, 
Grace to stand, and virtue go; 
More nor less to others paying, 
Than by self-offences weighing. 



SUPEREXCELLENCE. 



535 



SUPPLICATION. 



Shame to him, whose cruel striking 
Kills for faults of his own liking! 
Twice treble shame on Angelo, 
To weed my vice, and let his grow ! 
O, what may man within him hide, 
Though angel on the outward side ! 
How may likeness wade in crimes, 
Making practice on the times, 
To draw with idle spiders' strings 
Most ponderous and substantial things. 

M. M. t IV : 4. 162. 

SUPERLATIVE— In Character. 

Vol. Now, pray, sir, get you gone : 
You have done a brave deed. Ere you go, 

hear this : — 
As far as doth the Capitol exceed 
The meanest house in Rome ; so far, my 

son, 
(This lady's husband here, this, do you see) 
Whom you have banish 'd, does exceed you 

all. 

C, IV: 2. 1178. 

SUPERSERVICEABLENESS. — Not 
Cared for. 

Gra. Why, this is like the mending of 
highways 
In summer, when the ways are fair enough. 
M. V., V: 1. 391. 

SUPERSTITION.— A Sailor's. 

1 Sail. Sir, your queen must overboard ; 
the sea works high, the wind is loud, and 
will not lie till the ship be clear'd of the 
dead. 

Per. That 's your superstition. 

1 Sail. Pardon us, sir ; with us at sea it 
hath been still observed; and we are strong 
in, astern. Therefore briefly yield her ; for 
she must overboard straight. 

P., Ill: 1. 1656. 

— Creates Suspicion. 

Cas. But it is doubtful yet, 

Whe'r Caesar will come forth to-day, or no : 
For he is superstitious grown of late ; 
Quite from the main opinion he held once 
Of fantasy, of dreams, and ceremonies : 
It may be, these apparent prodigies, 
The unaccustom'd terror of this night, 
And the persuasion of his augurers, 
May hold him from the Capitol to-day. 

J. C.,11: 1. 1331. 



— Fears it Excites. 

Suf. Look on my George, I am a gen- 
tleman ; 

Rate me at what thou wilt, thou shalt be 

paid. 
Whit. And so am I ; my name is — 

Walter Whitmore. 
How now? why start'st thou? what, doth 

death affright? 
Suf. Thy name affrights me, in whose 

sound is death. 
A cunning man did calculate my birth, 
And told me that by " Water " I should 

die : 
Yet let not this make thee be bloody mamed ; 
Thy name is — "Gualtier," being rightly 

sounded. 
Whit. " Gualtier," or "Walter," which 

it is, I care not; 
Ne'er yet did base dishonour blur our name, 
But with our sword we wip'd away the blot ; 
Therefore, when merchant-like I sell re- 
venge, 
Broke be my sword, my arms torn and de- 

fac'd, 
And I proclaim'd a coward through the 

world ! 

H. VI., 2pt., IV: 1. 932. 

—Ruled by Trifles. 
Clar. Yea, Richard, when I know ; for, 

protest, 
As yet I do not : But, as I can learn, 
He hearkens after prophecies, and dreams ; 
And from the cross-row plucks the letter G, 
And says — a wizard told him, that by G, 
His issue disinherited should be ; 
And, for my name of George begins with G, 
It follows in his thought, that I am he : 
These, as I learn, and such like toys as 

these, 
Have mov'd his highness to commit me 

now. 

R.III.,1: 1. 1001. 

SUPPLICATION. — Unavailing. 

Pro. * * 
A sea of melting pearl, which some call 

tears : 
Those at her father's churlish feet she ten- 

der'd; 
With them, upon her knees, her humble self; 



SUPPLICATION. 



536 



SURROUNDINGS. 



Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so be- 
came them, 

As if but now they waxed pale for woe : 

But neither bended knees, pure hands held 
up, 

Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding 
tears, 

Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire. 
r. G..t$L: 1. 62. 

SUPREMACY.— Of Affection. 

Ant. Egypt, thou knew'sttoo well, 

My heart was to thy rudder tied by the 

strings, 
And thou should'st tow me after : O'er my 

spirit 
Thy full supremacy thou knew'st; and that 
Thy beck might from the bidding of the 

gods 

Command me. 

A. C, III : 9. 1564. 

SURFEIT.— Leads to Loathing. 

Lys. * * 
For-, as a surfeit of the sweetest things 
The deepest loathing to the stomach brings ; 
Or, as the heresies that men do leave 
Are ha'ted most of those they did deceive ; 
So thou, my surfeit, and my heresy, 
Of all be hated ; but the most of me. 

M. N., II : 2. 330. 

— Of Land. 

Fal. * * You may buy land now as 
cheap as stinking mackerel. 

H. IV., lpt.,II: 4. 742. 

SURRENDER.— Abject. 

Baling. Are you contented to resign the 

crown? 
K.Rich. Ay, no; — no, ay; — for I 

must nothing be ; 
Therefore no no, for I resign to thee. 
Now mark me how I will undo myself: — 
I give this heavy weight from off my head, 
And this unwieldy sceptre from my hand, 
The pride of kingly sway from put my 

heart; 
With mine own tears I wash away my balm, 
With mine own hands I give away my crown, 
With mine own tongue deny my sacred state, 
With mine own breath release all duteous 

oaths ; 



All pomp and majesty I do forswear; 
My manors, rents, revenues, I forego ; 
My acts, decrees, and statutes, I deny: 
God pardon all oaths, that are broke to me ! 
God keep all vows unbroke, are made to 

thee! 
Make me, that nothing have, with nothing 

griev'd; 
And thou with all pleas 'd, that hast all 

achiev'd, 
Long may'st thou live in Richard's seat to 

sit, - 
And soon lie Richard in an earthly pit ! 
God save King Henry, unking'd Richard 

says, 
And send him many years of sunshine 

days ! — 
What more remains? 

R. II., IV : 1. 709. 

— Unnatural. 

Blunt. What is thy name, that in the 
battle thus 
Thou crossest me? what honour dost thou 

seek 
Upon my head? 

Doug. Know then, my name is Douglas ; 
And I do haunt thee in the battle thus, 
Because some tell me, that thou art a king. 
Blunt. They tell thee true. 
Doug. The lord of Stafford, dear to-day 
hath bought 
Thy likeness ; for, instead of thee, king 

Harry, 
This sword hath ended him : so shall it thee, 
Unless thou yield thee as my prisoner. 
Blunt. I was not born a yielder, thou 
proud Scot ; 
And thou shalt find a king that will revenge 
Lord Stafford's death. 

If. IV., 1 pt., V: 3. 759. 

SURROUNDINGS. - Give a Charac- 
ter. 

Por. Nothing is good, I see, without re- 
spect; 
Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by 
day. 

Ner. Silence bestows that virtue on it, 
madam. 

Por. The crow doth sing as sweetly as 
the lark. 



SURROUNDINGS. 



537 



SUSPICION. 



When neither is attended ; and, I think 
The nightingale, if she should sing by day, 
When every goose is cackling, would be 

thought 
No better a musician than the wren. 
How many things by season season'd are 
To their right praise, and true perfection ! 

M. V.,V: 1. 389. 

— Based on Circumstance. 

Bass. Believe me, queen, your swarth 
Cimmerian 
Doth make your honour of his body's hue, 
Spotted, detested, and abominable. 
Why are you sequestered from all your train? 
Dismounted from your snow-white goodly 

steed, 
And wander'd hither to an obscure plot, 
Accompanied but with a barbarous Moor, 
If foul desire had not conducted you? 
Lav. And, being intercepted in your 
sport, 
Great reason that my noble lord be rated 
For sauciness : I pray you let us hence, 
And let her 'joy her'raven colour'd love ; 
This valley fits the purpose passing well. 

Tit. And., II: 3. 1210. 

SUSPICION. — Death better than. 

Tmo. * * Look ! 
I draw the sword myself: take it; and hit 
The innocent mansion of my love, my 

heart : 
Fear not; 't is empty of all things, but grief ; 
Thy master is not there ; who was, indeed, 
The riches of it : Do his bidding; strike. 
Thou may'st be valiant in a better cause : — 
But now thou seem'st a coward. 

Cym., Ill : 4. 1608. 

— Deprecated. 

Q. Mar. * * 

What know I how the world may deem of 
me? 

For it is known, we were but hollow friends ; 

It may be judg'd, I made the duke away ; 

So shall my name with slander's tongue be 
wounded, 

And princes" courts be fill'd with my re- 
proach. 

This get I by his death : Ah me, unhappy ! 

To be a queen, and crown'd with infamy ! 

H. VI., 2pt.,III: 2. 927. 



— Easily Gratified. 

Iago. * * 
If imputation, and strong circumstances, — 
Which lead directly to the door of truth, — 
Will give you satisfaction, you may have 
it. 

0., Ill : 3. 1514. 

— Freedom from. 

Glo. * * 
He liv'd from all attainder of suspect. 

R. III., Ill: 5. 1026. 

— Frivolous, Repelled. 
Oth. Why? why is this? 

Think'st thou, I 'd make a life of jealousy, 
To follow still the changes of the moon 
With fresh suspicions ? No : to be once in 

doubt, 
Is — once to be resolv'd : Exchange me for 

a goat, 
When I shall turn the business of my 

soul 
To such exsufnicate and blown surmises, 
Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make 

me jealous, 
To say — my wife is fair, feeds well, loves 

company, 
Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances 

well : 
Where virtue is, these are more virtuous : 
Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw 
The smallest fear, or doubt of her revolt: 
For she had eyes, and chose me : No, 

Iago ; 
I '11 see, before I doubt; when I doubt, 

prove ; 
And, on the proof, there is no more but 

this, — 
Away at once with love, or jealousy. 

6>.,III: 3. 1511. 

— Full of Eyes. 
War. * * 

Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes : 
For treason is but trusted like the fox; 
Who, ne'er so tame, so cherish'd, and 

lock'd up, 
Will have a wild trick of his ancestors. 

//. IV., lpt., V: 2. 758. 



SUSPICION. 



538 



SUSPICION. 



— Hard to Excite. 

Iago. * * 
Were they as prime as goats, as hot as 

monkeys, 
As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as 

gross 
As ignorance made drunk. 

0., Ill : 3. 1514. 

— How Fed. 

Shy. father Abram ! what these Chris- 
tians are, 
Whose own hard dealings teaches them sus- 
pect 
The thoughts of others ! 

M. V., I: 3. 366. 

Leon. How bless'd am I 

In my just censure ! — in my true opinion ! 

Alack, for lesser knowledge! — How ac- 
curs'd 

In being so bless'd ! — There may be in the 
cup 

A spider steep'd, and one may drink; de- 
part, 

And yet partake no venom : for his knowl- 
edge 

Is not infected : but if one present 

The abhorr'd ingredient to his eye, make 
known 

How he hath drunk, he cracks his gorge, 
his sides 

With violent hefts: — I have drunk, and 
seen the spider. 

Camillo was his help in this, his pander: — 

There is a plot against my life, my crown ; 

All's true that is mistrusted: — that false 
villain, 

Whom I employ 'd, was pre-employ'd by 
him : 

He has discover'd my design, and I 

Remain a pinch'd thing; yea, a very trick 

For them to play at will : — How came the 
posterns 

So easily open? 

W. T., II: 1.587. 

— Its ready Tongue. 

North. * * 
See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath ! 

If. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 1. 774. 



— Leads to Questioning. 

Ban. * * 
And when we have our naked frailties hid, 
That suffer in exposure, let us meet, 
And question this most bloody piece of 

work, 
To know it further. Fears and scruples 

shake us : 
In the great hand of God I stand; and, 

thence, 
Against the undivulg'd pretence I fight 
Of treasonous malice. 

AT., II: 3. 1367. 

— Makes a Stain. 

Paul. * * 
Here 's such ado to make no stain a stain, 
As passes colouring. 

W. T.,U: 2. 590. 

— May Come too late. 

Flav. No, my most worthy master, in 
whose breast 
Doubt and suspect, alas, are placed too 

late : 
You should have fear'd false times, when 

you did feast : 
Suspect still comes where an estate is least. 
T. A., IV: 3. 1311. 

— Signs of Well-founded. 

War. Who finds the heifer dead, and 

bleeding fresh, 
And sees fast by a butcher with an axe, 
But will suspect, 't was he that made the 

slaughter? 
Who finds the partridge in the puttock's 

nest, 
But may imagine how the bird was dead, 
Although the kite soar with unbloodied 

beak? 
Even so suspicious is this tragedy. 

H. VI., Ill : 2. 928. 

K. Hen. So flies the reckless shepherd 

from the wolf: 
So the first harmless sheep doth yield his 

fleece, 
And . next his throat unto the butcher's 

knife. 
What scene of death hath Roscius now to 
act? 



SUSPICION. 



539 



SWEARING. 



Glo. Suspicion always haunts the guilty 

mind 
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 
K. lien The bird, that hath been limed 

in a bush, 
With trembling wings misdoubteth every 

bush : 
And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird, 
Have now the fatal object in my eye, 
Where my poor young was lim'd, was 

caught, and kill'd. 
Glo. Why, what a peevish fool was that 

of Crete, 

That taught his son the office of a fowl! 

And yet, for all his wings, the fool was 

drown'd. 

H. VI., 3 pt., V : 6. 991. 

— To be Crushed. 

Bru. * .* 
And therefore think him as a serpent's egg, 
Which, hatch'd, would, as his kind, grow 

mischievous ; 
And kill him in the shell. 

J. C, II : 1. 1329. 

SUSPICIONS.— Worse than Certain- 
ties. 

Imo. You do seem to know 

Something of me, or what concerns me : 

'Pray you, 
(Since doubting things go ill, often hurts 

more 
Than to be sure they do : For certainties 
Either are past remedies ; or, timely know- 
ing, 
The remedy then born,) discover to me 
What both you spur and stop. 

Cym., 1 : 7. 1597. 

SUTLER. — For Profit. 

Pist. For I shall sutler be 

Unto the camp, and profits will accrue. 

H. V., II: 1. 826. 

SWAGGERER — Compelled to Eat 
the Leek. 

Flu. I peseech you heartily, scurvy, 
lousy knave, at my desires, and my requests, 
and my petitions, to eat, look you, this leek ; 
because, look you, you do not love it, nor 
your affections, and your appetites, and 
your digestions, does not agree with it, I 
would desire you to eat it. 



Pist. Not for Cadwallader, and all his 
goats. 

Flu. There is one goat for you. Will 
you be so goot, scald knave, as eat it? 

Pist. Base Trojan, thou shalt die. 

Flu. You say very true, scald knave, 
when Got's will is : I will desire you to live 
in the mean time, and eat your victuals ; 
come, there is sauce for it. You called me 
yesterday, mountain - squire ; but I will 
make you to-day a squire of low degree. I 
pray you, fall to : if you can mock a leek, 
you can eat a leek. 

Gow. Enough, captain; you have as- 
tonish'd him. 

Flu. I say, I will make him eat some 
part of my leek, or I will peat his pate four 
days: — Pite, I pray you; it is goot for 
your green wound, and your ploody cox- 
comb. 

Pist. Must I bite? 

Flu. Yes, certainly; and out of doubt, 
and out of questions too, and ambiguities. 

Pist. By this leek, I will most horribly 
revenge ; I eat, and eke I swear — 

Flu. Eat, I pray you : Will you have 
some more sauce to your leek? there is not 
enougli leek to swear by. 

Pist. Quiet thy cudgel; thou dost see, 
I eat. 

* * 

To England will I steal, and there I '11 

steal : 
And patches will I get unto these scars, 
And swear, I got them in the Gallia wars. 

H. V., V : 1. 852. 



SWAGGERING.— Never Thrives. 

Clo. * * 
By swaggering could I never thrive. 

T. iPl, V : 1. 570. 

SWEARING — False, Inspires Confi- 
dence. 

Cleo. Why should I think you can be 

mine, and true, 
Thou you in swearing shake the throned 

gods, 
Who have been false to Fulvia? Riotous 

madness, 
To be entangled with those mouth-made 

vows, 
Which break themselves in swearing. 

A. C, 1:3. 1544. 



SWEARING. 



54° 



SYCOPHANCY. 



— Like a Comfit-maker. 

Hot. Not yours, in good sooth ! 'Heart, 
you swear like a comfit-maker's wife ! Not 
you, in good sooth; and, As true as I live; 
and, As God shall mend me ; and, As sure 
as day : 
And giv'st such sarcenet surety for thy 

oaths, 
As if thou never walk'dst further than 

Finsbury. 
Swear me, Kate, like. a lady, as thou art, 
A good mouth-filling oath ; and leave in 

sooth, 
And such protest of pepper-gingerbread, 
To velvet-guards, and Sunday-citizens. 

H. IV., lpt., Ill: 1. 747. 

SWEETNESS— Female. 

Gre. * * 
For she is sweeter than perfume itself. 

T. S., I: 2. 459. 

Pet. * * Sweet as spring-time flowers. 
T. £., II: 1. 464. 

SWIFTNESS. — A rhetorical Quality 
of Lead. 

Moth. As sAvift as lead, sir. 

Arm. Thy meaning, pretty ingenious? 
Is not lead a metal heavy, dull and slow ? 

Moth. Minime, honest master ; or rather, 
master, no. 

Arm. I say, lead is slow. 

Moth. You are too swift, sir, to say so : 
Is that lead slow which is fir'd from a gun? 

Arm. Sweet smoke of rhetoric ! 

L. L., Ill: 1. 281. 

SWIMMER— Sure of Life. 

Fran. Sir, he may live : 

I saw him beat the surges under him, 
And ride upon their backs ; he trod the 

water, 
Whose enmity lie flung aside, and breasted 
The surge most swoln that met him ; his 

bold head 
'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and 

oar'd 
Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke 
To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis 

bowed, 
As stooping to relieve him ; I not doubt, 
He came alive to land. 

T., II: 1. 16. 



SWIMMING. — A Proficient in. 

Cap. True, madam ; and to comfort you 

with chance, 
Assure yourself, after our ship did split, 
When you, and those poor number sav'd 

with you, 
Hung on our driving boat, I saw your 

brother, 
Most provident in peril, bind himself 
(Courage and hope both teaching him the 

practice) 
To a strong mast, that liv'd upon the sea ; 
Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back, 
I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves, 
So long as I could see. 

T. M, 1 : 2. 541. 

SYCOPHANCY. 

Iago. * * 
Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave, 
That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, 
Wears out his time, much like his master's 



For nought but provender. 



0., I: 1. 1491. 



Poet. * * 
Rain sacrificial whisperings in his ear, 
Make sacred even his stirrop, and through 

him 
Drink the free air. 

T.A.,I: 1. 1287. 

2 Lord. The swallow follows not sum- 
mer more willing, than we your lordship. 

T. A., Ill : 6. 1302. 

— Clings to the Skirts oi Power. 

Ham. Do you see yonder cloud, that 's 
almost in shape of a camel? 

Pol. By the mass, and 'tis a camel, in- 
deed. 

Ham. Methinks it is like a weasel. 

Pol. It is backed like a weasel. 

Ham. Or, like a whale? 

Pol. Very like a whale. 

H., Ill: 2. 1416. 

— Common. 

Clif. * * 
The common people swarm like summer 

flies : 
And whither fly the gnats, but to the sun? 
H. F/.,3pt.,II: 6. 969. 



SYCOPHANCY. 



541 



TAILOR. 



Wol. * * 0, how -wretched 

Is that poor man, that hangs on princes' fa- 
vours ! 

There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire 
to, 

That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, 

More pangs and fears than wars or women 
have ; 

And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, 

Never to hope again. 

H. VIII., Ill: 2. 1081. 

Cces. * * This common body, 

Like a vagabond flag upon the stream, 

Goes to, and back, lackeying the varying 

tide, 

To rot itself with motion. 

A. C, 1 : 4. 1545. 

— Its Punishment. 

Cleo. * * 
Against the blown rose may they stop their 

nose, 
That kneel'd unto the buds. 

A. C., Ill: 11. 1565. 

— Universal. 
Poet. I '11 unbolt to you. 

You see how all conditions, how all minds, 
(As well of glib and slippery creatures, as 
Of grave and austere quality,) tender down 
Their services to lord Timon : his large fort- 
une, 
Upon his good and gracious nature hanging, 
Subdues and properties to his love and 

tendance 
All sorts of hearts ; yea, from the glass- 
fac'd flatterer 



To Apemantus, that few things loves better 
Than to abhor himself: even he drops 

down 
The knee before him, and returns in peace, 
Most rich in Timon's nod. 

T. A., I: 1. 1287. 

SYCOPHANTS— How Used. 

Ham. * * But such officers do the 
king best service in the end : He keeps 
them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw ; 
first mouthed, to be last swallowed : AVhen 
he needs what you have gleaned, it is but 
squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be 
dry again. 

H.,l\:2. 1421. 

SYMPATHY.— (See Pity.) Its Power. 

North. Had he been slaughter-man to all 
my kin, 
I should not for my life but weep with him, 
To see how inly sorrow gripes his soul. 

H. VI., 3pt., I: 4. 961. 

— Tender. 

K. Hen. * * 
Weep, wretched man, I '11 aid thee tear for 

tear; 
And let our hearts, and eyes, like civil 

war, 
Be blind with tears, and break o'ercharg'd 
with grief. 

U. IV., 3pt., II: 5. 968. 

— True. 

Eos. Well, I will forget the condition 
of my estate, to rejoice in yours. 

A. Y. t 1 : 2. 409. 



TAILOR. — Abused. 

Pet. monstrous arrogance ! Thou 
liest, thou thread, 

Thou thimble, 

Thou yard, three quarters, half-yard, quar- 
ter, nail, 

Thou flea, thou nit, thou winter cricket 
thou : 



Brav'd in mine own house with a skein of 

thread ! 
Away, thou rag, thou quantity , thou remnant, 
I shall so be-mete thee with thy yard, 
As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou 

liv'st ! 
I tell thee, I, that thou hast marr'd her gown. 
T. S. t IV : 3. 476. 



TALKERS. 



54 2 



TAUNT. 



TALKERS. — Not Doers. 

1 Murd. Tut, tut, ray lord, we will not 
stand to prate ; 
Talkers are no good doers ; be assur'd 
We go to use our hands, and not our tongues. 
It. III., I : 3. 1010. 

TARDINESS— A Trick. 

P. John. Now, Falstaff, where have you 

been all this while? 

When every thing is ended, then you come : 

These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life, 

One time or other break some gallows' back. 

Fal. I would be sorry, my lord, but it 
should be thus ; I never knew yet, but re- 
buke and check was the reward of valour. 
Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, or a 
bullet? have I, in my poor and old motion, 
the expedition of thought? I have speeded 
hither witli the very extremest inch of pos- 
sibility ; I have foundered nine-score and 
odd posts : and here, travel-tainted as I am, 
have, in my pure and immaculate valour, 
taken sir John Colevile of the dale, a most 
furious knight, and valourous enemy : But 
what of that? he saw me, and yielded; that 
I may justly say with the hook-nosed fellow 
of Rome, — I came, saw, and overcame. 



H. IV, 2pt.,lV: 3. 



TASTE. 



Changes. 

Bene. * * A man loves the meat in 
his youth, that he cannot endure in his age. 

M.A.,II: 3. 237. 

— Very Poor. 

Ste. * * 
This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's 
funeral. 

T., II: 2. 19. 

TATTERDEMALIONS. —Falstaff s. 

Fal. * . * Now my whole charge con- 
sists of ancients, corporals, lieutenants, gen- 
tlemen of companies, slaves as ragged as 
Lazarus in the painted cloth, where the 
glutton's dogs licked his sores : and such as, 
indeed, were never soldiers ; but discarded 
unjust serving men, younger sons to young- 
er brothers, revolted tapsters, and ostlers 
trade-fallen ; the cankers of a calm world, 
and a long peace; ten times more dishon- 
ourable ragged than an old faced ancient : 
and such have I, to fill up the rooms of them 
that have bought out their services, that 
you would think, that I had a hundred 
and fifty tattered prodigals, lately come 



from swine-keeping, from eating draff and 
husks. A mad fellow met me on the way. 
and told me, I had unloaded all the gibbets, 
and pressed the dead bodies. No eye hath 
seen such scare-crows. I '11 not march 
through Coventry with them, that 's flat : — 
Nay, and the villains march wide betwixt 
the legs, as if they had gyves on; for, in- 
deed, I had the most of them out of prison. 
There 's but a shirt and a half in all my 
company : and the half shirt is two napkins, 
tacked together, and thrown over the shoul- 
ders like a herald's coat without sleeves; 
and the shirt, to say the truth, stolen from 
my host at Saint Albans, or the red-nose 
inkeeper of Daintry. But that 's all one ; 
they '11 find linen enough on every hedge. 
* * 

P. Hen. I did never see such pitiful ras- 
cals. 

Fal. Tut, tut ; good enough to toss ; 
food for powder, food for powder ; they '11 
fill a pit, as well as better : tush, man, mor- 
tal men, mortal men. 

II. IV., lpt.,IV: 2. 753. 

TATTLER. — Cursed. 

North. Nay, speak thy mind ; and let 
him ne'er speak more 
That speaks thy words again to do thee harm. 
R. II., II: 1. 694. 

TATTLING.— Not the happy Mean. 

Beat. He were an excellent man that 
were made just in the mid-way between him 
and Benedick ; the one is too like an image, 
and says nothing ; and the other too like my 
lady's eldest son, evermore tattling. 

M. A., II : 1. 230. 

TAUNT. — A bitter. 
" Q. Mar. I call'd thee then, vain flourish 

of my fortune ; 
I call'd thee then, poor shadow, painted 

queen ; 
The presentation of but what I was, 
The flattering index of a direful pageant, 
One heav'd a high, to be huri'd down below : 
A mother only mock'd with two fair babes ; 
A dream of what thou wast; a garish flag, 
To be the aim of every dangerous shot ; 
A sign of dignity, a breath, a bubble ; 
A queen in jest, only to fill the scene. 
Where is thy husband now? where be thy 

brothers? 
Where be thy two sons? wherein dost thou 

joy? 



TAUNT. 



543 



TEARS. 



Who sues, and kneels, and says — God save 

the queen? 
Where be the bending peers that flatter'd 

thee? 
Where be the thronging troops that follow 'd 

thee? 
Decline all this, and see what now thou art. 
For happy wife, a most distressed widow ; 
For joyful mother, one that wails the name : 
For one being sued to, one that humbly 

sues ! 
For queen, a very caitiff crown 'd with care : 
For one that scorn'd at me, now scorn'd of 

me ; 
For one being fear'd of all, now fearing one ; 
For one commanding all, obey'd of none. 

R. III., IV : 4. 1035. 

TAXATION. — Oppressive. 

Nor. * * For, upon these taxations, 
The clothiers all, not able to maintain 
The many to them 'longing, have put off 
The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who, 
Unfit for other life, compell'd by hunger 
And lack of other means, in desperate man- 
ner 
Daring the event to the teeth, are all in up- 
roar, 
And Danger serves among them. 
K. lien. Taxation ! 

Wherein? and what taxation? — My lord 

cardinal, 
You that are blam'd for it alike with us, 
Know you of this taxation? 

H. VIII., 1 : 2. 1060. 

TACT — In Managing a Lover. 

Clto. See where he is, who 's with him, 
what he does : — 
[ did not send you : — If you find him sad, 
Say, I am dancing ; if in mirth, report 
That I am sudden sick. 

A. C, 1 : 3. 1543. 

TEACHING. — Easier than Practice. 

Por. If to do were as easy as to know 
what were good to do, chapels had been 
churches, and poor men's cottages princes' 
palaces. It is a good divine that follows 
his own instructions. I can easier teach 
twenty what were good to be done, than 
be one of the twenty to follow mine own 
teaching. 

M. V., 1 : 2. 363. 



TEARS. — A Father's, for his Son. 

Tit. * * 
For two and twenty sons I never wept, 
Because they died in honour's lofty bed. 
For these, these, tribunes, in the dust I 

write 
My heart's deep anguish, and my soul's sad 

tears. 
Let my tears stanch the earth's dry appetite ; 
My sons' sweet blood will make it shame 

and blush. 
O earth, I will befriend thee more with rain, 
That shall distil from these two ancient urns, 
Than youthful April shall with all his 

showers : 
In summer's drought, I '11 drop upon thee 

still ; 
In winter, with warm tears I '11 melt the 

snow, 
And keep eternal spring-time on thy face, 
So thou refuse to drink my dear sons' blood. 
O, reverend tribunes ! gentle aged men ! 
Unbind my sons, reverse the doom of death : 
And let me say, that never wept before, 
My tears are now prevailing orators. 

Tit. And., Ill : 1. 1214. 

— An old Man's. 

Art. * * "The good old lord, Gon- 

zalo ;" 

His tears run down his beard, like winter's 

drops 

From eaves of reeds. 

T., V : 1. 30. 

— Befitting a Boy. 

Mar. Alas, the tender boy, in passion 
mov'd, 
Doth weep to see his grandsire's heaviness. 
Tit. Peace, tender sapling; thou art 
made of tears, 
And tears will quickly melt thy life away. 

Tit. And., Ill : 2. 1218. 

— Belong to Woe. 

Exe. * * 
But all my mother came into mine eyes, 

And gave me up to tears. 

H. V., IV: 6. 847. 

Fri. * * 
Nature's tears are reason's merriment. 

R.J.,IV: 5. 1272. 



TEARS, 



544 



TEARS. 



King. * * 
Thou shin'st in every tear that I do weep; 
No drop but as a coach doth carry thee. 

L. L., IV : 3. 287. 
Jul. * * 
Back, foolish tears, back to your native 

spring ; 
Your tributary drops belong to woe, 
Which you, mistaking, offer up to joy. 

It. J., Ill : 3. 1262. 

— Bribe Heaven. 

Const. * * 
Draw those heaven-moving peals from his 

poor eyes, 
Which heaven shall take in nature of a fee ; 
Ay, with these crystal beads heaven shall 

be brib'd 

To do him justice. 

K. J., H : 1. 651. 

— Excite Inquiry. 

Count. * * What 's the matter, 
That this distemper'd messenger of wet, 
The many-colour 'd Iris, rounds thine eye? 
A. W. t I: 3. 500. 

— Holy Water. 

Gent. * * There she shook 

The holy water from her heavenly eyes, 

And clamour moisten'd : then away she 

started 

To deal with grief alone. 

.K. L., IV : 3. 1473. 

— Impossible. 

Rich. I cannot weep ; for all my body's 
moisture 

Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burn- 
ing heart : 

Nor can my tongue unload my heart's great 
burden; 

For self-same wind, that I should speak 
withal, 

Is kindling coals, that fire all my breast, 

And burn me up with flames, that tears 

would quencb. 

H. VI., 3 pt., II : 1. 963. 

—Impotent. 
K. Rich. * * Nay, dry your eyes ; 
Tears show their love, but want their rem- 
edies. 

R. II., Ill: 3. 705. 



— Joyous. 

3 Gent. * * Their joy waded in tears. 
W. T., V : 2. 614. 

— Lacking. 

Don. * * Let 's away : our tears 
Are not yet brew'd. 

M., II : 3. 1367. 

— Launce's Dog Lacking. 

Launce. * * I think Crab my dog be 
the sourest-natured dog that lives : my 
mother weeping, my father wailing, my sis- 
ter crying, our maid howling, our cat 
wringing her hands, and all our house in a 
great perplexity, yet did not this cruel- 
hearted cur shed one tear : he is a stone, a 
very pebble-stone, and has no more pity in 
him than a dog : a Jew would have wept to 
have seen our parting ; why, my grandam, 
having no eyes, look you, wept herself blind 
at my parting. * * Now come I to my 
father: "Father, your blessing;" now 
should not the shoe speak a word for 
weeping; now should I kiss my father; 
well, he weeps on. Now come I to my 
mother, (O, that she should speak now like 
an old woman;) — well, I kiss her; — why, 
there 't is ; here 's my mother's breath up 
and down. Now come I to my sister; 
mark the moan she makes : now the dog all 
this while sheds not a tear, nor speaks a 
word ; but see how I lay the dust with my 
tears. 

T. G., II : 3. 54. 

— Like Honey-Dew. 

Tit. * * 
Look, Marcus ! ah, son Lucius, look on 

her ! 
When I did name her brothers, then fresh 

tears 
Stood on her cheeks ; as doth the honey 

dew 
Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd. 

Tit. And., Ill : 1. 1215. 

— Maidens'. 

Count. 'T is the best brine a maiden can 
season her praise in. 

A. W., I: 1. 495. 

— Make "Women of Us. 

Tim. What, dost thou weep? — Come 
nearer; — then I love thee, 
Because thou art a woman, and disclaim'st 
Flinty mankind, whose eyes do never give, 



TEARS. 545 TEARS. 


But thorough lust and laughter. Pity 's 


Aum. 'Faith none by me : except the 


sleeping : 


north-east wind, 


Strange times, that weep with laughing, not 


Which then blew bitterly against our faces, 


with weeping ! 


Awak'd the sleeping rheum : and so, by 


T. A., IV : 3. 1311. 


chance, 




Did grace our hollow parting with a tear. 


— Manly. 


R. II, 1 : 4. 691. 


Lew. * * 


Eno. * * The tears live in an onion, 


Let me wipe off this honourable dew, 


that should water this sorrow. 


That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks : 


A. ft, I: 2. 1543. 


My heart hath melted at a lady's tears, 




Being an ordinary inundation : 


— Of Joy. 


But this effusion of such manly drops, 


Leon. Did he break out into tears? 


This shower, blown up by tempest of the 


Mess. In great measure. 


soul, 


Leon. A kind overflow of kindness. 


Startles mine eyes, and makes me more 


There are no faces truer than those that 


amaz'd 


are so wash'd. How much better is it to 


weep at joy, than to joy at weeping. 


Than had I seen the vaulty top of heaven 


M.A., I: 1. 225. 


Figur'd quite o'er with burning meteors. 




Lift up thy brow, renown'd Salisbury, 


— Powerless. 


And with a great heart heave away this 


Anne. * * 


storm : 


Lo, in these windows, that let forth my life, 
I pour the helpless balm of my poor eyes. 


Commend these waters to those baby eyes. 


K. J., V : 2. 672. 






R. Ill, I: 2. 1003. 


— Modest. 


— Protest against. 


Obe. * * 


Lear. * * 


And that same dew, which sometime on the 


0, let not women's weapons, water-drops, 


buds 


Stain my man's cheeks. 


Was wont to swell like round and orient 


K.L., II: 4. 1462. 


pearls, 
Stood now within the pretty flow'rets' eyes, 


— Shed by Villains. 


Like tears that did their own disgrace be- 


Sal. Trust not those cunning waters or 


wail. 


his eyes, 


M.2T.,IV: 1. 338. 


For villany is not without such rheum. 




K. J., IV : 3. 670. 


— Moved to. 


— Showers of. 


Glo. * * 


Fath. * * 


That all the standers-by had wet their 


Throw up thine eye ; see, see, what showers 


cheeks, 


arise, 


Like trees bedash'd with rain : in that sad 


Blown with the windy tempest of my heart, 


time. 


Upon thy wounds, that kill mine eye and 


R.III.,1: 2. 1005. 


heart. 




H. VI., 3pt.,II: 2. 968. 


— Of Hypocrisy. 


— Sorrow Written with. 


Ham. * * 


K. Kich. * * 


"With which she follow 'd my father's body, 


Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes 


Like Niobe, all tears. 


Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. 


Ham., 1 : 2. 1395. 


R. II., UI: 1. 702. 



TEARS. 



54 6 



TEARS. 



— Suppressed. 

K. Rich. * * 
Now is this golden crown like a deep well, 
That owes two buckets filling one another ; 
The emptier ever dancing in the air, 
The other down, unseen, and full of water ; 
That bucket down, and full of tears, am I, 
Drinking my griefs, whilst you mount up on 
high. 

R. II, IV: 1. 709. 

— Sympathizing. 

K. Hen. * * 
Weep, wretched man, I '11 aid thee tear for 

tear; 
And let our hearts, and eyes, like civil war, 
Be blind with tears, and break o'ercharg'd 
with grief. 

//. F7.,3pt., II: 5. 968. 

— Their Abundance. 

K. Hen. * * To drain 
Upon his face an ocean of salt tears. 

H. VI., 2pt.,III: 2. 928 

Const. * * 
Like a proud river peering o'er his bounds? 
K. J., Ill : 1. 656. 

R. Rich. * * To drop them still upon 
one place, 
Till they have fretted us a pair of graves. 

R. II., Ill: 3. 705. 

Laun. Lose the ti'd, and the voyage, 
and the master, and the service, and the 
tide! — Why, man, if the river were dry, I 
am able to fill it with my tears ; if the wind 
were down, I could drive the boat with my 
sighs. 

T. G., II : 3. 54. 

— Their Power. 

K. Hen. * * 
For she 's a woman to be pitied much : 
Her sighs will make a battery in his breast ; 
Her tears will pierce into a marble heart; 
The tiger will be mild, while she doth 

mourn ; 
And Nero will be tainted with remorse, 
To hear, and see, her plaints, her brinish 

tears. 

H. VI, 3pt., Ill: 1. 971. 



— Too copious. 

Lew. * * 
Let me wipe off this honourable dew, 
That silverly doth progress on thy cheeks : 
My heart hath melted at a lady's tears. 

K. J., V : 2. 672. 
Cap. * * 
How now ? a conduit, girl ? what, still in tears ? 
Evermore showering? In one little body 
Thou counterfeit'st a bark, a sea, a wind : 
For still thy eyes, which I may call the sea, 
Do ebb and flow with tears ; the bark thy 

hody is, 
Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, thy 

sighs ; 
Who, —raging with thy tears, and they 
with them. 

R. J., Ill : 5. 1266. 

— Turned to Sparks of Fire. 

Q. Kath. Sir, 

I am about to weep ; but, thinking that 
We are a queen, (or long have dreamed so,) 

certain 
The daughter of a king, my drops of tears 
I '11 turn to sparks of fire. 

H. VIII, II : 4. 1072. 

— Unavailing. 
Tit. * * 
When I do weep, they humbly at my feet 
Receive my tears, and seem to weep with 

me; 
And, were they but attired in grave weeds, 
Rome could afford no tribune like to these. 
Tit. And., Ill : 1. 1214. 

Pro. * * 
A sea of melting pearl, which some call 

tears : 
Those at her father's churlish feet she ten- 

der'd; 
With them, upon her knees, her humble self; 
Wringing her hands, whose whiteness so 

became them, 
As if but now they wax'd pale for woe : 
But neither bended knees, pure hands held 

up, 
Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding 

tears 
Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire. 
T. G., Ill : 1. 62. 



TEARS. 



547 



TEMPERANCE. 



— Unbecoming a Soldier. 

Reig. Suffolk, what remedy? 

I am a soldier ; and unapt to weep, 
Or to exclaim on fortune's fickleness. 

//. VI., 1 pt. V : 3. 894. 

— Unhelpful. 
K. Hen. * * 
Sad unhelpful tears. 

H. VI., 2 pt. Ill : 1. 924. 

— Woman's, Crocodile. 
Oth. devil, devil ! 

If that the earth could teem with woman's 

tears, 
Each drop she falls would prove a croco- 
dile:— 
Out of my sight! 

a, IV: l. 1523. 

— Woman's, their Power. 

Auf. * * 
At a few drops of women's rheum, which 

are 
As cheap as lies, he sold the blood and la- 
bour 
Of our great action. 

C., V : 5. 1192. 

TEDIOUSNESS.— (See Brevity.) A 
Play, ten Words long. 

Philost. A play there is, my lord, some 
ten words long ; 
Which is as brief as I have known a play ; 
But by ten words, my lord, it is too long, 
Which makes it tedious : for in all the play 
There is not one word apt, one player 
fitted. 

M. K., V: 1. 342. 

— Disgust at. 

Tro. * * As tediously as hell. 

T. C IV: 2. 1128. 

Ang. This will last out a night in 
Russia, 
When nights are longest there : I '11 take 

my leave, 
And leave you to the hearing of the cause ; 
Hoping you '11 find good cause to whip them 
all. 

M. M., II: 1. 149. 



— Of long Titles. 

Puc. Here is a silly stately style indeed ! 
The Turk, that two-and-fifty kingdoms 

hath, 
Writes not so tedious a style as this. — 
Him, that thou magnifiest with all these 

titles, 
Stinking, and fly-blown, lies here at our 
feet. 

//. VI., lpt.,IV: 7. 890. 

TELEGRAPH. — Puck's Promise. 

Puck. I '11 put a girdle round about the 
earth 
In forty minutes. 

M. F., II: 1. 327. 

TEMPER.— Diversities of. 

Salar. * * Now, by two-headed Janus, 
Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her 

time : 
Some that will evermore peep through their 

eyes, 
And laugh, like parrots, at a bag-piper; 
And other of such vinegar aspect, 
That they '11 not show their teeth in way of 

smile. 
Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. 
M. V., I: 1. 361. 

TEMPERANCE. — Makes Age lusty. 

Adam. * * 
Though I look old, yet I am strong and 

lusty : 
For in my youth I never did apply 
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, 
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo 
The means of weakness and debility ; 
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, 
Frosty, but kindly. 

A. F..H: 3. 415. 

— Practiced. 

Pet. * * 
She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. 
T. S.,U: 1. 465. 

— Recommended. 

Apem. * * 
Great men should drink with harness on 
their throats. 

T. A., 1 : 2. 1290. 



TEMPEST. 



548 



TERMAGANT. 



TEMPEST. — Furious. 

Clo. I have seen two such sights, by 
sea, and by land; — but I am not to say, it 
is a sea, for it is now the sky ; betwixt the 
firmanent and it you cannot thrust a bod- 
kin's point. 

W. T., Ill : 3. 597. 



TEMPORIZER. — A hovering. 

Leon. It is ; you lie, you lie : 

I say, thou liest, Camillo, and I hate thee ; 
Pronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless 

slave ; 
Or else a hovering temporizer, that 
Canst with thine eyes at once see good and 

evil, 
Inclining to them both. 

W. T., 1 : 2. 584. 

TEMPTATION. — Does not Imply Fall. 

Ang. 'T is one thing to be tempted, Es- 
calus, — 
Another thing to fall. 

M. jr., II : 1. 148. 

— Hopeful. 

Claud. Bait the hook well; this fish 
will bite. 

M. A., II : 3. 236. 

— Opportunity, a Source of. 

K. John. * * 
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, 
Makes ill deeds done. 

K.J.,\Y: 2. 668. 

-Self. 

But I must tell you, — now my thoughts re- 
volt, 

For he 's no man on whom perfections 
wait, 

That, knowing sin within, will touch the 
gate. 

P., 1 : 1. 1643. 

— Self -induced. 

Oth. * * 
It is hypocrisy against the devil : 
They that mean virtuously, and yet do so, 
The devil their virtue tempts, and they 
tempt heaven. 

O., IV: 1. 1518. 



— Self -originated. 

Tro. * * 
But I can tell, that in each grace of these 
There lurks a still and dumb-discoursive 

devil, 
That tempts most cunningly ; but be not 
tempted. 
Cres. Do you think, I will? 
Tro No. 
But something may be done, that we will 

not: 
And sometimes we are devils to ourselves, 
When we will tempt the frailty of our 

powers, 
Presuming on their changeful potency. 

T. C, IV : 4. 1130. 

— To be Avoided. 

Sir To. * * What, man ; it is not for 
gravity to play at cherry -pit with Satan. 

T. N. y III : 4. 559. 

TEMPTED— Self. 

Ang. * * Most dangerous 
Is that temptation, that doth goad us on 
To sin in loving virtue : never could the 

strumpet, 
With her all double vigour, art, and nature, 
Once stir my temper ; but this virtuous maid 
Subdues me quite : — Ever till now, 
When men were fond, I smil'd and wonder'd 

how. 

M. M., II : 2. 153. 

TEMPTER. — His Cunning. 

Ang. * * 

cunning enemy, that to catch a saint, 
With saints dost bait thy hook. 

M. M. t II : 2. 153. 

TERMAGANT. — An intolerable One. 

Bene. * * I would not marry her, 
though she were endowed with all that 
Adam had left him before he transgressed : 
She would have made Hercules have turn'd 
spit; yea, and have cleft his club to make 
the fire too. Come, talk not of her : you 
shall find her the infernal Ate in good ap- 
parel. * * Will your grace command 
me any service to the world's end? I will 
go on the slightest arrand now to the anti- 
podes, that you can devise to send me en; 

1 will fetch you a toothpicker now from 
the farthest inch of Asia; bring you the 
length of Prester John's foot ; fetch you a 



TERMAGANT. 



549 



THANKS. 



hair of the great Cham's beard ; do you any 
embassage to the Pigmies, — rather than 
hold three words' conference with this 
harpy. 

M.A.,II: 1. 232. 

TERMS.— Fair, deceitful. 

Bass. I like not fair terms, and a vil- 
lain's mind. 

31. V., 1 : 3. 366. 

TERRITORY. — Dearly-bought. 

Glo. Brave peers of England, pillars of 

the state, 
To you duke Humphrey must unload his 

grief, 
Your grief, the common grief of all the land. 
What! did my brother Henry spend his 

youth, 
His valour, coin, and people in the wars? 
Did he so often lodge in open field, 
In winter's cold, and summer's parching 

heat, 
To conquer France, his true inheritance? 
And did my brother Bedford toil his wits, 
To keep by policy what Henry got ? 

H. VI, 2 pt., 1 : 1. 908. 

— Indignation at the Surrender of. 

War. * * 

Anjou and Maine! myself did win them 

both; 

Those provinces, these arms of mine did 

conquer ; 

And are the cities, that I got with wounds, 

Deliver'd up again with peaceful words? 

Mort Dieu ! 

H. VI, 2pt., I: 1. 908. 

TERROR.— From Within. 

K. John. * * 
I am a scribbled form, drawn with a pen 
Upon a parchment ; and against this fire 
Do I shrink up. 

K.J.,V : 7. 676. 

— Its Effects. 

Buck. Look I so pale, lord Dorset, as 

the rest? 
Dor. Ay, my good lord ; and no man in 
the presence, 
But this red colour hath forsook his cheeks. 
R. Ill, II: 1. 1015. 



TERRORS. — Shadows Inspire. 

K. Rich. Ratcliff, I fear, I fear,— 

Rat. Nay, good my lord, be not afraid 

of shadows. 
K. Rich. By the apostle Paul, shadows 
to-night 
Have struck more terror to the soul of Rich- 
ard, 
Than can the substance of ten thousand sol- 
diers, 
Armed in proof, and led by shallow Rich- 
mond. 

R. III., V: 3. 1045. 

TEST — Of Character Invited. 

Ang. Now, good my lord, 

Let there be some more test made of my 

metal 
Before so noble and so great a figure 
Be stamp 'd upon it. 

M.M.,I: 1. 143. 



THANKS.— Choicely Expressed. 

Thai. My recompense is thanks, that 's 
all; 
Yet my good will is great, though the gift 
small. 

P., Ill: 4. 1658. 

— Empty. 

Bene. * * Any pains that I take for 
you is as easy as thanks. 

M.A.,11: 2. 237. 

— Foor in. 

Ham. Beggar that I am, I am even poor 
in thanks ; but I thank you : and sure, dear 
friends, my thanks are too dear, a half- 
penny. 

H., II: 2. 1406. 

— Sufficient. 

Bas. Andronicus, I do not flatter thee, 
But honour thee, and will do till I die ; 
My faction if thou strengthen with thy 

friends, 
I will most thankful be : and thanks to 

men 
Of noble minds, is honourable meed. 

Tit. And., 1 : 2. 1203. 



THANKS. 



550 



THOUGHT. 



— Tendered. 
Anne. * * 'Beseech your lordship, 
Vouchsafe to speak my thanks, and my obe- 
dience, 
As from a blushing handmaid, to his high- 
ness ; 
Whose health, and royalty, I pray for. 

//. VIII., II: 3. 1070. 

— The Poor's Exchequer. 

Boling. Evermore thanks, the exchequer 
of the poor. 

R. II, II- 3. 698. 

THEFT— Euphemism for. 

Fist. Convey, the wise it call: Steal! 
fob ; a fico for the phrase. 

M. W-, I: 3. 92. 

— Universal. 

Tim. * * There is boundless theft 

In limited professions. Rascal thieves, 

Here 's gold : Go, suck the subtle blood of 
the grape, 

Till the high fever seethe your blood to 
froth, 

And so 'scape hanging : trust not the phy- 
sician ; 

His antidotes are poison, and he slays 

More than you rob : take wealth and lives 
together ; 

Do villainy, do, since you profess to do 't, 

Like workmen. I '11 example you with 
thievery : 

The sun 's a thief, and with his great at- 
traction 

Robs the vast sea : the moon 's an arrant 
thief, 

And her pale fire she snatches from the sun : 

The sea 's a thief, whose liquid surge* re- 
solves 

The moon into salt tears : the earth 's a thief, 

That feeds and breeds by a composture 
stolen 

From general excrement : each thing 's a 
thief; 

* * 

All that you meet are thieves. To Athens 
go, 

Break open shops ; nothing can you steal, 

But thieves do lose it. 

T. A., IV: 3. 1310. 



— Untimely. 

Fal. I am glad I am so acquit of this 
tinder-box; his thefts were too open; his 
filching was like an unskilful singer, — he 
kept not time. 

M. W., 1 : 3. 92. 

THEFTS.— That Impoverish. 

Tro. * * O theft most base : 
That we have stolen what we do fear to 

keep ! 
But, thieves, unworthy of a thing so stolen, 
That in their country did them that disgrace, 
We fear to warrant in our native place ! 

T. C, II : 2. 1114. 

THIEF— Everything Fits Him. 

Clo. If it be too little for your thief, 
your true man thinks it big enough ; if it be 
too big for your thief, your thief thinks it 
little enough : so every true man's apparel 
fits your thief. 

31. 31, IV: 2. 163. 

— Qualifications of an Expert. 

Aut. * * To have an open ear, a 
quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary 
for a cut-purse ; a good nose is requisite 
also, to smell out work for th' other senses 
I see this is the time that the unjust man 
doth thrive. 

W. T.,IV: 3. 608. 

— Unscrupulous. 

Abhor. Every true man's apparel fits 
M. M., IV : 2. J64. 



your thief. 



THIEVES. — Some againsf their Will 

Aut. If I had a mind to be honest, I see 
Fortune would not suffer me ; she drops 
booties in my mouth. I am courted now 
with a double occasion; * * let him 
call me rogue for being so far officious; 
for I am proof against that title, and what 
shame else belongs to 't. 

W. T., IV : 3. 610. 

— Varieties of. 

Shy. * * There be land-rats and 
water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves ; 
I mean pirates. 

M. V., I: 3. 365. 

THOUGHT — A Slave. 

iiot. * * 

Thought 's the slave of life, and time's fool. 
H. IV., 1 pt., 4. 761. 



THOUGHT. 



551 



TICKLING. 



— Fleetness of. 

York. * * 
Faster than spring-time showers, conies 
thought on thought. 

//. TV., 2pt.,III: 1. 925. 

— Gives Character. 

Ham. * * For there is nothing either 
good or bad, but thinking makes it so. 

//., II : 2. 1406. 

— Its Forge. 

Chor. In the quick forge and working- 
house of thought. 

H. V. t V : Chorus! 851. 

THOUGHTS.— Easy to Some. 

Nath. * * 
Those thoughts to me were oaks, to thee 
like osiers bow'd. 

L. L., IV: 2. 286. 

— Love's Heralds. 

Jul. * * 
Love's heralds should be thoughts, 
Which ten times faster glide than the sun's 

beams, 
Driving back shadows over low'ring hills. 

J2..T.,II: 5. 1256. 

— Our Own, 
P. King. * * 

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of 
our own. 

ff., HI : 2. 1414. 

— Slave's Right in. 

Iago. * * 
I am not bound to that all slaves are free 

to. 
Utter my thoughts? Why, say, they are 

vile and false, — 
As where 's that palace, whereinto foul 

things 
Sometimes intrude not? 

0., Ill : 3. 1511. 

— "Winged. 

Chor. Heave him away upon your winged 
thoughts. 

H. V., V : Chorus. 851. 



THREATENING.— The Conse- 
quences of. 

Cel. If I had a thunderbolt in mine eye, 
I can tell who should down. 

A. Y.,l: 2. 411. 

Shy. * * 
Thou call'dst me dog, before thou hadst a 

cause : 
But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs. 

M. V., Ill : 3. 380. 

THREE— One too Many. 

Aar. The empress, the midwife, and 
yourself: 
Two may keep counsel when the third 's 

away : 
Go to the empress, tell her this I said : 
We*ke, Aveke — so cries a pig prepar'd to the 
spit. 

Tit. And., IV : 2. 1222. 

THRIFT— Jacob's, Recommended. 

Shy. * * Mark what Jacob did. 
When Laban and himself were compro- 

mis'd 
That all the eanlings which were streak'd 

and pied 
Should fall as Jacob's hire; the ewes, be- 
ing rank, 
In end of autumn turned to the rams : 
And when the work of generation was 
Between these woolly breeders in the act, 
The skilful shepherd pill'd me certain 

wands, 
And, in the doing of the deed of kind, 
He stuck them up before the fulsome 

ewes ; 
Who, then conceiving, did in eaning-time 
Fall particolour'd lambs, and those were 

Jacob's. 
This was a way to thrive, and he was 

bless'd ; 
And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not. 

M. V., I: 3. 365. 



TICKLING — Trout Caught by. 

Mar. * * For here comes the trout 
that must be caught with tickling. 

T.K.,Il: 5. 552. 



TIDINGS. 



552 



TIME. 



TIDINGS.— Evil, Demand Attention. 
Men. Cannot be ! 

We have record, that very well it can; 

And three examples of the like have been 

Within my age. But reason with the fel- 
low, 

Before you punish him, where he heard 
this : 

Lest you shall chance to whip your infor- 
mation, 

And beat the messenger who bids beware 

Of what is to be dreaded. 

C, IV : 6. 1183. 

— Ill, like a Frost. 

Doug. That 's the worst tidings that I 

hear of yet. 
Wor. Ay, by my faith, that bears a 

frosty sound. 

H. IV., 1 pt., IV : 1. 753. 

— Light of Foot. 

Queen. Nimble mischance, that art so 

light of foot, 
Doth not thy embassage belong to me, 
And am I last that knows it? 0, thou 

think'st 
To serve me last, that I may longest keep 
Thy sorrow in my breast. — Come, ladies, 

go, 
To meet at London London's king in woe. — 
What, was I born to this ! that my sad 

look 
Should grace the triumph of great Boling- 

broke? — 
Gardener, for telling me this news of woe, 
I would, the plants thou graft'st, may never 

grow. 

R. II., Ill: 4. 706. 

TIME. — A bald Sexton. 

Bast. Old time the clock-setter, that 



bald sexton time. 



K. J., Ill: 1. 660. 



— A great Healer. 

Tit. * * 
I have been troubled in my sleep this 

night. 
But dawning day new comfort hath in- 
spir'd. 

Tit. And., II: 2. 1209. 



— A Thief. 

Adr. As if Time were in debt ! how 

fondly dost thou reason ! 
Dro. S. Time is a very bankrupt, and 
owes more than he *s worth to season. 
Nay, he 's a thief too : Have you not heard 

men say, 
That Time comes stealing on by night and 
day? 

C. E., IV : 2. 205. 

—Bad. 

Glo. 'T is the times' plague, when mad- 
men lead the blind. 

K. Z..IV: 1. 1471. 

— Bears Fruit. 

Lucio. * * As blossoming time, 

That from the seedness the bare fallow 

brings 

To teeming foison. 

M. M., 1 : 4. 147. 

— Brings Issues. 

Pan. * * Well, the gods are above ; 
Time must friend, or end. 

T. C, I: 2. 1105. 

— Brings Its Revenge. 

Clo. * * And thus the whirligig of 
time brings in his revenges. 

T. &., V : 1. 569. 

— Changes all Things. 

Ulyss. * * O, let not virtue seek 
Remuneration for the thing it was : 
For beauty, wit, 

High birth, vigour of bone, desert in ser- 
vice, 
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all 
To envious and calumniating time. 

T. C III: 3. 1125. 

— Its Changes Bemoaned. 

JEge. Not know my voice ! O, time's 

extremity ! 
Hast thou so crack'd and splitted my poor 

tongue, 
In seven short years, that here my only son 
Knows not my feeble key of untun'd cares? 
Though now this grained face of mine be hid 
In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, 
And all the conduits of my blood froze up. 
C.E.,V: 1. 213. 



TIME. 



553 



TIME. 



— Its Deliverance sure. 

Iago. * * 
There are many events in the womb of time, 
Which will be delivered. 

O..I: 3. 1499 

—Its Flight. 

Hel. * * 
Ere twice the horses of the sun shall bring 
Their fiery torcher his diurnal ring ; 
Ere twice in murk and occidental damp 
Moist Hesperus hath quench 'd his sleepy 

lamp : 
Or four-and-twenty times the pilot's glass 
Hath told the thievish minutes how they 

pass. 

A. W., II : 1. 504. 

— Its Sycophancy. 

Ulyss. * * 
Time is like a fashionable host, 
That slightly shakes his parting guest by 

the hand ; 
And with his arms out-stretch'd, as he 

would fly, 
Grasps in the comer. 

T. C, III: 3. 1125. 

— Its Waste. 

OH. * * 
The clock upbraids me with the waste of 
time. 

T. £T. t Ill : 1. 555. 

— Lost, Atoned for. 

King. All is whole ; 
Not one word more of the consumed time. 
Let 's take the instant by the forward top ; 
For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees 
Th' inaudible and noiseless foot of time 
Steals, ere we can effect them. 

A. W., V : 3. 526. 

— Moves differently. 

Ros. * * Time travels in divers paces 
with clivers persons. I 'il tell you who Time 
ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who 
Time gallops withal, and who he stands still 
withal. 

Orl. I prithee who doth he trot withal? 

Ros. Marry, he trots hard with a young 
maid, between the contract of her marriage 
and the day it is solemniz'd : if the interim 



be but a se'nnight, Time's pace is so hard 
that it seems the length of seven year. 

Orl. Who ambles Time withal? 

Ros. With a priest that lacks Latin, and 
a rich man that hath not the gout : for the 
one sleeps easily, because he cannot study ; 
the other lives merrily, because he feels no 
pain : the one lacking the burthen of lean 
and wasteful learning; the other knowing 
no burthen of heavy tedious penury : Tiiese 
Time ambies withal. 

Orl. Who doth he gallop withal? 

Ros. With a thief to the gallows : for 
though he go as softly as foot can fall, he 
thinks himself too soon there. 

Orl. Who stays it still withal ? 

Ros. With lawyers in the vacation : for 
they sleep between term and term, and then 
they perceive not how time moves. 

A. Y., Ill : 2. 423. 

— Out of Joint. 

Ham. * * 
The time is out of joint; — O cursed spite ! 
That ever I was born to set it right ! 

If., I : 5. 1401. 

— Recompenses Men. 

Per. * * 
Whereby I see that Time 's the king of men, 
For he 's their parent, and he is their grave, 
And gives them what he will, not what they 
crave. 

P., II : 3. 1651. 

— Source of all Good. 

Pro. Time is the nurse and breeder of 
all good. 

T. 0.,m: l. 62. 

— Test of all Things. 

Hect. * * The end crowns all ; 
And that old common arbitrator, time, 
Will one day end it. 

T. €., IV : 5. 1134. 

— Uninterrupted. 

Mach. Come what come may ; time and 
the hour runs through the roughest day. 

31., 1 : 3. 1360. 

— Upright. . 

Pro. * * Time . 
Goes upright with his carriage. 

T., V: 1. 30. 



TIME. 



554 



TOMB. 



— Wasted. 

K. Rich. * * 
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. 
R. II., V: 5. 716. 

TIMES. — Changes of. 

2 Sen. At all times alike 

Men are not still the same : 'T was time, 

and griefs, 
That fram'd him thus : time, with his fairer 

hand, 
Offering the fortunes of his former days, 
The former man may make him. 

T. A., V : 2. 1313. 

TIME-SERVER. — A Summer-bird. 

K. Hen. Westmoreland, thou art a 
summer-bird, 
Which ever in the haunch of winter sings 
The lifting up of day. 

H. IV., 2pt., IV; 4. 801. 

TIME-SERVERS. —Fly. 

2 Lord. The swallow follows not sum- 
mer more willing, than we your lordship. 

Tim. Nor more willingly leaves winter : 
such summer-birds are men. 

T. A., Ill : 6. 1302. 

— Ready for Anything. 

Ant. * * Fur all the rest, 

They '11 take suggestion, as a cat laps milk ; 

They '11 tell the clock to any business that 

We say befits the hour. 

T.,Il: l. 18. 

TITLE. — Hanging loose. 

Ang. * * Now does he feel his title 
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe 
Upon a dwarfish thief. 

J£., V : 2. 1382. 

TITLES— Abuse of. 

Dol. Captain ! thou abominable * * 
cheater, art thou not ashamed to be called 
— captain? If captains were of my mind, 
they would truncheon you out, for taking 
their names upon you before .you have 
earned them. You a captain, you slave! 
for what? * * He a captain ! Hang him, 
rogue ! He lives upon mouldy stewed prunes, 
and dried cakes. A captain ! these villains 
will make the word captain as odious as the 
word occupy, which was an excellent good 
word before it was i'l sorted; therefore 
captains had need look to it. 

//. YF.,2pt., II: 4. 7S6. 



— Bombastic Use of. 

Shal. Sir Hugh, persuade me not; I 
will make a Star-chamber matter of it; if 
he were twenty sir John Falstaffs, he shall 
not abuse Robert Shallow, esquire. 

Slen. In the county of Gloster, justice 
of peace and coram. 

Shal. Ay, cousin Slender, and Cust- 
alorum. 

Slen. Ay, and ratolornm too ; and a 
gentleman born, master parson ; who writes 
himself armigero; in any bill, warrant, 
quittance, or obligation, armigero. 

Shal. Ay, that I do ; and have done any 
time these three hundred years. 

Slen. All his successors, gone before 
him, have done 't; and all his ancestors, 
that come after him, may. 

M. W.,I: 1. 88. 

— Refused till Won. 

Com. Yet one time he did call me by 

my name : 

I urg'd our old acquaintance, and the drops 

That we have bled together.- Coriolanus 

He would not answer to : forbade all names ; 

He was a kind of nothing, titleless, 

'Till he had forg'd himself a name i' the fire 

Of burning Rome. 

C, V: 1. 1186. 

TITTLE-TATTLING. — A Maid's Vice. 

Clo. Is there no manners left among 
maids? will they wear their plackets, where 
they should bare their faces? Is there not 
milking time, when you are going to bed, 
or kill-hole, to whistle off these secrets ; 
but you must be tittle-tattling before all our 
guests? 'T is well they are whisp'ring: 
charm your tongues, and not a word more. 
W. T., IV. 3. 603. 

TOKEN. — Pure Heart, the best. 

Suf. * * 
But, madam, I must trouble you again — 
No loving token to his majesty? 

Mar. Yes, my good lord, a pure un- 
spotted heart, 
Never yet taint with love, I send the king. 
//. VI, lpt., V: 3. 894. 

TOMB. — Consigning the Brave to the. 

Tit. * * 
Romans, of five and twenty valiant sons, 
Half of the number that king Priam had, 
Behold the poor remains, alive, and dead ! 



TOMB. 



555 



TONGUE. 



These, that survive, let Kome reward with 

love ; 
These, that I bring unto their latest home, 
With burial amongst their ancestors. 
Here Goths have given me leave to sheath 

my sword. 
Titus, unkind, and careless of thine own, 
Why suffer'st thou thy sons, unburied yet, 
To hover on the dreadful shores of Styx? 
Make way to lay them by their brethren. 
There greet in silence, as the dead are wont, 
And sleep in peace, slain in your country's 

wars? 

Tit. And., 1 : 2. 1202. 

— Horrors of a living. 

Jul. * * 
How if, when I am laid into the tomb, 
I wake before the time that Romeo 
Come to redeem me? there 's a fearful point ! 
Shall I not then be stifled in the vault, 
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air 

breathes in, 
And there die strangled ere my Romeo 

comes? 
Or, if I live, is it not very like, 
The horrible conceit of death and night, 
Together with the terror of the place, — 
As in a vault, an ancient receptacle, 
AVhere, for these many hundred years, the 

bones 
Of all my buried ancestors are pack'd ; 
Where bloody Tybalt, yet but green in 

earth, 
Lies fest'ring in his shroud ; where, as they 

say, 
At some hours in the night spirits resort ; — 
Alack, alack! is it not like, that I, 
So early waking, — what with loathsome 

smells ; 
And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the 

earth, 
That living mortals hearing them, run mad ; 
! If I wake, shall I not be distraught, 
Environed with all these hideous fears? 
And madly play with my forefathers' joints? 
And pluck the mangled Tybalt from his 

shroud? 
And, in this rage, with some great kins- 
man's bone, 
As with a club, dash out my desperate brains? 
R. J., IV : 3. 1270. 



— Illuminated. 

Rom. * * Here lies Juliet, and her 

beauty makes 
This vault a feasting presence full of light. 
Death, lie thou there, by a dead man interr'd. 
How oft when men are at the point of death, 
Have they been merry ? which their keepers 

call 
A lightning before death. 



R. J., V: 



1275. 



TO-MORROW. — Creeps in. 

Macb. * * 
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, 
To the last syllable of recorded time. 

M., V: 5. 1383. 

— Its Uncertainty. 

K. Rich. Up with my tent : Here will I 
lie to-night; 
But where, to-morrow? — Well, all 's one 
for that. 

R.III.,V: 3. 1042. 

TONGUE. — A lost, Extolled. 

Mar. Oh, that delightful engine of her 
thoughts, 
That blabb'd them with such pleasing elo- 
quence, 
Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage, 
Where, like a sweet melodious bird, it sung 
Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear. 
Tit. And., Ill: 1. 1215. 

— A Woman's, quick. 

Bene. I would my horse had the speed 
of your tongue, and so good a continuer. 

M. A., I: 1. 226. 

— Lady, Loved not. 

Bene. God, sir, here 's a dish I love 
not; I cannot endure my lady Tongue. 

M. A., II: 1. 233. 
Native, Love of. 

Nor. * * 
My native English, now I must forego : 
And now my tongue's use is to me no more 
Than an unstringed viol or a harp ; 
Or like a cunning instrument cas'd up, 
Or, being open, put into his hands 
That knows no touch to tune the harmony. 
R.II.,I: 3. 689. 



TONGUE. 



556 



TOOL. 



— Sufficient. 

Iago. Sir, would she give you so much 
of her lips, 
As of her tongue she oft bestows on me, 
You 'd have enough. 

0., II : 1. 1501. 

— Sweet, its Power. 

Mori. * * For thy tongue 
Makes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly 

penn'd, 
Sung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, 
With ravishing division, to her lute. 

H. IV., lpt.,III: 1. 746. 

Fal. I have a whole school of tongues 
in this belly of mine. 

XT.iT".,2pt., IV: 3. 799. 

— Woman's. 
Pet. * * 

And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, 
That gives not half so great a blow to 

hear, 
As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? 

T. S.,1: 2. 460. 



— Woman's, a Bar to Matrimony. 

Inn. By my troth, niece, thou wilt never 
get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of 
thy tongue. 

M. A., II : 1. 230. 



— Woman's, courageous. 

Paul. * * 
He must be told on 't, and he shall : the 

office 
Becomes a woman best ; I '11 take 't upon 

me : 
If I prove honev-mouth'd, let my tongue 

blister ; 
And never to my red-look'd anger be 
The trumpet any more. 

W. T.,11: 2. 590. 



— Woman's, irrepressible. 

Ros. * * You shall never take her 
without her answer, unless you take her 
without her tongue. 

A. Y., IV : 2. 430. 



— Woman's, no Terror in a. 

Pet. Why came I hither, but to that 
intent? 

Think you, a little din can daunt mine 
ears? 

Have I not in my time heard lions roar? 

Have I not heard the sea, pufFd up with 
winds, 

Rage like an angry boar, chafed with 
sweat? 

Have I not heard great ordnance in the 
field, 

And heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? 

Have I not in a pitched battle heard 

Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trump- 
ets' clang? 

And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, 

That gives not half so great a blow to hear, 

As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? 

Tush ! tush ! fear boys with bugs. 

T. S., 1 : 2. 460. 

— Woman's, with a Tang. 

Ste. * * 
The master, the swahher, the boatswain, and I, 

The gunner, and his mate, 
Lov'd Mall, Meg, and Marian, and Margery, 

But none of us car'd for Kate : 

For she had a tongue with a tang, 

"Would cry to a sailor, " Go hang." 

T. % II : 2. 19. 

TONGUES.— Women's, Keenness of . 

Boyet. The tongues of mocking wenches 

are as keen 
As is the razor's edge invisible, 
Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen, — 

Above the sense of sense : so sensible 
Seemeth their conference; their conceits 

have wings, 
Fleeter than arrows, bullets, wind, thought, 
swifter things. 

L. £., V : 2. 296. 

TOOL. — Used and Spurned. 

Boling. They love not poison that do 
poison need, 

Nor do I urge thee ; though I did wish him 
dead, 

I hate the murderer, love him murdered. 

The guilt of conscience take thou for thy la- 
bour, 



TOOL. 



557 



TRAITORS. 



But neither my good word, nor princely fa- 
vour ; 

With Cain go wander through the shade of 
night, 

And never show thy head by day nornight. 
R. II,, V : 6. 718. 

— Protest against Being a. 

Ham. 'T is as easy as lying; govern 
these ventages with your fingers and thumb, 
give it breath with your mouth, and it will 
discourse most eloquent music. Look you, 
these are the stops. 

Guil. But these cannot I command to 
any utterance of harmony ; I have not the 
skill. 

Ham. Why look you now, how unwor- 
thy a thing you make of me? You would 
play upon me; you would seem to know 
my stops ; you would pluck out the heart 
of my mystery ; you would sound me from 
my lowest note to the top of my compass : 
and there is much music, excellent voice, in 
this little organ ; yet cannot you make it 
speak. 'Sblood, do you think, I am easier 
to be played on than a pipe? Call me what 
instrument you will, though you can fret 
me, you cannot play upon me. 

H., III : 2. 1416. 

TOOTHACHE — Defies Philosophy. 
Leon. I pray thee, peace ; I will be 
flesh and blood ; 
For there was never yet philosopher 
That could endure the toothache patiently, 
However they have writ the style of. gods, 
And made a push at chance and sufferance. 
M. A., V: 1. 249. 

TOWNS. — Their Dangers. 

Ant. S. * * 
They say this town is full of cozenage ; 
As, nimble jugglers that deceive the eye, 
Dark-working sorcerers that change the 

mind, 
Soul-killing witches that deform the body, 
Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks, 
And many such like liberties of sin. 

C.E.,1: 2. 195. 

TRAINING. — For a Warrior. 

Aar. * * 
Come on, you thick-lipp'd-slave, I '11 bear 

you hence ; 
For it is you that puts us to our shifts ; 



I '11 make you feed on berries, and on roots, 
And feed on curds and whey, and suck the 

goat, 
And cabin in a cave ; and bring you up 
To be a warrior, and command a camp. 

Tit. And., IV : 2. 1222. 

— Princely, Invoked. 
Per. * * My babe Marina (whom, 
For she was born at sea, I have nam'd so) 

here 
I charge your charity withal, and leave her 
The infant of your care ; beseeching you 
To give her princely training, that she may 
Be manner'd as she is born. 

P., Ill: 3. 1658. 

TRAITOR. — A harmless. 

Laf. * * 
A traitor you do look like ; but such traitors 
His majesty seldom fears. 

A. JT., II: 1. 503. 

TRAITORS. — Imprecation on. 

K. Rich. O villains, vipers, damn'd with- 
out redemption ! 

Dogs, easily won to fawn on any man ! 

Snakes, in my heart-blood warm'd, that 
sting my heart ! 

Three Judases, each one thrice worse than 
Judas ! 

Would they make peace? terrible hell make 
war 

Upon their spotted souls for this offence ! 

R. II., Ill : 2. 702. 

— Not to be Redeemed. 

K. Hen. * * Shall our coffers then 
Be emptied, to redeem a traitor home? 
Shall we buy treason? and indent with fears, 
When they have lost and forfeited them- 
selves? 
No, on the barren mountains let him starve ; 
For I shall never hold that man my friend, 
Whose tongue shall ask me for one penny 

cost 
To ransom home revolted Mortimer. 

//. IV., 1 pt., 1 : 3. 731. 

— Numerous. 

Son. Was my father a traitor, mother? 
L. Macd. Ay, that he was. 
Son. What is a traitor? 



TRAITORS. 



558 



TRAVEL. 



L. Macd. Why, one that swears and 
lies. 

Son. And be all traitors, that do so? 

L. Macd. Every one that does so, is a 
traitor, and must be hanged. 

Son. And must they all be hanged, that 
swear and lie? 

L. Macd. Every one. 

Son. Who must hang them? 

L. Macd. Why, the honest men. 

Son. Then the liars and swearers are 
fools : for there are liars and swearers 
enough to beat the honest men, and hang 
up them. 

M.,IV: 2. 1377. 

— Protest their Innocence. 

Duke F. Thus do all traitors. 

If their purgation did consist in words, 
They are as innocent as grace itself. 

A. Y., 1 : 3. 413. 

— Rebuked. 

K. Hen. * * 
Thinks he, that the chirping of a wren, 
By crying comfort from a hollow breast, 
Can chase away the first-conceived sound? 
Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd 

words. 
La)- not thy hands on me ; forbear, I say ; 
Their touch affrights me, as a serpent's 

sting. 
Thou baleful messenger, out of my sight ! 
Upon thy eye-balls murderous tyranny 
Sits in grim majesty, to fright the world. 
Look not upon me, for thine eyes are 

wounding. 

H. VI., 2pt.,III: 2. 927. 

— Smooth. 

West. How smooth and even they do 
bear themselves ! 
As if allegiance in their bosom sat, 
Crowned with faith, and constant loyalty. 

H. V., II : 2. 826. 

TRAMPS. — Affinity for. 

Lucio. * * The duke, I say to thee ' 
again, would eat mutton on Fridays. He 's 
now past it ; yet and I say to thee, he would 
mouth with a beggar, though she smelt 
brown bread and garlic : say, that I said 
so. 

M. M., HI: 2. 161. 



TRANSFORMATION. — Result of 
beastly. 

Tim. * * If thou wert the lion, the 
fox would beguile thee ; if thou wert the 
lamb, the fox would eat thee : if thou wert 
the fox, the lion would suspect thee, when, 
peradventure, thou wert accused by the ass : 
if thou wert the ass, thy dulness would 
torment thee ; and still thou livedst but as a 
breakfast to the wolf: if thou wert the wolf, 
thy greediness would afflict thee, and oft 
thou should 'st hazard thy life for thy din- 
ner : wert thou the unicorn, pride and 
wrath would confound thee, and make thine 
own self the conquest of thy fury: wert 
thou a bear, thou would'st be killed by the 
horse ; wert thou a horse, thou would'st be 
seized by the leopard ; wert thou a leopard, 
thou wert german to the lion, and the spots 
of thy kindred were jurors on thy life: all 
thy safety were remotion ; and thy defence, 
absence. What beast could'st thou be, 
that were not subject to a beast? and w r hat 
a beast art thou already, that seest not thy 
loss in transformation. 

T. A., IV : 3. 1309. 

TRANSMIGRATION— Into a Wolf. 

Gra. Thou almost mak'st me waver in 

my faith, 
To hold opinion with Pythagoras, 
That souls of animals infuse themselves 
Into the trunks of men ; thy currish spirit 
Govern'd a wolf, who, hanged for human 

slaughter, 
Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet, 
And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd 

dam, 
Infus'd itself in thee ; for thy desires 
Are wolfish, bloody, starv'd, and ravenous. 
M. F.,IV:1. 384. 

TRAPS. — Not Set for poor Birds. 

L. Macd. Poor bird : thou 'dst never 
fear the net, nor lime, 
The pit-fall, nor the gin. 

Son. Why should I, mother? Poor birds 
they are not set for. 

M., IV : 2. 1377. 

TRAVEL. — Cure for mental Ills. 

King. There 's something in his soul, 
O'er which his melancholy sits on brood, 
And, I do doubt, the hatch, and the dis- 
close, 
Will be some danger : Which for to prevent, 



TRAVEL. 



559 



TRAVELERS. 



I have, in quick determination, 

Thus set it down : He shall with speed to 

England, 
For the demand of our neglected tribute : 
Haply, the seas, and countries different, 
With variable objects, shall expel 
This something-settled matter in his heart. 

H., 111:1. 1412. 

— Needed by the Young. 

Val. * * 
Home-keeping youth have ever homely 

wits : 
Were 't not affection chains thy tender 

days 
To the sweet glances of thy honour'd love, 
I would rather entreat thy company, 
To see the wonders of the world abroad, 
Than, living dully sluggardiz'd at home, 
Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. 

T. G.,I: 1. 47. 

— Needed for Youth. 

Pan. He wonder 'd that your lordship 

Would suffer him to spend his youth at 

home ; 
While other men, of slender reputation, 
Put forth their sons to seek perferment out : 
Some, to the wars, to try their fortune 

there ; 
Some, to discover islands far away ; 
Some, to the studious universities. 
For any, or for all these exercises, 
He said that Proteus, your son, was meet : 
And did request me to importune you, 
To let him spend his time no more at home, 
Which would be great impeachment to his 

age, 
In having known no travel in his youth. 

T. G., I: 3. 50. 

TRAVELER.— A foolish, worthless. 

Laf. I did think thee, for two ordi- 
naries, to be a pretty wise fellow; thou 
didst make tolerable vent of thy travel; it 
might pass : yet the scarfs and the banner- 
ets about thee did manifoldly dissuade me 
from believing thee a vessel of too great a 
burthen. I have now found thee ; when I 
lose thee again I care not : yet art thou 
good for nothing but taking up ; and that 
thou 'rt scarce worth. 



— A, Reason to be sad. 

Eos. A traveller! By my faith, you 
have great reason to be sad ; I fear you have 
sold your own lands, to see other men's; 
then, to have seen much, and to have noth- 
ing, is to have rich eyes and poor hands. 

Jaq. Yes, I have gain'd by experience. 
A. T.,IV: 1. 428. 

— Must Assume Airs. 

Ros. Farewell, monsieur traveller. Look 
you lisp, and wear strange suits ; disable 
all the benefits of your own country ; be 
out of love with your nativity, and almost 
chide God for making you that countenance 
you are ; or I will scarce think. 

A. F..IV: 1. 420. 

TRAVELERS. — Curious. 

Ant. S. * * I will go lose myself, 
And wander up and down, to view the city. 

C.E.,1: 2. 194. 

— (See Honour.) Never Lie. 

Touch. Ay, now am I in Arden ; the 
more fool I ! when I was at home, I was in 
a better place ; but travellers must be con- 
tent. 

A Y., II : 4. 416. 

Ant. * * Travellers ne'er did lie, 
Though fools at home condemn them. 

T..UL: 3. 25. 

— Sight-seeing. 

Seb. What's to do? 
Shall we go see the reliques of this town? 
* * 

I pray you let us satisfy our eyes, 

With the memorials, and the things of fame, 

That do renown this city. 

T. Jf., Ill: 3. 557. 

— Their Recreations. 

Ant. S. * * 
Within this hour it will be dinner-time : 
Till that, I '11 view the manners of the town, 
Peruse the traders, gaze upon the buildings, 
And then return, and sleep within mine inn ; 
For with long travel I am stiff and weary. 

C. E. t 1 : 2. 194. 

— Their Stories. 

Seb. A living drollery : Now I will be- 
lieve 
That there are unicorns : that in Arabia 



TRAVELERS. 



560 



TREACHERY. 



There is one tree, the phoenix' throne ; one 

phoenix 
At this hour reigning there. 

Ant. I '11 believe both ; 

And what does else want credit, come to me, 
And I '11 be sworn 't is true : Travellers 

ne'er did lie, 
Though fools at home condemn them. 

T., Ill : 3. 24. 

Gon. Faith, sir, you need not fear : 
When we were boys, 

Who would believe that there were mount- 
aineers 

Dew-lapp'd like bulls, whose throats had 
hanging at them 

Wallets of flesh? or that there were such 
men, 

Whose heads stood in their breasts? which 
now we find, 

Each putter-out at five for one will bring us 

Good warrant of. 

T., Ill : 3. 25. 

TREACHERY— A Release. 

Mel. * * 
What in the world should make me now 

deceive, 
Since I must lose the use of all deceit? 
Why should I then be false ; since it is true 
That I must die here, and live hence by 

truth? 
I say again, if Lewis do win the day, 
He is forsworn, if e'er those eyes of yours 
Behold another day break in the east : 
But even this night, — whose black conta- 
gious breath 
Already smokes about the burning crest 
Of the old, feeble, and day-wearied sun, — 
Even this ill night, your breathing shall ex- 
pire ; 
Paying the fine of rated treachery, 
Even with a treacherous fine of all your lives, 
If Lewis by your assistance win the day. 

K. J., V: 4. 674. 

— Countess of Auvergne's. 

Count. The plot is laid : if all things fall 
out right, 
I shall as famous be by this exploit, 
As Scythian Thomyris by Cyrus' death. 
* * 

Mess. Madam, 
According as your ladyship desir'd, 



By message crav'd, so is lord Talbot come. 
Count. And he is welcome. What! is 
this the man? 

* * 

Tal. Madam, I have been bold to trouble 
you : 
But, since your ladyship is not at leisure, 
I '11 sort some other time to visit you. 
Count. What means he now? — Go ask 

him whither he goes. 
Mess. Stay, my lord Talbot ; for my lady 
craves 
To know the cause of your abrupt depart- 
ure. 
Tal. Marry, for that she 's in a wrong 
belief, 
I go to certify her, Talbot 's here. 

Count. If thou be he, then art thou 
prisoner. 

H. F/.,lpt.,II: 3. 874. 

— Excusing itself. 

Pro. My gracious lord, that which I 
would discover, 
The law of friendship bids me to conceal : 
But, when I call to mind your gracious fa- 
vours 
Done to me, undeserving as I am, 
My duty pricks me on to utter that 
Which else no worldly good should draw 
from me. 

* * 

Thus, for my duty's sake, I rather chose 
To cross my friend in his intended drift, 
Than, by concealing it, heap on your head 
A pack of sorrows, which would press you 

down, 
Being unprevented, to your timeless grave. 
T. G., Ill: 1. 59. 

— Its own Punishment 

Laer. Why, as a woodcock to my own 
springe, Osric ; 
I am justly kill'd with mine own treachery. 

H., V : 2. 1436. 

— Its Signs Betray. 

York. What seal is that, that hangs with- 
out thy bosom? 
Yea, look'st thou pale? let me see the writ- 
ing. 
Aum. My lord, 't is nothing. 



TREACHERY. 



561 



TREACHERY. 



York. No matter then who sees it : 
I will be satisfied, let me see the writing. 
A urn. I do beseech your grace to par- 
don me ; 
It is a matter of small consequence, 
Which for some reasons I would not have 
seen. 
York. Which for some reasons, sir, I 
mean to see. 

I fear, I fear. 

Dach. What should you fear? 

'T is nothing but some bond that he is en- 

ter'd into 
For gay apparel, 'gainst the triumph day. 
York. Bound to himself? what doth he 
with a bond 
That he is bound to? Wife, thou art a 

fool. — 
Boy, let me see the writing. 

Aum. I do beseech you, pardon me ; I 

may not show it. 
York. I will be satisfied ; let me see it, 
I say. 
Treason ! foul treason ! — villain ! traitor ! 
slave ! 

R. II., V : 2. 713. 

— Its Subterfuges. 

Arch. Will you thus break your faith? 
P. John. I pawn'd thee none : 

Ipromis'd you redress of these same griev- 
ances, 

Whereof you did complain; which, by 
mine honour, 

I will perform with a most christian care. 

But, for you, rebels, — look to taste the 
due 

Meet for rebellion, and such acts as 
yours. 

Most shallowly did you these arms com- 
mence, 

Fondly brought here, and foolishly sent 
hence. — 

Strike up our drums, pursue the scatter'd ■ 
stray ; 

Heaven, and not we, have safely fought to- 
day. 

Some guard these traitors to the block of 
death : 

Treason's true bed, and yielder up of 
breath. 

H. IV., 2pt., IV: 2. 798. 



— Of Friends, a Punishment. 

Buck. * * God punish me 
With hate in those where I expect most 

love ! 
When I have most need to employ a friend, 
And most assured that he is a friend, 
Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile, 
Be he unto me ! this do I beg of heaven, 
When I am cold in love, to you, or yours. 
R. IT I., II : l. 1014. 

— Uses Pit-falls. 

Aar. * * 
Straight will I bring you to the loathsome 

pit, 
Where I espy'd the panther fast asleep. 
Quint. My sight is very dull, whate'er it 

bodes. 
Mart. And mine, I promise you ; were 't 
not for shame, 
Well could I leave our sport to sleep 
awhile. 
Quin. What, art thou fallen? What 
subtle hole is this ! 
Whose mouth is cover'd with rude-growing 

briars ; 
Upon whose leaves are drops of new-shed 

blood, 
As fresh as morning's dew distill'd on 

flowers? 
A very fatal place it seems to me : — 
Speak, brother, hast thou hurt thee with 
the fall? 
Mart. O, brother, with the dismallest 
object 
That ever eye, with sight, made heart la- 
ment. 
Aar. Now will I fetch the king to find 
them here ; 
That he thereby may give a likely guess, 
How these were they that made away his 
brother. 

Tit. And., 11: 4. 1211. 

— Unmasked. 

K. Hen. * * 
What shall I say to thee, lord Scroop ; thou 

cruel, 
Ingrateful, savage, and inhuman creature ! 
Thou, that didst bear the key of all my 

counsels, 
That knew'st the very bottom of my soul, 



TREACHERY. 



562 



TREASON. 



That almost might'st have coin'd me into 

gold, 
Would' st thou have practis'd on me for thy 

use? 
May it be possible, that foreign hire 
Could out of thee extract one spark of evil, 
That might annoy my finger? 't is so 

strange, 
That, though the truth of it stands off as 

gross 
As black from white, my eye will scarcely 

see it, 
Treason, and murder, ever kept together, 
As two yoke-devils sworn to either's pur- 
pose, 
Working so grossly in a natural cause, 
That admiration did not whoop at them : 
But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring 

in 
Wonder, to wait on treason, and on mur- 
der : 
And whatsoever cunning fiend it was, 
That wrought upon thee so preposterously, 
H' ath got the voice in hell for excellence : 
And other devils, that suggest by treasons, 
Do botch and bungle up damnation 
With patches, colours, and with forms be- 
ing fetch*d 
From glistering semblances of piety ; 
But he, that temper'd thee, bade thee stand 

up. 
Gave thee no instance why thou should'st 

do treason, 
Unless to dub thee with the name of traitor. 
If that same daemon that hath gull'd thee 

thus, 
Should with his lion gait walk the whole 

world, 
He might return to vasty Tartar back, 
And tell the legions — I can never win 
A soul so easy as that Englishman's. 

H. V., II: 2. 827. 

TREASON— Boldly Charged. 

Suf. * * 
Smooth runs the water, where the brook is 

deep ; 
And in his simple show he harbours trea- 
son. 
The fox barks not, when he would steal the 
lamb. 

H. VI, 2 pt., Ill : 1. 922. 



Bo ling. * * 
Now, Thomas Mowbray, do I turn to thee, 
And mark my greeting well; for what I 

speak, 
My body shall make good upon this earth, 
Or my divine soul answer it in heaven. 
Thou art a traitor, and a miscreant; 
Too good to be so, and too bad to live ; 
Since, the more fair and crystal is the 

sky, 

The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. 
Once more, the more to aggravate the 

note, 
With a foul traitor's name stuff! thy throat; 
And wish, (so please my sovereign,) ere I 

move, 
What my tongue speaks, my right-drawn 

sword may prove. 

It. II., I: l. 684. 

Buck. * * Now this follows, 
(Which, as I take it, is a kind of puppy 
To the old dam, treason.) 

//. VIII., 1 : 1. 1059. 

. — How Made successful. 
York. We thank you, lords. But I am 
not your king 
Till I be crown'd ; and that my sword be 

stain'd 
With heart-blood of the house of Lancas- 
ter : 
And that 's not suddenly to be perform 'd; 
But with advice, and silent secrecy. 

War. My heart assures me that the earl 
of Warwick 
Shall one day make the duke of York a king. 
York. And, Nevil, this I do assure my- 
self, — 
Richard shall live to make the earl of War- 
wick 
The greatest man in England but the king. 
H. P7.,2pt.,II: 2. 919. 

— Its just Punishment. 

K. Hen. * * 
Touching our person, seek we no revenge; 
But we our kingdom's safety must so tender, 
Whose ruin you three sought, that to her 

laws 
We do deliver you. Get you therefore 

hence, 



TREASON. 



563 



TREASON. 



Poor miserable wretches, to your death : 
The taste whereof, God, of his mercy, give 

you 
Patience to endure, and true repentance 
Of all your dear offences! — Bear them 

hence. 

//. V., II : 2. 828. 

— Its Tools. 

Crl0. * * 

Beaufort's red sparkling eyes blab his heart's 
malice, 

And Suffolk's cloudy brow his stormy hate ; 

Sharp Buckingham unburdens with his 
tongue 

The envious load that lies upon his heart ; 

And dogged York, that reaches at the moon, 

Whose overweening arm I have pluck'd 
back, 

By false accuse doth level at my life : — 

And you, my sovereign lady, with the rest, 

Causeless have laid disgraces on my head ; 

And, with your best endeavour, have stirr'd 
up 

My liefest liege to be mine enemy : — 

Ay, all of you have laid your heads to- 
gether : 

Myself had notice of your conventicles. 

I shall not want false witness to condemn 
me, 

Nor store of treasons to augment my guilt ; 

The ancient proverb will be well affected, — 

A staff is quickly found to beat a dog. 

H. IV., 2 pt., Ill: 1. 923. 

— Its Tools ignorant and cruel. 

York. * * For a minister of my intent, 
I have seduc'd a head-strong Kentishman, 
John Cade of Ashford, 
To make commotion, as full well he can, 
Under the title of John Mortimer. 
In Ireland have I seen this stubborn Cade 
Oppose himself against a troop of Kernes ; 
And fought so long, till that his thighs with 

darts 
Were almost like a sharp-quill'd porcu- 
pine : 
And, in the end being rescued, I have seen 

him 
Caper upright like a wild Morisco, 
Shaking the bloody darts, as he his bells. 



Full often, like a shag-hair'd crafty Kerne, 
Hath he conversed with the enemy ; 
And undiscovered come to me again, 
And given me notice of their villanies. 

//. VI., 2 pt,, III : 1. 926. 

— Mercenary. 

Boling. Look, what I speak my life shall 
prove it true ; — 

That Mowbray hath receiv'd eight thousand 
noble?, 

In name of lendings for your highness' sol- 
diers ; 

The which he hath detain'd for lewd employ- 
ments, 

Like a false traitor, and injurious villain. 

R. II., I: 1. 685. 

— Murder, its Tool. 

Suf. * * Do not stand on quillets, 
how to slay him : 
Be it by gins, by snares, by subtilty, 
Sleeping, or waking, 't is no matter how, 
So he be dead ; for that is good deceit 
Which mates him first, that first intends de- 
ceit. 
Q. Mar. Thrice-noble Suffolk, 't is res- 
olutely spoke. 
Suf. Not resolute, except so much were 
done ; 
For things are often spoke, and seldom 

meant : 
But that my heart accordeth with my 

tongue, — 
Seeing the deed is meritorious, 
And to preserve my sovereign from his foe, — 
Say but the word, and I will be his priest. 
Car. But I would have him dead, my 
lord of Suffolk, 
Ere you can take due orders for a priest : 
Say, you consent, and censure well the 

deed, 
And I '11 provide his executioner, 
I tender so the safety of my liege. 

Suf. Here is my hand, the deed is worthy 

doing. 
Q. Mar. And so say I. 
York. And I : and now we three have 
spoke it, 
It skills not greatly who impugns our doom. 
H. VI., 2pt., Ill: 1. 925. 



TREASON. 



5^4 



TRIFLES, 



— Not Inherited. 

Ros. * * 
Treason is not inherited, ray lord ; 
Or, if we did derive it from our friends, 
What 's that to me? my father was no trai- 
tor: 
Then, good my liege, mistake me not so 

much 
To think my poverty is treacherous. 

A. F.,I: 3. 413. 

— Often fearless. 

York. Let pale-fac'd fear keep with the 

mean-born man, 
And find no harbour in a royal heart. 
Faster than spring-time showers, comes 

thought on thought; 
And not a thought, but thinks on dignity. 
My brain, more busy than the labouring 

spider, 
Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies. 
Well, nobles, well, 't is politicly done, 
To send me packing with an host of men : 
I fear me, you but warm the starved snake, 
Who, cherish'd in your breasts, will sting 

your hearts. 
'T was men I lacked, and you will give 

them me : 

I take it kindly : yet, be well assur'd 

You put sharp weapons in a madman's 

hands. 

H. VI., 2pt.,III: 1. 925. 

— Successful, Gloried in. 

Cas. Why, he that cuts off twenty years 

of life, 
Cuts off so many years of fearing death. 
Bru. Grant that, and then is death a 

benefit : 
So are we Caesar's friends, that have 

abridg'd 
His time of fearing death. — Stoop, Romans, 

stoop, 
And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's 

blood 
Up to the elbows, and besmear our swords : 
Then walk we forth, even to the market- 
place ; 
And, waving our red weapons o'er our 

heads, 
Let 's all cry, Peace ! Freedom ! and Liber- 

ty! 



Cas. Stoop then, and wash. — How 
many ages hence, 
Shall this our lofty scene be acted over, 
In states unborn, and accents yet unknown? 
Bru. How many times shall Caesar 
bleed in sport, 
That now on Pompey's basis lies along, 
No worthier than the dust? 

Cas. So oft as that shall be, 

So often shall the knot of us be call'd 
The men that gave our country liberty. 

J. C, III : 1. 1336. 

TRIBUTE. — Britain's Protest against. 

Clo. Come, there 's no more tribute to 
be paid : Our kingdom is stronger than it 
was at that time ; and, as I said, there is no 
more such Caesars : other of them may have 
crooked noses ; but, to own such straight 
arms, none. 

Cym. Son, let your mother end. 

Clo. We have yet many among us can 
gripe as hard as Cassibelan : I do not say, 
I am one ; but I have a hand. — Why trib- 
ute? why should we pay tribute? If Caesar 
can hide the sun from us with a blanket, or 
put the moon in his pocket, we will pay 
him tribute for light: else, sir, no more 
tribute, pray you now. 

Cym., 1 : 1. 1605. 

— Britons "will never Pay. 
Clo. There be many Caesars, 

Ere such another Julius. Britain is 
A world by itself; and we will nothing pay 
For wearing our own noses. 

Cym. ,111: 1. 1604. 

TRICKERY. — Outwitted. 

Glo. Alas, that Warwick had no more 

forecast 
But, whiles he thought to steal the single 

ten, 
The king was slily firiger'd from the deck ! 
You left poor Henry at the bishop's palace, 
And, ten to one, you '11 meet him in the 

Tower. 

H. FI.,3pt., V: 1. 987. 

TRIFLES. — A Snapper-up of. 

Aut. * * My father nam'd me Autoly- 
cus ; who, being as I am, litter'd under Mer- 
cury, was likewise a snapper-up of uncon- 
sidered trifles. 

W. T., IV : 2. 599. 



TRIFLES. 



565 



TRUTH. 



Ban. The earth hath bubbles, as the 
water lias, 
And these are of them. 

M., 1 : 3. 1359. 

TRIMMER. — An excessive. 

Fool * * Thou hast pared thy wit o' 
both sides, and left nothing in the middle. 
Here comes one o' the parings. 

A'. L., 1 : 4. 1451. 

TRIUMPH. —Boastful and unseemly. 

Achil. The dragon wing of night o'er- 

spreads the earth, 
And, stickler like, the armies separate. 
My half-supp'd sword, that frankly would 

have fed, 
Pleas'd with this dainty bit, thus goes to 

bed.— 
Come, tie his body to my horse's tail ; 
Along the field I will the Trojan trail. 

T. C, V: 9. 1143. 

— Its Sweets. 

K. Edw. * * 
And now what rests, but that we spend the 

time 
With stately triumphs, mirthful comic shows. 
Such as befit the pleasures of the court? 
Sound, drums and trumpets! — farewell, 

sour annoy ! 
For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy. 

H. Y., 3pt., V: 7. 993. 

TROOPS. — Unserviceable. 

Par. Five or six thousand ; but very 
weak, and unserviceable : the troops are 
all scattered, and the commanders very 
poor rogues. * * so that the muster- 
file, rotten and sound, upon my life, 
amounts not to fifteen thousand poll; half 
of the which dare not shake the snow from 
off their cassocks, lest they shake them- 
selves to pieces. 

A. W., IV : 3. 520. 

TROUBLE. — World full of. 

Eos. * * 
0, how full of briars is this working-day 
world ! 

Cel. They are but burs, cousin, thrown 
upon thee in holiday foolery ; if we walk not 
in the trodden paths, our very petticoats will 
catch them. 



Ros. I could shake them off my coat ; 
these burs are in my heart. 
Cel. Hem them away. 

A. Y., I: 3. 412. 

TRUCKLING.— The Scorn of the No- 
ble. 

Cor. * * 
Why did you wish me milder? Would you 

have me 
False to my nature? Rather say I play 
The man I am. 

Vol. O, sir, sir, sir, 

I would have had you put your power well 

on, 
Before you had worn it out. 
Cor. Let go. 

Vol. You might have been enough the 
man you are, 
With striving less to be so : Lesser had been 
The thvvartings of your dispositions, if 
You had not show'd them how you were dis- 

pos'd 
Ere they lack'd power to cross you. 
Cor. Let them hang. 

Vol. Ay, and burn too. 

C, 111:2. 1173. 

TRUST. — Misplaced. 

Glo. * * For you, Edmund, 
Whose virtue and obedience doth this in- 
stant 
So much commend itself, you shall be ours ; 
Natures of such deep trust we shall much 

need ; 
You we first seize on. 

K. L., II : 1. 1455. 

Fool. He's mad, that trusts in the tame- 
ness of a wolf, a horse's health, a boy's 
love, or a whore's oath. 

K. L., Ill : 6. 1467. 

TRUTH. — Always Truth. 

Isab. * * 
Truth is truth 
To th' end of reck'ning. 

M. M., V : 1. 170. 



— Confounds Falsehood. 

P. Hen. We two saw you four set on 
four ; you bound them, and were masters of 

their wealth. Mark now, how plain a 

tale shall put you down. — Then did we two 



TRUTH, 



566 



TWITTING. 



set on you four : and, with a word out-faced 
you from your prize, and have it ; yea, and 
can show it you here in the house: — and, 
Fal staff, you carried your guts away as 
nimbly, with as quick dexterity, and roared 
for mercy, and st ill ran and roared, as ever 
I heard a bull-calf. What a slave art thou, 
to hack thy sword as thou hast done; and 
then say, it was in fight? What trick, what 
device, what starting-hole, canst thou now 
find out, to hide thee from this open and 
apparent shame? 

H. IV., 1 pt., II : 4. 740. 

— Eternal. 

Prince. But say, my lord, it were not 
register'd ; 
Methinks, the truth should live from age to 

age, 
As 't were retail'd to all posterity, 
Even to the general all-ending day. 

R. III., in : 1. 1020. 

—Hated. 

Fool. Truth 's a dog that must to ken- 
nel ; he must be whipped out, when Lady, 
the brach, may stand by the fire and stink. 

K.L.,1: 4. 1450. 

—Killing itself. 

Hel. * * 
When truth kills truth, devilish-holy fray ! 
M. iK,HI: 2. 334. 

— Seems like Lies. 

Mar. Should I tell you my history 

'T would seem like lies disdain'd in the re- 
porting. 

P., V : 1. 1668. 

— Sense in. 

Mart. * * 
As there is sense in truth, and truth in virtue. 
M. M„ V: 1. 172. 

— Simplicity of. 

Tro. * * 
I with great truth catch mere simplicity; 
Whilst some with cunning gild their copper 

crowns, 
With truth and plainness I do wear mine 

bare. 
Fear not my truth ; the moral of my wit 
Is — plain, and true, — there 's all the reach 

of it. 

T. C IV : 4. 1131. 



— The best-speaking. 

Leon. Thou didst speak but well, 

When most the truth. 

W. T., Ill : 2. 596. 

— The Devil's Relation to the. 

Ban. What, can the devil speak true? . 
M.,J: 3. 1359. 

— The Ground of Pity. 

Pol. Madam, I swear, I use no art at all. 
That he is mad, 't is true : ' t is true, *t is 

pity ; 

And pity 't is, 't is true : a foolish figure ; 
But farewell it, for I will use no art. 

H., II : 2. 1404. 

— Transparent 

Som. * * 

So clear, so shining, and so evident, 

That it will glimmer through a blind man's 

eve. 

E. VI., 1 pt., II : 4. 875. 

TRUTHS —Told Us to Betray. 

Ban. * * But 't is strange : 
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, 
The instruments of darkness tell us truths ; 
Win us with honest trifles, to betray us 
In deepest consequence. 

31., 1 : 3. 1359. 

TWINS. — Their Resemblance. 

Dro. E. Methinks, you are my glass, 
and not my brother : 
I see, by you, I am a sweet-fac'd youth. 
Will you walk in to see their gossiping? 
Dro. S. Not I, sir; you are my elder. 
Dro. E. That 's a question : how shall 

we try it? 
Dro. S. We '11 draw cuts for the senior ; 
till then lead thou first. 

Dro. E. Nay, then, thus : 
We came into the world like brother and 

brother : 
And now let 's go hand in hand, not one be- 
fore another. 

C.E.,Y: 1. 214. 

TWITTING. — Unbecoming. 

Tal. * * 
Becomes it thee to taunt his valiant age, 
And twit with cowardice a man half dead? 
B. VI, 1 pt., Ill : 2. 881. 



TYRANNY. 



5^7 



TYRANNY. 



TYRANNY.— A Father's, abusive. 

Cap. How now ! how now, chop-logic ! 

What is this? 
Proud, — and, I thank you, — and, I thank 

you not; — 
And yet not proud; — Mistress minion, 

you, 
Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no 

prouds, 
But settle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday 

next, 
To go with Paris to St. Peter's church, 
Or I will drag thee on a hurdle thither. 
Out, you green-sickness carrion ! out, you 

haggage ! 
You tallow face ! 

* * 

Hang thee, young baggage ! disobedient 

wretch ! 
I tell thee what, — get thee to church o' 

Thursday, 
Or never after look me in the face : 
Speak not, reply not, do not answer me ; 
My fingers itch. — Wife, we scarce thought 

us bless'd, 
That God had sent us by this only child ; 
But now I see this one is one too much, 
And that we have a curse in having her : 
Out on her, hilding ! 

* * 

God's bread ! it makes me mad : Day, 

night, late, early, 
At home, abroad, alone, in company, 
Waking, or sleeping, still my care hath 

been 
To have her match 'd : and having now pro- 
vided 
A gentleman of princely parentage, 
Of fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly 

train'd, 
Stuff 'd (as they say,) with honourable parts, 
Proportion'd as one's heart could wish a 

man, — 
And then to have a wretched puling fool, 
A whining mammet, in her fortune's tender, 
To answer — "I'll not wed, — I cannot 

love, 
I am too young, — I pray you, pardon 

me ; " — 
But, an you will not wed, I '11 pardon you : 
Graze where you will, you shall not house 

with me ; 



Look to 't, think on 't, I do not use to jest. 

Thursday is near ; lay hand on heart, ad- 
vise : 

An you be mine, I '11 give you to my friend ; 

An you be not, hang, beg, starve, die i' the 
streets, 

For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge 
thee, 

Nor what is mine shall never do th-ee good. 
R. J., Ill : 5. 1266. 

— Cruel. 

Richm. * * 
The reckless, bloody, and usurping boar, 
That spoiled your summer fields, and fruitful 

vines, 
Swills your warm blood like wash, and 

makes his trough 
In your embowell'd bosoms, this foul swine 
Lies now even in the centre of this isle, 
Near to the town of Xeicester, as we learn : 
From Tamworth thither, is but one day's 

march. 

R. III., V : 2. 1042. 

— Murderous. 

K. Hen. * * 
Upon thy eye-balls murderous tyranny 
Sits in grim majesty, to fright the world. 

E. VI, 2pt.,III: 2. 927. 

— Of new Rulers. 

Glo. * * I begin to find an idle and 
fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyr- 
anny ; who sways, not as it hath power, but 
as it is suffered. 

K. Z. s 1 : 2. 1447. 

Claud. * * 
And the new deputy now for the duke. — 
Whether it be the fault and glimpse of new- 
ness ; 
Or whether that the body public be 
A horse whereon the governor doth ride, 
Who, newly in the seat, that it may know 
He can command, lets it straight feel the 

spur; 
Whether the tyranny be in his place, 
Or in his eminence that fills it up, 
I stagger in : — But this new governor 
Awakes me all the enrolled penalties, 
Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung 
by th' wall 



TYRANNY. 



[68 



UNBORN. 



Sd long, that nineteen zodiacs have gone 

round, 
And none of them heen worn ; and, for a 

name, 
Now puts the drowsy and neglected act 
Freshly on me : — * t is surely for a name. 
M. M., 1 : 2. 146. 

— Shaken off by Daggers. 

Cas. I know where I will wear this 
dagger then, 
Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius ; 
Therein, ye gods, you tyrants to defeat : 
* * 

If I know this, know all the world besides, 
That part of tyranny, that I do bear, 
I can shake off at pleasure. 

Casca. So can I : 

So every bondman in his own hand bears 
The power to cancel his captivity. 

J. P., I: 3. 1327. 

TYRANT. — A powerful One. 

Men. * * What he bids be done, is 
finished with his bidding. He wants noth- 
ing of a god but eternity, and a heaven to 
throne in. 

C, V : 5. 1191. 

Bru. * * 
They have chose a consul, that will from 

them take 
Their liberties ; make them of no more 

voice 



Than dogs, that are as often beat for bark- 
ing, 
As therefore kept to do so. 

C, II : 3. 1167. 

TYRANTS.— Made by the People. 

Cas. And why should Caesar be a tyrant 

then? 
Poor man ! I know, he would not be a 

wolf, 
But that he sees the Romans are but 

sheep : 
He were no lion, were not Romans hinds. 
Those that with haste will make a mighty 

fire, 
Begin it with weak straws : What trash is 

Rome. . 

J. C, I: 3. 1328. 

— Their Agreement alarming. 

Per. * * 
'T is time to fear, when tyrants seem to 
kiss. 

P., 1 : 2. 1645. 

— Their Pears Grow fast. 

Per. * * 
I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants' fears 
Decrease not, but grow faster than the 
years. 

P., 1 : 2. 1645. 



u 



UGLINESS. — In Body and Mind. 

Adr. I cannot, nor I will not, hold me 
still ; 

My tongue, though not my heart, shall have 
his will. 

He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere, 

Ill-fac'd, worse-bodied, shapeless every- 
where ; 

Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; 

Stigmatical in making, worse in mind, 

C. E., IV : 2. 205. 



— In Looks. 

Flu. * * His face is all bubukles, and 
whelks, and knobs, and flames of fire ; and 
his lips plows at his nose, and it is like a 
coal of fire, sometimes plue. and sometimes 
red; but his nose is executed, and his fire 's 

out. 

//. V., Ill: 6. 836. 

UNBORN— To be Protected. 

Q. Mar. * * I the rather wean me from 
despair, 
For love of Edward's offspring in my womb : 



UNBORN. 



5^9 



UNDERSTANDING . 



This is it that makes me bridle passion, 
And bear with mildness my misfortune's 

cross ; 
Ay, ay, for this I draw in many a tear, 
And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighs, 
Lest with my sighs or tears I blast or 

drown 
King Edward's fruit, true heir to the En- 
glish crown. 

H. VI., 3pt.,IV: 4. 981. 

UNCERTAINTY. — Easily Moved. 

Ant. Her tongue will not obey her heart, 
nor can 
Her heart inform her tongue ; the swan's 

down feather, 
That stands upon the swell at th' full of 

tide, 
And neither way inclines. 

A. C., Ill: 2. 1558. 

— Its painfulness. 

Oth. By the world, 

I think my wife be honest, and think she is 
not; 

I think that thou art just, and think thou 
art not : 

I '11 have some proof: Her name, that was 
as fresh 

As Dion's visage, is now begrim'd and 
black 

As mine own face. — If there be cords, or 
knives, 

Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams, 

I '11 not endure it — Would, I were satis- 
fied. 

0., Ill : 3. 1514. 

— Perplexing. 

Edw. I Avonder. how our princely father 
scap'd ; 

Or whether he be 'scaped away, or no, 

Erom Clifford's and Northumberland's pur- 
suit; 

Had he been ta'en, we should have heard 
the news ; 

Had he been slain, we should have heard 
the news ; 

Or, had he 'scap'd, methinks, Ave should have 
heard 

The happy tidings of his good escape. 

//. VI, 3pt., II: 1. 962. 



— Seeks Confirmation. 
Bass. * * 

I come by note, to give and to receive. 
Like one of two contending in a prize, 
That thinks he hath done well in people's 

eyes, 
Hearing applause and universal shout, 
Giddy in spirit, still gazing, in a doubt 
Whether those pearls of praise be his or no. 
M. V., Ill : 2. 378. 

UNCLEANLINESS. — Personal. 

Ari. * * I left them 
I' the filthy mantled pool beyond your cell, 
There dancing up to the chins, that the foul 

lake 
O'erstunk their feet. 

7MV: 1. 28. 

UNCONCERN. — Dangerous. 

North. * * 
But, lords, we hear this fearful tempest sing, 
Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm : 
We see the wind sit sore upon our sails, 
And yet Ave strike not, but securely perish. 
R. II, II: 1. 695. 

— Dull. 

Ghost. I find thee apt ; 

And duller shouldst thou be than the fat 

weed, 
That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, 
Would'st thou not stir in this. 

/!.,!: 5. 1399. 

UNDERMINING.— Its Sweetness. 

Ham. * * 
But I Avill delve one yard below their mines, 
And bloAv them at the moon; 0, 'tis most 

sweet, 
When in one line two crafts directly meet. 
JT. f SI: 4. 1420. 

UNDERSTANDING. — A private. 

Pern. Who brought that letter from the 

cardinal ? 
Sal. The count Melun, a noble lord of 
France ; 
Whose private with me, of the Dauphin's 

love, 
Is much more general than these lines im- 
port. 

K. J., IV: 3. 669. 



UNFAITHFULNESS. 



570 



UNKINDNESS. 



UNFAITHFULNESS. -In Men. 

Nurse. There 's no trust, 

No faith, no honesty in men ; all perjur'd, 
All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. 

R. J., Ill : 2. 1261. 

UNFORTUNATE.— Not to be Loaded. 

Crom. My lord of Winchester, you are 
a little, 
By your good favour, too sharp ; men so 

noble, 
However faulty, yet should find respect 
For what they have been : 't is a cruelty, 
To load a falling man. 

H. VIII., V: 2. 1091. 

— Wedded to Calamity. 

Fri. Romeo, come forth : come forth, 
thou fearful man; 
Affliction is enamour 'd of thy parts, 
And thou art wedded to calamity. 

R. J., HI : 3. 1262. 

UNH APFINES S. — Universal. 

Duke S. Thou seest, we are not all 
alone unhappy : 
This wide and universal theatre 
Presents more woeful pageants than the 

scene 
Wherein we play in. 

A. Y., II : 7. 419. 

UNION— Gives Strength. 

Adr. * * 
Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, 
Whose weakness, married to thy stronger 

state, 
Makes me with thy strength to communi- 
cate : 
If aught possess thee from me, it is dross, 
Usurping ivy, briar, or idle moss : 
Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion 
Infect thy sap, and live on thy confusion. 

C. JF.,11: 2. 198. 

— Inseparable. 

Adr. * * As easy mayst thou fall 
A drop of water in the breaking gulf, 
And take unmingled thence that drop again, 
Without addition or diminishing, 
As take from me thyself, and not me too. 

C. E. t TL: 2. 198. 



— Perfect 
War. * * 
We '11 yoke together, like a double shadow. 
H. VI., 3pt.,IV: 6. 983. 
Hel. * * 
Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : 
So,, with two seeming bodies, but one heart, 
Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, 
Due but to one, and crowned with one crest. 
M. AT., Ill: 2. 335. 

UNITY.— In Partition. 

Hel. * * 

We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, 

Have with our needles created both one 
flower, 

Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, 

Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; 

As if our hands, our sides, voices, and 
minds, 

Had been incorporate. So we grew to- 
gether, 

Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, 

But yet an union in partition. 

M. N., Ill : 2. 334. 

UNKINDNESS.— Bitterness of a 
Child's. 

Lear. * * Beloved Regan, 
Thy sister 's naught : O Regan, she hath tied 
Sharp-tooth'd unkindness, like a vulture, 

here, — 
I can scarce speak to thee ; thou 'It not be- 
lieve, 
Of how deprav'd a quality — O Regan ! 

. K. L.,H: 4. 1460. 

— Buried in Wine. 

Bru. Speak no more of her. — Give me 
a bowl of wine : — 
In this I bury all unkindness, Cassius. 
Cas. My heart is thirsty for that noble 
pledge : — 
Fill, Lucius, till the wine o'erswell the cup : 
I cannot drink too much of Brutus' love. 

J. C.,IV: 3. 1346. 

— Cannot Destroy Love. 

Des. * * Unkindness may do much ; 
And his unkmdness may defeat my life, 
But never taint my love. 

0.,IV: 2. 1524. 



UNKINDNESS. 



57* 



USURPATION. 



— Triumphed o'er. 

Cam. * * 
'Twixt his unkindness and his kindness ; th' 

one 
He chides to hell, and bids the other grow 
Faster than thought or time. 

W. T., IV: 3. 607. 

UNSUSPECTING.— The, suddenly 
Destroyed. 

K. Hen. So flies the reckless shepherd 

from the wolf: 
So first the harmless sheep doth yield his 

fleece, 
And next his throat unto the butcher's 

knife. 

n. VI., 3 pt., V : 6. 991. 

UPBRAIDINGS. — A Queen's persist- 
ent. 

K. Rich. Harp not on that string, mad- 
am ; that is past. 

Q. Eliz. Harp on it still shall I ; till 
heart-strings break. 

K. Rich. Now, by my George, my gar- 
ter, and my crown, — 

Q. Eliz. Profan'd, dishonour'd, and the 
third usurp'd. 

R. III., IV: 4. 1058. 

USE.— Its Power. 

Ham. * * 
For use almost can change the stamp of 



nature. 



H., IIT : 4. 1420. 



USEFULNESS.— Outliving, Deplored. 

King. * * "Let me not live," quoth he 
" After my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff 
Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive 

senses 
All but new things disdain; whose judg- 
ments are 
Mere fathers of their garments; whose con- 
stancies 

Expire before their fashions : " This he 

wish'd : 
I, after him, do after him wish too, 
Since I nor wax nor honey can bring home, 
I quickly Avere dissolved from my hive, 
To give some labourers room. 

A. W., I: 2. 498. 



USURPATION. — Complete. 

Wot. * * 
And, being fed by us, you us'd us so 
As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo's bird, 
Useth the sparrow : did oppress our nest ; 
Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk, 
That even our love durst not come near 

your sight, 
For fear of swallowing. 

I7.IV.,V: 1. 757. 

— Denounced. 

K. Rich. * * Gentle Northumberland, 
If thy offences were upon record, 
Would it not shame thee in so fair a troop, 
To read a lecture of them ? If thou would'st, 
There should'st thou find one heinous ar- 
ticle, — 
Containing the deposing of a king, 
And cracking the strong warrant of an oath. 
Mark'd with a blot, damn'd in the book of 

heaven : — 
Nay, all of you, that stand and look upon 

me, 
Whilst that my wretchedness doth bait my- 
self, — 
Though some of you, with Pilate, wash 

your hands, 
Showing an outward pity ; yet you Pilates 
Have here deliver'd me to my sour cross, 
And water cannot wash away your sin. 

#.II.,lV: 1. 709. 

— Disturbed by Fears. 

Hot. He will, forsooth, have all my 
prisoners ; 
And when I urg'd the ransom once again 
Of my wife's brother, then his cheek look'd 

pale ; 
And on my face he turn'd an eye of death. 
Trembling even at the name of Mortimer. 
//. IV., 1 pt., I: 3. 732. 

— Imprudent. 

A'. Hen. And shall I stand, and thou sit 
in my throne? 

York. It must and shall be so. Con- 
tent thyself. 

War. Be duke of Lancaster, let him be 
king. 

West. He is both king and duke of Lan- 
caster ; 



USURPATION. 



572 



USURPATION. 



And that the lord of Westmoreland shall 

maintain. 
War. And Warwick shall disprove it. 

You forget, 
That we are those, which chas'd you from 

the field, 
And slew your fathers, and with colours 

spread 
March'd through the city to the palace 

gates. 
North. Yes, Warwick, I remember it to 

my grief; 
And, by his soul, thou and thy house shall 

rue it. 

H. F7.,3pt., I: 1. 955. 

— Insatiable. 
K. Rich. Northumberland, thou ladder 
wherewithal 
The mounting Bolingbroke ascends my 

throne, — 
The time shall not be many hours of age 
More than it is, ere foul sin, gathering 

head, 
Shall break into corruption : thou shalt 

think, 
Though he divide the realm, and give thee 

half, 
It is too little, helping him to all. 

£.II.,V: 1. 711. 

— Insidious and ungrateful 

Hot. * * 
Upon the naked shore at Ravenspurg; 
And now, forsooth, takes on him to reform 
Some certain edicts, and some strait decrees, 
That lie too heavy on the commonwealth : 
Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep 
Over his country's wrongs : and, by this face, 
This seeming brow of justice, did he win 
The heart of all that he did angle for. 
Proceeded further; cut me off the heads 
Of all the favourites, that the absent king 
In deputation left behind him here, 
When lie Avas personal in the Irish war. 
My father gave him welcome to the shore : 
And, — when he heard him swear, and vow 

to God, 
He came but to be duke of Lancaster, 
To sue his livery, and beg his peace ; 
With tears of innocency, and terms of zeal, 
My father, in kind heart and pity mov'd, 



Swore him assistance, and perform'd it too. 
Now, when the lords, and barons of the 

realm, 
Perceiv'd Northumberland did lean to him, 
The more and less came in with cap and 

knee ; 
Met him in boroughs, cities, villages ; 
Attended him on bridges, stood in lanes, 
Laid gifts before him, proffer'd him their 

oaths, 
Gave him their heirs ; as pages follow'dhim, 
Even at the heels, in golden multitudes. 
He presently, — as greatness knows itself, — 
Steps me a little higher than his vow 
Made to my father, while his blood was poor 
Disgrac'd me in my happy victories ; 
Sought to entrap me by intelligence ; 
Rated my uncle from the council-board ; 
In rage dismiss'd my father from the court; 
Broke oath on oath, committed wrong on 

wrong : 
And, in conclusion, drove us to seek out 
This head of safety ; and, withal to pry 
Into his title, the which we find 
Too indirect for long continuance. 

//. IV., 1 pt., IV: 3. 755. 

— Involves life-long Strife. 
K. Hen. * * Heaven knows, my son, 
By what by-paths, and indirect crook'd ways. 
I met this crown ; and I myself know well, 
How troublesome it sat upon my head : 
To thee it shall descend with better quiet, 
Better opinion, better confirmation ; 
For all the soil of the achievement goes 
With me into the earth. It seem'd in me, 
But as an honour snatch'd with boisterous 

hand ; 
And I had many living, to upraid 
My gain of it by their assistances ; 
Which daily grew to quarrel, and to blood- 
shed. 
Wounding supposed peace : all these bold 

fears, 
Thou see*st, with peril I have answered : 
For all my reign hath been but a scene 
Acting that argument : and now my death 
Changes the mode : for what in me was pur- 

chas'd 
Falls upon thee in a more fairer sort; 
So thou the garland wear'st successively. 

H. IV., 2 pt., IV: 4. 804. 



USURPATION. 



573 



UTTERANCES. 



— Popish. 

K. John. * * No Italian priest 
Shall tithe or toll in our dominions ; 
But as we under God are supreme head, 
So, under him, that great supremacy, 
Where Ave do reign, -we will alone uphold, 
Without assistance of a mortal hand. 
So tell the pope; all reverence set apart, 
To him and his usurp'd authority. 

K.J.,IU: 1. 658. 

K. John. * * 

Though you, and all the kings of Christen- 
dom 

Are led so grossly by this meddling priest, 

Dreading the curse that money may buy 
out; 

And, by the merit of vile gold, dross, 
dust, 

Purchase corrupted pardon of a man, 

Who, in that sale, sells pardon from him- 
self: 

Though you, and all the rest so grossly 
led, 

This juggling witchcraft Avith revenue 
cherish ; 

Yet I, alone, alone do me oppose 

Against the pope, and count his friends my 
foes. 

A'. J., Ill : 1. 658. 

USURER. — Hates Liberality. 

Shy. How like a fawning publican he 
looks ! 
I hate him for he is a Christian : 
But more, for that, in low simplicity, 
He lends out money gratis, and brings 

down 
The rate of usance here witjj us in Ven- 
ice. 
If I can catch him once upon the hip, 
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear 

him. 
He hates our sacred nation ; and he rails, 
Even there where merchants most do con- 
gregate, 
On me, my bargains, and my well-won 

thrift, 
Which he calls interest. Cursed be my 

tribe 
If I forgive him ! 

M. V., 1 : 3. 365. 



USURPER — A Thing of Shreds. 

Ham. A murderer and a villain : 

A slave, that is not twentieth part the tythe 

Of your precedent lord : — a vice of kings : 

A cutpurse of the empire and the rule ; 

That from a shelf the precious diadem 

stole, 

And put it in his pocket! 

H., Ill : 5. 1419. 

UTOPIA. — A Dream of. 

Gon. V the commonwealth I Avould by 
contraries 
Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic 
Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; 
Letters should not be known : riches, pov- 
erty, 
And use of service, none ; contract, suc- 
cession, 
Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : 
No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : 
No occupation; all men idle, all, — 
And women too ; but innocent and pure : 
No sovereignty : — 

Seb. Yet he would be king on 't. 

Ant. The latter end of his common- 
wealth forgets the beginning. 

Gon. All things in common nature 
should produce 
Without sweat or endeavour : treason, fel- 
ony, 
Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any 

engine, 
Would I not have ; but nature should bring 

forth, 
Of its own kind, all foison, all abundance, 
To feed my innocent people. 

T., II : l. 16. 

UTTERANCES.— Obscurity of Dying. 

Som. Ah, Warwick, Montague hath 
breath'd his last ; 

And to the latest gasp, cried out for War- 
wick, 

And said — Commend me to my valiant 
brother. 

And more he would have said ; and more he 
spoke, 

Which sounded like a cannon in a vault, 

That might not be distinguish'd ; but, at last, 

I well might hear deliver'd, Avith a groan, — 

O, farewell, Warwick ! 

H. VI., 3 pt., V : 2. 988. 



VACILLATION. 



574 



VALOR. 



V 



VACILLATION.— Result of Fear. 
K. Phi. Good reverend father, make my 

person yours, 
And tell me how you would bestow your- 
self. 
This royal hand and mine are newly knit, 
And the conjunction of our inward souls 
Married in league, coupled and link'd to- 
gether 
With all religious strength of sacred vows ; 
The latest breath that gave the sound of 

words 
Was deep-sworn faith, peace, amity, true 

love, 
Between our kingdoms, and our royal 

selves ; 
And even before this truce, but new before, 
No longer than we well could wash our 

hands, 

To clap this royal bargain up of peace, 

Heaven knows, they were besmear'd and 

over-stain'd 
With slaughter's pencil ! where revenge did 

paint 
The fearful difference of incensed kings ; 
And shall these hands, so lately purg'd of 

blood, 
So newly join'd in love, so strong in both, 
Unyoke this seizure, and this kind regreet 
Play fast and loose with faith? so jest with 

heaven 
Make such unconstant children of ourselves, 
As now again to snatch our palm from palm ; 
Unswear faith sworn ; and on the marriage 

bed 
Of smiling peace to march a bloody host, 
And make a riot on the gentle brow 
Of true sincerity? O holy sir, 
My reverend father, let it not be so : 
Out of your grace, devise, ordain, impose 
Some gentle order ; and then we shall be 

bless'd 
To do your pleasure, and continue friends. 
K. J., Ill : 1. 656. 



VAGABOND.— Not Worth a Word. 

Laf. Go to, sir ; you were beaten in 
Italy for picking a kernel out of a pome- 
granate ; you are a vagabond, and no true 
traveller : you are more saucy with lords 
and honourable personages, than the condi- 
tion of your birth and virtue gives you her- 
aldry. You are not worth another word, 
else I 'd call you knave. 

A. W., II : 3. 508. 

VALOR.— A Virtue. 

Com. * * It is held, 
That valour is the chiefest virtue, and 
Most dignifies the haver. 

C, II : 2. 1164. 

— An Aid in Love. 

Si?\ To. Why, then, build me thy fortunes 
upon the basis of valour. Challenge me 
the count's youth to fight with him ; hurt 
him in eleven places ; my niece shall take 
note of it : and assure thyself, there is no 
love-broker in the world can more prevail 
in man's commendation with woman, than 
report of valour. 

T. jr., Ill: 2. 556. 

— Ancient, Incentive to. 

My. Awake remembrance of these val- 
iant dead, 

And with your puissant arm renew their 
feats : 

You are their heir, you sit upon their 
throne ; 

The blood and courage, that renowned 
them, 

Runs in your veins ; and my thrice-puis- 
sant liege 

Is in the very May-morn of his youth, 

Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprizes. 
Exe. Your brother kinys and monarchs 
of the earth 

Do all expect that you should rouse your- 
self, 

As did the former lions of your blood. 

H. Y. t 1 : 2. 822. 



VALOR. 



575 



VALOR. 



— And Discretion. 

Lys. This lion is a very fox for his 

valour. 
The. True ; and a goose for his discre- 
tion. 
Dem. Not so, my lord; for his valour 
cannot carry his discretion; and the fox 
carries the goose. 

The. His discretion, I am sure, cannot 
carry his valour ; for the goose carries not 
the fox. 

M.tf.,V: 1. 344. 

— Applauded. 

Ant. * * To-morrow, 

Before the sun shall see us, we '11 spill the 
blood 

That has to-day escap'd. I thank you all : 

For doughty-handed are you ; and have 
fought 

Not as you serv'd the cause, but as it had 
been 

Each man's like mine ; you have shown all 
Hectors. 

Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends, 

Tell them your feats; whilst they with joy- 
ful tears 

Wash the congealment from your wounds, 
and kiss 

The honoured gashes whole. 

A C., IV : 8. 1571. 

— Boasting of, suspicious. 

Orl. I know him to be valiant. 

Con. I was told that, by one that knows 
him better than you. 

Orl. What 's he? 

Con. Marry, he told me so himself; and 
he said, he cared not who knew it. 

Orl. He needs not, it is no hidden virtue 
in Mm. 

Con. By my faith, sir, but it is ; never 
any body saw it, but his lackey : 't is a 
hooded valour ; and, when it appears, it will 
bate. 

H. V., Ill : 7. 838. 

— Destruction, "Waiting for. 

Gen. * * 
Lo ! there thou stand'st, a breathing valiant 

man, 
Of an invincible unconquer'd spirit : 
This is the latest glory of thy praise, 
That I, thy enemy, due thee withal; 



For ere the glass, that now begins to run, 
Finish the process of his sandy hour, 
These eyes, that see thee now well coloured, 
Shall see thee wither'd, bloody, pale, and 
dead. 

H. VI., lpt., IV: 2. 887. 

— Developed in Storms. 

JSTest. With due observance of thy god- 
like seat, 
Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply 
Thy latest words. In the reproof of chance 
Lies the true proof of men : The sea being 

smooth, 
How many shallow bauble boats dare sail 
Upon her patient breast, making their way 
With those of nobler bulk? 
But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage 
The gentle Thetis, and, anon, behold 
The strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mount- 
ains cut, 
Bounding between the two moist elements, 
Like Perseus' horse? Where 's then the 

saucy boat, 
Whose weak untimber'd sides but even now 
Co-rival'd greatness? either to harbour fled, 
Or made a toast for Neptune. Even so 
Doth valour's show, and valour's worth di- 
vide 
In storms of fortune. 

T. C.,I: 3. 1107. 

— Its inglorious End. 

3 Mess. * * 
Having full scarce six thousand in his troop, 
By three and twenty thousand of the French 
Was round encompassed and set upon ; 
No leisure had he to enrank his men ; 
He wanted pikes to set before his archers ; 
Instead whereof, sharp stakes, pluck'd out 

of hedges, 
They pitched in the ground confusedly, 
To keep the horsemen off from breaking in. 
More than three hours the fight continued ; 
Where valiant Talbot, above human thought, 
Enacted wonders with his sword and lance. 
Hundreds he sent to hell, and none durst 

stand him ; 
Here, there, and every where, enrag'd he 

slew : 
The French exclaim'd, The devil was in 

arms ; 



VALOR. 



576 



VALUE. 



All the whole army stood agaz'd on him : 
His soldiers, spying his undaunted spirit, 
A Talbot ! a Talbot! cried out amain, 
And rush'd into the bowels of the battle. 
Here had the conquest fully been seal'd up, 
If sir John Fastolfe had not play'd the cow- 
ard ; 
He being in the vaward, (plac'd behind, 
With purpose to relieve and follow them,) 
Cowardly fled, not having struck one stroke. 
Hence grew the general wreck and mas- 
sacre. 

H. VL, 1 pt., 1 : 1. 865. 

— Its Nobility. 

York. Old Salisbury, who can report of 

him ; 
That winter lion, who, in rage, forgets 
Aged contusions and all brush of time ; 
And, like a gallant in the bloom of youth. 
Repairs him with occasion? 
* * 

Rich. My noble father, 

Three times to-day I holp him to his horse, 
Three times bestrid him, thrice I led him off, 
Persuaded him from any further act : 
But still, where danger was, still there I 

met him, 
And like rich hangings in a homely house, 
So was his will in his old feeble body. 

//. F/.,2pt., V: 3. 945. 

— Makes Men immortal. 

Prince. That Julius Caesar was a famous 
man; 
With what his valour did enrich his wit, 
His wit set down to make his valour live : 
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror ; 
For now he lives in fame, though not in life. 
A'. ///., Ill: l. 1020. 

— Misbegotten and True. 

1 Sen. * * 

Your words have took such pains, as if they 
labour'd 

To bring manslaughter into form, set quar- 
relling 

Upon the head of valour; which, indeed. 

Is valour misbegot, and came into the 
world 

When sects and factions were newly born ; 

He 's truly valiant, that can wisely suffer. 
T. A., Ill : 5. 1301. 



— Not a just Cause of Praise. 
Pri. Paris, you speak 

Like one besotted on your sweet delights : 
You have the honey still, but these the gall ; 
So to be valiant, is no praise at all. 

T. GVII: 2. 1115. 

— Questionable. 

Flu. * * As valiant as Mark Antony. 
H. F..III: 6. 835. 

— Rough, Plea for. 

Men. Consider further, 

That when he speaks not like a citizen, 
You find him like a soldier : Do not take 
His rougher accents for malicious sounds, 
But, as I say, such as become a soldier, 
Rather than envy you. 

C, III : 3. 1176. 

— Skilful. 

Tro. The Greeks are strong, and skilful 
to their strength, 
Fierce to their skill, and to their fierceness 
valiant. 

T. Ci, 1 : 1. 1102. 

VALUE. — Differently Fixed. 

Tim. A mere satiety of commendations. 
If I should pay you for 't as 't is extoll'd, 
It would unclew me quite. 

Jew. My lord, 't is rated 

As those, which sell, would give : But you 

well know 
Things of like value, differing in the own- 
ers, 
Are prized by their masters ; believe 't, dear 

lord, 
You mend the jewel by wearing it. 

T.A.,I: 1. 1288. 

— Set too high. 

Ilect. Brother, she is not worth what 
she doth cost 
The holding. 

Tro. What is aught, but as 't is valued? 
Ilect. But value dwells not in particular 
will ; 
It holds his estimate and dignity 
As well wherein 't is precious of itself 
As in the prizer. 

T. (7., II: 2. 1114. 



VANITY. 577 VENGEANCE. 


VANITY. — Boasts of its Titles. 


The house-keeper, the hunter, every one 


Bast. Knight, knight, good mother, — 
Basilisco-like : 
What ! I am dubb'd : I have it on my 


According to the gift which bounteous nat- 
ure 
Hath in him clos'd; whereby he does re- 


shoulder. 

K. J., 1 : 1. 649. 


ceive 
Particular addition, from the bill 


— Despised. 

Mor. * * 


That writes them all alike : and so of men. 
J/., Ill: 1. 1369. 


A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross. 
21. F.,11: 8. 372. 


VEHEMENCE. — Wanting Voice. 

Const. * * 


— In Dress. 


0, that my tongue were in the thunder's 


Laf. * * 
The soul of- this man is his clothes. 

A. W. t II: 5. 510. 


mouth ! 
Then with a passion would I shake the 
world. 

K. J., ni : 4. 662. 


— Of human Hopes. 

Wol. * * 


VENGEANCE — A Soldiei's. 


This is the state of man : To-day he puts 


Alcih. * * 


forth 
The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blos- 


Till now you have gone on, and fill'd the 
time . 


soms, 
And bears his blushing honours thick upon 


With all licentious measure, making your 
wills 


him : 
The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; 
And, — when he thinks, good easy man, full 

surely 


The scope of justice; till now, myself, and 

such 
As slept within the shadow of your power, 
Have wander'd with our travers'd arms, and 


His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, 
And then he falls, as I do. 


breath 'd 
Our sufferance vainly : Now the time is 


H. VIII., HI- 2. 1081. 


flush, 


— Rustic. 

Rich. * * 
Trimmed like a younker, prancing to his 


When crouching marrow, in the bearer 

strong, 
Cries, of itself, "No more :" now breathless 

wrong 


love. 

H. VI, 3pt., II: 1. 962. 


Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of 
ease; 


— Self -consuming. 

Gaunt. * * 


And pursy insolence shall break his wind, 
With fear, and horrid flight. 


Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, 
Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. 
R. II, II : 1. 692. 


T. A.,V: 5. 1315. 

— Excited to Extremities. 


VARIETY.— In Men and Dogs. 


Y. Clif. * * Even at this sight, 
My heart is turned to stone : and, while 't 


Macb. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for 
men; 


is mine, 
It shall be stony. York not our old men 


As hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, 

spaniels, curs, 
Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 

cleped 
All by the name of dogs : the valued file 
Distinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle, 


spares ; 
No more will I their babes : tears virginal 
Shall be to me even as the dew to fire ; 
And beauty, that the tyrant oft reclaims, 
Shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax. 
Henceforth, I will not have to do with pity : 



VENGEANCE. 



578 



VENGEANCE. 



Meet I an infant of the house of York, 
Into as many gobbets will I cut it, 
As wild Medea young Absyrtus did : 
In cruelty will I seek out my fame. 

H. VI., 2 pt., V : 2. 945. 

— Heavenly, Invoked. 

Oth. Are there no stones in heaven, 

But what serve for the thunder? — Precious 

villain. 

0., V : 2. 1531. 

— Impending. 

Men. * * Now he 's coming ; 
And not a hair upon a soldier's head, 
Which will not prove a whip. 

C IV: 6. 1184. 

— Invoked. 

Gal. As wicked dew as e'er my mother 
brush'd 
With raven's feather from unwholesome fen, 
Drop on you both ! 



T., I: 2. 12. 
* * Thatch your poor thin roofs 



Tim 

With burdens of the dead ; — some that 
were hang'd. 

T. A., IV : 3. 1307. 

Anne. * * 
Either, heaven, with lightning strike the 

murderer dead, 
Or, earth, gape open wide, and eat him 

quick ; 
As thou dost swallow up this good king's 

blood, 
Which his hell govern'd arm hath butchered. 
R. III., 1 : 2. 1004. 

— Makes Men great. 

Gom. * * Coriolanus 

He would not answer to : forbad all names ; 

He was a kind of nothing, titleless, 

Till he had forg'd himself a name i' the fire 

Of burning Rome. 

C, V : 1. 1186. 

— Mocks. 

Glo. * * 
See, how my sword weeps for the poor king's 

death ! 
O, may such purple tears be always shed 
From those that wish the downfal of our 
house ! 

If. F/.,3pt., V: 6. 992. 



— Not Measured by the Offence. 

Post. * * Gods! if you 

Should have ta'en vengeance on my faults, 
I never 

Had liv'd to put on this; so had you sav'd 

The noble Imogen to repent ; and struck 

Me, wretch, more worth your vengeance. 
But, alack, 

You snatch some hence for little faults ; 
that 's love, 

To have them fall no more : you some per- 
mit 

To second ills with ills, each later worse ; 

And make them dread it to the doer's thrift. 

But Imogen is your own : Do your best 
wills, 

And make me bless 'd to obey ! 

Gym., V : 1. 1621. 

— Prayed for. 

Vol. Take my prayers with you. 

I would the gods had nothing else to do, 
But to confirm my curses ! Could I meet 

them 
But once a day, it would unclog my heart 
Of what lies heavy to 't. 

C, IV: 2. 1178. 

— Remorseless. 

Q. Eliz. * * 
No doubt the murderous knife was dull and 

blunt, 
Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart, 
To revel in the entrails of my lambs. 
But that still use of grief makes wild grief 

tame, 
My tongue should to thy ears not name my 

boys, • 

Till that my nails were anchor'd in thine 

eyes ; 
And I, in such a desperate bay of death, 
Like a poor bark, of sails and tackling 

reft, 
Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom. 

R. III., IV: 4. 1037. 

— Stronger than Love. 

Aar. Madam, though Venus govern your 
desires, 
Saturn is dominator over mine : 
What signifies my deadly-standing eye, 
My silence, and my cloudy melancholy? 



VENGEANCE. 



579 



VENGEANCE. 



My fleece of woolly hair that now uncurls, 
Even as an adder, when she doth unroll 
To do some fatal execution? 
No, madam, these are no venereal signs ; 
Vengeance is in my heart, death in my 

hand, 
Blood and revenge are hammering in my 

head. 

Tit. And., II : 3. 1209. 

— Stunning. 
Troy * * 

My sword should bite it : not the dreadful 

spout, 
Which shipmen do the hurricano call, 
Constring'd in mass by the almighty sun, 
Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune's 

ear, 
In his descent, than shall my prompted 

sword 
Falling on Diomed. 

T. C.,Y: 2. 3138. 

— The, Due to Slander. 

Leon. * * 
If they wrong her honour, 
The proudest of them shall well hear of it. 
Time hath not yet so dried this blood of 

mine, 
Nor age so eat up my invention, 
Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, 
Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends, 
But they shall find, awak'd in such a kind, 
Both strength of limb, and policy of mind, 
Ability in means, and choice of friends, 
To quit me of them throughly. 

M. A., IV: 1. 246. 



Threatened. 



Tit. 



Hark, villains ; I will grind your bones to 

dust, 
And with your blood and it, I '11 make a 

paste ; 
And of the paste a coffin I will rear, 
And make two pasties of your shameful 

heads : 
And bid that strumpet, your unhallow'd dam, 
Like to the earth, swallow her own increase. 
This is the feast that I have bid her to, 
And this the banquet she shall surfeit on. 

Tit. And., V : 2. 1229. 



Tro. * * 
No space of earth shall sunder our two 

hates ; 
I '11 haunt thee like a wicked conscience 

still, 
That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy 
thoughts. 

T. C.,V: 11. 1143. 

Ant. * * But were I Brutus, 
And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony 
Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a 

tongue 
In every wound of Caesar, that should 

move 
The stones of Rome to rise in mutiny. 

J. C, III : 2. 1341. 

Cleo. * * Pr'ythee, go hence ; 
Or I shall show the cinders of my spirit 
Through the ashes of mischance. 

A. C, V : 2. 1580. 

Pro. If thou murmur'st, I will rend an 
oak, 
And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till 
Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters. 

T., I: 2. 11. 

Caius. By gar, de herring is no dead so 
as I vill kill him. Take your rapier, Jack ; 
I vill tell you how I vill kill him. 

M. W., II : 3. 101. 

Pro. * * Thy food shall be 
The fresh-brook muscles, wither'd roots, 

and husks 
Wherein the acorn cradled. 

T., 1 : 2. 14. 

K. John. * * 
There is so hot a summer in my bosom, 
That all my bowels crumble up to dust. 

K.J.,V: 7. 676. 

— Timing it. 

Ham. * * Or about some act 
That has no relish of salvation in 't : 
Then trip him, that his heels may kick at 

heaven : 
And that his soul may be as damn'd, and 

black, 
As hell, whereto it goes. 

R., Ill : 3^ 1418. 



VENGEANCE. 



5 8o 



VENGEANCE. 



Tim. * * Swear against objects ; 
Put armour on thine ears and on thine eyes ; 
Whose proof, nor yells of mothers, maids, 

nor babes, 
Nor sight of priests in holy vestments bleed- 
ing, 
Shall pierce a jot. 

T. A t . IV : 3. 1306. 

—Too hot for Tears. 

Rich. I cannot weep; for all my body's 

moisture 
Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burn- 
ing heart : 
Nor can my tongue unload my heart's great 

burden ; 
For self-same wind, that I should speak 

withal, 
Is kindling coals, that fire all my breast, 
And burn me up with flames, that tears 

would quench. 
To weep, is to make less the depth of grief: 
Tears, then, for babes ; blows, and revenge, 

for me ! — 
Richard, I bear thy name, I '11 venge thy 

death, 
Or die renowned by attempting it. 

H. VI., 3pt., II: 1. 963. 

— Vows of United. 
Rich. Ah, Warwick, why hast thou with- 
drawn thyself? 
Thy brother's blood the thirsty earth hath 

drunk, 
Broach'd with the steely point of Clifford's 

lance : 
And, in the very pangs of death, he cried, — 
Like to a dismal clangor heard from far, — 
"Warwick, revenge! brother, revenge my 

death ! " 
So underneath the belly of their steeds, 
That stained their fetlocks in his smoking 

blood, 
The noble gentleman gave up the ghost. 
War. Then let the earth be drunken 

with our blood ; 
I '11 kill my horse, because I will not fly. 
Why stand we like soft-hearted women 

here, 
Wailing our losses, whiles the foe doth 

rage ; 
And look upon, as if the tragedy 



Were play'd in jest by counterfeiting act- 
ors? 
Here on my knee I vow to God above, 
111 never pause again, never stand still, 
Till either death hath clos'd these eyes of 

mine,. 
Or fortune given me measure of revenge. 
Edw. O Warwick, I do bend my knee 

with thine ; 
And, in this vow, do chain my soul to thine. 
And, ere my knee rise from the earth's 

cold face, 
I throw my hands, mine eyes, my heart to 

Thee, 
Thou setter up and plucker down of kings ! 
Beseeching Thee, — if with Thy will it 

stands, 
That to my foes this body must be prey, — 
Yet that Thy brazen gates of heaven may 

ope, 
And give sweet passage to my sinful soul ! 
H. VI., 3pt.,n: 3. 967. 

— Winged. 

Glo. Because I would not see thy cruel 

nails 
Pluck out his poor old eyes ;, nor thy fierce 

sister 
In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs. 
The sea, with such a storm as his bare head 
In hell-black night endur'd, would have 

buoy'd up, 
And quench 'd the stelled fires : yet, poor 

old heart, 
He holp the heavens to rain. 
If wolves had at thy gate howl'd that stern 

time, 
Thou should'st have said, "Good porter, 

turn the key ; " 
All cruels else subscrib'd : — But I shall see 
The winged vengeance overtake such chil- 
dren. 

K. L. t HI : 7. 1463. 

— Wordy. 

Rug. 'T is past the hour, sir, that sir 
Hugh promis'd to meet. 

Gaius. By gar, he has save his soul, dat 
he is no come ; he has pray his Pible veil, 
dat he is no come ; by gar, Jack Rugby, he 
is dead already if he be come. 

Rug. He is wise, sir; he knew your 
worship would kill him, if he came. 

M. W. y II : 3. 101. 



VENTURES. 



581 



VETERAN. 



VENTURES— A Merchant's. 

Shy. * * His means are in supposi- 
tion : he hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, 
another to the Indies ; I understand, more- 
over, upon the Rialto, he hath a third at 
Mexico, a fourth for England ; and other 
ventures he hath, squander'd abroad. But 
ships are but boards, sailors but men: there 
be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves 
and land-thieves ; I mean, pirates ; and then, 
there is the peril of waters, winds, and 
rocks : The man is, notwithstanding, suffi- 
cient ; — three thousand ducats ; — I think I 
may take his bond. 

M. V., I: 3. 365. 

— Control our Thoughts. 

Salar. My wind, cooling my broth, 

Would blow me to an ague, when I thought 
What harm a wind too great might do at sea. 
I should not see the sandy hour-glass run, 
But I should think of shallows and of flats, 
And see my wealthy Andrew dock'd in sand, 
Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs, 
To kiss her burial. Should I go to church, 
And see the holy edifice of stone, 
And not bethink me straight of dangerous 

rocks, 
Which, touching but my gentle vessel's side, 
Would scatter all her spices on the stream ; 
Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks ; 
And, in a word, but even now worth this, 
And now worth nothing? Shall I have the 

thought 
To think on this, and shall I lack the thought 
That such a thing, bechanc'd, would make 

me sad? 
But tell not me ; I know Antonio 
Is sad, to think upon his merchandise. 

Ant. Believe me, no : I thank my fort- 
une for it, 
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, 
Nor to one place ; nor is my whole estate 
Upon the fortune of this present year : 
Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad. 
Salar. Why, then you are in love. 
Ant. Fie, fie ! 

Salar. Not in love neither? Then let us 
say you are sad 
Because you are not merry : and 't were as 

easy 
For you to laugh, and leap, and say you are 

merry, 
Because you are not sad. 

31. V., 1: 1. 361. 



— Some, safe. 

Ulyss. * * But, hit or miss, 
Our project's life this shape of sense as- 
sumes, — 
Ajax, employ'd, plucks down Achilles' 
plumes. 

T. a, I: 3. 1111. 

— Wisely repeated. 

Bass. In my school-days, when I had 
lost one shaft, 
I shot his fellow of the self-same flight 
The self-same way, with more advised 

watch 
To find the other forth ; and, by adventuring 

both, 
I oft found both. 

31. V., I: 1. 362. 

VENUS. — Smiles not. 

Par. * * 
For Venus smiles not in a house of tears. 
Now, sir, her father counts it dangerous, 
That she doth give her sorrow so much 

sway, 
And, in his wisdom, hastes our marriage, 
To stop the inundation of her tears. 

R. J., IV: 1. 1268. 

VERBOSITY.— All Chaff. 

Bass. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of 
nothing, more than any man in all Venice. 
His reasons are two grains of wheat hid in 
two bushels of chaff; you shall seek all day 
ere you find them, and when you have them, 
they are not worth the search. 

M. V., 1 : 1. 362. 

VETERAN. — Recognition by a. 

JYest. I have, thou gallant Trojan, seen 

thee oft, 
Labouring for destiny, make cruel way 
Through ranks of Greekish youth : and I 

have seen thee, 
As hot as Perseus, spur thy Phrygian steed, 
Despising many forfeits and subduements, 
When thou hast hung thy advanced sword 

i' the air, 
Not letting it decline on the declin'd ; 
That I have said to some my standers-by, 
" Lo, Jupiter is yonder, dealing life ! " 
And I have seen thee pause, and take thy 

breath, 



VETERAN. 



S82 



VICE. 



When that a ring of Greeks have hemm'tl 
thee in, 

Like an Olympian wrestling : This have I 
seen; 

But this thy countenance, still lock'd in 
steel, 

I never saw till now. I knew thy grand- 
sire, 

And once fought with him : he was a soldier 
good; 

But, by great Mars, the captain of us all, 

Never like thee : Let an old man embrace 
thee; 

And, worthy warrior, welcome to our tents. 
T. C, IV : 5. 1133. 

VICE. — Destroys itself. 

Ant. You have been a boggier ever : — 
But when we in our viciousness grow 

hard, 
(O misery on 't!) the wise gods seel our 

eyes ; 
In our own filth drop our clear judgments ; 

make us 
Adore our errors ; laugh at us, while we 

strut 
To our confusion. 

A. C., Ill: 11. 1566. 



— Its Face of Fire. 

Fal. Do thou amend thy face, and I '11 
amend my life : Thou art our admiral, thou 
bearest the lantern in the poop, — but 't is 
in the nose of thee; thou art the knight of 
the burning lamp. 

Bard. Why, sir John, my face does you 
no harm. 

Fal. No, I '11 be sworn ; I make as good 
use of it as many a man doth of a death's 
head, or a memento mori; I never see thy 
face, but I think upon hell-fire, and Dives 
that lived in purple ; for there he is in his 
robes, burning, burning. If thou wert any 
way given to virtue, I would swear by thy 
face; my oath should be, By this fire: but 
thou art altogether given over: and wert in- 
deed, but for the light in thy face, the son 
of utter darkness. When thou ran'st up 
Gads-hill in the night to catch my horse, if 
I did not think thou hadst been an ignis fat- 
uus, or a ball of wildfire, there 's no pur- 
chase in money. O, thou art a perpetual 
triumph, an everlasting bonfire-light! 
Thou hast saved me a thousand marks in 
links and torches, walking with thee in the 
night betwixt tavern and tavern : but the 



sack that thou hast drunk me, would have 
bought me lights as good cheap, at the 
dearest chandler's in Europe. I have main- 
tained that salamander of yours with fire, 
any time this two-and-thirty years : Heaven 
reward me for it ! 

Bard. 'Sblood, I would my face were in 
your belly ! 

Fal. God-a-mercy ! so should I be sure 
to be heart-burned. 

//. IV., lpt., Ill: 3. 749. 

— Its Fretences. 

P. Hen. Do thou stand for my father, 
and examine me upon the particulars of my 
life. 

Fal. Shall I? content: — This chair shall 
be my state, this dagger my sceptre, and this 
cushion my crown. 

P. Hen. Thy state is taken for a joint- 
stool, thy golden sceptre for a leaden dag- 
ger, and thy precious rich crown, for a piti- 
ful bald crown ! 

Fal. Well, an the fire of grace be not quite 
out of thee, now shalt thou be moved. — 
Give me a cup of sack, to make mine eyes 
look red, that it may be thought I have 
wept; for I must speak in passion, and I 
will do it in king Cambyses' vein. 

H. IV., 1 pt., II : 4. 742. 

— Its Relation to Virtue. 

Duke. * * 
When vice makes mercy, mercy 's so ex- 
tended, 
That for the fault's love is th' offender 
friended. 

M. N., IV : 2. 165. 

— Lustful, Finds Fuel enough. 

Macd. Boundless intemperance 

In nature is a tyranny ; it hath been 
The untimely emptying of the happy throne, 
And fall of many kings. But fear not yet 
To take upon you what is yours : you 

may 
Enjoy your pleasures in a spacious plenty, 
And yet seem cold, the time you may so 

hoodwink. 
We have willing dames enough ; there can- 
not be 
That vulture in you, to devour so many 
As Avill to greatness dedicate themselves, 
Finding it so inclin'd. 

M., IV : 3. 1378. 



VICES. 



S83 



VILLAINY. 



VICES. — Bolder, impudent 

Leon. I ne'er heard yet, 

That any of these bolder vices wanted 
Less impudence to gainsay what they did, 
Than to perform it first. 

W. T., Ill : 2. 594. 

— Make their own Scourges. 

Edg. * * 
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices 
Make instruments to scourge us : 
The dark and vicious place where thee he 

got, 
Cost him his eyes. 

K. L.,V: 3. 1483. 

VICTOR.— Entitled to Prize. 

Ant. * * Win and wear me. 

M.A.,V: 1. 250. 

VICTORS. — Their Approach. 

E. Her. * * Like a jolly troop of 
huntsmen, come 
Our lusty English, all with purpled hands, 
Died in the dying slaughter of their foes : 
Open your gates, and give the victors way. 
K. J., II : 2. 653. 

VICTORY.— Enhanced by Difficulty. 

K. Edw. The harder match'd, the greater 
victory ; 
My mind presageth happy gain, and con- 
quest. 

H. VI., 3pt., V: 1. 987. 

— Not dependent on Numbers. 

York. Five men to twenty! — though 
the odds be great, 
I doubt not, uncle, of our victory. 
Many a battle have I won in France, 
When as the enemy hath been ten to one ; 
Why should I not now have the like success ? 
H. F/.,3pt., I: 2. 959. 

— Twice glorious. 

Leon. A victory is twice itself when the 
achiever brings home full numbers. 

M.A.,1: 1. 225. 



VIGILANCE. — Unslumbering. 

Fal. Tut, never fear me ; I am as vigi- 
lant as a cat to steal cream. 

H. IV., lpt.,IV: 2. 754. 



VILE.— The, Think Goodness vile. 
Alb. Wisdom and goodness to the vile, 
seem vile ; 
Filths savour but themselves. 

K. Z..IV: 2. 1472. 

VILLAIN — A smiling. 

Ham. * * 
O villain, -villain, smiling, damned villain ! 
My tables, my tables, — meet it is I set it 

down, 
That one may smile, and smile, and be a 

villain ; 
At least I 'm sure it may be so in Denmark. 

H., I: 5. 1400. 

— Describing himself. 

Fal. A good portly man, i' faith, and a 
corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing 
eye, and a most noble carriage ; and. as I 
think, his age some fifty, or, by'r-lady, in- 
clining to threescore ; and now I remember 
me, his name is Falstaff: if that man should 
be lewdly given, he deceiveth me ; for, 
Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If then 
the tree may be known by the fruit, as the 
fruit by the tree, then, peremptorily I speak 
it, there is virtue in that Falstaff: him keep 
with, the rest banish. 

H. IV., 1 pt., II : 4. 742. 

VILLAINY. — Aggregated. 

Cas. * * You shall find there 
A man, who is the abstract of all faults 
That all men follow. 

A. C, I: 4. 1545. 

— Black, Gloried in. 

Aar. * * 

Even now I curse the day, (and yet, I 
think, 

Few come within the compass of my curse,) 

Wherein I did not some notorious ill : 

As kill a man, or else devise his death ; 

Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it ; 

Accuse some innocent, and forswear my- 
self; 

Set deadly enmity between two friends ; 

Make poor men's cattle break their necks ; 

Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the 
night, 

And bid the owners quench them with their 
tears : 

To gaze upon a ruinous monastery ; 

And as I earnestly did fix mine eye, — 



VILLAINY. 



584 



VILLAINY. 



Tutj I have done a thousand dreadful things, 
As willingly as one would kill a fly ; 
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed, 
But that I cannot do ten thousand more. 

Tit. And., V: 1. 1226. 

— Defiant. 

Glo. * * 
And, like a Sinon, take another Troy. 

H. 77., 3 pt., Ill: 3. 974. 

— Different from Amorousness. 

lack. * * Well may you, sir, 
Remember me at court, where I was taught 
Of your chaste daughter the wide difference 
'Twixt amorous and villanous. 

Cym., V : 5. 1628. 

— Easily Punished. 

Bast. If thou didst but consent 

To this most cruel act, do but despair, 
And, if thou want'st a cord, the smallest 

thread 
That ever spider twisted from her womb 
Will serve to strangle thee ; a rush will be 
A beam to hang thee on; or would'st thou 

drown thyself, 
Put but a little water in a spoon, 
And it shall be as all the ocean, 

Enough to stifle such a villain up. 

I do suspect thee very grievously. 

K. J., IV: 3. 670. 

— Finds ready Tools. 

Glo. What ! think you we are Turks, or 
infidels? 
Or that we would, against the form of law, 
Proceed thus rashly in the villain's death ; 
But that the extreme peril of the case, 
The peace of England, and our persons' 

safety, 
Enforc'd us to this execution? 

May. Now, fair befal you, he deserv'd 
his death; 
And your good graces both have well pro- 
ceeded, 
To warn false traitors from the like at- 
tempts. . 
I never look'd for better at his hands, 
After he once fell in with mistress Shore. 

R. III., Ill : 5. 1026. 



— How to be Punished. 

Emil. * * 
O, heaven, that such companions thou 'dst 

unfold, 
And put in every honest hand a whip, 
To lash the rascal naked through the world, 
Even from the east to the west ! 

0., IV: 2. 1523. 

— Its Price. 

Con. Is it possible that any villainy 
should be so dear? 

Bora. Thou shouldst rather ask, if it 
were possible an}' villainy should be so 
rich ; for when rich villains have need of 
poor ones, poor ones may make what price 
they will. 

M. A.,\\\: 3. 241. 

— Its Punishment. 

Cleo. What say you? — Hence, 

Horrible villain ! or I '11 spurn thine eyes 
Like balls before me ; I '11 unhair thy head ; 
Thou shalt be whipp'd with wire, and stew'd 

in brine, 
Smarting in ling'ring pickle. 

A. C, II : 5. 1552. 

— Makes a Plea for itself. 

Fal. * * If sack and sugar be a fault, 
God help the wicked! If to be old and mer- 
ry be a sin, then many an old host that I 
know, is damned : if to be fat be to be hated, 
then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. 
No, my good lord ; Banish Peto, hanish 
Bardolph, banish Poins : but for sweet Jack 
Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Fal- 
staff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore 
more valiant, being as he is, old Jack Fal- 
staff, banish not him thy Harry's company; 
banish plump Jack, and banish all the 
Avorld. 

//. 7r.,lpt,, II: 4. 742. 

—Never Ends -well. 

York. * * 
If you do wrongfully seize Hereford's rights, 
Call in the letters patents that he hath 
By his attornies-general to sue 
His livery, and deny his offer'd homage, 
You pluck a thousand dangers on your 

head, 
You lose a thousand well-disposed hearts, 
And prick my tender patience to those 

thoughts 
Which honour and allegiance cannot think. 



VILLAINY. 



585 



VINDICTIVENES. 



K. Rich. Think what you will ; we seize 
into our hands 
His plate, his goods, his money, and his 
lands. 
York. I '11 not be by, the while : My 
liege, farewell : 
What will ensue hereof, there 's none can 

tell; 
But by bad courses may be understood, 
That their events can never fall out good. 

R. II., II : 1. 694. 

— Overreached by Revenge. 

Tit. Look round about the wicked streets 

of Rome ; 
And w hen thou find'st a man that 's like 

thyself, 
Good Murder, stab him ; he 's a murderer. — 
Go thou with them ; and when it is thy hap, 
To find another that is like to thee, 
Good Rapine, stab him ; he 's a ravisher. — 
Go thou with them ; and in the emperor's 

court 
There is a queen, attended by a Moor ; 
Well may'st thou know her by thy own 

proportion, 
For up and down she doth resemble thee ; 
I pray thee, do on them some violent 

death. 

Tit. And., V : 2. 1228. 

— Superlative. 

Aar. I go, Andronicus : and for thy 

hand, 
Look by and by to have thy sons witli 

thee : — 
Their heads, I mean. — O, how this vil- 

lany 
Doth fat me with the very thoughts of it! 
Let fools do good, and fair men call for 

grace. 
Aaron will have his soul black like his 

face. 

Tit. And., Ill: 1. 1216. 

— The basest. 

Glo. If you thrive well bring them to 
Baynard's castle ; 
Where you shall find me well accompanied 
With reverend fathers, and well-learned 
bishops. 

R. III., Ill : 5. 1026. 



— Wordy, not popular. 

Buck. * * Withal, I did infer your 

lineaments, — 
Being the right idea of your father, 
Both in your fo.rm and nobleness of mind : 
Laid open all your victories in Scotland, 
Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace, 
Your bounty, virtue, fair humility ; 
Indeed, left nothing, fitting for your pur- 
pose, 
Untouch'd, or slightly handled, in discourse. 
And, Avhen my oratory grew to an end, 
I bade them, that did love their country's 

good, 
Cry — " God save Richard, England's royal 

king!" 
Glo. And did they so ? 
Buck. No, so God help me, they spake 

not a word ; 
But, like dumb statues, or breathless stones, 
Star'd on each other, and looked deadly pale. 
Which when I saw, I reprehended them; 
And ask'd the mayor, what meant this wilful 

silence : 
His answer was, — the people were not us'd 
To be spoke to, but by the recorder. 
Then he was urg'd to tell my tale again ; — 
''Thus said the duke, thus hath the duke 

inferr'd ; " 
But nothing spoke in warrant from himself. 
When he had done, some followers of mine 

own, 
At lower end o' the hall, hurl'd up their caps, 
And some ten voices cried, " God save king 

Richard ! " 
And thus I took the vantage of those few, 
"Thanks, gentle citizens, and friends," 

quoth I ; 
" This general applause, and cheerful shout, 
Argues your wisdom, and your love to 

Richard : " 
And even here brake off, and came away. 
Glo. What tongueless blocks were they ! 

Would they not speak ? 

R. III., Ill: 7. 1027 

VINDICTIVENESS. — Cruel. 

Bru. * * 
To cut the head off, and then hack the limbs ; 
Like wrath in death, and envy afterwards ; 
For Antony is but a limb of Ca?sar. 

J. C, II : 1. 1330. 



VINDICTIVENESS. 



5 86 



VIRGINITY. 



— Woman's. 
Q. Mar. * * 
What ! was it you, that would be England's 

king? 
Was 't you that revell'd in our parlia- 
ment, 
And made a preachment of your high de- 
scent? 
Where are your mess of sons to back you 

now ? 
The wanton Edward, and the lusty George? 
And where 's that valiant crook-back prod- 
igy, 
Dicky your boy, that, with his grumbling 

voice, 
Was wont to cheer his dad in mutinies? 
Or, with the rest, where is your darling 

Rutland? 
Look, York ; I stain'd this napkin with the 

blood 
That valiant Clifford, with his rapier's 

point, 
Made issue from the bosom of the boy : 
And, if thine eyes can water for his death, 
I give thee this to dry thy cheeks withal. 
Alas, poor York! but that I hate thee 

deadly, 
I should lament thy miserable state. 
I pr'ythee, grieve, to make me merry, 

York; 
Stamp, rave, and fret, that I may sing and 

dance. 
What, hath thy fiery heart so parch'd thine 

entrails, 
1 hat not a tear can fall for Rutland's death? 
Why art thou patient, then? thou should'st 

be mad ; 
And I, to make thee mad, do mock thee 

thus. 
Thou would'st be fee'd, I see, to make me 

sport ; 
York cannot speak, unless he wear a 

crown. 
A crown for York; — and, lords, bow low 

to him. 
Hold you his hands, whilst I do set it on. 
Ay, marry, sir, now looks he like a king ! 
Ay, this is he that took king Henry's chair ; 
And this is he was his adopted heir. — 
But how is it that great Plantagenet 
Is crown'd so soon, and broke his solemn 

oath? 



As I bethink me, you should not be king, 
Till our king Henry had shook hands with 

death. 
And will you pale your head in Henry's 

glory, 
And rob his temples of the diadem, 
Now in his life, against your holy oath? 
O, 'tis a fault, too, too unpardonable ! — 
Off with the crown; and, with the crown, 

his head ; 
And, whilst we breathe, take time to do him 

dead. 

H. VI., 3 pt., 1 : 4. 960. 

VIRAGO.— A desperate. 

Bene. * * I would not marry her, 
though she were endowed with all that 
Adam had left him before he transgressed : 
she would have made Hercules have turn'd 
spit ; yea, and have cleft his club to make 
the fire too. Come, talk not of her: you 
shall find her the infernal Ate in good ap- 
parel. I would to God some scholar would 
conjure her; for, certainly, while she is 
here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in 
a sanctuary. 

M.A.,II: I. 232. 

VIRGIN.— Born, to Die a. 

Gran. She shall be, to the happiness of 

England, 
An aged princess ; many days shall see 

her, 
And yet no day without a deed to crown it. 
'Would I had known no more ! but she 

must die, 
(She must, the saints must have her;) yet a 

virgin, 
A most unspotted lily shall she pass 
To the ground, and all the world shall 

mourn her. 

H. VIII., V: 3. 1094. 

VIRGINITY.— Lacks Adaptation. 

Par. * * Virginity, like an old court- 
ier, wears her cap out of fashion ; richly 
suited, but unsuitable : just like the brooch 
and the toothpick, which wear not now. 

A. W., I: 1.497. 

— Old. 

Par. * * Your old virginity is like 
one of our French wither'd pears ; it looks 
ill, it eats drily. 

A. W.,I: 1. 497. 



VIRGINITY. 



587 



VIRGINITY. 



— Perpetual. 

Her. * * 

But I beseech your grace that I may know 

The worst that may befall me in this case, 

If I refuse to wed Demetrius. 

The. Either to die the death, or to abjure 

For ever the society of men. 

Therefore, fair Hermia, question your de- 
sires, 

Know of your youth, examine well your 
blood, 

Whether, if you yield not to your father's 
choice, 

You can endure the livery of a nun ; 

For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, 

To live a barren sister all your life, 

Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless 
moon. 

Thrice blessed they that master so their 
blood, 

To undergo such maiden pilgrimage : 

But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, 

Than that which, withering on the virgin 
thorn, 

Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. 
M. JT., 1 : 1. 322. 

— Self -destructive. 

Count. This young gentlewoman had a 
father, (0, that had! how sad a passage 't 
is!) whose skill was almost as great as his 
honesty ; had it streteh'd so far, would have 
made nature immortal, and death should 
have play for lack of work. 

A. W., II : 1. 495. 

VIRTUE. — Dearer than Life. 

Isab. 0, 't is the cunning livery of hell, 
The damned'st body to invest and cover 
In princely guards ! Dost thou think, Clau- 

dio, 
If I would yield him my virginity, 
Thou might'st be freed? 

Claud. 0, heavens ! it cannot be. 

Isab. Yes, he would give 't thee, from 
this rank offence, 
So to offend him still. This night 's the time 
That I should do what I abhor to name, 
Or else thou diest to-morrow. 

Claud. Thou shalt not do 't. 

Isab. 0, were it but my life, 

I 'd throw it down for your deliverance 

As frankly as a pin. 

M. M., Ill: 1. 157. 



— Demands its Rites. 

OH. Blame not this haste of mine : if 

you mean well, 

Now go with me, and with this holy man, 

Into the chantry by ; there, before him, 

And underneath that consecrated roof, 

Plight me the full assurance of your faith ; 

That my most jealous and too doubtful soul 

May live at peace. 

T. 2T., IV : 3. 565. 

— Depends on Circumstances. 
Fri. Virtue itself turns vice, being mis- 
applied. 

R. J., II : 3. 1253. 

— In a Fool. 

Wol. * * He was a fool, 
For he would needs be virtuous : That good 

fellow, 
If I command him, follows my appointment ; 
I will have none so near else. Learn this, 

brother, 
We live not to be grip'd by meaner persons. 
H. VIII., II : 2. 1069. 

— Its Effect on Woman. 

York. * * 
"T is virtue, that doth make them most ad- 

mir'd; 
The contrary doth make thee wonder'd at. 
//. VI, 3pt.,I: 4. 961. 

— Makes Blacks fair. 

Duke. * * 
If virtue no delighted beauty lack, 
Your son-in-law is far more fair than black. 

0., 1 : 3. 1498. 

— Not unmixed. 

1 Lord. The web of our life is of a 
mingled yarn, good and ill together : our 
virtues would be proud, if our faults whipp'd 
them not; and our crimes would despair, if 
they were not eherish'd by our virtues. 

A. W., IV : 3. 520. 

— Of More Value than Life. 

Aug. Admit no other way to save his 
life, 
(As I subscribe not that, nor any other, 
But in the case of question,) that you, his 
jsjister, 



VIRGINITY. 



5 88 



VIRTUES. 



Finding yourself desir'd of such a person, 
Whose credit with the judge, or own great 

place, 
Could fetch your brother from the manacles 
Of the all-binding law ; and that there were 
No earthly mean to save him, but that either 
You must lay down the treasures of your 

body 
To this supposed, or else to let him suffer ; 
What would you do? 

Isab. As much for my poor brother as 

myself: 
That is, were I under the terms of death, 
Th' impression of keen whips I 'd wear as 

rubies, 
And strip myself to death, as to a bed 
That long I have been sick for, ere I 'd 

yield 
My body up to shame. 

M. if., II: 4. 155. 

— Outraged, revenged. 
Tit. * * Die, die, Lavinia, and thy 
shame with thee ; 
And, with thy shame, thy father's sorrow 
die! 
Sat. What hast thou done, unnatural, 

and unkind ? 
Tit. Kiird her, for whom my tears have 
made me blind. 
I am as woful as Virginius was : 
And have a thousand times more cause than 

he 
To do this outrage ; — and it is now done. 
Sat. What, was she ravish'd? tell, who 

did the deed. 
Tit. Will 't please you eat? will 't please 

your highness feed? 
Tarn. Why hast thou slain thine only 

daughter thus? 
Tit. Not I; 'twas Chiron, and Demetrius : 
They ravish'd her, and cut away her tongue, 
And they, 't was they, that did her all this 
wrong. 
Sat. Go, fetch them hither to us pres- 
ently. 
Tit. Why, there they are both, baked in 
that pie ; 
Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, 
Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred. 
'T is true, 'tis true; witness my knife's 
sharp point. 



Sat. Die, frantic wretch, for this ac- 
cursed deed. 
Luc. Can the son's eye behold his father 
bleed? 
There 's meed for meed, death for a deadly 
deed. 

Tit. And., V : 3. 1230. 

— Public, remorseless. 

Com. I offer 'd to awaken his regard 
For his private friends : His answer to me 

was, 
He could not stay to pick them in a pile 
Of noisome, musty chaff: He said, 't was 

folly, 
For one poor grain or two, to leave un- 

burnt, 
And still to nose the offence. 

C V: l. 1186. 

— That Transgresses, patched. 

Glo. Anything that 's mended, is but 
patched : virtue that transgresses is but 
patched with sin; and sin that amends is 
but patched with virtue. 

T. N.,~l: 5. 544. 

— Ud tasted. 

Agam. * * Yet all his virtues, — 
Not virtuously on his own part beheld, — 
Do, in our eyes, begin to lose their gloss ; 
Yea, like fair fruit in an unwholesome 

dish, 
Are like to rot untasted. 

T. C, II: 3. 1117. 

VIRTUES— Men's, Written in Water. 

Grif. Noble madam, 

Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virt- 
ues 
We write in water. 

H. VIII., IV : 2. 1085. 

— Nameless, near to Vice. 

Speed. Item, " She hath many name- 
less virtues." 

Laun. That 's as much as to say, bas- 
tard virtues; that, indeed, know not their 
fathers, and therefore have no names. 

Speed. Here follow her vices. 

Laun. Close at the heels of her virtues. 
T. G., Ill : 1. 62. 



VIRTUES. 



589 



VOICE. 



— Not to be hidden. 

Duke. * * Thyself and thy belong- 
ings 
Are not thine own so proper, as to waste 
Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. 
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; 
Not light them for themselves : for if our 

virtues 
Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike 
As if we had them not. Spirits are not fine- 
ly touch 'd 
But to fine issues : nor Nature never lends 
The smallest scruple of her excellence, 
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines 
Herself the glory of a creditor, 
Both thanks and use. 

M. If., 1 : 1. 143. 

— Stuffed •with them. 

Mess. * * Stuffed with all honourable 
virtues. 

M.A.,I: 1. 225. 

VISIONS. — Appalling. 

Macb. Thou art too like the spirit of 

Banquo ; down ! 
The crown does sear mine eye-balls : — 

And thy hair, 
Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the 

first : — 
A third is like the former : — Filthy hags ! 
Why do you show me this? — A fourth? — 

Start, eyes ! 
What ! will the line stretch out to the crack 

of doom? 
Another yet? — A seventh? — I'll see no 

more : — 
And yet the eighth appears, who bears a 

glass, 
Which shows me many more ; and some I 

see, 
That two-fold balls and treble sceptres 

carry : 
Horrible sight! — Ay, now, I see, 't is true; 
For the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon 

me, 
And points at them for his. 

;j/., IV: 1. 1376. 

— Preceding Death. 

Kath. No? Saw you not, even now, a 
blessed troop 
Invite me to a banquet ; whose bright faces 



Cast thousand beams upon me, like the sun? 

They promis'd me eternal happiness ; 

And brought me garlands, Griffith, which I 

feel 
I am not worthy yet to wear : I shall, 
Assuredly. 

H. VIII., IV : 2. 1085. 

VIXEN — A young. 

Hel. O, when she 's angry, she is keen 
and shrewd : 
She was a vixen when she went to school ; 
And, though she be but little, she is fierce. 
* J/. iV.,III: 2. 336. 

VOCABULARY.— A Copious. 

Val. * * You have an exchequer of 
words. 

T. G. t II : 4. 55. 

VOICE— A bad. 

Balth. 0, good my lord, tax not so bad 
a voice 
To slander music any more than once. 

JT. A., II : 3. 235. 

— A soft 

Lear. * * Her voice was ever soft, 
Gentle, and low ; an excellent thing in wo- 
man. 

K. L. t V: 3. 1485. 

— A womanlike. 

Duke. * * Thy small pipe 
Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound, 
And all is semblative a woman's part. 

T. X., 1 : 4. 543. 

— Fascination of a Woman's. 

Flo. * * When you speak, sweet, 
I 'd have you do it ever ; when you sing, 
I 'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; 
Pray so; and, for the ord'ring your affairs, 
To sing them too. 

W. T., IV : 3. 602. 

— Low, its Power. 
Cleo. Didst hear her speak? Is she 

shrill-tongu'd, or low? 
Mess. Madam, I heard her speak : she 

is low-voic'd. 
Cleo. That 's not so good. 

A. (7., Ill: 3. 1559. 



VOLUBILITY. 



59° 



VOWS. 



VOLUBILITY. — Suspicious. 

Iago. A knave very voluble ; no further 
conscionable, than in putting on the mere 
form of civil and humane seeming, for the 
better compassing of his salt and most hid- 
den loose affection? why, none ; why, none. 

0., II: 1. 1503. 



VOLUPTUOUSNESS. — Description 
of. 

Eno. * * For her own person, 
It beggar'd all description : she did lie 
In her pavilion, (cloth of gold and tissue,) 
O'er-picturing that Venus, where we see, 
The fancy out-work nature : on each side 

her, 
Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cu- 
pids, 
With diverse-colour'd fans, whose wind did 

seem 
To glow the delicate cheeks which they did 

cool, 
And what they undid, did. 
* * From the barge 

A strange invisible perfume hits the sense 
Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast 
Her people out upon her ; And Antony, 
Enthron'd in the market-place, did sit alone, 
Whistling to the air ; which, but for vacancy, 
Had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too, 
And made a gap in nature. 

A. C., II : 2. 1550. 

VOW. — Involving Murder 

Iago. Do not rise yet.— 

Witness, you ever-burning lights above 
You elements that clip us round about ! 
Witness, that here Iago doth give up 
The execution of his wit, hands, heart, 
To wrong'd Othello's service ! let him com- 
mand, 
And to obey shall be in me remorse, 
What bloody work soever. 

Oth. I greet thy love, 

Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance 

bounteous, 
And will upon the instant put thee to 't : 
Within these three days let me hear thee say, 
That Cassio 's not alive. 

Iago. My friend is dead : 't is done, at 

your request; 

But let her live. 

0., Ill : 3. 1515. 



VOWS. — Conflicting. 

Pand. So mak'st thou faith an enemy 

to faith ; 
And, like a civil war, sett'st oath to oath, 
Thy tongue against thy tongue. O, let thy 

vow 
First made to heaven, first be to heaven 

perform'd ; 
That is, to be the champion of our church ! 
What since thou swor'st, is sworn against 

thyself, 
And may not be performed by thyself: 
For that, which thou hast sworn to do amiss, 
Is not amiss when it is truly done ; 
And being not done, where doing tends to 

ill, 
The truth is then most done not doing it ; 
The better act of purposes mistook 
Is, to mistake again ; though indirect, 
Yet indirection thereby grows direct. 
And falsehood falsehood cures ; as fire cools 

fire, 
Within the scorched veins of one new 

burn'd. 
It is religion, that doth make vows kept ; 
But thou hast sworn against religion ; 
By what thou swear'st, against the thing 

thou swear'st; 
And mak'st an oath the surety for thy truth 
Against an oath : The truth. thou art unsure 
To swear, swear only not to be forsworn ; 
Else, what a mockery should it be to swear? 
But thou dost swear only to be forsworn ; 
And most forsworn, to keep what thou dost 

swear. 

K. J., Ill: 1. 659 

— Hasty, may be broken. 

Pro. * * 
Unheedful vows may needfully be broken. 

T. G.,ll: 6. 58. 

—Men's, Woman's Traitors. 
Imo. * * 
Men's vows are women's traitors ! All good 

seeming, 
By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought 
Put on for villainy ; not borne where 't 

grows, 
But worn a bait for ladies. 

Cym., Ill : 4. 1608. 



VOX-POPULI. 



591 



VULNERABILITY. 



VOX-POPULI.-^ In Times of Misfort- 
une. 

Cit. Tear him to pieces, do it presently. 
He killed my son; — my daughter; — He 
killed my cousin Marcus; — He killed my 
father. 

C, V : 5. 1193. 



— Its Contradictions. 

Sic. Where is this viper, 

That would depopulate the city, and 
Be every man himself? 

Men. You worthy tribunes. 

Sic. He shall be thrown down the Tar- 
peian rock 
With rigorous hands ; he hath resisted law, 
And therefore law shall scorn him further 

trial 
Than the severity of the public power, 
Which he so sets at naught. 

1 Cit. He shall well know, 

The noble tribunes are the people's mouths, 
And we their hands. 

C., III : 1. 1172. 

— Unreliable. 

Mar. Thanks. — What 's the matter, 
you dissentious rogues, 

That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, 

Make yourselves scabs? 

1 Cit. We have ever your good word. 
Mar. He that will give good words to 
thee, will flatter 

Beneath abhorring. — What wouldyou have, 
you curs, 

That like nor peace, nor war? the one af- 
frights you, 

The other makes you proud. He that trusts 
you, 

Where he should find you lions, finds you 
hares ; 

Where foxes, geese : You are no surer, no, 

Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, 

Or hailstone in the sun. Your virtue is, 



To make him worthy, whose offence sub- 
dues him, 

And curse that justice did it. Who de- 
serves greatness, 

Deserves your hate : and your affections are 

A sick man's appetite, who desires most 
that 

Which would increase his evil. He that 
depends 

Upon your favours, swims with fins of lead, 

And hews down oaks with rushes. Hang 
ye! Trust ye? 

With every minute you do change a mind ; 

And call him noble, that was now your 
hate, 

Him vile, that was your garland. What 's 
the matter, 

That in these several places of the city 

You cry against the noble senate, who, 

Under the gods, keep you in awe, which 
else 

Would feed on one another? 

0,1: 1. 1151. 

VULNERABILITY. — Sought for. 

Achil. Thou art too brief; I will the 

second time, 

As I would by thee, view thee limb by limb. 

Hect. O, like a book of sport thou 'It 

read me o'er ; 

But there 's more in me than thou under- 

stand'st. 
Why dost thou so oppress me with thine 
eye? 
Achil. Tell me, you heavens, in which 
part of his body 
Shall I destroy him? whether there, there, 

or there? 
That I may give the local wound a name ; 
And make distinct the very breach, where- 

out 
Hector's great spirit flew : Answer me, 
heavens ! 

T. C, IV: 5. 1134. 



WAITING. 



59 2 



WANTONNESS. 



w 



WAITING. —Patient. 

Tro. * * I stalk about her door, 
Like a strange soul upon the Stygian 

banks 
Staying for waftage. 

T. C, III: 2. 1121. 

— Persistent. 

Duke. Stand you awhile aloof. — Cesa- 
rio, 
Thou know'st no less but all : I have un- 

clasp'd 
To thee the book even of my secret soul : 
Therefore, good youth, address thy gait un- 
to her ; 
Be not deny'd access ; stand at her doors, 
And tell them, there thy fixed foot shalL 

grow, 
Till thou have audience. 

T. tf. f 1 : 4. 543. 

WALL. — A speaking. 

Wall. In this same interlude, it doth befall, 
That I, one Snout by name, present a wall : 
And such a wall as I would have you think, 
That had in it a cranny'd hole, or chink, 
Through which the lovers, Pyramus and Thisbe, 
Did whisper often very secretly. 

This loam, this rough-cast, and this stone doth show 
That I am that same wall ; the truth is so : 
And this the cranny is, right and sinister, 
Through which the fearful lovers are to whisper. 

The. Would you desire lime and hair to 
speak better? 

Dem. It is the wittiest partition that ever 
I heard discourse, my lord. 

M. W. t V : 1. 343. 

WANT.— Abject. 

Cas. * * The gilded puddle 
Which beasts would cough at : thy palate 

then did deign 
The roughest berry on the rudest hedge ; 
Yea, like the stag, when snow the pasture 

sheets, 
The barks of trees thou browsed'st. 

A. C, I: 4. 1545. 



— Unnecessary. 

Tim. Why should you want? Behold, 
the earth hath roots ; 
Within this mile break forth a hundred 

springs : 
The oaks hear mast, the briars scarlet hips ; 
The bounteous housewife, nature, on each 

bush 
Lays her full mess before you. Want? why 
want? 
1 Thief. We cannot live on grass, on 
berries, water, 
As beasts, and birds, and fishes. 

Tim. Nor on the beasts themselves, the 
birds and fishes ; 
You must eat men. 

T. A., IV : 3. 1310 

W ANTONNESS. — Childlike. 

Biron. * * 
All wanton as a child, skipping, and vain. 

L. L., V: 2. 303. 

— Devise, to Punish. 
Mrs. Ford. Marry, this is our device ; 
That Falstaff at that oak shall meet with us, 
Disguis'd like Heme, with huge horns on 

his head. 
Page. Well, let it not be doubted but 

he '11 come, 
And in this shape : When you have brought 

him thither, 
What shall be done with him? what is your 

plot? 
Mrs. Page. That likewise have we 

thought upon, and thus : 
Nan Page my daughter, and my little son, 
And three or four more of their growth, 

we '11 dress 
Like urchins, ouphes, and fairies, green and 

white, 
With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads, 
And rattles in their hands ; upon a sudden, 
As Falstaff, she, and I, are newly met, 
Let them from forth a sawpit rush at once 



WANTONNESS. 



593 



WAR. 



With some diffused song ; upon their sight, 
We two in great amazedness will fly : 
Then let them all encircle him about, 
And, fairy-like, to-pinch the unclean knight ; 
And ask him, why, that hour of fairy revel, 
In their sacred paths he dares to tread, 
In shape profane. 

Mrs. Ford. And till he tell the truth, 

Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound, 
And burn him with their tapers. 

Mrs. Page. The truth being known, 
We '11 all present ourselves ; dis-horn the 

spirit, 
And mock him home to Windsor. 

M. TF..IV: 5. 113. 

— How betrayed. 

Ulyss. 
There 's language in her eye, her cheek, 

her lip, 
Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits 

look out 
At every joint and motive of her body. 
0, these encounterers, so glib of tongue, 
That give accosting welcome ere it comes, 
And wide unclasp the tables of their 

thoughts 
To every ticklish reader ! 

T. C, IV : 5. 1132. 

— Of Women, Hinders Marriage. 

Ham. I have heard of your paintings 
too, well enough ; God hath given you one 
face, and you make yourselves another : 
you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick- 
name God's creatures, and make your wan- 
tonness your ignorance: Go to; I'll no 
more of 't ; it hath made me mad. I say, 
we will have no more marriages. 

ff., Ill : 1. 1411. 

WANTS. — To be Made known. 

Cle. * * 
Who wanteth food, and will not say he 

wants it, 
Or can conceal his hunger, till he famish? 
Our tongues and sorrows do sound deep our 

woes 
Into the air ; our eyes do weep, till lungs 
Fetch breath that may proclaim them 

louder ; that, 
If heaven slumber, while their creatures 

want, 



They may awake their helpers to comfort 

them. 
I '11 then discourse our woes felt several 

years, 
And, wanting breath to speak, help me with 

tears. 

P., 1 : 4. 1646. 

WAR. — A just. 

Aust. The peace of heaven is theirs, 
that lift their swords 
In such a just and charitable war. 

K. J., II : 1. 649. 

-A last Resort. 
K. John. What follows, if we disallow 

of this? 
Chat. The proud control of fierce and 
bloody Mar, 
To enforce these rights so forcibly withheld. 
K. John. Here have we war for war, and 
blood for blood, 
Controlment for controlment : so answer 
France. 

K. J., 1:1. 646. 



— Beastly. 
Tim. * * 
Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brain'd war. 
T. A., V: 2. 1314. 

— Bet-ween Christians, unnatural. 
K. Hen. * * I always thought, 

It was both impious and unnatural, 
That such immanity and bloody strife 
Should reign among professors of one faith. 
H. VI., lpt.,V: 1. 891. 

— Cause of domestic Sorrow. 

F. Her. * * This day hath made 
Much work for tears in many an English 

mother, 
Whose sons lie scatter'd on the bleeding 

ground : 
Many a widow's husband grovelling lies, 
Coldly embracing the discolour 'd earth. 

K. J., II : 2. 653. 

— Civil. 

Car. * * 
And temper clay with blood of Englishmen. 
H. VI., 2 pt., Ill : 1. 925. 



WAR. 



594 



WAR. 



K. Hen. * * 
Civil dissension is a viperous worm, 
That gnaws the bowels of the common- 
wealth. 

H. VI., lpt., Ill: 1. 878. 

Bast. * * And vast confusion waits 
(As doth a raven on a sick-fallen beast.) 

K.J., IV: 3. 670. 

Chorus. * * And, at his heels, 
Leash' d in like hounds, should famine, 
sword, and fire. 

H. V., Chorus. 819. 

— Civil, its Horrors. 

Son. * * O God ! it is my father's face, 
Whom in this conflict I unawares have kill'd. 
O heavy times, begetting such events ! 
From London by the king was I press'd 

forth ; 
My father, being the earl of Warwick's man, 
Came on the part of York, press'd by his 

master ; 
And I, who at his hands receiv'd my life, 
Have by my hands of life bereaved him. 

Fath. * * 
But let me see : — is this our foeman's face? 
Ah, no, no, no, it is mine only son ! — 
Ah, boy, if any life be left in thee, 
Throw up thine eye ; see, see, what showers 

arise, 
Blown with the windy tempest of my heart, 
Upon thy wounds, that kill mine eye and 

heart ! 
0, pity, God, this miserable age ! — 
What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, 
Erroneous, mutinous, and unnatural, 
This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! 
* * 

K. Hen. Woe above woe ! grief more 
than common grief! 
O, that my death would stay these ruthful 

deeds ! — 
O pity, pity, gentle heaven, pity! — 
The red rose and the white are on his face, 
The fatal colours of our striving houses ; 
The one, his purple blood right well re- 
sembles ; 
The other, his pale cheeks, methinks, pre- 
sent : 
Wither one rose, and let the other flourish ! 
If you contend, a thousand lives must wither ! 
H. 7F.,3pt., II: 5. 968. 



— Civil, Thanks for its Cessation. 

Richm. * * 
We will unite the white rose with the red : 
Smile heaven upon this fair conjunction, 
That long hath frown'd upon their enmity ! 
What traitor hears me, and says not, — 

amen? 
England hath long been mad, and scarr'd 

herself; 
The brother blindly shed the brother's blood, 
The father rashly slaughter'd his own son, 
The son, compell'd, been butcher to the 

sire; 
All this divided York and Lancaster, 
Divided, in their dire division. — 
O, now, let Richmond and Elizabeth, 
The true succeeders of each royal house, 
By God's fair ordinance conjoin together! 
And let their heirs, (God, if thy will be so,) 
Enrich the time to come with smooth-fac'd 

peace, 
With smiling plenty, and fair prosperous 

days ! 
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, 
That would reduce these bloody days again, 
And make poor England weep in streams of 

blood! 
Let them not live to taste this land's increase 
That would with treason wound this fair 

land's peace ! 
Now civil wounds are stopp'd, peace lives 

again ; 
That she may long live here, God say — 

Amen ! 

R. III., V : 4. 1047. 

— Closet. 

Ulyss. The still and mental parts, — 
That do contrive how many hands shall 

strike. 
When fitness call them on; and know, by 

measure 
Of their observant toil, the enemy's weight, — 
Why, this hath not a finger's dignity; 
They call this — bed-work, mappery, closet- 
war : 
So that the ram, that batters down the wall, 
For the great swing and rudeness of his 

poize, 
They place before his hand that made the 
engine. 

T. C, 1 : 3. 1109. 



WAR. 



595 



WAR. 



— Defensive. 

Bast. * * 
No : Know the gallant monarch is in arms ; 
And like an eagle o'er his aery towers, 
To souse annoyance that comes near his 
nest. 

K.J.,V: 2. 673. 

— Dust Laid by its Blood. 

Boling. * * 
And lay the summer's dust with showers of 

blood, 
Rain'd from the wounds of slaughter'd En- 
glishmen. 

R. II., Ill : 3. 703. 

— Evils of, Deplored. 

Pucel. * * 
O, turn thy edged sword another way ; 
Strike those that hurt, and hurt not those 

that help ! 
One drop of blood, drawn from thy country's 

bosom, 
Should grieve thee more than streams of 

foreign gore ; 
Return thee, therefore, with a flood of tears. 
And wash away thy country's stained spots ! 
H. VI., lpt.,III: 4. 883. 

— For unworthy Causes. 

Bast. * * 
Now for the bare-pick'd bone of majesty 
Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest. 

K. J., IV : 3. 670. 

— Foreign, a Remedy. 

Mar. Nay, let them follow : 
The Volscians have much corn ; take these 

rats thither, 
To gnaw their garners. 

C, 1 : 1. 1152. 

— Foreign, a ReJief. 
K. Hen. So shaken as we are, so wan 

with care, 
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, 
And breathe short-winded accents of new 

broils 
To be commenc'd in stronds afar remote. 
No more the thirsty entrails of this soil 
Shall daub her lips with her own children's 

blood: 



No more shall trenching war channel her 

fields, 
Nor bruise her flow 'rets with the armed 

hoofs 
Of hostile paces : those opposed eyes, 
Which, — like the meteors of a troubled 

heaven, 
All of one nature, of one substance bred, — 
Did lately meet in the intestine shock 
And furious close of civil butchery, 
Shall now, in mutual, well-beseeming ranks, 
March all one way ; and be no more oppos'd 
Against acquaintance, kindred, and allies. 
H. VI., 1 pt., 1 : 1. 727. 

— Foreshadowed. 

2nd. * * 
Whilst the big year, swoll'n with some other 

grief, 
Is thought with child by the stern tyrant war. 
//. VI, 2pt.,I: 1. 773. 

— Great. 

Oth. * * The big wars, 
That make ambition virtue ! 

0., Ill : 3. 1514. 

— Hated. 

K. Rich. * * 
And for our eyes do hate the dire aspect 
Of civil wounds plough'd up with neigh- 
bours' swords. 



R. II., I: 3. 



Its End. 



Glo. * * 

Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled 

front. 

R. III., 1 : 1. 1001. 

— Its purple Testament. 

K. Rich. * * He is come to ope 
The purple testament of bleeding war ; 
But ere the crown he looks for live in peace, 
Ten thousand bloody crowns of mothers' 

sons 
Shall ill become the flower of England's 

face ; 
Change the complexion of her maid-pale 

peace 

To scarlet indignation, and bedew 

Her pastures' grass with faithful English 

blood. 

R. II., Ill: 3. 704. 



WAR. 



59 6 



WAR. 



— Its three Attendants. 

Tal. * * If you frown upon this prof- 

fer'd peace, 
You tempt the fury of my three attendants, 
Lean famine, quartering steel, and climbing 

fire: 
Who, in a moment, even with the earth 
Shall lay your stately and air-braving 

towers, 
If you forsake the offer of their love. 

H. VI., 1 pt., IV : 2. 886. 

— Its Uncertainty. 
K. Hen. This battle fares like to the 

morning's war, 
When dying clouds contend with growing 

light; 
What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails, 
Can neither call it perfect day, nor night, 
Now sways it this way, like a mighty sea, 
Forc'd by the tide to combat with the wind ; 
Now sways it that way, like the self-same sea 
Forc'd to retire by the fury of the wind; 
Sometime, the flood prevails ; and then, the 

wind; 
Now, one the better; then, another best; 
Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast, 
Yet neither conqueror, nor conquered : 
So is the equal poise of this fell war. 
Here on this molehill will I sit me down. 
To whom god will, there be the victory. 

H. VI., 3 pt., II : 4. 967. 

— Leaders in. 

K. John. * * 
Be thou as lightning in the eyes of France ; 
For ere thou canst report I will be there. 

K. J., 1 : 1. 646. 

— Not always to be Suppressed. 
Lew. * * 

Your breath first kindled the dead coal of 

wars 
Between this chastis'd kingdom and myself, 
And brought in matter that should feed this 

fire; 
And now 't is far too huge to be blown out 
With that same weak wind which enkindled 

it. 
You taught me how to know the face of 

right, 
Acquainted me with interest to this land, 



Yea, thrust this enterprise into my heart ; 
And come you now to tell me, John hath 

made 
His peace with Rome? What is that peace 

to me? 
I, by the honour of my marriage-bed, 
After young Arthur, claim this land for 

mine ; 
And, now it is half-conquer'd, must I back, 
Because that John hath made his peace with 

Rome? 
Am I Rome's slave? What penny hath 

Rome borne, 
What men provided, what munition sent, 
To underprop this action? is 't not I, 
That undergo this charge? Who else but I, 
And such as to my claim are liable, 
Sweat in this business, and maintain this 

war? 

K.J.,V : 2. 672. 

— >Paints in Blood. 

K. Phi. * * 
Heaven knows, they were besmear'd and 

over-stain'd 
With slaughter's pencil ! where revenge 

did paint 
The fearful difference of incensed kings. 

K.J. % lHl 1. 659. 

— Preparation for. 

Alex. * * 
And, like as there were husbandry in war. 
Before the sun rose, he was harness'd light, 
And to the field goes he ; where every flow- 
er 
Did, as a prophet, weep what it foresaw 
In Hector's wrath. 

T. C, 1 : 2. 1104. 

— Quarrels Lead to. 

Plan. * * 
This quarrel will drink blood another day. 
H. VI., 1 pt., II : 4. 876. 

— Relentless. 

K. Hen. * * 
Defy us to our worst : for, as I am a soldier, 
(A name, that, in my thoughts, becomes 

me best,) 
If I begin the battery once again, 
I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur, 
Till in her ashes she lie buried. 



WAR. 



597 



WARNING. 



The gates of mercy shall be all shut up ; 
And the flesh'd soldier — rough and hard of 

heart — 
In liberty of bloody hand, shall range 
With conscience wide as hell ; mowing like 

grass 
Your fresh-fair virgins, and your flowering 

infants. 
What is it then to me, if impious war, — 
Array 'd in flames, like to the prince of 

fiends, — 
Do, with his smirch'd complexion, all fell 

feats 
Enlink'd to waste and desolation? 

H. V., Ill : 3. 833. 

— Savage. 

Pand. * * 
And tame the savage spirit of wild war ; 
That, like a lion foster'd up at hand, 
It may lie gently at the foot of peace, 
And be no further harmful than in show. 

K. J., V : 2. 672. 

— Swords. 

York. * * Why have they dar'd to 
march 
So many miles upon her peaceful bosom ; 
Frighting her pale-fac'd villages with war. 
R. II., II: 3. 698. 

— Takes all Vantages. 

North. * * 
It is war's prize to take all vantages : 
And ten to one is no impeach of valour. 

H. VI., 3 pt., 1 : 4. 960. 

Pand. * * Pick strong matter of re- 
volt, and wrath, 
Out of the bloody fingers' ends of John. 

K. J., Ill : 4. 663. 

— Things worse. 

Ber. * * War is no strife 
To the dark house, and the detested wife. 

A. W., II : 3. 508. 

— Threatened. 

K. Phi. Our thunder from the south, 

Shall rain their drift of bullets on this town. 

K.J.,ll: 2. 654. 

Hast. And though we here fall down, 

We have supplies to second our attempt ; 



If they miscarry, theirs shall second them : 
And so, success of mischief shall be born ; 
And heir from heir shall hold this quarrel 

up, 
Whiles England shall have generation. 

//. IV., 2 pt., IV : 2. 797. 

— Unprofitable. 

Boult. What would you have me? go to 
the wars, would you? Avhere a man may 
serve seven years for the loss of a leg, and 
have not money enough in the end to buy 
him a wooden one? 

P., IV; 6 1666. 

— Uncertain. 

Ant. * * 
Cry "Havoc," anl let slip the dogs of war. 
J. a, III : 1. 1338. 

— "Who Assume its Consequences 

Exe. * * On your head 
Turns he the widows' tears, the orphans' 

cries, 
The dead men's blood, the pining maidens' 

groans, 
For husbands, fathers, and betrothed lovers, 
That shall be swallow 'd in this controversy. 
//. V., II : 4. 830. 

WARNING. — Caesar's, against Brutus. 

Art. Caesar, beware of Brutus; take heed of 
Cassius; come not near Casca; have an eye to 
Cinna; trust not Trebonius; mark well Metellus 
Cimber; Decius Brutus loves thee not, thou hast 
wronged Caius Ligarius, There is but one mind in 
all these men, and it is bent against Caesar. If thou 
be'st not immortal, look about you: Security gives 
way to conspiracy. The mighty gods defend thee ! 
Thy lover, Artemidorus. 

J. C, II : 2. 1334. 



— Not Heeding a. 

L. Macd. Whither should I fly? 

I have done no harm. But I remember 

now 
I am in this earthly world, where to do 

harm 
Is often laudable ; to do good, sometime 
Accounted dangerous folly : why then, 

alas ! 
Do I put up that womanly, defence, 
To say I have done no harm? What are 

these faces ! 
Mur. Where is your husband? 



WARNING. 



598 



WEAKNESS. 



L. Macd. I hope, in no place so unsanc- 

tified, 
Where such as thou may'st find him. 

Mur. He 's a traitor. 

So?i. Thou li'st, thou shag-ear'd villain. 

Mur. What, you egg? 

Young fry of treachery? 

Son. He has killed me, mother : 

Run away, I pray you. 

J/., IV : 2. 1377. 

WARS. — Cleave the World. 

Octa. * * 
Wars 'twixt you twain would be 
As if the world should cleave, and that 

slain men 
Should solder up the rift. 

A. C, III: 4. 1560. 

WART.— "Thereby Hangs a Tale." 

Quick. * * Have not your worship a 
wart above your eye? 

Fent. Yes, marry, have I ; what of that? 

Qvick. Well, thereby hangs a tale; — 
good faith, it is such another Nan ; — but, I 
detest, an honest maid as ever broke 
bread; — We had an hour's talk of that 
wart. 

M. W.,I: 4. 94. 

WATCHFULNESS. —Warlike. 

Grand. * * 
There horsemen sit like fixed candlesticks, 
With torch-staves in each hand. 

//. V., IV : 2. 844. 

WATCHMEN.— Dogberry's Idea of. 

Dogb. * * You are thought here to be 
the most senseless and fit man for the con- 
stable of the watch ; therefore bear you the 
lantern. This is your charge : You shall 
comprehend all vagrom men ; you are to 
bid any man stand, in the prince's name. 

2 Watch. How if 'a will not stand? 

Dogb. Why, then take no note of him, 
but let him go ; and presently call the rest 
of the watch together, and thank God you 
are rid of a knave. 

Verg. If he will not stand when he is 
bidden, he is none of the prince's subjects. 

Dogb. True, and they are to meddle 
with none but the prince's subjects : — You 
shall also make no noise in the streets; for, 
for the watch to babble and talk, is most 
tolerable and not to be endured. 

2 Watch. We will rather sleep than talk ; 
we know what belongs to a watch. 



Dogb. Why, you speak like an ancient 
and most quiet watchman ; for I cannot see 
how sleeping should offend : only have a 
care that your bills be not stol'n : — Well, 
you are to call at all the ale-houses, and bid 
them that are drunk get them to bed. 

2 Watch. How if they will not? 

Dogb. Why, then let them alone till 
they are sober; if they make you not then 
the better answer, you may say they are not 
the men you took them for. 

2 Watch. Well, sir. 

Dogb. If you meet a thief, you may sus- 
pect him, by virtue of your office, to be no 
true man; and, for such kind of men, the 
less you meddle or make with them, why, 
the more is for your honesty. 

2 Watch. If Ave know him to be a thief, 
shall we not lay hands on him? 

Dogb. Truly, by your office, you may ; 
but I think they that touch pitch will be 
defil'd : the most peaceable way for you, it 
you do take a thief, is to let him show him- 
self what he is, and steal out of your com- 
pany. 

Verg. You have been always call'd a 
merciful man, partner. 

Dogb. Truly, I would not hang a dog 
by my will ; much more a man who hath 
any honesty in him. 

Verg. If you hear a child cry in the 
night, you must call to the nurse, and bid 
her still it. 

2 Watch. How if the nurse be asleep, 
and will not hear us? 

Dogb. Why, then depart in peace, and 
let the child wake her with crying : for the 
ewe that will not hear her lamb when it 
baes, will never answer a calf Avhen it bleats. 

Verg. 'T is very true. 

Dogb. This is the end of the charge. 

M. A., Ill : 3. 240. 

WATER — Weak, but honest. 

Apem. * * 

Here 's that, which is too weak to be a sinner, 

Honest water, which ne'er left man i' the 

mire. 

T.A,l: 2. 1290. 

WEAKNESS. — A Woman's. 

For. I must go in. — Ah me ! how weak 
a thing 
The heart of woman is ! O Brutus ! 
The heavens speed thee in thine enterprise? 
Sure, the boy heard me : — Brutus hath a suit, 
That Caesar will not grant. — O, I grow faint. 
J. <?., II : 4. 1335. 



WEAKNESS. 



599 



WEARINESS. 



— Extreme. 
Tro. * * ■ 

But I am weaker than a woman's tear, 
Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance ; 
Less valiant than the virgin in the night, 
And skill-less as unpractis'd infancy. 

T. C, 1 : 1. 1102. 

— Fits for Death. 

Ant. I am a tainted wether of the flock, 
Meetest for death ; the weakest kind of fruit 
Drops earliest to the ground, and so let me : 
You cannot better be employ'd, Bassanio, 
Than to live still, and write mine epitaph. 

M. V. t IV: 1. 383. 

—No Right to Rule. 

York. * * Thou art not king ; 
Not fit to govern and rule multitudes, 
Which dar'st not, no, nor canst not rule a 

traitor. 
That head of thine doth not become a 

crown ; 
Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff, 
And not to grace an awful princely sceptre. 
That gold must round engirt these brows of 

mine ; 
Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' 

spear, 
Is able with the change to kill and cure. 
Here is a hand to hold a sceptre up, 
And with the same to act controlling laws. 
Give place ; by heaven, thou shalt rule no 

more 
O'er him, whom heaven created for thy 

ruler. 

//. VI., 2pt., V: 1. 943. 

— Strength in. 

Ulyss. * * To end a tale of length, 
Troy in her weakness stands, not in her 
strength. 

T. C.,l : 3. 1109. 

"WEALTH.— An Imposthume. 

Ham. * * 
This is the imposthume of much wealth and 

peace, 
That inward breaks, and shows no cause 

without 
Why the man dies. 

H., IV : 4. 1423. 



— Some, all in Blood. 

Bass. * * Gentle lady, 
When I did first impart my love to you, 
I freely told you, all the wealth I had 
Ran in my veins, — I was a gentleman ; 
And then I told you true. 

3f. V., Ill : 2. 379 

— The Burden of a Wooing. 

Pet. Signior Hortensio, 'twixt such 

friends as we 
Few words suffice : and, therefore, if thou 

know 
One rich enough to be Petrucio's wife, 
(As wealth is burthen of my wooing 

dance) 
Be she as foul as was Florentius' love, 
As old as Sibyl, and as curst and shrewd 
As Socrates' Xantippe, or a worse, 
She moves me not, or not removes, at 

least, 
Affection's edge in me. Were she as 

rough 
As are the swelling Adriatic seas ; 
I come to wive it wealthily in Padua ; 
If wealthily, then happily in Padua. 

T. S., 1 : 2. 458. 

WEARINESS.— An Impediment. 

Gon. By 'r lakin, I can go no further, 
sir; 
My old bones ache : here 's a maze trod, 

indeed, 
Through forth-rights and meanders ! by 

your patience, 
I needs must rest me. 

Alon. Old lord, I cannot blame thee, 

Who am myself attach'd with weariness, 
To the dulling of my spirits : sit down and 
rest. ■" 

T., Ill : 3. 24. 

— Can Snore upon Flint. 
Bel. * * Come ; our stomachs 

Will make what 's homely, savoury : Weari- 
ness 

Can snore upon the flint, when restive 
sloth 

Finds the down pillow hard. 

Cym., Ill: 6. 1612. 



WEEDS. 



6oO 



WIFE, 



WEEDS.— Robbers of the Soil. 

Gard. * * 
You thus employ 'd, I will go root away 
The noisome weeds, that without profit suck 
The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. 
R. II, Ill : 4. 706. 

WEEPING.— Folly of. 

Adr. Come, come, no longer will I be 
a fool, 
To put the finger in the eye and weep, 
Whilst man and master laugh my woes to 
scorn. 

C. E., II : 2. 199. 

WELCOME.— A general. 

Guild. Ladies, a general welcome from 

his grace 
Salutes ye all : This night he dedicates 
To fair content, and you : none here, he 

hopes, 
In all this noble bevy, has brought with her 
One care abroad ; he would have all as merry 
As first-good company, good wine, good 

welcome 
Can make good people. 

H. VIII., 1 : 4. 1063. 

— An impotent. 

Arth. * * 
I give you welcome with a powerless hand, 
But with a heart full of unstained love. 

K.J.,II: 1. 649. 

— Contrasted -with Farewell. 

Ulyss. * * Welcome ever smiles, 
And farewell goes out sighing. 

T. C, III : 3. 1125. 

— Gives Zest to a Feast. 

Bal. I hold your dainties cheap, sir, and 

your welcome dear. 
Ant. E. 0, signior Balthazar, either at 

flesh or fish, 
A table full of welcome makes scarce one 

dainty dish. 
Bal. Good meat, sir, is common ; that 

every churl affords. 
Ant. E. And welcome more common ; 

for that 's nothing but words. 
Bal. Small cheer and great welcome 

make a merry feast. 

C. E., Ill : 1. 199. 



— Hearty. 

Val. Welcome, dear Proteus ! — Mistress, 
I beseech you 
Confirm his welcome with some special fa- 
vour. 
Sil. His worth is warrant for his wel- 
come hither. 

T. G., II : 4. 56. 

— Nationality should Secure. 

Tim. I take no heed of thee ; thou art 
an Athenian ; therefore welcome : I myself 
would have no power : pr'ythee, let my meat 
make thee silent. 

T.A., I: 2. 1290. 

— To a Friend, Repeated. 

Lady M. * * The feast is sold, 
That is not often vouch'd, while 't is a 

making, 
'T is given with welcome : To feed, were 

best at home ; 
From thence, the sauce to meet is cere- 
mony, 
Meeting were bare without it. 

M., Ill: 4. 1371. 

WHIPPING— For Jades. 

Clo. * * 
Whip me? No, no; let carman whip his 

jade; 
The valiant heart 's not whipped out of his 
trade. 

M.M., II: 1. 150. 

WIFE — A Light. 

Por. * * 
For a light wife doth make a heavy hus- 
band. 

M. V., V : 1. 389. 

— A Man's Chattels. 

Pet. * * 
I will be master of what is mine own : 
She is my goods, my chattels ; ' she is my 

house, 
My household-stuff, my field, my barn, 
My horse, my ox, my ass, my anything; 
And here she stands, touch her whoever 

dare. 

T. S., Ill : 2. 470. 



WIFE. 6oi WIFE. 


— A noble, Commended. 


— Acknowledged. 


K. Hen. Go thy ways, Kate : 


Bru. You are my true and honourable 


That man i' the world, who shall report he 


wife ; 


has 


As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops 


A better wife, let him in nought be trusted, 


That visit my sad heart. 


For speaking false in that : Thou art, alone, 


J. C, II : 1. 1332. 


(If thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness, 




Thy meekness saint-like, wise-like govern- 


— An unequaled. 


ment, — 


Ant. * * As for my wife, 


Obeying in commanding, — and thy parts 


I would you had her spirit in such another : 


Sovereign and pious else, could speak thee 


The third o' the world is yours ; which with 


out,) 


a snaffle 


The queen of earthly queens. 


You may pace easy. 


H. VIII., II : 4. 1073. 


A. C, II: 2. 1548. 




— Her Influence over Caesar. 


— A, to be Trusted. 


Cal. * * 


Page. Ay, marry, does he. If he should 


Do not go forth to-day : Call it my fear, 


intend this voyage toward my wife, I would 
turn her loose to him; and what he gets 


That keeps you in the house, and not your 


more of her than sharp words, let it lie on 


own. 


my head. 


We Ml send Mark Antony to the senate- 


.)/. W., II : l. 97. 


house ; 




And he shall say, you are not well to-day : 


— A true. 


Let me, upon my knee, prevail in this. 


Q. Kath. * * 


Ccbs. Mark Antony shall say, I am not 


In what have I offended you? what cause 


well ; 


Hath my behaviour given to your displeas- 


And. for thy humor, I will stay at home. 


ure, 


J. C, II : 2. 1333. 


That thus you should proceed to put me 




off, 


— Her Intuitions. 


And take your good grace from me? Heaven 


Cass. Nor heaven, nor earth, have been 


witness, 


at peace to-night ; 


I have been to you a true and humble 


Thrice hath Calphurnia in her sleep cried 


wife, 


out, 


At all times to your will conformable : 


" Help, ho ! They murder Caesar ! " Who 's 


Ever in fear to kindle your dislike, 


within ? 


Yea, subject to your countenance ; glad, or 


J. C, II: 2. 1332. 


sorry 
As I saw it inchn'd. When was the hour, 


— Her Rights. 


I ever contradicted your desire, 


K. Hen. Arise, and take place by us : — 


Or made it not mine too? Or which of your 


Half your suit 


friends 


Never name to us ; you have half our power : 


Have I not strove to love, although I knew 


The other moiety, ere you ask, is given : 


He were mine enemy? what friend of mine 


Repeat your will, and take it. 


That had to him deriv'd your anger, did I 


H. VIII., 1:2. 1060. 


Continue in my liking, nay, gave notice 




He was from thence discharged? Sir, call 


— Her Safety insured. 


to mind 


K. Edw. My love, forbear to fawn upon 


That I have been your wife in this obedi- 


their frowns : 


ence, 


What danger, or what sorrow can befall 


Upward of twenty years. 


thee, 


H. VIII., II : 4. 1071. 


So long as Edward is thy constant friend, 



WIFE. 



602 



WIFE. 



And their true sovereign, whom they must 

obey? 
Nay, whom they shall obey, and love thee 

too, 
Unless they seek for hatred at my hands : 
Which if they do, yet will I keep thee safe, 
And they shall feel the vengeance of my 

wrath. 

H. VI., 3 pt., IV : 1. 979. 

— How defiled. 

Glo. Madam, for myself, to heaven I do 
appeal, 
How I have lov'd my king, and common- 
weal : 
And, for my wife, I know not how it 

stands ; 
Sorry I am to hear what I have heard : 
Noble she is ; but if she have forgot 
Honour and virtue, and convers'd with 

such 
As, like to pitch, defile nobility, 
I banish her, my bed, and company ; 
And give her, as a prey, to law, and shame, 
That hath dishonour'd Gloster's honest 
name. 

H. F/.,2pt.,II: 1. 918. 

— Needs Watching. 

Biron. * * 
What ! I love ! I sue ! I seek a wife ! 
A woman, that is like a German clock, 
Still a repairing ; ever out of frame ; 
And never going aright, being a watch, 
But being watch'd that it may still go right? 
L. L., Ill : 1. 282. 

— Opposite Duties of a. 

Blanch. The sun 's o'ercast with blood : 

Fair day, adieu ! 
Which is the side that I must go withal? 
I am with both : each army hath a hand : 
And, in their rage, I having hold of both, 
They whirl asunder, and dismember me. 
Husband, I cannot pray that thou may'st 

win; 
Uncle, I needs must pray that thou may'st 

lose ; 
Father, I may not wish the fortune thine ; 
Grandam, I will not wish thy wishes thrive ; 
Whoever wins, on that side shall I lose ; 
Assured loss, before the match be play'd. 



Lew. Lady, with me ; with me thy fort- 
une lies. 

Blanch. There, where my fortune lives, 
there my life dies. 

A". J., Ill: 1. 660. 

— Relation to her Husband. 
Kath. * * 
Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, 
Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for 

thee, 
And for thy maintenance ; commits his body 
To painful labour, both by sea and land : 
To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, 
While thou li'st warm at home, secure and 

safe ; 
And craves no other tribute at thy hands, 
But love, fair looks, and true obedience, — 
Too little paynent for so great a debt. 
Such duty as the subject owes the prince, 
Even such a woman oweth to her husband : 
And when she is froward, peevish, sullen, 

sour, 
And not obedient to his honest will, 
What is she, but a foul contending rebel, 
And graceless traitor to her loving lord? 
I am asham'd, that women are so simple 
To offer war, when they should kneel for 

peace ; 
Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, 
When they are bound to serve, love and obey. 
Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and 

smooth, 
Unapt to toil, and trouble in the world, 
But that our soft conditions, and our hearts, 
Should well agree with our external parts? 
Come, come, you froward and unable worms ! 
My mind hath been as big as one of yours, 
My heart as great ; my reason, haply, more, 
To bandy word for word, and frown for 

frown ; 
But now, I see our lances are but straws : 
Our strength as weak, our weakness past 

compare, — 
That seeming to be most, which we indeed 

least are. 
Then vail your stomachs, for it is no boot, 
And place your hands below your husband's 

foot; 
In token of which duty, if he please, 
My hand is ready, may it do him ease. 

T. S.,V: 2. 484. 



WIFE. 



603 



WILL. 



— Separation from. 

2 Gent. * * Did you not of late days 
hear 
A buzzing, of a separation 
Between the king and Katharine? 

1 Gent. Yes, but it held not ; 
For when the king once heard it, out of 

anger 
He sent command to the lord mayor, straight 
To stop the rumour, and allay those tongues 
That durst disperse it. 

2 Gent. But that slander, sir, 
Is found a truth now : for it grows again 
Fresher than e'er it was ; and held for cer- 
tain, 

The king will venture at it. Either the car- 
dinal, 

Or some about him near, have, out of 
malice 

To the good queen, possessed him with a 
scruple 

That -will undo her. 

II. VIII., II : 1. 1067. 

— Sneered at. 
Ant. Fulvia is dead. 
Eno. Sir? 

Ant. Fulvia is dead. 

Eno. Fulvia? 

Ant. Dead. 

Eno. . Why, sir, give the gods a thankful 
sacrifice. When it pleaseth their deities to 
take the wife of a man from him, it shows 
to man the tailors of the earth ; comforting 
therein, that when old robes are worn out, 
there are members to make new. If there 
were no more women but Fulvia, then had 
you indeed a cut, and the case to be lament- 
ed : this grief is crowned with consolation ; 
your old smock brings forth a new petti- 
coat; — and, indeed, the tears live in an 
onion, that should water this sorrow. 

A. C.,1: 2. 1543. 

— Some have Power to Awe. 
Win. Gloster, whate'er we like, thou art 

protector ; 
And lookest to command the prince and 

realm, 
Thy wife is proud ; she holdeth thee in 

awe, 
More than God or religious churchmen 

may. 

//. VI., 1 pt.,I: 1. 864. 



— Unfaithful, Loathed. 

Oth. * * 
She 's gone ; I am abus'd ; and my relief 
Must be — to loath her. O curse of mar- 
riage, 
That we can call these delicate creatures 

ours, 
And not their appetites. 

O., Ill: 3. 1513. 

— Younger than her Husband. 

Duke. * * Let still the woman take 
An elder than herself: so wears she to him, 
So sways she level in her husband's heart. 

T. JT., II: 4. 550. 

WILDNESS. — Youthful, a Disguise. 

Ely. The strawberry grows underneath 
the nettle, 

And wholesome berries thrive and ripen 
best, 

Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality ; 

And so the princa obscur'd his contempla- 
tion 

Under the veil of wildness ; which, no doubt, 

Grew like the summer grass, fastest by 
night, 

Unseen, yet crescive in his faculty. 

H. V., 1 : 2. 820. 

WILL.— A blunt. 

Mar. * * 
A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd , 
Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms : 
Nothing becomes him ill, that he would 

well. 
The only soil of his fair virtue's gloss 
(If virtue's gloss will stain with any soil) 
Is a sharp wit match'd with too blunt a will ; 
Whose edge hath power to cut, whose will 

still wills 
It should none spare that come within his 

power. 

L.L., II: 1. 277. 

— A wicked Woman's. 
Eli. Thou unadvised scold, I can produce 
A will, that bars the title of thy son. 

Const. Ay, who doubts that? a will ! a 
wicked will ; 
A woman's will ; a canker'd grandam's will ! 
A'. J., II : 1. 651. 



WILL. 



604 



WIND. 



— Caesar's, not to be Questioned. 

Dec. Most mighty Caesar, let me know 
some cause, 
Lest I be laugh'd at, when I tell them so. 
Ccbs. The cause is in my will, I will not 
come ; 
That is enough to satisfy the senate. 

jr. a, II: 2. 1333. 

— Guided. 

Tro. * * 
My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, 
Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous 

shores 
Of will and judgment. 

A. C„ II : 2. 1114. 

— Imperative. 

Ant. My will is something sorted with 
his wish : 
Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed, 
For what I will, I will, and there an end. 

T. G., 1 : 3. 51. 

— Its Power. 

Rich. * * 
And like rich hangings in a homely house, 
So was his will in his old feeble body. 

H. IV., 2 pt., V : 3. 945. 

— Luck of a Resolved. 

Pro. * * 
And he wants wit, that wants resolved will 
To learn his wit to exchange the bad for 
better. 

T. G., II : 6. 58. 

— Swayed by Reason. 

Lys. * * 
The will of man is by his reason sway'd. 

M. iK.II: 2. 329. 



— The Body's Gardener. 

Iago. Virtue ? a fig ! 't is in ourselves, that 
Ave are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gar- 
dens ; to the which, our wills are gardeners : 
so that if we will plant nettles, or sow let- 
tuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; sup- 
ply it with one gender of herbs, or distract 
it with many ; either to have it steril with 
idleness, or manured with industry ; why, 
the power and corrigible authority of this 
lies in our wills. 

0,111: 3. 1498. 



'WINCHESTER.— His Answer to 
Gloster. 

Win. Gloster, I do defy thee. — Lords, 
vouchsafe 
To give me hearing what I shall reply. 
If I were covetous, ambitious, or perverse, 
As he will have me, How am I so poor? 
Or how haps it, I seek not to advance 
Or raise myself, but keep my wonted call- 
ing? 
And for dissension, Who preferreth peace 
More than I do, — except I be provok'd? 
No, my good lords, it is not that offends ; 
It is not that, that hath incens'd the duke : 
It is, because no one should sway but he ; 
No one, but he, should be about the king; 
And that engenders thunder in his breast, 
And makes him roar these accusations 
forth. 

U. VI., lpt.,III: 1. 878. 

WIND.— Its Power at Sea. 

Mon. What from the cape can you dis- 
cern at sea? 

1 Gent. Nothing at all : it is a high- 

wrought flood ; 
I cannot, 'twixt the heaven and the main, 
Descry a sail. 

Mon. Methinks, the wind hath spoke 

aloud at land ; 
A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements : 
If it hath ruffian 'd so upon the sea, 
What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on 

them, 
Can hold the mortise? what shall we hear 

of this? 

2 Gent. A segregation of the Turkish 

fleet: 
For do but stand upon the foaming shore, 
The chiding billow seems to pelt the clouds ; 
The wind-shak'd surge, with high and mon- 
strous mane, 
Seems to cast water on the burning bear, 
And quench the guards of the ever-fixed 
pole. 

<?., II: 1. 1500. 

— The sweet South. 

Duke. * * Like the sweet sound 
That breathes upon a bank of violets, 
Stealing, and giving odour. 

T. N.,I: 1. 540. 



WINE. 



605 



WISHERS. 



WINE. — Drunk for the first time. 

Ste. He 's in his fit now, and does not 
talk after the wisest. He shall taste of my 
bottle : if he have never drunk wine afore, 
it will go near to remove his fit. 

T., II : 2. 20. 



- (See Drunkenness.) 
call thee Devil." 



'Let us 



Cas. * * Drunk? and speak parrot? 
and squabble? swagger? swear? and dis- 
course fustain with one's own shadow? — 
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast 
no name to be known by, let us call thee — 
devil ! 

6>.,II: 3. 1507. 

— Tendered to Provoke a Quarrel. 

Achil. I '11 heat his blood with Greekish 
wine to-night, 
Which with my scimitar I '11 cool to-mor- 
row. — 
Patroclus, let us feast him to the height. 

T. C.,V: 1. 1035. 

WINKING. — In Love. 

K. Hen. Yet they do wink, and yield; 
as love is blind, and enforces. 

Bur. They are then excused, my lord, 
when they see not what they do. 

K. Hen. Then, good my lord, teach your 
cousin to consent to winking. 

Bur. I will wink on her to consent, my 
lord, if you will teach her to know my 
meaning. 

//. V., V : 2. 856. 

WINTER.— Mid, its Signs. 

Arm. * * 

When icicles hang by the wall, 

And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, 
And Tom bears logs into the hall, 

And milk comes frozen home in pail, 
When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, 
Then nightly sings the staring owl, 

To- who; 
Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note, 
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. 

When all aloud the wind doth blow, 
And coughing drowns the parson's saw, 

And birds sit brooding in the snow, 
And Marian's nose looks red and raw ; 

When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, 

Then nightly sings the staring owl, 
To-who ; 

Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note. 

While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. 

L.I..V: 2. 304. 



WISDOM. — Begotten by Antiquity. 

Ulyss. Instructed by the antiquary times ; 
He must, he is, he cannot but be wise. 

T. C, II: 3. 1118. 

— Beyond Praise. 

Ulyss. * * I will not praise thy wis- 
dom, 
Which, like a bourn, a pale, a shore, con- 
fines 
Thy spacious and dilated parts. 

T. C, II : 3. 1118. 

— Disguised, the brightest. 
Ang. Thus wisdom wishes to appear 
most bright, 
When it does tax itself: as these black 

masks 
Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times 

louder 
Than beauty could, displayed. 

M. 31., II: 4. 155. 

WISH.— A dubious one. 

Iago. He is that he is : I may not breathe 
my censure. 
What he might be, — if, what he might, he 

is not, — 
I would to heaven, he were. 

0., IV : 1. 1521. 

— A malicious. 

Glend. * * His cheek looks pale ; and 
with 
A rising sigh, he wisheth you in heaven. 
Hoi. And you in hell, as often as he 
hears 
Owen Glendower spoken of. 

//. IV., lpt., Ill: 1. 744. 

— Fathers Thought. 
K. Hen. Thy wish was father, Harry, to 
that thought. 

H.,IY: 4. 803. 

WISHERS. — Always Fools. 

Cleo. * * Had I great Juno's power, 
The strong-wing'd Mercury should fetch 

thee up, 
And sit thee by Jove's side. Yet come a 

little, — 
Wishers were ever fools. 

A. C, IV: 13. 1575. 



WISHES. 



606 



WIT. 



WISHES. — Good, well Expressed. 

Count. Be thou blest, Bertram ! and 

succeed thy father 
In manners, as in shape ! thy blood, and 

virtue, 
Contend for empire in thee ; and thy good- 
ness 
Share with thy birthright ! Love all, trust 

a few, 
Do wrong to none : be able for thine enemy 
Rather in power than use ; and keep thy 

friend 
Under thy own life's key : be check 'd for 

silence, 
But never tax'd for speech. What Heaven 

more will, 
That thee may furnish, and my prayers 

pluck down, 

Fall on thy head ! 

A. W.,I: 1. 496. 

WISHING. — Powerless. 

Hel. That wishing well had not a body 

in 't, 
Which might be felt : that we, the poorer 

born, 
Whose baser stars do shut us up in wishes. 
Might with effects of them follow our friends, 
And show what we alone must think ; which 

never 

Returns us thanks. 

A. W., I : l. 497. 

WIT. — A foolish. 

Clo. * * Those wits that think that 
they very oft prove fools ; and, I that am 
sure I lack thee, may pass for a wise man : 
For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty 
fool than a foolish wit. 

T. N. % 1 : 5. 544. 

— A voluble. 

Ros. * * But a merrier man, 
Within the limit of becoming mirth, 
I never spent an hour's talk withal : 
His eye begets occasion for his wit : 
For every object that the one doth catch, 
The other turns to a mirth-moving jest ; 
Which his fair tongue (conceit's expositor) 
Delivers in such apt and gracious words, 
That aged ears play truant at his tales, 
And younger hearings are quite ravished, 
So sweet and voluble is his discourse. 

L. L., II : 1. 277. 



— Accommodating. 

Mer. O, here 's a wit of cheverel, that 
stretches from an inch narrow to an ell 
broad ! 

R. «A, II : 4. 1255. 

— Blunt. 

Marg. And yours as blunt as the fencer's 
foils, which hit, but hurt not. 

M. A.,V: 2. 253. 

— Cause of in Others. 

Fal. Men of all sorts take a pride to 
gird at me : The brain of this foolish-com- 
pounded clay, man, is not able to vent any 
thing that tends to laughter, more than I 
invent, or is invented on me : I am not 
only witty in myself, but the cause that 
wit is in other men. 

H.IV., lpt.,I: 2. 776. 

— Good. 

Clo. * * A sentence is but a cheveril 
glove to a good wit. 

T. IT., in : 1. 554. 

— Ignorant. 

Fri. * * 
Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love, 
Mis-shapen in the conduct of them both, 
Like powder in a skilless soldier's flask, 
Is set on fire by thine own ignorance, 
And thou dismember'd with thine own de- 
fence. 

R. J., Ill : 3. 1264. 

— Its seamy Side. 

Emit. * * 
That turn'd your wit the seamy side with- 
out. 
^ O., IV : 2. 1523. 

— Lesser, Swallowed. 

Biron. This jest is dry to me. Gentle 

sweet. 
Your wit makes wise things foolish ; when 

we greet, 
With eyes best seeing, heaven's fiery eye, 
By light we lose light : Your capacity 
Is of that nature, that to your huge store 
Wise things seem foolish, and rich things 

but poor. 

L. L., V : 2. 298. 



WIT. 



607 



WITCH, 



— Modest. 

Touch. Nay, I shall ne'er be 'ware of 
mine own wit, till I break my shins against 
it. 

A. Y, II : 4. 416. 

— Profits by Everything. 

Fal. * * A good wit will make use of 
anything ; I will turn diseases to commodity. 

H. IV., 2 pt., 1 : 2. 778. 

— Quarrelsome. 

Prin. Good wits will be jangling ; but, 
gentles, agree. 



L.L.,11: 1. 27S 



Quick. 



Bene. Thy wit is as quick as the grey- 
hound's mouth ; it catches. 

M.A.,V: 2. 253. 

Ther. * * There were wit in this 
head, an 't would out; and so there is; but 
it lies as coldly in him as fire in a flint, 
which will not show without knocking. 

T. C, III : 3. 1126. 

— Short-lived. 

Prin. Such short-liv'd wits do wither as 

they grow. 

L. L., II; l. 277. 

— Some Needs Winding up. 

Seh. Look; he 's winding up the watch 
of his wit ; by and by it will strike. 

T., II : 1. 15. 

— Strength, no Proof of. 

Ther. Even so? — a great deal of your 
wit too lies in your sinews, or else there be 
liars. Hector shall have a great catch, if he 
knock out either of your brains. 

T. C, II: 1. 1113. 

— True. 

Arm. Now, by the salt wave of the 
Mediterraneum, a sweet touch, a quick 
veney of wit: snip, snap, quick, and home; 
it rejoiceth my intellect : true wit. 

L. L., V: 1. 292. 

—Turned Fool, surely Caught. 
Prin. None are so surely caught, when 
they are catch'd, 
As wit turn'd fool : folly, in wisdom hatch'd, 
Hath wisdom's warrant, and the help of 

school, 
And wit's own grace to grace a learned fool. 



Mar. Folly in fools bears not so strong 
a note. 
As fool'ry in the wise, when wit doth dote ; 
Since all the power thereof it doth apply, 
To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity. 

L. />., V : 2. 294. 

— Women's Irrepressible. 

Ros. Or else she could not have the wit 
to do this : the wiser, the waywarder. 
Make the doors upon a woman's wit. and 
it will out at the casement; shut that, and 
't will out at the key-hole ; stop that, 't will 
fly with the smoke out at the chimney. 

A. Y, IV: l. 430. 
—Youthful. 
York. * * 
Uncle, my brother mocks both you and me ; 
Because that I am little, like an ape, 
He thinks that you should bear me on your 
shoulders. 
Buck. With what a sharp provided wit 
he reasons ! 
To mitigate the scorn lie gives his uncle, 
He prettily and aptly taunts himself: 
So cunning, and so young, is wonderful. 

R. II I., Ill: 1. 1021. 

WITCH. -Cruelty of a. 

Pro. This blue-ey'd hag was hither 

brought with child, 
And here was left by the sailors : Thou, my 

slave, 
As thou report'st thyself, wast then her ser- 

"vant : 
And, for thou wast a spirit too delicate 
To act her earthy and abborr'd commands, 
Refusing her grand hests, she did confine 

thee, 
By help of her more potent ministers, 
And in her most unmitigable rage, 
Into a cloven pine ; within which rift 
Imprison'd, thou didst painfully remain 
A dozen years ; within which space she dy'd, 
And left thee there ; where thou didst vent 

thy groans, 
As fast as mill-wheels strike. Then was 

this island 
(Save for the son that she did litter here, 
A freckled whelp, hag-born) not honour'd 

with 

A human shape. 

T.,l: 2. 11. 



WITCH. 608 WITCHES. 


— The Sailor's Curse. 


Demanding of king Henry's life and death, 


1 Witch. * * 


And other of your highness' privy council, 


A sailor's wife had chestnuts in her lap, 


As more at large your grace shall under- 


And mouneh'd, and mounch'd, and mounch'd : 


stand. 


— " Give me," quoth I : 


H. VI., 2 pt., II : l. 917. 


" Aroint thee, witch ! " the rump-fed ronyon 




cries. 


—Prophecies to Macbeth. 


Her husband 's to Aleppo gone, master 0' 


Macb. Speak, if you can ; — What are 


the Tiger : 


you? 


But in a sieve I '11 thither sail, 


1 Witch. All hail, Macbeth ! hail to thee, 


And, like a rat without a tail, 


thane of Glamis ! 


I'll do, I'll do, and I '11 do. 


2 Witch. All hail, Macbeth ! hail to thee, 


2 Witch. I '11 give thee a wind. 


thane of Cawdor ! 


1 Witch. Thou art kind. 


3 Witch. All hail, Macbeth ! that shalt 


3 Witch. And I another. 


be king hereafter. 


1 Witch. I myself have all the other; 


* * 


And the very ports they blow, 


Ban. * * Speak then to me, who 


All the quarters that they know 


neither beg, nor fear, 


F the shipman's card. 


Your favours, nor your hate. 


I will drain him dry as hay : 


1 Witch. Hail! 


Sleep shall, neither night nor day, 


2 Witch. Hail! 


Hang up his pent-house lid ; 


3 Witch. Hail! 


He shall live a man forbid : 


1 Witch. Lesser than Macbeth, and 


Weary sev'n-nights, nine times nine, 


greater. 


Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine : 


2 Witch. Not so happy, yet much happier. 


Though his bark cannot be lost, 


3 Witch. Thou shalt get kings, though 


Yet it shall be tempest toss'd. 


thou be none : 


Look what I have. 


So, all hail, Macbeth, and Banquo ! 


2 Witch. Show me, show me. 


1 Witch. Banquo, and Macbeth, all hail ! 


1 Witch. Here I have a pilot's thumb, 


Macb. Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell 


Wreck 'd, as homeward he did come. 


me more : 


M., 1 : 3. 1358. 


By Sinel's death, I know, I am thane of 




Glamis ; 


WITCHCRAFT.— Its Power. 


But how of Cawdor? the thane of Cawdor 


Glo. * * 


lives, 


Look how I am bewitch'd ; behold mine 


A prosperous gentleman ; and, to be king, 


arm 


Stands not within the prospect of belief, 


Is, like a blasted sapling, wither'd up. 


No more than to be Cawdor. Say, from 


R. III., Ill : 4 1025. 


whence 




You owe this strange intelligence? 


WITCHES. — Dealing with. 


J/., I: 3. 1358. 


Buck. * * 




A sort of naughty persons, lewdly bent, — 


— That Meet Macbeth. 


Under the countenance and confederacy 


1 Witch. Where the place? 


Of lady Eleanor, the protector's wife, 


2 Witch. Upon the heath. 


The ringleader and head of all this rout, — 


3 Witch. There to meet with Macbeth. 


Have practis'd dangerously against your 


1 Witch. I come, Graymalkin ! 


state, 


All. Paddock calls : — Anon. 


Dealing with witches, and with conjurers : 


Fair is foul, and foul is fair : 


Whom we have apprehended in the fact ; 


Hover through the fog and filthy air. 


Raising up wicked spirits from underground, 


M., 1 : 1. 1357. 



WITLING. 



609 



WOES. 



WITLING. — A small. 

Biron. This fellow picks up wit, as 

pigeons peas, 
And utters it again when Jove doth please. 
He is wit's peddler, and retails his wares 
At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, 

fairs : 
And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth 

know, 

Hath not the grace to grace it with such 

show. 

L. L.,V: 2. 297. 

WIVES. — For what they Hold Sov- 
ereignty. 

Boyet. Do not curst wives hold that self- 
sovereignty 
Only for praise' sake, when they strive to be 
Lords o'er their lords? 

Prin. Only for praise : and praise we 
may afford 
To any lady that subdues a lord. 

L. L., IV: 1. 283. 

— Merry, but honest. 
Mrs. Page. * * 
We '11 leave a proof, by that which we will 

do, 
Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. 

M. W., IV: 2. 112. 

WOE. — Death, the supreme. 

K. Rich. * * 

The worst is worldly loss, thou canst un- 
fold. 

Say, is my kingdom lost? why, 't was my 
care; 

And what loss is it, to be rid of care? 

Strives Bolingbroke to be as great as we? 

Greater he shall not be ; if he serve God, 

We '11 serve him too, and be his fellow so : 

Revolt our subjects? that we cannot mend; 

They break their faith to God, as well as us : 

Cry, woe, destruction, ruin, loss, decay; 

The worst is death, and death will have his 

day. 

R. II, Ill: 2. 701. 

— Increased by Delay. 

K. Rich. So two, together weeping, make 
one woe. 
Weep thou for me in France, I for thee 
here ; 



Better far off, than — near, be ne'er the 

near. 
Go, count thy way with sighs ; I, mine with 

groans. 
Queen. So longest way shall have the 

longest moans. 
K. Rich. Twice for one step I '11 groan, 

the way being short, 

And piece the way out with a heavy heart. 

Come, come, in wooing sorrow let 's be brief, 

Since, wedding it, there is such length in 

grief. 

B.I1.,V: 1. 712. 

— Sympathy, useless. 
Tit. Mark, Marcus, mark ! I under- 
stand her signs : 
Had she a tongue to speak, now would she 

say 
That to her brother which I said to thee ; 
His napkin, with his true tears all bewet, 
Can do no service on her sorrowful cheeks. 
Oh, what a sympathy of woe is this ! 
As far from help as limbo is from bliss. 

Tit. And., Ill: 1. 1215. 

"WOES. — Accumulated. 

Tit. * * 
This way to death my wretched sons are 

gone; 
Here stands my other son, a banish'd man ; 
And here my brother, weeping at my woes ; 
But that, which gives my soul the greatest 

spurn, 
Is dear Lavinia, dearer than my soul. — 
Had I but seen thy picture in this plight, 
It would have madded me : What shall I do 
Now I behold thy lively body so? 
Thou hast no hands, to wipe away thy tears ; 
Nor tongue, to tell me who hath martyr 'd 

thee : 

Thy husband he is dead; and, for his death, 

Thy brothers are condemned, and dead by 

this. 

Tit. And., Ill: 1. 1215. 

— Borne patiently. 

Edg. When we our betters see bearing 
our woes, 

We scarcely think our miseries our foes. 

Who alone suffers, suffers most r the mind; 

Leaving free things, and happy shows, be- 
hind : 



WOES. 



610 



WOMAN. 



But then the mind much sufferance doth 
o'erskip, 

When grief hath mates, and bearing fel- 
lowship. 

How light and portable my pain seems now, 

When that, which makes me bend, makes 
the king bow. 

K. L., III : 6. 1468. 

— Clustered. 

York. * * 
The nobles they are fled, the commons cold, 
And will, I fear, revolt on Hereford's side. 
Sirrah, 

Get thee to Plashy, to my sister Gloster ; 
Bid her send me presently a thousand 

pound : — 
Hold, take my ring. 

Serv. My lord, I had forgot to tell your 
lordship : 
To-day, as I came by, I called there ; — 
But I shall grieve you to report the rest. 
York. What is it, knave? 
Serv. An hour before I came, the duch- 
ess died. 
York. God for his mercy ! what a tide of 
woes 
Comes rushing on this woeful land at once ! 
R. II, II : 2. 696. 



WOLSEY.- Griffith's Character of. 
Grif. This cardinal, 

Though from an humble stock, undoubtedly 

Was fashion 'd to much honour from his 
cradle. 

He was a scholar, and a ripe, and good one ; 

Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuad- 
ing : 

Lofty, and sour, to them thatlov'd him not; 

But, to those men that sought him, sweet as 
summer: 

And though he were unsatisfied in getting, 

(Which was a sin,) yet in bestowing, 
madam, 

He was most princely : Ever witness for him 

Those twins of learning, that he rais'd in 
you, 

Ipswich and Oxford ! one of which fell with 
him, 

Unwilling to outlive the good that did it; 

The other, though unfinish'd, yet so famous, 



So excellent in art, and still so rising, 
That Christendom shall ever speak his 

virtue. 
His overthrow heap'd happiness upon him; 
For then, and not till then, he felt himself, 
And found the blessedness of being little : 
And, to add greater honours to his age 
The man could give him, he died, fearing 

God. 

H. VIII., IV : 2. 1085. 

— Katharine's Picture of. 

Kaih. So may he rest ; his faults lie gen- 
tly on him ! 
Yetthusfar, Griffith, give me leave to speak 

him, 
And yet with charity, — He was a man 
Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking 
Himself with princes ; one, that by sug- 
gestion 
Ty'd all the kingdom : simony was fair 

pW; 

His own opinion was his law : i' the pres- 
ence 

He would say untruths ; and be ever double, 

Both in his words and meaning. He was 
never, 

But where he meant to ruin, pitiful : 

His promises were, as he then was, mighty ; 

But his performance, as he is now, nothing. 

Of his own body he was ill, and gave 

The clergy ill example. 

//., VIII, IV : 2. 1084. 

WOMAN.— (See Wit.) A bad De- 
scribed. 

York. She-wolf of France, but worse 
than wolves of France, 
Whose tongue more poisonous than the ad- 
der's tooth ! 

* * 

I would assay, proud queen, to make thee 

blush : 
To tell thee whence thou canrst, of whom 

deriv'd, 
Were shame enough to shame thee, wert 

thou not shameless. 

* * 

'T is beauty, that doth oft make women 

proud ; 
But, God he knows, thy share thereof is 

small : 



WOMAN. 



6ll 



WOMAN. 



'T is virtue, that doth make them most ad- 
mir'd ; 

The contrary doth make thee wonder'd at : 

'T is government that makes them seem 
divine ; 

The want thereof makes thee abominable : 

Thou art as opposite to every good, 

As the Antipodes are unto us, 

Or as the south to the septentrion. 

O, tiger's heart, wrapp'd in a woman's hide ! 

How could'st thou drain the life-blood of 
the child 

To bid the father wipe his eyes withal, 

And yet be seen to bear a woman's face? 

Women are soft, mild, pitiful, and flexible ; 

Though stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, re- 
morseless. 

H. VI. t 3pt.,I: 4. 961. 

— A chaffless one, found. 

Iach. * * The love I bear him 

Made me to fan you thus ; but the gods 

made you 

Unlike all others, ehaffiess. 

Cym., 1 : 7. 1598. 

— A deservedly Famous. 

Bass. * * 
Her name is Portia ; nothing undervalued 
To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia. 
Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth ; 
For the four winds blow in from every coast 
Renowned suitors ; and her sunny locks 
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece. 

J/. F., 1 : 2. 363. 

— A faulty, Incurable. 

Biron. * * 
A woman, that is like a German clock, 
Still a repairing ; ever out of frame. 

L. Z..III: 1. 282. 

— A perfect. 

Aar. * * 
Upon her wit doth earthly hpnour wait, 
And virtue stoops and trembles at her frown. 
Tit. And., II : 1. 1207. 

— A priceless. 

Val. * * Why, man, she is mine own, 

And I as rich in having such a jewel, 

As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, 

The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. 

T. G., II : 4. 56. 



— A virtuous. 

Vio. I am one that would rather go with 
sir priest than sir knight : I care not who 
knows so much of my mettle. 

T. 2f., Ill: 4. 560. 

— A weeping, Defeated. 

,K. Hen. * * 
Ay, but she 's come to beg; Warwick, to 

give : 
She, on his left side, craving aid for 

Henry ; 
He, on his right, asking a wife for Edward. 
She weeps, and says — her Henry is de- 

pos'd; 
He smiles, and says — his Edward is in- 

stall'd ; 
That she, poor wretch, for grief can speak 

no more : 
Whiles Warwick tells his title, smooths the 

wrong, 
Inferreth arguments of mighty strength ; 
And, in conclusion, wins the king from 

her, 
With promise of his sister, and what else, 
To strengthen and support king Edward's 

place. 

H. VI., 3 pt., Ill : 1. 971. 

— An incomparable one. 

Jes. * * 

Why, if two gods should play some heavenly 

match, 

And on the wager lay two earthly women, 

And Portia one, there must be something 

else 

Pawned with the other; for the poor rude 

world 

Hath not her fellow. 

Jf. V., Ill : 5. 3S2. 

— An ugly. 

Biron. * * 
With two pitch-balls stuck in her face for 
eyes. 

L. L., Ill : 1. 282. 

— An unwomanly, Loathed. 

Pat?: * * 
A woman impudent and mannish grown 
Is not more loath'd than an effeminate man 
In time of action. 

T. C., III : 3. 1125. 



WOMAN. 



6l2 



WOMAN. 



— At her worst. 

Kath. * * 
A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled, 
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty ; 
And, while it is so, none so dry or thirsty 
Will deign to sip, or touch one drop of it. 

T. S., V : 2. 484. 

— Chaste and unmoved. 

Puc. I must not yield to any rites of love, 
For my profession 's sacred from above : 
When I have chased all thy foes from hence, 
Then will I think upon a recompense. 

H. VI., 1 pt., 1 : 2. 867. 

— Defending her own Honor. 
Her. Since what I am to say must be 

but that 
Which contradicts my accusation, and 
The testimony on my part no other 
But what comes from myself, it shall scarce 

boot me 
To say, "Not guilty;" mine integrity, 
Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express 

it, 
Be so receiv'd. But thus, — If powers di- 
vine 
Behold our human actions, as they do, 
I doubt not then but innocence shall make 
False accusation blush, and tyranny 
Tremble at patience. — You, my lord, best 

know, 
(Whom least will seem to do so,) my past 

life 
Hath been as continent, as chaste, as true, 
As I am now unhappy ; which is more 
Than history can pattern, though devis'd, 
And played, to take spectators : for behold 

me, — 
A fellow of the royal bed, which owe 
A moiety of the throne, a great king's 

daughter, 
The mother to a hopeful prince, — here 

standing, 
To prate and talk for life and honour 'fore 
Who please to come and hear. For life, I 

prize it, 
As I weigh grief, which I would spare : for 

honour, 
'T is a derivative from me to mine, 
And only that I stand for. I appeal 



To your own conscience, sir, before Polix- 

enes 
Came to your court, how I was in your 

grace, 
How merited to be so ; since he came, 
With what encounter so uncurrent I 
Have strain'd, t' appear thus : if one jot be- 
yond 
The bound of honour; or, in act or will, 
That way inclining ; harden'd be the hearts 
Of all that hear me, and my near'st of kin 
Cry Fie ! upon my grave ! 

W. T., Ill : 2. 594. 

— Disappointment of an ambitious. 

Q. Mar. * * I stood upon the hatches 
in the storm : 
And when the dusky sky began to rob 
My earnest-gaping sight of thy land's 

view, 
I took a costly jewel from my neck, — 
A heart it was, bound in with diamonds, — 
And threw it towards thy land ; the sea re- 
ceiv'd it; 
And so, I wish'd, thy body might my heart : 
And even with this, I lost fair England's 

view, 
And bid mine eyes be packing with my 

heart : 
And call'd them blind and dusky specta- 
cles, 
For losing ken of Albion's wished coast. 
How often have I tempted Suffolk's tongue 
(The agent of thy foul inconstancy,) 
To sit and witch me, as Ascanius did, 
When he to madding Dido, would unfold 
His father's acts, commenc'd in burning 

Troy? 
Am I not witch'd like her? or thou not 

false like him ? 
Ah me, I can no more? Die, Margaret! 
For Henry weeps, that thou dost live so 
long. 

H. VI., 2pt.,III: 2. 927. 

— Easily deceived. 
Vio. * * 
How easy it is for the proper-false 
In women's waxen hearts to set their forms ! 
Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we. 

T. 2T., II : 2. 548. 



WOMAN. 



613 



WOMAN. 



— Her changeableness. 

Ros. Now tell me, how long you would 
have her, after you have possessed her. 

Orl. For ever, and a day. 

Ros. Say a day, without the ever! No, 
no, Orlando ; men are April when they 
woo, December when they wed : maids are 
May when they are maids, but the sky 
changes when they are wives. I will be 
more jealous of thee than a Barbary cock- 
pigeon over his hen : more clamorous than 
a parrot against rain : more new-fangled 
than an ape ; more giddy in my desires than 
a monkey : I will weep for nothing, like Di- 
ana in the fountain, and I will do that when 
you are dispos'd to be merry ; I will laugh 
like a hyen, and that when thou art in- 
clin'd to sleep. 

A. Y., IV : 1. 430. 

— Her frailty. 

Duke. * * 

For women are as roses, whose fair flower, 

Being once display 'd, doth fall that very 

hour. 

T.2r.,IL: 4. 551. 

— Her Pleadings. 

Cor. * * Ladies, you deserve 
To have a temple built you : all the swords 
In Italy, and her confederate arms, 
Could not have made this peace. 

C. t V: 3. 1190. 

— Heroic Defense of her Honor. 

Her. Sir, 

You speak a language that I understand 
not: 

My life stands in the level of your dreams, 

Which I '11 lay down. 

* * 

Sir, spare your threats ; 

The bug which you would fright me with I 
seek. 

To me can life be no commodity : 

The crown and comfort of my life, your 
favour, 

I do give lost ; for I do feel it gone, 

But know not how it went : My second joy, 

And first fruits of my body, from his pres- 
ence 

I am barr'd, like one infectious : my third 
comfort, 

Starr'd most unluckily, is from my breast, 

The innocent milk in its most innocent 
mouth, 



Hal'd out to murther : Myself on every 
post 

Proclaim'd a strumpet; with immodest 
hatred, 

The childbed privilege deny'd, which 'longs 

To women of all fashion : Lastly, hurried 

Here to this place, i' the open air, before 

I have got strength of limit. Now, my 
liege, 

Tell me what blessings I have here alive, 

That I should fear to die? Therefore, pro- 
ceed. 

But yet hear this; mistake me not; — No 
life, 

I prize it not a straw : —but for mine hon- 
our, 

(Which I would free,) if I shall be con- 
demn'd 

Upon surmises ; all proofs sleeping else, 

But what your jealousies awake ; I tell 
you 

'T is rigour, and not law. — Your honours 
all, 

I do refer me to the oracle ; 

Apollo be my judge. 

W. T.,lll'. 2. 594,595. 

— Made to be Wooed. 

Dem. Why mak'st thou it so strange? 
She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ; 
She is a woman, therefore may be won ; 
She is Lavinia, therefore must be lov'd. 

Tit. And., II: 1. 1208. 

— Of infinite Variety. 

Eno. Never ; he will not ; 
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 
Her infinite variety : Other women 
Cloy th' appetites they feed ; but she makes 

hungry, 
Where most she satisfies. 

A. C., II : 2. 1551. 

— Passions weaker than Man's. 
Duke. There is no woman's sides 

Can bide the beating of so strong a pas- 
sion 

As love doth give my heart : no woman's 
heart 

So big, to hold so much ; they lack reten- 
tion. 

Alas, their love may be call'd appetite, — 



WOMAN. 



614 



WOMANLINESS. 



No motion of the liver, but the palate, — 
That suffers surfeit, cloyment, and revolt ; 
But mine is all as hungry as the sea, 
And can digest as much : make no compare 
Between that love a woman can bear me, 
And that I owe Olivia. 

T. N.,\\: 4. 551. 



fits. 



— Prized according to Worth. 

Clo. * * A woman's fitness comes by 



Gym., IV: 1. 1614. 



Tro. Grecian, thou dost not use me 

courteously, 
To shame the zeal of my petition to thee. 
In praising her : I tell thee, lord of Greece, 
She is as far high-soaring o'er thy praises, 
As thou unworthy to be call'd her servant. 
I charge thee, use her well, even for my 

charge ; 
For, by the dreadful Pluto, if thou dost 

not, 
Though the great bulk Achilles be thy 

guard, 
I '11 cut thy throat. 

T. C, IV : 4. 1131. 

— Shallow and changeable. 

Q. Eliz. Shall I be tempted of the devil 
thus? 

K. Rich. Ay, if the devil tempt thee to 
do good. 

Q. Eliz. Shall I forget myself, to be 
myself? 

K. Rich. Ay, if your self's remem- 
brance wrong yourself. 

Q. Eliz. But thou didst kill my chil- 
dren. 

K. Rich. But in your daughter's womb 
I bury them : 
Where, in that nest of spicery, they shall 

breed 
Selves of themselves, to your reeomfort- 
ure. 

Q. Eliz. Shall I go win my daughter to 
thy will? 

K. Rich. And be a happy mother by the 

deed. 
Q. Eliz. I go. — Write to me very 
shortly, 
And you shall understand from me her 
mind. 



K. Rich. Bear her my true love's kiss, 

and so farewell. 

Relenting fool, and shallow, changing — 

woman ! 

R. HI., IV : 4. 1039. 

— Source of all Evil. 

Post. * * Could I find out 

The woman's part in me ! For there 's no 
motion 

That tends to vice in man, but I affirm 

It is the woman's part : Be it lying, note it. 

The woman's ; flattering, hers ; deceiving, 
hers ; 

Ambitions, coverings, change of prides, dis- 
dain, 

Nice longings, slanders, mutability, 

All faults that may be nam'd, nay, that hell 
knows, 

Why, hers, in part, or all ; but, rather, all : 

For even to vice 

They are not constant, but are changing still 

One vice, but of a minute old, for one 

Not half so old as that. 

Oym., II: 4. 1604. 

— Tital to, uncertain. 

lach. You may wear her in title yours : 
but, you know, strange fowl light upon 
neighbouring ponds. Your right may be 
stolen, too: so, of your brace ofunprizable 
estimations, the one is but frail, and the 
other casual. 

Cym.,1: 5. 1593. 

WOMANLINESS.— Laid aside. 

Pis. Well then, here 's the point 

You must forget to be a woman ; change 
Command into obedience ; fear, andniceness, 
(The handmaids of all women, or, more 

truly, 
Woman its pretty self,) to a waggish cour- 
age ; 
Ready in gibes, quick-answer'd, saucy, and 
As quarrellous as the Aveasel ; nay, you must 
Forget that rarest treasure of your cheek, 
Exposing it (but, O, the harder heart ! 
Alack no remedy!) to the greedy touch 
Of common-kissing Titan ; and forget 
Your laboursome and dainty trims, wherein 
You made great Juno angry. 

lmo. Nay, be brief: 

I see into thy end, and am almost 

A man already. 

Cym., Ill : 4. 1609. 



WOMEN. 



6l 



WOMEN, 



WOMEN. — Angels. 

Cres. * * Women are angels wooing. 
T. ft, I: 2. 1107. 

— Beautiful, must be won. 
Suf. How canst thou tell, she will deny 
thy suit, 
Before thou make a trial of her love? 

Mar. Why speak'st thou not? what ran- 
som must I pay? 
Suf. She 's beautiful; and therefore to 
be woo'd. 
She is a woman ; therefore to be won. 

H. FT., lpt., V: 3. 893. 

— Falstaff's Opinion of. 

Nym. They say, he cried out of sack. 

Quick. Ay, that 'a did. 

Bard. And of women. 

Quick. Nay, that a' did not. 

Boy. Yes, that 'a did ; and said, they 
were devils incarnate. 

Quick. 'A could never abide carnation; 
't was a colour he never liked. 

Boy. 'A said once, the devil would have 
him about women. 

Quick. 'A did in some sort, indeed, 
handle women : but then he was rheumatic ; 
and talked of the whore of Babylon. 

H. Y., II : 3. 828. 

— Fickle. 

Laf. This woman 's an easy glove, my 
lord ; she goes off and on at pleasure. 

A. W., V : 3. 529. 

— Good, their Scarcity. 

Clo. One good woman in ten, madam, 
which is purifying a' the song : 'Would God 
would serve the world so all the year ! we 'd 
find no fault with the tithe woman, if I were 
the parson : One in ten, quoth a' ! an' we 
might have a good woman born but for ev- 
ery blazing star, or at an earthquake, 't 
would mend the lottery well ; a man may 
draw his heart out, ere a' pluck one. 

A. W.,1: 3. 499. 

— How Men are Ruled by 

Glo. Why, this it is, when men are rul'd 

by women : — 
'T is not the king, that sends you to the 

Tower ; 
My lady Grey, his wife, Clarence, 't is she, 
That tempers him to this extremity. 



Was it not she, and that good man of wor- 
ship, 

Antony Woodeville, her brother there, 

That made him send lord Hastings to the 
Tower, 

From whence this present day he is deliv- 
ered ? 

We are not safe, Clarence, we are not safe. 
Clar. By heaven, I think, there is no 
man secure, 

But the queen's kindred, and night-walking 
heralds 

That trudge betwixt the king and mistress 
Shore. 

Heard you not, what an humble suppliant 

Lord Hastings was to her for his delivery? 

* * 

We speak no treason, man; — We say, the 
king 

Is wise, and virtuous ; and his noble queen 

Well struck in years ; fair, and not jealous ; 

We ay, that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot, 

A cherry lip, 

A bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue ; 

And the queen's kindred are made gentle- 
folks : 

How say you, sir? can you deny all this? 

- R. III., 1 : 1. 1002. 

— Iago's Description of. 

Iago. Come on, come on ; you are pict- 
uies out of doors, 
Bells in your parlours, wild-cats in your 

kitchens, 
Saints in your injuries, devils being offended, 
Players in your housewifery, and house- 
wives in your beds 

0., II : 1. 1501. 

— Must Speak what they Think. 

Bos. Do you not know I am a woman? 
when I think, I must speak. Sweet, say on. 

A. Y., ni : 2. 423. 

— Should Appear what they are. 

Aug. * * Be that you are, 
That is, a woman; if you be more, you 're 

none; 
If you be one, (as you are well express'd 
By all external warrants,) show it now, 
By putting on the destin'd livery. 

M. M., II : 4. 155. 



WOMEN. 



616 



WOOING. 



— Softness of. 

Isab. * * We are soft as our com- 
plexions are. 

M. M., II : 4. 155. 

— The rarest of all. 

Gent. Women will love her, that she is 

a woman, 

More worth than any man; men, that she is 

The rarest of all women. 

W. T. % V: 1. 612. 

— Their frailty. 

Ang. Nay, women are frail too. 

Isab. Ay, as the glasses where they view 

themselves ; 

Which are as easy broke as they make 

forms. 

M. M., II : 4. 155. 

Duke. * * 

For women are as roses, whose fair flower, 

Being once display'd, doth fall that very 

hour. 

T. 2?. t II : 4. 551. 

— Their Power as Pleaders. 

Lucio. * * 

And let him learn to know, when maidens sue, 

Men give like gods. 

M. M., 1 : 5. 148. 

— Their power of Raillery. 

Boyet. The tongues of mocking wenches 
are as keen 
As is the razor's edge invisible, 
Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen. 

L.L., V: 2. 296. 

— Their Proximity dangerous. 

Biron. 

Item, That no woman shall come within a mile of 
my court. 
* * 

A dangerous law against gentility. 

L.L.,I: 1. 272. 

— Their Vows no Bondage. 

Post. * * 
Where there 's another man : The vows of 

women 
Of no more bondage be, to where they are 

made, 
Than they are to their virtues ; which is 

nothing : — 

O, above measure false ! 

Cym., II : 4. 1603. 



— Warlike. 

Bast. * * 
Like Amazons, come tripping after drums ; 
Their thimbles into armed gauntlets change. 
K. J., V : 2. 673. 

— Weak, when in Want. 

Cobs. * * Women are not, 
In their best fortunes, strong ; but want will 

perjure 
The ne'er-touch'd vestal. 

A. C, III : 10. 1565. 

WOOING.— A Murderer's, Resented. 

Q. Eliz. Cousins, indeed ; and by their 

uncle cozen'd 
Of comfort, kingdom, kindred, freedom, life. 
Whose hands soever lanc'd their tender 

hearts, 
Thy head, all indirectly, gave direction : 
No doubt the murderous knife was dull and 

blunt, 
Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart, 
To revel in the entrails of my lambs. 
But that still use of grief makes wild grief 

tame, 
My tongue should to thy ears not name my 

boys, 
Till that my nails were anchor 'd in thine 

eyes; 
And I, in such a desperate bay of death, 
Like a poor bark, of sails and tackling reft, 
Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom. 

R. III., IV : 4. 1036. 

—By Proxy. 

Suf. As by your high imperial majesty 
I had in charge at my depart for France, 
As procurator to your excellence, 
To marry princess Margaret for your grace ; 
So, in the famous ancient city, Tours, — 
In presence of the kings of France and Sicil, 
The dukes of Orleans, Calaber, Bretaigne, 

and Alencon, 
Seven earls, twelve barons, twenty reverend 

bishops, — 
I have perform'd my task, and was espous'd : 
And humbly now upon my bended knee ; 
In sight of England and her lordly peers, 
Deliver up my title in the queen. 

H. VI., 2pt.,I: 1. 907. 



WOOING, 



617 



WOOING. 



— Directions for. 

Val. Win her with gifts, if she respect 

not words ; 
Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, 
More than quick words, do move a woman's 

mind. 
Duke. But she did scorn a present that 

I sent her. 
Val. A woman sometime scorns what 

best contents her : 
Send her another ; never give her o'er ; 
For scorn at first makes after-love the 

more. 
If she do frown, 't is not in hate of you, 
But rather to beget more love in you : 
If she do chide, 't is not to have you 

gone ; 
For why, the fools are mad, if left alone. 
Take no repulse, whatever she doth say : 
For "get you gone," she doth not mean 

" away !" 
Flatter, and praise, commend, extol their 

graces ; 
Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' 

faces. 
That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no 

man, 
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. 
T G., Ill : l. 60. 

— In Haste. 

Kath. * * 

To be noted for a merry man, 

He '11 woo a thousand, 'point the day of mar- 
riage, 

Make friends, invite, yes, and proclaim the 
banns ; 

Yet never means to wed where he hath 
Avoo'd. 

Now must the world point at poor Katha- 
rine, 

And say, — " Lo, there is mad Petrucio's 
wife, 

If it would please him come and marry 
her." 

T. S. t III : 2. 467. 

— In Rhyme. 
Biron. * * 

Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's 
song. 

L. L.,V: 2. 298. 



— Infamous. 

Glo. * * 

Was ever woman in this humour woo'd? 

Was ever woman in this humour won? 

I'll have her, — but I will not keep her 
long. 

What! I, that kill'd her husband, and his 
father, 

To take her in her heart's extremest hate ; 

With curses in her mouth, tears in her 
eyes, 

The bleeding witness of her hatred by; 

With God, her conscience, and these bars 
against me, 

And I no friends to back my suit withal, 

But the plain devil, and dissembling 
looks, 

And yet to win her, — all the world to noth- 
ing! 

R. III., 1 : 2. 1006. 

— Petrucio's, original. 
Pet. I will attend her here, — 
And woo her with some spirit when she 

comes. 
Say, that she rail; why, then I '11 tell her 

plain 
She sings as sweetly as a nightingale : 
Say, that she frown; I'll say she looks as 

clear 
As morning roses newly wash'd with dew : 
Say, she be mute, and will not speak a 

word ; 
Then I '11 commend her volubility, 
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence : 
If she do bid me pack, I '11 give her 

thanks 
As though she bid me stay by her a week ; 
If she deny to wed, I '11 crave the day 
When I shall ask the banns, and when be 

married. 

T.S., II: 1. 463. 

— Variety in. 

The. * * 
Hippolyta, I woo'd thee with my sword, 
And won thy love, doing thee injuries ; 
But I will wed thee in another key, 
With pomp, with triumph, and with revel- 
ling. 



M. 



2T., 1 : 1. 321. 



WOOING. 



618 



WORDS. 



— With what Followed. 

Beat. * * Hero ; Wooing, wedding, 
and repenting, is as a Scotch jig, a meas- 
ure, and a cinque-pace : the first suit is hot 
and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fan- 
tastical ; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as 
a measure full of state and ancientry ; and 
then comes repentance, and, with his bad 
legs, falls into the cinque-pace faster and 
faster, till he sinks into his grave. 

M. A., II : 1. 230. 

"WORD. — Ill, Poisons Liking. 

Hero. * * One doth not know 
How much an ill word may empoison lik- 
ing. 

M. A., Ill : 1. 238. 

— Power of one. 

Boling. How long a time lies in one lit- 
tle word ! 
Four lagging winters, and four wanton 

springs, 
End in a word : Such is the breath of kings. 

R. II., I: 3. 690. 

WORDINESS. — Deafening. 

Aust. What cracker is this same, that 
deafs our ears 
With this abundance of superfluous breath? 
K. J., II : 1. 651. 

— Woman's, dangerous. 

Edw. A whisp of straw were worth a 
thousand crowns, 
To make this shameless callet know her- 
self.— 
Helen of Greece was fairer far than thou, 
Although thy husband may be Menelaus ; 
And ne'er was Agamemnon's brother wrong'd 
By that false woman, as this king by thee. 
His father revell'd in the heart of France, 
And tam'd the king, and made the Dauphin 

stoop ; 
And, had he match'd according to his state, 
He might have kept that glory to this day : 
But, when he took a beggar to his bed, 
And grac'd thy poor sire with his bridal day ; 
Even then that sunshine brew'd a shower 

for him, 
That wash'd his father's fortunes forth of 

France, 
And heap'd sedition on his crown at home. 



For what hath broach'd this tumult, but thy 

pride? 
Hadst thou been meek, our title still had 

slept. 

H. VI, 3 pt., II : 2. 966. 

WORDS. — Abundant. 

Lor. O dear discretion, how his words 
are suited ! 
The fool hath planted in his memory 
An army of good words ; and I do know 
A many fools, that stand in better place, 
Garnish 'd like him, that for a tricksy 

word 
Defy the matter. 

M. V., Ill : 5. 382. 

— Before Blows. 
Bru. Words before blows : Is it so, 

countrymen? 
Oct. Not that we love words better, as 

you do. 
Bru. Good words are better than bad 

strokes, Octavius. 
Ant. In your bad strokes, Brutus, you 
give good words : 
Witness the hole you made in Caesar's heart, 
Crying, "Long live! hail, Caesar!" 

Cas. Antony, 

The posture of your blows are yet un- 
known ; 
But for your words, they rob the Hybla 

bees, 
And leave them honeyless. 

Ant. Not stingless too. 

Bru. O, yes, and soundless too : 
For you have stol'n their buzzing, Antony, 
And, very wisely, threat before you sting. 
J. C, V: 1. 1348. 

—Bitter. 
Tit These words are razors to my 
wounded heart. 

Tit. And., 1 : 2. 1205. 

—Bold, become Wounds. 

Dun. So well thy words become thee as 
thy wounds : 
They smack of honour both. — Go, get him 
surgeons. 

M., 1 : 2. 1358. 



WORDS. 



619 



WORDS. 



— Defiant, Ridiculed. 

Bast. * * Here 's a large mouth, in- 
deed, 

That spits forth death, and mountains, rocks, 
and seas ; 

Talks as familiarly of roaring lions 

As maids of thirteen do of puppy-dogs ! 

What cannoneer hegot this lusty blood? 

He speaks plain cannon, fire, and smoke, 
and bounce ; 

He gives the bastinado with his tongue ; 

Our ears are cudgel'd; not a word of his, 

But buffets better than a fist of France : 

Zounds ! I was never so bethump'd with 
words, 

Since I first call'd my brother's father, dad. 
K. J., II : 2. 654. 

— Dying, Enforce Attention. 

Gaunt. O, but they say, the tongues of 
dying men 
Enforce attention, like deep harmony : 
Where words are scarce, they are seldom 

spent in vain ; 
For they breathe truth, that breathe their 
words in pain. 

R. II. ,11: l. 692. 

— Fitting. 
Paul. * * I 

Do come with words as medicinal as true. 

W. T., II: 3. 591. 

— Honest plain. 

Biron. Honest plain words best pierce 

the ear of grief. " 

L.L.,V: 2.302. 

— Immodest. 

War. 'T is needful, that the most im- 
modest word 
Be look'd upon, and learn'd : Which once 

attain'd, 
Your highness knows, comes to no further 

use, 
But to be known, and hated. 

H IV., 2pt.,IV: 4. 801. 

— In Excess. 

Cost. I marvel thy master hath not 
eaten thee for a word, for thou art not so 
long by the head as honorificabilitudinita- 
tibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap- 
dragon. 

L.L.,\: 1. 292. 



Sil. A fine volley of words, gentlemen, 
and quickly shot off. 

Val. 'T is indeed, madam; we thank 
the giver. 

Sil. Who is that, servant? 

Val. Yourself, sweet lady ; for you gave 
the fire : Sir Thurio borrows his wit from 
your ladyship's looks, and spends what he 
borrows kindly in your company. 

Tim. Sir, if you spend word for w r ord 
witli me, I shall make your wit bankrupt. 

Val. I know it well, sir : you have an 
exchequer of words, and, I think, no other 
treasure to give your followers ; for it ap- 
pears, by their bare liveries, that they live 
by your bare words. 

T. G., II : 4. 55. 

— Instead of Bullets. 

K. John. * * 

And now, instead of bullets wrapp'd in fire, 

To make a shaking fever in your walls, 

They shoot but calm words, folded up in 

smoke. 

K. J., II : 1. 652. 

— Medicinal. 

Her. * * 

That honourable grief lodg'd here, which 

burns 

Worse than tears drown. 

W. T., II: l. 588. 

— Mere, empty. 

Tro. Words, words, mere words, no mat- 
ter from the heart; 
The effect doth operate another way. — 
Go, wind, to wind, there turn and change 

together. — 
My love with words and errors still she 

feeds ; 
But edifies another with her deeds. 

T. C, V : 3. 1140. 

— No Garb of Wisdom. 

Ajax. I shall cut out your tongue. 
Ther. 'T is no matter ; I shall speak as 
much as thou, afterwards. 

T. C, II: 1. 1113. 

— None for Villains. 
Macd. I have no words, 

My voice is in my sword ; thou bloodier 

villain 
Than terms can give thee out ! 

M. V : 7. 1385. 



WORDS. 620 WORLD. 


— Power of Uttering. 


— Windy Attornies. 


Serv. * * 
He utters them as he had eaten ballads, and 


Q. Eliz. Windy attorneys to their client 
woes, 


all men's ears grew to his tunes. 

W. T. t IV : 3. 603. 


Airy succeeders of intestate joys, 
Poor breathing orators of miseries ! 


North. * * 


Let them have scope : though what they 


And yet your fair discourse hath been as 
sugar, 


do impart 
Help nothing else, yet do they ease the heart. 


Making the hard way sweet and delectable. 


R. III., IV: 4. 1035. 


R. II, II : 3. 697. 


— Wise. 


— Right, medicinal. 

Paul. Not so hot, good sir ; 
I come to bring him sleep. 'T is such as 

you,— 
That creep like shadows by him, and do 

sigh 


Tro. Well know they what they speak, 
that speak so wisely. 

T. C, III : 2. 1122. 

WORK. — Baseness. 

Fer. * * My sweet mistress 
Weeps, when she sees me work ; and says, 


At each his needless heavings, — such as 

you 
Nourish the cause of his awaking : I 


such baseness 

Had never like executor. 

r.,III: 1.21. 


Do come with words as medicinal as true ; 


WORLD. — A Stage. 


Honest as either; to purge him of that 

humour 
That presses him from sleep. 

W. T. t n : 3. 591. 


Ant. I hold the world but as the world, 

Gratiano ; 

A stage, where every man must play a part, 

And mine a sad one. 

M. V., 1 : 1. 362. 


— Sweet 

Cas. * * 
B ut for your words, they rob the Hybla bees, 
And leave them honeyless. 

T. C, V : 1. 1348. 


— Its End. 

Pro. * * 
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, 
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and 
Are melted into air, into thin air : 


— Their Power. 

Gaunt. * * 


And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, 
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous pal- 


Where words are scarce, they are seldom 

spent in vain ; 
For they breathe truth, that breathe their 

words in pain. 
He, that no more must say, is liuten'd more 


aces, 
The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve; 
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, 
Leave not a wreck behind. 

T., IV: 1. 28. 


Than they whom youth and ease have taught 
to glose ; 


— Sick of its Falsity. 


More are men's ends mark'd, than their 


Tim. * * 


lives before : 


I am sick of this false world; and will 


The setting sun, and music at the close. 


love nought 


R. IL, II : 1. 692. 


But even the mere necessities upon it. 


— Utterer Gives them Character. 


Then, Timon, presently prepare thy grave ; 
Lie where the light foam of the sea may 


Isab. That in the captain 's but a choleric 


beat 


word, 
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. 


Thy grave-stone daily : make thine epitaph, 
That death in me at others' lives may laugh. 


M. M., II : 2. 153. 


T.A., IV: 3. 1309. 



WORMS. 



621 



WOUNDS. 



WORMS. — The End of Man. 

King. Now, Hamlet, where 's Polonius? 

Ham At supper. 

King. At supper? Where? 

Ham. Not where he eats, but where he 
is eaten : a certain convocation of politic 
worms are e'en at him. 

H., IV: 3. 1422. 

"WORST. — To be Shown first. 

Ulyss. * * 
Let us, like merchants, show our foulest 

wares, 
And think, perchance, they '11 sell ; if not, 
The lustre of the better shall exceed, 
By showing the worse first. 

T. a, 1 : 3. 1111. 

WORTHLESSNESS.— Of Grecian 
Dames. 

jEne. * * 
The Grecian dames are sun-burn'd, and not 

worth 
The splinter of a lance. Even so much. 

T. C, 1 : 3. 1110. 

WOUND —A small, fatal. 

Mer. * * But 't is enough, 't will 
serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you 
shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, 
I warrant, for this world: — A plague o' 
both your houses ! — 'Zounds, a dog, a rat, 
a mouse, a cat, to scratch a man to death ! 
a braggart, a rogue, a villain, that fights by 
the book of arithmetic ! — Why, the devil, 
came you between us? I was hurt under 
your arm. 

R. J., Ill : 1. 1259. 

WOUNDS. — Caesar's three-and-twen- 

ty. 

Oct. * * I draw a sword against con- 
spirators : 
When think you that the sword goes up 

again? — 
Never, till Caesar's three and twenty wounds 
Be well aveng'd 

J. C, V: 1. 1348. 

— Disprove Treason. 

Hot. * * 
Blood-stained with these valiant combat- 
ants. 
Never did bare and rotten policy 



Colour her working with such deadly 

wounds, 
Nor never could the noble Mortimer 
Receive so many, and all willingly; 
Then let him not be slander'd with revolt. 
IT. IV., 1 pt., 1 : 3. 732. 

— Honorable, Graves. 

Vol. O, he is wounded, I thank the gods 
for 't. 

Men. So do I too, if it be not too 
much : — Brings 'a victory in his pocket? — 
The wounds become him. 

Vol. On 's brows, Menenius : he comes 
the third time home with the oaken garland. 

* * 

Men. True? I'll be sworn they are 
true : — Where is he wounded? — God save 
your good worships ! Marcus is coming 
home : he has more cause to be proud. — 
Where is he wounded? 

Vol. V the shoulder, and i' the left arm : 
There will be large cicatrices to show the 
people, when he shall stand for his place. 
He received in the repulse of Tarquin, 
seven hurts i' the body. 

Men. One in the neck, and two in the 
thigh, — there 's nine that I know. 

Vol. He had, before this last expedition, 
twenty-five wounds upon him. 

Men. Now it 's twenty-seven : every gash 
was an enemy's grave. 

C., II: l. 1161. 

— In front. 

Siw. Had he his hurts before? 

Rosse. Ay, on the front. 

Siw. Why then, God's soldier be he ! 

Had I as many sons as I have hairs, 
I would not wish them to a fairer death. 

M., V : 7. 1385. 

—Not Felt in War. 

P. Hen. Lead me, my lord? I do not 

need your help : 

And heaven forbid, a shallow scratch 

should drive 

The prince of Wales from such a field as 

this. 

H. IV., 1 pt., V : 4. 760. 

— Of Soldiers, have Claims. 

Alcib. * * 
Rich only in large hurts: — All those, for 

this? 
Is this the balsam, that the usuring senate 



WOUNDS. 



622 



WRONGS. 



Pours into captains' wounds? Ha! banish- 
ment? 

It comes not ill ; I hate not to be banish'd ; 

It is a cause worthy my spleen and fury, 

That I may strike at Athens. I '11 cheer up 

My discontented troops, and lay for hearts. 

'T is honour, with most lands to be at odds ; 

Soldiers should brook as little wrongs, as 
gods. 

T. A., Ill : 5. 1302. 

WRINKLES . — Falstaf f 's. 

Fal. Bardolph, am I not fallen away 
vilely since this last action? do I not bate? 
do I not dwindle? Why, my skin hangs 
about me like an old lady's loose gown; I 
am wither'd like an old apple-John. 

H. IV., Ill: 3. 749. 

— Wrought by Time. 

JEge. Oh ! grief hath chang'd me, since 
you saw me last ; 
And careful hours, with Time's deformed 

hand, 
Have written strange defeatures in my face, 
But tell me yet, dost thou not know my 
voice? 

C. E., V : 1. 212. 

WRONG. — Elements Employed to 
Punish. 

Art. You are three men of sin, whom 

destiny 
(That hath to instrument this lower world, 
And what is in 't) the never-surfeited sea 
Hath caus'd to belch up you, and on this 

island, 
Where man doth not inhabit, you 'mongst 

men 
Being most unfit to live. I have made you 

mad : 
And even with such-like valour, men hang 

and drown 
Their proper selves. You fools ! I and my 

fellows 
Are ministers of fate; the elements, 
Of whom your swords are temper'd, may as 

well 
Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd- 

at stabs 
Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish 
One dowle that 's in my plume ; my fellow- 
ministers 



Are like invulnerable. If you could hurt, 
Your swords are now too massy for your 

strengths, 
And will not be uplifted. But, remember, 
(For that's my business to you,) that you 

three 
From Milan did supplant good Prospero : 
Expos'd unto the sea, which hath requit 

it, 
Him and his innocent child : for which foul 

deed 
The powers, delaying, not forgetting, have 
Incens'd the seas and shores, yea, all the 

creatures, 
Against your peace. Thee, of thy son, 

Alonso, 
They have bereft; and do prouounce, by 

me, 
Ling'ring perdition (worse than any death 
Can be at once) shall step by step attend 
You and your ways ; whose wraths to guard 

you from 
(Which here in this most desolate isle, else 

falls 
Upon your heads) is nothing but heart's 

sorrow, 
And a clear life ensuing. 

T., Ill : 3. 25. 

— The Doing of bitter. 

Lew. There 's nothing in this world can 
make me joy : 
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man ; 
And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet 

world's taste, 
That it yields naught, but shame and bitter- 
ness. 

A'. J., Ill : 4. 663. 

WRONGS.— Great, a Whetstone. 

Mai. Be this the whetstone of your 
sword : let grief 
Convert to anger ; blunt not the heart, en- 
rage it. 

3f., IV : 3. 1380. 

. — Heaven must Avenge its Own. 

Gaunt. * * 
Let heaven revenge ; for I may never lift 
An angry arm against his minister. 

B.II.,1: 2. 687. 



WRONGS. 



623 



YOUTH. 



—Not Self. 

York. My lords of England, let me tell 
you this, — 
I have had feeling of my cousin's wrongs, 
And labour'd all I could to do him right : 
But in this kind to come, in braving arms, 
Be his own carver, and cut out his way, 
To find out right with wrong, — it may not be. 
R. II, II: 3. 699. 

— Ought to be Listened to. 

Arch. * * 
When we are wrong'd, and would unfold 

our griefs, 
We are denied access unto his person, 
Even by those men that most have done us 

wrong. 
The dangers of the days but newly gone, 
(Whose memory is written on the earth, 
With. yet-appearing blood,) and the examples 
Of every minute's instance, (present now,) 
Have put us in these ill-beseeming arms : 
Not to break peace, or any branch of it ; 
But to establish here a peace indeed, 
Concurring both in name and quality. 

ff.IV., 2pt.,IV: 1. 795. 



— Sympathy for. 

Bru. * * 
Mine 's not an idle cause : the duke him- 
self, 
Or any of my brothers of the state, 
Cannot but feel this wrong, as 't were their 

own ; 
For if such actions may have passage free, 
Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen 
be. 

0..I: 2. 1494. 



— To be redressed. 

Plan. * * 
Here dies the dusky torch of Mortimer, 
Chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort : — 
And, for those wrongs, those bitter inju- 
ries, 
Which Somerset hath ofFer'd to my house, — 
I doubt not, but with honour to redress : 
And therefore haste I to the parliament; 
Either to be restored to my blood, 
Or make my ill the advantage of my 
good. 

H. VI., 1 pt., II : 5. 877. 



Y 



YESTERDAYS.— Lights Pools to 
Death. 

Macb. * * 
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools 
The way to dusty death. 

J/., V : 5. 1384. 

YIELDING. — In Desperation. 

Ant. S. Am I in earth, in heaven, or in 
hell? 
Sleeping, or waking? mad, or well-ad- 

vis'd? 
Known unto these, and to myself dis- 

guis'd ! 
I '11 say as they say, and persever so, 
And in this mist at all adventures go. 

C. E., II: 2. 199. 



YOUTH.— A Model. 

Val. * * 
Yet hath sir Proteus, for that 's his name. 
Made use and fair advantage of his days ; 
His years but young, but his experience old ; 
His head unmellowed, but his judgment 

riper; 
And, in a word, (for far behind his worth 
Come all the praises that I now bestow,) 
He is complete in feature, and in mind, 
With all good grace to grace a gentleman. 

T. (?.,II: 4. 55. 

— Bragging, Counterfeiting. 
Por. They shall, Nerissa ; but in such a 
habit, 
That they shall think we are accomplished 



YOUTH. 



624 



YOUTH. 



With that we lack. I '11 hold thee any 

wager, 
When we are both accoutred like young 

men, 
I '11 prove the prettier fellow of the two, 
And wear my dagger with the braver grace ; 
And speak, between the change of man and 

boy, 
With a reed voice ; and turn two mincing 

steps 
Into a manly stride ; and speak of frays, 
Like a fine bragging youth : and tell quaint 

lies, 
How honourable ladies sought my love, 
Which I denying, they fell sick and died ; — 
I could not do withal : then I '11 repent, 
And wish, for all that, that I had not kill'd 

them : 
And twenty of these puny lies I '11 tell, 
That men shall swear I have discontinued 

school 
About a twelvemonth : — I have within my 

mind 
A thousand raw tricks of these bragging 

Jacks, 
Which I will practise. 

M. V. t III : 4. 381. 

— Carelessness becoming to. 

King. * * For youth no less becomes 
The light and careless livery it wears, 
Than settled age his sables, and his weeds. 

H.,IV: 7. 1427. 

Ant. To him again : Tell him, he wears 
the rose 
Of youth upon him ; from which, the world 

should note 
Something particular. 

A. C., III: 11. 1565. 

— Frivolous. 

For. * * 

Such a hare is madness, the youth, to 
skip o'er the meshes of good counsel, the 
cripple. 

M. V., I: 2. 363. 

Cleo. My sallad days ; 

When I was green in judgment : — Cold in 
blood. 

A. C M I: 5. 1547. 



York. * * 
The open ear of youth doth always listen ; 
Beport of fashions in proud Italy ; 
Whose manners still our tardy apish nation 
Limps after, in base imitation. 
Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity, 
(So it be new, there 's no respect how 

vile,) 
That is not quickly buzz'd into his ears? 
Then all too late comes counsel to be heard, 
Where will doth mutiny with wit's regard. 
R. II, II : 1. 692. 

— Its Beauties. 

Tro. * * Whose youth and freshness 
Wrinkles Apollo's, and makes pale the 
morning. 

T. C.,Il: 2. 1114. 

Laer. * * 
In the morn and liquid dew of youth. 

IT., 1 : 3. 1397. 

— Its Degeneracy. 

King. I would I had that corporal sound- 
ness now, 
As when thy father and myself, in friend- 
ship, 
First tried our soldiership ! He did look 

far 
Into the service of the time, and was 
Discipled of the bravest : he lasted long ; 
But on us both did haggish age steal on, 
And wore us out of act. It much repairs 

me 
To talk of your good father : In his youth 
He had the wit, which I can well observe 
To-day in our young lords ; but they may 

jest 
Till their own scorn return to them un- 
noted, 
Ere they can hide their levity in honour, 
So like a courtier : contempt nor bitterness 
Were in his pride or sharpness ; if they 

were, 
His equal had wak ! them; and his hon- 
our, 
Clock to itself, knew the true minute 

when 
Exception bid hir.. speak, and, at this time, 
His tongue obey'd his hand: who were be- 
low him, 



YOUTH. 625 ZED. 


He us'd as creatures of another place ; 


Yet such extenuation let me beg, 


And bow'd his eminent top to their low 


As, in reproof of many tales devis'd, — 


ranks, 


Which oft the ear of greatness needs must 


Making them proud of his humility, 


hear, — 


In their poor praise he humbled. Such a 


By smiling pick-thanks and base newsmon- 


man 


gers, 


Might be a copy to these younger times ; 


I may, for some things true, wherein my 


Which, follow'd veil, would demonstrate 


youth 


4 them now 


Hath faulty wander'd and irregular, 


But goers backward. 


Find pardon on my true submission. 


A. W., 1 : 2. 498. 


H. IV., lpt., Ill: 2. 947. 


— Its Vices Redeemed. 




P. Hen. * * 


— To be Dealt with mildly. 


So, when this loose behaviour I throw off, 


York. The king is come : deal mildly 
with his youth ; 


And pay the debt I never promised, 


By how much better than my word I am, 


For young hot colts, being rag'd, do rage 


By so much shall I falsify men's hopes ; 


the more. 


And, like bright metal on a sullen ground, 


R. II., II : 1. 692. 


My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, 




Shall show more goodly, and attract more 


— Will not Endure. 


eyes, 


Clo. O mistress mine, where are you roaming, 


Than that which hath no foil to set it off. 


stay and hear ; your true love 's coming, 


I '11 so offend, to make offence a skill; 


' That can sing hoth high and low : 


Redeeming time, when men think least I 


Trip no further, pretty sweeting; 
Journeys end in lovers' meeting, 


will. 


Every wise man's son doth know. 


H. IV., lpt., I: 2. 730. 


Sir And. Excellent good, i' faith. 




Sir To. Good, good. 


— Sins of, Exaggerated. 


Clo. What is love? 'tis not hereafter ; 


P. Hen. Sopleaseyour majesty, I would, 


Present mirth hath present laughter; 


I could 


What 's to come is still unsure : 


Quit all offences with as clear excuse, 


In delay there lies no plenty ; 

Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, 


As well as, I am doubtless, I can purge 


Youth 's a stuff will not endure. 


Myself of many I am charg'd withal : 


T. AT., II : 3. 548. 


r 


? 


ZEAL.— Only Needs a Signal. 


For, well I wot, ye blaze to burn them out : 


K. Edw. Brave followers, ygnder stands 


Give signal to the fight, and to it, lords. 


the thorny wood, 


H. VI., 3 pt., V : 4. 989. 


Which, by the heavens' assistance, and your 

strength, 
Must by the roots be hewn up^ et ere night. 


ZED. — Surplusage. 


Kent. * * Zed ! thou unnecessary let- 
ter ! 


I need not add more fuel to your fire, 


K. L., II : 2. 1456. 



GLOSSARY. 


ABBREVIATIONS. 


Ang. Sax., Anglo Saxon. 0. Eng., Old English. Fr., French. 


Ger., German. Obs., Obsolete. Goth., Gothic. 


Heb., Hebrew. VuL, Vulgarism. Lat., Latin. 


0. Fr., Old French. Col., Colloquial. Span., Spanish. 


A-birding, hawking. 


Basilisk, a fabulous serpent. 


iEii.ARDS, a peculiar glance of the eye. 


Basta, enough. 


Affect the letter, to alliterate. 


Bastard, common sweet wine. 


Affin'd, related to. 


Bate, flutter. 


Agate, anything diminutive. 


Battalia, the order of battle. 


Aglet-baby, image on a tag of lace. 


Bavin, brushwood burning quickly. 


Agnize, to avow. 


Beadsmen, priests. 


Alder-liefest, dearest of all. 


Bearing-cloth, rich mantle to carry to 


Aleven, ( VuL) for eleven. 


baptism. 


All-amort, quite dispirited. 


Being fap, ( VuL) intoxicated. 


All-clinquant, glittering, shining. 


Beldam, grandmother. 


Alms-drink, drank to relieve another. 


Be-mete, measure. 


Amaimon, chief devil. 


Be-moved, persuaded. 


Ames-ace, the lowest throw. 


Bestraught, mad, distracted. 


Anchor's cheer, hermit's cheer. 


Bezonian, a scoundrel. 


Anthropophaginian, one who eats human 


Bilberries, whortleberries. 


flesh. 


Bilbo, a sword. 


Appeached, impeached. 


Bisson, blind. 


Aqua-vit.e, not brandy, but usquebaugh. 


Bite upon necessity, go to the wars when 


Argosies, ships of great burthen. 


needful. 


Armipotent, all-powerful. 


Blench, start, or fly off. 


Aroint, {Ang. Sax.) away, run. 


Blistered breeches, puffed out. 


Arras, tapestry. 


Bodg'd, probably boggled. 


Arts-man, a man of art. 


Bohemian Tartar, one of wild, strange ap- 


Assinego, an ass. 


pearance. 


Astringer, a falconer. 


Boltered, smeared. 


At-his-verv-lose, the moment the arrow is 


Bona-robas, ladies of pleasure. 


loosed. 


Bonny priser, prize-fighter. 


Atomies, old form, atoms. 


Boshy, shrubby, woody. 


Aye, ever, always. 


Bourn, a limit ; a rivulet or brook. 


Baccare ! go back, retire. 


Brach, female hound. 


Balk, argue. 


Bravery, fine dress. 


Banbury-cheese, a very thin cheese. 


Break up this capon, carve. 


Barbason, the name of, a demon. 


Break with him, cease talking with him. 


Barm, yeast. 


Breed-bate, causer of strife. 



ii GLOSSARY. 


Brew, draw. 


Chapmen, merchants. 


Brib'd, stolen, 


Charactery, writing by strange marks. 


Brize, house or gad fly. 


Chare, a task. 


Brown and white bastard, mixed wines. 


Charles' wain, the constellation of the bear. 


Buckram, a stiff cloth. 


Charneco, sweet wine. 


Buck-washing, beating clothes on a board. 


Chaudron, entrails. 


Bully-rook, ( Vul.) sharper. 


Cheveril, a glove of kid. 


Bunting, a bird resembling lark. 


Chewet, a noisy chattering bird. 


Burn daylight, waste no time. 


Childing, productive. 


Bussing, kissing. 


Chopine, high shoe or clog. 


Buz, term of greatest contempt. 


Chough, jack-daw. 


By cock and pye, ( Vul.) an oath, being 


Cincture, a belt. 


a corruption of the name of Deity and 


Cital, reproof. 


Pie, the sacred book of offices. 


Clack-dish, beggar's box with loose lid. 


By Gis, probably a corruption of Jesus. 


Clapper-claw, to beat. 


By my halidom, (Aug. Sax.) haligdom, 


Clinquant, glittering. 


sacrament. 


Cockle, a small velvet cap. 


By the rood, image of Christ on the cross. 


Cock-shut-time, twilight. 


Byrlakin, (Col.) by our lady's kin. 


Cocytus, a river of Epirus. 


Cacod^emon, evil spirit. 


Cog, to talk to no purpose ; to load dice. 


Cadent, falling. 


Coigne, corner-stone ; a jutting point. 


Caddis, coarse serge ; worsted ribbon. 


Collied, smutted with coal. 


Cain-colored, yellow. 


Collop, a piece of flesh. 


Caliver, an arm lighter than a musket. 


Coloquintid a, pith of a species of cucumber. 


Callet, a scold, a drab. 


Commodity, interest or selfishness ; things 


Canary, a quick dance. 


bought of usurers. 


Candle wasters, ( Vul.) for students. 


Commonty, comedy. 


Canker-blossom, a worm that eats the 


Com pass Ed-win dow, a circular or bow. 


heart of buds. 


Comptible, accountable. 


Canker in a hedge, a dog rose. 


Con, to give. 


Cantlet, a corner. 


Coney-catching, cheating. 


Canzonet, a short song. 


Conster, to construe. 


Cap-a-pie, from head to foot. 


Convertite, convert. 


Caprioic, caprice. 


Copatain-hat, a high sugar loaf hat. 


Caracks, Spanish galleons. 


Cope, vault of heaven. 


Carbonado, to cut or hack. 


Copped-hills, hills rising to a head. 


Cardecue, fourth part of a crown. 


Coram, a corruption of quorum. 


Carkanet, a necklace. 


Corantos, a dance. 


Carlot, (Ang. Sax.) bondman. 


Corollary, a surplus number. 


Carp, to censure. 


Corrival, a competitor. 


Carrion, ( Vul.) a term of contempt. 


Corroborate, to strengthen. 


Case, ( Vul.) skin. 


Corslet, a little cuirass. 


Casque, a helmet. 


Coted, to overtake. 


Cassock, a soldier's loose coat. 


Coughs, jack-daws. 


Cataian, (Vul.) sharper. 


Counterfeit, portrait. 


Cates, dainties. 


Counterpoints, counterpanes. 


Cautelous, dejected, treacherous. 


Cowl-staff, a pole for carrying basket with 


Caveto, a hollowed molding. 


ears. 


Caviare, roes of fish, a luxury. 


Coxcomb of frize, a cap of coarse cloth. 


Cease, extinction. 


Coy, to soothe or stroke. 


Censer, perfuming pan. 


Coystril, one carrying, but not using arms. 


Chafe, to rage. 


Crack, a boy. 



GLOS 


sary. iii 


Crack-hemp, a rascal. 


Eftest, quickest. 


Crants, (Ger.) garlands. 


Eld, age. 


Crescive, constantly increasing. 


Elf-shin, eel, long, thin. 


Criei> I aim? <lid I give you encourage- 


Elves, imaginary beings. 


ment? 


Embossed, foaming. 


Cuckold, a man whose wife is false. 


Empery, power 


Cullion, a despicable fellow. 


Empoison, to poison. 


Curst, shrewish. 


Empry, (Obs.) sovereign command. 


Cursv, old word for courtesy. 


Enceladus, powerful giants. 


Curtail-axe, a cutlass. 


Enshield, to cover. 


Curtall dog, a worthless dog. 


Ephesian, ( Vul.) toper. 


Custard coffin, crust of a pie. 


Equipage, personal effects. 


Cygnets, young swans. 


Esperance, hope. 


Cyprus, thin transparent crape. 


Everlasting leiger, resident ambassador. 


Daff me, put me off. 


Excrement, hair or beard. 


Daff'd, put aside. 


Expedience, expedition. 


Dance the hay, a round country dance. 


Exsufflicate, (Obs.) probably, swollen. 


Dankish, damp. 


Eyas-musket, sparrow-hawk. 


Darkling, in the dark. 


Eyne, (Obs.) plural of eye. 


Daub, disguise. 


Fadge, suit, or agree. 


Day-woman, a dairy woman. 


Fadom, (Ang. Sax.) fathom. 


Deabn, lonely, obscure. 


Fantasied, filled with fancies. 


Debonair, affability, gentleness. 


Fardel, a burden carried. 


Deboshed, corruption of debauch. 


Far-forth, in advance. 


Decked the sea, covered. 


Farthingale, a hoop petticoat. 


Defeatures, (Obs.) defeats. 


Faulchion, a broad sword. 


Defend, forbid, prohibit. 


Fault and glimpse, faulty glimpse. 


Deracinate, to pluck up by the roots. 


Federary, confederate. 


Descant, variations. 


Fee farm, prolonged. 


Dew-lap, the flesh upon the human throat. 


Feeder, (Obs.) servant. 


Dibble, tool for making holes in the ground. 


Feere, companion or husband. 


DlLDOS and fadings. 


Feodary, an old law term. 


Dis-bench, to drive from a bench. 


Fern seed, invisible seed. 


Discandy, to melt. 


File, list. 


Disgrace of death, obscurity of death. 


Fillip, smart sudden blow. 


Disme, tithe or tenth. 


Fine issues, great ends or purposes. 


Dispos'd, inclined to be merry. 


Fire drake, will-o'-the-wisp. 


Doit, a small coin. 


Fitchew, a polecat. 


Dole, portion. 


Flamen, priest. 


Double, full of duplicity. 


Flap-dragon, raisins in burning brandy. 


Dout, do out, obliterate. 


Fleering, to mock. 


Dowle, particle of down. 


Flew'd, having hanging chaps. 


Down-gyved, hanging down. 


Foin, fence. 


Drachma, silver coin worth eighteen cents. 


Foison, abundance. 


Draff, offal. 


Fond, foolish. 


Dreadful lay, fearful wager. 


Forfeits, faults, crimes. 


Dribbling, small, weak. 


Forgetive, from forge, to invent. 


Drumble, slow or sluggish. 


Formal man, in his right senses. 


Dry he was, ( Vul.) thirsty. 


Foot-cloth, a robe reaching the ground. 


Ducdame, the burden of an old song. 


FORTH-RIGHTS AND MEANDERS, Straight and 


Dun's the mouse, probably, be still. 


wandering paths. 


Ecstasy, insanity. 


Foul, homely looking. 



iv GLOSSARY. 


Foul bumbard, dirty drinking can. 


Has censur'd him, passed sentence on him. 


Foul jape, dirty rascal. 


Hatchment, escutcheon. 


Fox, ( Vul.) sword. 


Hedge-priest, an ignorant priest. 


Foysons, plenty. 


Helmed, steered. 


Fracted, a part displaced. 


Henchman, an attendant on foot. 


Frampold, uneasy, troublesome. 


Hent, (Ang. Sax.) seized, held. 


Franklin, freeholder. 


Her thrumm'd hat, coarse woolen hat. 


Fret, stop of a musical instrument. 


Hest, command. 


Frippery, old clothes shop. 


Hilding, cowardly. 


F cm iter, fumitory. 


His competitor, partner, not rival. 


Fusty, mouldy, ill-smelling. 


Holy ales, church ales. 


Gabardine, a coarse cloak. 


Holy rood, the cross. 


Galliass, a large galley. 


Hoodman, blind man. 


Gally-mawfry, the whole fair sex. 


Hot-house, a bagnio. 


Game of tick-tack, complicated backgam- 


Household coat, arms on colored glass. 


mon. 


Hoxes, cutting the hamstrings. 


Gan vail his stomach, to lose heart. 


Humorous, humid. 


Garded, ornamented, trimmed. 


I bid the base, challenging to pursue. 


Garish, showy. 


I give the bucklers, I yield. 


Gentility, politeness, urbanity. 


I wis, (Ang. Sax.) undoubtedly. 


Gib-cat, a mutilated cat. 


Immanty, barbarity, savageness. 


Gig, a kind of top. 


Imp, bud of a tree. 


Giglots, women of loose character. 


Imp out, supplying deficient feathers. 


Gilder, a coin. 


In snuff, being angry. 


Gillyvors, gilly flowers. 


Incle, worsted for working flowers. 


Gimmal-bit, a ring bit. 


Incony, a term of endearment. 


Give me not the boots, ( Vul.) do not 


Inhibit, forbid. 


ridicule me. 


Inkles, inferior tape. 


Gleek, to joke. 


Intenable. incapable of holding. 


Gobbets, mouthfuls. 


Intermission, delay, dilatoriness. 


God's sonties, God's saints. 


Intrinsicate, entangled, perplexed. 


Good-jer, "what the devil." 


Jack-a-lent, a puppet. 


Good sprang memory, quick. 


Jack guardant, Jack in office. 


Good avorts, pot herbs. 


Jack of the clock, a figure striking the 


Gorget, neck armor. 


hour. 


Gorse, species of furze. 


Jerkin, a short coat 


Goss, kind of low furze. 


Jesses, short straps about a hawk's foot. 


Gossips, sponsors, midwives. 


Judicious eyliads, soft glances. 


Gourd and fullam, false dice. 


Junkets, sweetmeats, dainties. 


Grained face, furrowed. 


Kam, crooked, awry. 


Grange, large detached farm house. 


Keech, a mass of fat. 


Gree, agree. 


Keel the pot, cool the pot. 


Green sleeve, popular old song. 


Kern, low Irish footman. 


Grise, a step. 


Kernes and gallowglasses, light and 


Guerdon 'd, rewarded. 


heavy-armed foot soldiers. 


Guiled, deceiving. 


Key-cold, stone cold. 


Gyves, fetters. 


Kibes, chilblains. 


Haggards of the rock, a wild hawk. 


Kicky-wicky, a jade. 


Haggish, ugly, horrid. 


Kitchen malkin, the kitchen wench. 


Haggled, cut into small pieces. 


Knap, to break off short. 


Half-cups, only half removed. 


Knapped, nibbled. 


Hallowmas, first of November. 


Knot, band of persons. 

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GLOSSARY. V 


Labras, (Span.) lips. 


Mickle, much. 


Laced mutton, a courtezan. 


Middle-earth, the world. 


Lampass, swelling of the roof of the mouth. 


Milk-sop, bread sopped in milk. 


Land damn, correcting to purpose. 


Mill-sixpence, the first milled money. 


Land-raker, a foot-pad. 


Mince, trip away. 


Lapwing, bird that cries the most where its 


Minotaur, a fabled monster. 


nest is not. 


Misanthropos, a hater of mankind. 


Lashed with woe, united as with a thong. 


Misconster'd, misconstrued. 


Latch, to catch. 


Misprised, mistaken. 


Latten bilbo, long and thin blades. 


Modern, slight, trivial. 


Laund, lawn. 


Module, model. 


Lavolta, an old dance. 


Mockwater, water drained from dung hills. 


Law of writ, rules of composition. 


Mome, fool. 


Lay her a-hold a-hold, to lie as near the 


Month's mind, strong inclination. 


wind as possible. 


Mooncalf, imperfectly developed foetus. 


Leave me your snatches, cease your 


Morris-pike, a Moorish pike. 


sharp answers. 


Morsel, a small person. 


Leavend, not hasty. 


Mort, dead. 


Leets, a court; a law-suit. 


Most contrarious quests, cross or con- 


Legerity, lightness, nimbleness. 


trary questions. 


Leman, lover. 


Motion, puppet show. 


Libbard, leopard. 


Mould-warp, the mole. 


Liege, sovereign. 


Mountebank, a quack. 


Lifter, a thief. 


Moused, mangled by the mouth. 


Like urchins, ouphes, and fairies, as- 


Mouse-hunt, a weasel. 


suming the shape of hedgehogs, elfs. 


Moy, a piece of money. 


Limbeck, worm of a still. 


Mullecho, a skulker. 


Linstock, a match-holder. 


Mumbudget, a cant term for silence. 


Lither, flexible, pliant. 


Mure, to inclose in walls. 


Little eyases, nestlings. 


Muscle-shell, a simpleton standing with 


Loach, a small prolific fish. 


his mouth open. 


Lockram, cheap linen. 


My dam's god, Setebos, the supreme god 


Loffe, (Obs.) laugh. 


of the Patagonians. 


Louts, an awkward fellow. 


Nay-word, a watchword. 


Lowted, baffled and insulted. 


Neb, the bill of a bird. 


Lozel, (Ang. Nor.) worthless fellow. 


Neeld, same as needle. 


Luce, a full grown pike. 


Neeze, (Obs.) to sneeze. 


Lunatic bans, lunatic curses. 


Neif, the hand or fist. 


Lune, a fit of madness. 


Neiny, people. 


Lush, juicy, succulent. 


Night-raven, owl. 


Lustique, cheerful, pleasant. 


Nine men's morris, a game of nine pieces. 


Maculate, impure. 


Nook-shotten, irregular coast line. 


Malt-horse, a slow, heavy horse. 


Nott-pated, hair cut short and round. 


Mammering, to hesitate. 


Nourish, to support. 


Mammock, a large round hill. 


Nowl, head. 


Mandragora, a genus of plants. 


Obsequious, careful of funeral rites. 


Mankin, mop made of clouts. 


Occurrents, incidents. 


Marchpane, a delicious confection. 


Old-faced ancient, patched flag oiwstand- 


Meazel, scurvy low fellow. 


ard. 


Mesh'd, mashed or mingled. 


Oneyers, accountants of the exchequer. 


Mete-yard, measuring yard. 


Oppugnancy, opposition. 


Micher, a truant. 


Orgulous, proud, disdainful. 



Vi GLOSSARY. 


Orient, bright or sparkling. 


Porpentine, porcupine. 


Orisons, prayers. 


Port-show, appearance. 


Ostent, show, appearance. 


Posset, milk curdled. 


Ouphe, a fairy, a goblin. 


Potch, to push. 


Out of all nick, out of all reckoning. 


Poulter, a poulterer. 


Out three years, quite three years. 


Pouncet-box, a small perfumed box. 


Over-scutched, dirty or grimed. 


Precisiax, one who restrains. 


Paling, a fence. 


Pregnant, ready, well informed. 


Palliament, a white robe of lambskins. 


Priapus, god of licentiousness. 


Pantler, officer in charge of the pantry. 


Primero, the oldest known game of cards. 


Parcel bawd, partly a bawd. 


Probal, probable. 


Pard, a leopard ; any spotted beast. 


Prosambulet, having precedence. 


Parle, speech. 


Prone, quick, ready. 


Parlous, perilous. 


Puisne, small and feeble. 


Parmaciti, spermaceti. 


Puissance, strength, potency. 


Pash, rough pressure. 


Puke-stockings, of a russet black. 


Passy pavin, an old dance. 


Pursuivant, state messenger. 


Patches, fools, clowns. 


Puttock, worthless hawk. 


Paten, small plate used at the altar. 


Pygmaleon's images, his image was a vir- 


Paucas pallabris, (Span.) few words. 


gin. 


Peach, to turn informer. 


Quail, slacken, relax. 


Peize, to weigh. 


Quaint, brisk, dexterous. 


Pelting, paltry. 


Queasiness, nausea. 


Pelting farm, mean. 


Queasy, squeamish, nice. 


Perdu, on the watch. 


Quell, to take the life. 


Perdurably, everlastingly. 


Quern, a hand-mill. 


Perdy, corruption of par dieu. 


Quillet, nicety. 


Peregrinate, having traveled. 


Quintain, a spindle on the top of a post. 


Pergging, cheating, thieving. 


Quips, taunts, scoffs. 


Periapts, amulets or charms. 


Quired, put in the choir. 


Perpend, consider attentively. 


Quittance, return. 


Pheer, mate or companion. 


Quoif, a cap or hood. 


Pheese, beat, chastise. 


Quoted, regarded. 


Phill-horse, shaft horse. 


Eabato, a plaited ruff. 


Pickt-hatch, rendezvous for bad charac- 


Rabbit-sucker, a weasel. 


ters. 


Rack the value, place the utmost on it. 


Piel'd, peeled, the crown shaven. 


Raught, reached. 


Pilchard, a fish. 


Raven, to eat with voracity. 


Pilcher, scabbard. 


Ravin down, devour. 


Plackets, pockets in a petticoat. 


Raw, ignorant. 


Plamer, one who cheats at dice. 


Rayed, made dirty. 


Plant age, (Obs.) vegetation, plants. 


Razure, act of effacing. 


Pleached arms, folded arms. 


Rear-mice, bats. 


Point device, precise. 


Recheat, horn blast recalling dogs. 


Point-de-vice, (Fr.) in the extreme fash- 


Reck, to make account of. 


ion. 


Recorder, a flageolet. 


Poison'd voice, probably, poisoned. 


Red lattice, the sign of an ale-house. 


Poke, sack. 


Red-lattice-phrases, ale-house phrases. 


Polack, Polander. 


Reechy, discolored by smoke or sweat. 


Pomewater, sweet juicy apple. 


Reek, vapor. 


Poor informal women, women out of 


Reeky, smoky, foul. 


their senses. 


Renages, cast off. 



GLOSSARY. Vii 


Renege, to deny. 


Slops, large loose trousers. 


Resolve you, convince you. 


Smock, a long coarse garment. 


Respective, regardful. 


Smug, affected neatness. 


Reverb, to reverberate. 


Sneak, a street musician. 


Rheum, overaction of any organ. 


Sneak-cup, one who evades drinking. 


RlGO. 


Sneap, a reprimand. 


Rim, the midriff, or diaphragm. 


Sneaping, nippi ng. 


Rivage, bank or shore. 


Snick up, ( Vul.) go hang. 


Rivalitv, (Obs.) emulation. 


So-hough ! an old hunting cry. 


Rivo, to be merry. 


Solidares, small pieces of money. 


Roasted crabs, roasted crab apples. 


Souse, to plunge into water. 


Romage, tumult, hurry. 


Sowter, a cobbler. 


Roinish, mangy. 


Spilth, any thing spilt. 


Roper v, roguery. 


Spital-house, a hospital. 


Roundel, a roundelay. 


Spotted, stained, guilty. 


Roundure, (Fr.) circle. 


Sprighted, haunted. 


Row, successively. 


Springe, a noose to catch a bird. 


Rudesby, a rude rough fellow. 


Spring-halt, probably, string-halt. 


Ruffle, noisy, turbulent. 


Squash, an unripe peascod. 


Rump-fed, fjd on offal. 


Stale, laughing stock ; a trap or decoy. 


Sacherson, a famous bear. 


Stalking horse, a pretense. 


Sack, white Spanish wine. 


Staniel, a base kind of hawk. 


Sagittary, a fictitious animal, man and 


Starkly, stiffly. 


horse. 


Statist, a statesman. 


Sallet, helmet. 


St. Colm's inch, a small island. 


Salvages, savages. 


Stigmatic, a criminal branded. 


Scall, a term of reproach. 


Stitiied, stith, strong, rigid, an anvil. 


Scamels, limpets. 


Stoccado, a thrust with a rapier. 


Scarfed, decorated with flags. 


Stomach, (Obs.) appetite. 


Scathful, destructive. 


Strappado, a military punishment. 


Sconce, helmet, old term for head. 


Stricture, strictness. 


Scroyle, a man of scrofulous habit, a leper. 


Stuffed, furnished. 


Scrubbed, stunted. 


Suqure of sense, full compass of sense. 


Scut, a tail. 


Surcease, to stop. 


Sea monster, hippopotamus. 


Swart, to make tawny. 


Sear up, probably, soldering. 


Swasher, one who boasts of valor. 


Seld-showx, seldom. 


Swashing, noisy blustering. 


Serpigo, a disease of the skin. 


Swinge-buckler, a bully. 


Shaft, a thick short arrow. 


Swound, to swoon. 


Shardborne, with wings like shards. 


Taffety, very thin silk. 


Shards, broken pots. 


Tallowkeech, fat of an ox rolled up. 


Shent, ruined. 


Tarre, to stimulate or set on. 


Ship-tire, ribands floating like streamers. 


Tarriance, delay. 


Shive, slice. 


Taxation, censure, satire. 


Shog off, ( Vul.) will you go? 


Teen, sorrow, trouble, grief. 


Shotten, one that has spawned. 


Temporary meddler, time-serving. 


Shoughs, cross between dogs and wolves. 


Testerned me, given me a sixpence. 


Simular, a pretender. 


The eating canker, caterpillar. 


Sith, since. 


The moated grange, a large farm house. 


Sithence, {Aug. Sax.) since. 


The nuthook humor, calling a man thief. 


Skains-mates, cut-throat companions. 


The sweat, the plague. 


Skin, to cover superficially. 


The triumvery, three cornered gallows. 



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Thick-pleached, thickly interwoven. 


Unanel'd, without extreme unction. 




Thirdborough, an under constable. 


Uncape, digging out the fox. 




Thrasonical, bragging, boasting. 


Uneath, not easily. 




Three-pil'd, the finest kind. 


Unh aired, beardless. 




Three venies, touches, or hits. 


Unhoused, free from domestic care. 




Throstle, machines for spinning. 


Unhousel'd, without the sacrament. 


* 


Thy vild race, natural, inherited disposi- 


Union, a precious pearl. 




tion. 


Unshak'd, unmoved by solicitation. 




Tightly, quickly. 


Urchins, hedgehogs. 




Tike, a clown. 


Usance, interest on money. 




Tire-valiant, resisting fatigue. 


Utis, a merry festival. 




Tiring-house, the dressing room of thea- 


Vailing, bending, bowing. 




tres. 


Vail your regard, lower. 




'T is in his buttons, he is the man for it. 


Vant-brace, armor for the arm. 




To affy, to betroth. 


Velure, shaggy hair. 




To bide, to abide, endure. 


Vied, hazarded. 




To bottom, to wind as on a spool. 


Villain, slave. 




To cart, to draw through the town on a 


Vinew'dest, (Obs.) mouldy, musty. 




cart. 


Vizaments, deliberations. 




To clip, to embrace, to strike. 


Wall-ey'd, large, white, distorted. 




To dance barefoot, to be an old maid. 


Wappened, debilitated by disease. 




To gird, to taunt, or sneer at. 


Warder, truncheon. 




To gleek, to mock, scoff. 


Wassails, (Ang. Sax.) merry-meetings 




To glut him, to swallow him. 


Water-rats, pirates. 




Toil, enclosure. 


Weals-men, statesmen, politicians. 




To point, perfection. 


Web and pin, diseases of the eye. 




To rook, to squat down. 


Welkin, the vault of heaven. 




To slubber, neglect. 


Wezand, windpipe. 




To sperre, to defend by bars. 


Whelk'd, varied with protuberance. 




To take the hatch, to leap a hedge in 


Where he meal'd, sprinkled, defiled. 




fear. 


Whiting-time, bleaching time. 




To trow, to believe. 


Whitsters, bleachers of linen. 




Touze, to pull or tear. 


Wild morisco, morris-dancer. 




To weet, to know. 


Wiltol cuckold, one who consents to 


his 


Traject, Venetian ferries. 


wife's infidelity. 




Tray-trip, a game at dice. 


Woodcock, a foolish fellow. 




Trenched in ice, cut or carved in ice. 


Woolward, the wool next the skin. 




Tricksy, quick, clever, elegant. 


Woosel-cock, a blackbird. 




Trossers, close fitting breeches. 


Yare, quick. 




Trucket, a flourish on the trumpet. 


Y-cleped, called. 




Tucket-sonance, trumpet flourish. 


You firy oes, anything round. 




Turn his girdle, to give a challenge. 


You must be preeches, flogged. 




Twiggen, covered with wicker work. 


Younker. a young fellow. 




Umber, a dusky yellow earth. 


Zanies, a fool's baubles. 





INDEX 



PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS 



Aaron. — A Moor beloved by Tamora. 

Tit. And. 

A black skin gloried in, 49. A perfect woman, 611. 
Fatal gossip, 251. Final impenitence, 300. Hor- 
rible ransom, 456. Oath, 412. Sorrow perpetu- 
ated, 515. S3torm5- rage, 456. Stratagem inexpli- 
cable, 525. Three, one too many, 551. Training 
for a warrior, 557. Treachery, 561. Vengeance, 
578. Vice superlative, 585. Villainous counsel, 
106. Villainy gloried in, 583. 

Achilles. — A Grecian Commander. T. C. 

Longing for rare sights, 344. Power of the eye, 200. 
Reputation endangered, 468. Speculation, 517. 
Triumph, 565. Undeserved neglect, 404. Vulner- 
ability, 591. Wounded pride, 444. 

Agamemnon. — The Grecian Commander. 

T. C. 

A loud summons invoked, 534. A winnowing dis- 
crimination, 167. Action respected, 8. Foe nobly 
treated, 224. Fortune's frown a test, 232. Hope 
defeated, 282. Love captures soldiers, 357. Pride, 
443. Private audience not for public matters, 35. 
Rebuking arrogance, 31. The signs of constancy, 
99. 

Angelo. — The Deputy (in the Duke's ab- 
sence). M. M. 

Compelled sin, 497. Cunning of the tempter, 548. 
Pity shown injustice, 430. Prayer distracted, 440. 
Pretended justice, 329, 337. Rebellion against re- 
straint, 470. Self-confessed guilt, 265. Self-tempt- 
ed, 548. Sin counted charity, 74. Sin punished, 
496. Tediousness, 547. Temptation, 548. Test of 
character, 54-). Unblushing hypocrisy, 2y3. "Weari- 
some goodness, 251. 

Anne Bullen. — Maid of honor, afterwards 

Queen. R. III. 

Abhorrence bitterly expressed, 1. Bitterness of 
reaped curses, 126. Contentment better than gold- 
en sorrow, 103. Death desired, 136. Sleep de- 
nied, 502. Tears powerless, 545. Thanks ten- 
dered, 550. Vengeance, 577. Wounds of the mur- 
dered reveal, 397. 



Antonio. — Merchant of Venice. 



M. 



Civic reputation precious, 80. Devil quotes script- 
ure, 484. Friendship unlocks all resources, 239. 
Hate repaying kindness, 270. Indefinable sadness, 
481. Patience and fury, 422. Relentlessness root- 
ed in hate, 461. Resigned to death, 468. The 
world a stage, 523. Unyielding power of avarice, 
38. 



Antony, Mark. 



A Triumvir. 

A. C. and J. C. 

A mean spirited fool, 225. Bellowing a relief, 46. 
Caesar killed by ingratitude, 310. Caesar's death, 



141. Caesar's murderers upbraided, 466. Courage, 
107. Crocodile, description of, 121. Desertion 
nobly treated, 156. Effect of bad news on the 
teller, 406. Fallen greatness, 256. Great events 
forecast, 228. Greatness in ruins, 256. Great 
perils, 426. Hope inspires comfort, 282. Imagina- 
tion's pictures, 146. Inconstancy bemoaned, 303. 
Indecision, 305. Ingratitude hated, 310. Loud prot- 
estation, 449. National ingratitude, 310. Patch- 
ing a quarrel, 453. Populace, 433. Regret sours 
pleasure, 461. Self-conquest, 92. Shame of flight, 
491. Soliloquy over Caesar's body, 507. Sorrow 
contagious, 512. Speech on death of Caesar, 517. 
Suicide at our command, 531. Suicide intended, 
530. Supremacy of affection, 536. The noblest 
Roman, 479. Uncertainty, 569. Utter despair, 156. 
Valor, 575. Vengeance on a betrayer, 47. Vice, 
582 War, 597. Weak and foolish resentment, 
468. 

Apemantus. — A churlish Philosopher. 

T. A. 

Adversity unrelenting, 11. Claims of soldiers' 
wounds, 621. Courtesy ridiculed, 110. Danger 
environs greatness, 256. Flattery deafens counsel, 
219. Flattery met by flattery, 220. Friendship 
full of dregs, 238. Grace before meat, 253. Men 
mutable, 400. Solitude cools revenge, 509. Tem- 
perance, 547. Universal depravity, 155. Willing 
misery, 382. 

Archbishop of Canterbury. H. V. 

AH encompassing purpose, 451. Conversion, 104. 
Effects must have a cause, 470. Eloquence of the 
reformed, 184. Harmony in diversity, 269. Illim- 
itable praise, 439. Order, 417. Singleness of pur- 
pose, 452. Spirit of ancestors invoked, 23 State, 
bees a model for, 45. Sudden and complete re- 
form, 460. Universal genius, 243. 

Arthur, Duke of Bretagne. — Elder 
brother of King John. K. J. 

A child's confidence, 90. Affected sadness, 481. 
Cruelty expostulated with, 109. Expostulation 
with cruelty, 122. Eyes more precious than the 
tongue, 201. Fortitude in anguish, 230. Ingrati- 
tude aggravates cruelty, 308. Looks no index, 
344. Nature excels man in mercy, 377. Poor, 
merry, 362. Rare devotion, 161. Strife, grief at 
occasioning, 525. 

Autolycus. — A rogue. W. T. 

A snapper-up of trifles, 564. An expert thief, 550. 
Ballads, 498. Chance honesty, 277. Ingenious 
cruelty, 123. Society, its castes, 68. The success 
of humbug, 286. Thieves, 550. 

Banquo. — A General in the service of the 
King. M. 

Earth's bubbles, 64. New honors sit strangely, 281. 
Short duration of gratified ambition, 20. Sleep 
disturbed, 503. Suspicion questions, 538. 



INDEX TO PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. 



Bassanio. — Friend to Antonio. M. V. 

A perfect friend, 233. Appearances not to be trust- 
ed. 29. Bewildering power of applause, 30. Cow- 
ards boastful, 112. Embarrassment of debt, 304. 
Fair terms deceitful, 549. False hair, 266. Friend- 
ship equal to any sacrifice, 239. Loquacity, 345. 
Loss regained, 345. Mirth a garment, 380. Mis- 
trust, love's treason, 355. Mistrust, treason to 
love, 385. Modesty dislikes noise, 388. Ornament, 
418. Portrait, a perfect, 436. Ring, its value de- 
pends on giver, 477. Uncertainty, 569. Ventures 
repeated, 581. 

Bastard. — Philip Faulconbridge, natural 
son of King Richard the First. K. J. 

Action enjoined, 8. Courage, exhortation to, 107. 
Courage, where strong, luj. Crimes beyond mer- 
cy, 121. Cruelty easily punished, 122. Death in- 
discriminate, 137. Defiance of a braggart, 149. 
Defiant words ridiculed, 619. Desertion of doubt- 
ful friends, 155. Example inspires, 195. Excuse 
for great grief, 260. Fear fed by rumors, 213. 
Crowing power of selfishness, 488. Havoc and 
war desired, 103. Ignorance of new made honor, 
280. Inglorious compromise, 86. Leanness laughed 
at, 338. Love an excuse, 347. Murder a robbery, 
392. Power crouching, 438. Private grudges, 262. 
Prophecy of evil, 448. Public quarrels, 454. Re- 
spectability desired, 469. Revenge must be prompt, 
475. Soldier of honor, 505. Time bald, 552. Vil- 
lainy easily punished, 584. 



Beatrice. — Niece to Leonato. 



31. A. 



An infamous satirist. 483. Failure of manhood, 368. 
Men s love, 105. Minimum of pleasure, 43i. Tat- 
tling, 542. 

Belarius. — A banished Lord, disguised 
under the name of Morgan. Cym. 

A generous benediction, 47. Dangerous enterprises, 
190. Fear as bad as danger, 129. Greatness he- 
reditary, 273. Humility safe, 285. In what life is 
noble, 342. Melancholy, 373. Misery falling 
heavy, 383. Mountain life noble, 391. Rank ought 
to be respected in death, 224. Recovery of lost 
sons, 510. Royal blood will show, 51. Soft anger 
powerful, 25. Sudden calamity, 66. 

Benedick. — A young Lord of Padua, favor- 
ite of Don Pedro. M. A. 

Changes of taste, 542. Empty thanks, 549. Equivo- 
cal praise, 439. Love bewildering, 352. Mistaken 
quarrels, 454. Posthumous fame, 207. Power of 
music, 399. Resentment mistaken, 468. Rhymes 
difficult, 476 . Satire defied, 483. Silence unattain- 
able, 4'J6. Termagant, 548. Virago, 586. Woman's 
quick tODgue, 555. 

Biron. — A Lord attending on the King of 
Navarre. L. L. 

A faulty woman incurable, 611. A gallant described, 
241. Cupid described, 125. Daintiness, 128. Ex- 
cessive study, 525. Foolish conduct in love, 3. 
Fop described, 110. Hindrance to study, 526. 
Inadequate praise, 439. Keen sense of a lover, 361. 
Love speaking, 358. Love wanton, 359. Marplot, 
369. Necessity defies oaths, 403. Ostentation, 418. 
Perjury. 427. Plagiarism, 431. Plodding tire- 
some, 431. Pmof of sincerity demanded, 497. 
Rebellion against austerity, 35. Sensualism, 489. 
Simplicity of expression best, 12. Witling, 609. 
Woman's eyes, 202. 

Bolingbroke. — Duke of Hereford, son to 

' John of Gaunt, afterwards King 

Henry IV. R. II. 

A desire to escape from conscience, 94. A dissolute 
son, 510. Bad advisers, 12. Civil disabilities, 164. 



Confession lightens guilt's burden, 89. Content 
with fate, 102. Courage, incentive to, 108. Cow- 
ardice destroys the innocent, 113. Cry of innocent 
blood, 50. Forbearance towards an enemy, 188. 
Grief lengthens time, 261. Indignation fruitless, 
297. Murder cries for vengeance, 392. Night, 410. 
Recantation impossible, 459. The poor's excheq- 
uer, 550. Tool spurned, 556. Treachery, 562, 563. 
War, 595. 

Bottom. — The weaver. M.N. 

A wondrous dream, 177. An ear for music, 398. 
An exposition of sleep, 502. Self conceit, 87. 

Brutus, Junius. — A Tribune of the peo- 
ple. C. 

Humility's napless vesture, 286. Moderation pun- 
ished, 3S7. People infatuated by ingratitude, 311. 
Tyrant, 568. 

Brutus, Marcus. — A conspirator against 

Julius Caesar. J. C. 

An awaking conscience, 94./ Artistic murder, 392. 
Bribes dishonor the great, 61. Caesar's ghost start- 
les Brutus, 244. Chok r defied, 77. Close consul- 
tation, 100. Conjugal fidelity, 216. Conspiracy, 
how hidden, 97. Cooling friendship ceremonious, 
70. Covetousne88 destroys friendship, 112. Dan- 
ger of the ides of March, 294. Dead, mighty, 132. 
Death, 134. Death ambition's debt, 130. Difficul 
ties between friends, 16:;. Early rising condemned, 
477. False magnanimity, 366. Farewell to Cas- 
sius, 208. Honesty fearless, 277. Honor more 
precious than life, 279. Ladder to ambition, 21. 
Opportunity like the tide, 416. Pity drives out 
pity, 430. Portia's suicide, 533. Prosperity dan- 
gerous, 448. Quarrels of friends, 453. Signs of 
affection withheld, 13. Sleep's leaden mace, 502. 
Sleep like honey-dew, 503. Speech in defense of 
assassination, 519. Successful treachery, 564. Sug- 
gestions of jealousy, 3-3. Suicide cowardly, 530. 
Suspicion to be crushed. 538. The tide of -fortune, 
233. Vindictiveness, 535. 

Caius Marcius. — A Roman patrician. C. 

A protest against dissimulation, 1 71. A wife's devo- 
tion, 160. A would-be poisoner, 433. Assumed 
humility, 285. Constancy prayed for, 98. Courage, 
107. Dissimulation impossible to the noble, 171. 
Extremity the true test, 199. Fidelity during ab- 
sence, 2. Firmness invoked, 218. Great misfort- 
unes, 3S4. Greatness in disguise, 167. Hospital- 
ity remembered, 2S4. Indignation at popular ar- 
rogance, 305. Injustice affiliates with foes, 312. 
Intrepidity defies dan.L'<r, 321. Memory tires, 374. 
Mobs mutable, 336. M ,ther respected, 391. Nat- 
ural affection, 13. Outspoken speech, 520. Policy 
of dissimulation, 171. Popular concessions im- 
politic, 8S. Popular government rebuked, 252. 
Sneer at imperativeness, 300. The people, 426. 
Truckling, 565. Voices of nature, 420. Wisdom 
of true friendship, 239. 

Caliban. — A savage and deformed slave. 

T. 

All-pervading malaria, 367. Blessings of civiliza- 
tion cursed, 80. -Clownish devotion, 160, Miser- 
able music, 399. Secn-t power of books, 55. 

Capulet. — The head of a noble house at 

variance with the Montagues. R. J. 

Blabbing dav, 132. Death changes everything, 135. 

Death of an only child, 139. Death sudden. 138. 

Passionate abuse, 567. Spring treads on winter, 

523. Too copious tears, 5,6. 



Cardinal Pandulph. 



■The Pope's Legate. 

K. J. 

Alliances dangerous, 129. Crime cumulative, 119. 

Evils worst on departure, 193. Lust overreaching, 



INDEX TO PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. 



XI 



363. Murderers canonized, 397. Peace impossi- 
ble, 424. Reconciliation to the Church, 78. Vows 
conflicting, 590. 

Cardinal Wolsey. //. VIII. 

Bitter end of ambition, 20. Culmination of great- 
ness, 25(3. Dangerous ambition, 19. Defeat of 
ambition bewailed, 20. Earthly glory short lived, 
247. Expression of contempt, 101. Far reaching 
malignity, 367. Fidelity, '216. Killing disappoint- 
ment, 165. Malicious censurers, 69. Matchless 
peace of a good conscience, 95. Patriotism, 423. 
Stubbornness, 525. Sycophancy, 541. Vanity of 
human hopes, 577. Virtue in a fool, 587. 

Cassius. — A conspirator against Julius 

Caesar. ■ J. C. 

Abstract of all villainy, 5S3. A friend's infirmities, 
308. Crime suggests crime, 121. Death always at 
command, 134. Declining affection, 13. Envy has. 
a good memory, 190. Fate in our own hands, 209. 
Good companionship essential, 84. How conspir- 
acies are formed, 96. Masterly inactivity, 302. 
Overpowering greatness, 157. Portents interpret- 
ed, 434. tincerity never dangerous, 497. Small 
beginnings dangerous, 46. Suicide, 532. Super- 
stition suspicious, 535. Tyrants, 568. Tyranny 
shaken off, 568. 

Claudio. — A young gentleman. M. M. 

Daring, 131. Hope a medicine, 2S3. Horrible un- 
certainties of death, 133. Persuasion, 428. The 
fear of death, 138. Tyranny of new rulers, 567. 

Claudio. — A young Lord of Florence, fa- 
vorite of Don Pedro. M. A. 

Cat killed by care, 67. Claudio's epitaph, 191. Dis- 
guised love, 350. Effect of false accusation, 5. 
Friends inconstant in matters of love, 238. Peace 
revives love, 424. Perfect happiness silent, 26J. 
Silence the sign of joy, 495. Sin cunning, 4J6. 
Temptation, 548. Virtuous in appearance only, 



Claudius. — King of Denmark 



//. 



Care destroys life, 67. Conscience a burden, 92. Diffi- 
culty of repentance, 465. Long continued sorrow, 
514. Prayer profitless, 440. Ready giving, 246. 
Remorse invoking help, 463. Self-confessed in- 
sanity, 315. Sorrow's sign, 514. Travel, 558. 

Cleopatra. — Queen of Egypt. A. C. 

A perfect man, 367. A woman's infatuation, 307. 
Bad news hated, 405. Bad news should tell itself, 
406. Burial, high Roman, 65. Celerity admired by 
negligent, 69. Constancy like marble, 99. Death 
a desired pinch, 138. Death called for, 138. Death 
rather than censure, 69. Desperate railing, 456. 
Ever growing greatness, 255. False swearing, 533. 
Foolishness of wishers, 605. Homage to a hand, 
267. Immortality longed for, 238. Impatience a 
sin, 299. Indignity resented, 306. Language of 
infatuation, 307. Love alike in queen and maid, 
351. Lying no proof of love, 3. Protestations not 
trusted, 449. Rival, 477. Sallad days, 328, 624. 
Sorrow becoming the strong, 511. Suicide, 530, 
532. Suicide extolled, 531. Sweating labor, 295. 
Sycophancy, 541. The cant of detraction, 160. 
The knot of life untied, 143. Unexhausted County, 
56. 

Cominius. — The Roman General. C. 

Confidence in a leader, 338. Growth of true great- 
ness, 257. Hero a powerful leader, 275. Mercy 
not to be asked, 377. Success and desire, 52o. 
Titles refused, 554. Valor, 574. "Waiting revenge, 
475. 



CoDstance. — Mother to Arthur. 



K. J. 



Cowardice denounced, 113. Death invoked, 136. 
Disheveled hair, 266. Despair relieved by death, 



157. Effect of sorrow, 514. Good news hard to 
believe, 407. Grief a solace, 258. Grief proud, 
260. Hereditary misfortune, 273. Misery mis- 
taken for madness, 382. Mother's love, 391. Nat- 
ure's gifts, 246. Nothing can separate those who 
love, 197. Prudence dictates delay, 450. Recog- 
nition of friends in heaven, 237. Relation of faith 
to need, 205. Reproach extorted by misery, 382. 
Similarity, 496. Tears bribe heaven, 544. Voice- 
less vehemence, 577. 

Corin. — A shepherd. A. Y. 

Churlishness no way to heaven, 78. Good manners 
in one place ridiculous in another, 104. Hospi- 
tality despised, 2S4. Laborer's contentment, 103. 
Natural philosophy, 429. 

Countess of Rousillon. — Mother to Ber- 
tram. A. W. 

Affected sorrow, 516. Heirloom testamentary, 272. 
Maiden's tears, 544. Relation of heredity to ac- 
quirements, 274. Silence recommended, 494. Skill 
gives immortality, 499. Tears, 544. 

Cranmer. — An agent of the King, after- 
wards Archbishop of Canterbury. 

//. VIII. 

Accusers and accused, 7. Goodness inspires awe, 
250. Meekness, 373. Prophecy of Elizabeth's 
greatness, 447. Refutation of calumny, 66. 

Decius Brutus. — A conspirator. J. C. 

Ambition fostered by conspirators, 20. Flatterers 
easily led, 218. 

Desdemona. — Daughter to Brabantio, and 

wife to Otheilo. 0. 

A persistent solicitor, 506. Arguing a suit, 533. 
Husband, allegiance to, 17. Persistence, 427. 

Dogberry.— The chief Constable. M. A. 

Ability to read, a vanity, 457. Age destroys wit, 
14. Charge to a watchman, 598. Contamination, 
100. Inevitable subordinate position, 436. Mo- 
tives, lesser, 391. Unquenchable desire to be an 
ass, 33. 

Domitius Enobarbus. — A friend of An- 
tony. A. C. 

Celerity in dying, 182. Danger in extremity, 130. 
Face of woman, 203. Grief atoning, 259. Judg- 
ment, 328. Leaky friends abandoned, 1. Loyalty 
in defeat, 362. Luxuriant grandeur, 253. Mar- 
riage strangles friendship, 371.. Matters great and 
small, 372. Overwhelming regret, 461. Self up- 
braiding*, 466. Superlative devotion, 162. Tears 
in an onion, 545. Voluptuousness, 590. 

//. VIII. 



Duke of Buckingham. 

Ambitious meddling, 372. Betrayal purchased by 
gold, 47. Cunning detected, 124. Generous for- 
giveness, 230. Inconstancy of friends, 236. Indis- 
putable proofs, 447. Prudence good policy, 450. 
Purpose not disclosed, 451. Resignation to un- 
merited death, 143. 

Duke of Buckingham. R. III. 

Crafty hypocrisy, 289. No sanctuary for children, 
482. Perfect acting, 215. Terror, 549. 

Duke of Gloucester. — Uncle to the King, 
and Protector. H. VI., 1 pt. 

A monster's soliloquy, 389. Ambition bewildered, 
19. An uninterrupted conqueror, 92. Criminals, 
great, 121. Dearly bought territory, 549. Defiant 
ambition, 19. Deformity rebelled against, 150. 
Exultation of a monster, 388. Guile, 263. Hasty 
marriage, 369. Hypocritical amity, 23. Love 



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INDEX TO PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. 



o'erleaps vows, 357. Making love over a coffin, 
111. Murder of Henry VI, 395. Overreaching, 
419. Prayer of 6ome a curse, 440. Presence en- 
genders love, 480. Small concessions fatal, 88. 
Sorrow vanquishes, 514. Stumbling a bad omen, 
526. Style disagreeing with purse, 527. Treach- 
erous kiss, 333. Treachery, 563. Trickery out- 
witted, 564. Wicked ambition, 21. 



Duke of Norfolk. 



H. VIII. 



A wicked divorce, 175. Haste leads to indiscretion, 
306. Imperiousness, 300. Merit more than an- 
cestry, 378. Oppressive taxation, 543. Originat- 
ing heredity, 274. Rashness impolitic, 457. Re- 
straining anger, 24. Superlative glory, 247. Value 
of ability, 2. Warning against a dangerous enemy, 
188. 

Duchess of Gloucester. R. II 

Claims of brotherhood, 62. Cowardice mistaken for 
patience, 422. Despair mistaken for patience, 421. 
Heavy grief, 260. Heredity, 273. Imploring par- 
don, 420. Love the strongest tie, 363. Sin heavy, 
496. Sorrowful separation, 489. 

Duchess of York. — Mother to King Ed- 
ward IV, Clarence and Gloucester. 

R. Ill 

A mother's curse, 125. A son's deceit bemoaned, 
145. Domestic broils accursed, 62. Sincerity 
earnest, 497. Tearful hypocrisy, 292. 

Earl of Gloucester. K. I. 

Bad times, 552. Killing men sport to gods, 522. Loss 
sometimes gain, 345. Low connection, 105. Res- 
ignation promised, 468. Trust misplaced, 565. 
Tyranny of new rulers, 567- 



Earl of Northumberland. 



R. II 



An honorable reputation, 467. Effect of conversa- 
tion on journeys, 104. Extremities presage de- 
liverance, 198. Hope related to joy, 283. Liar 
hated of God, 341. Native tongue, 555. Stabs of 
slander incurable, 499. Unconcern, 569. Wild 
times, 102. 

Earl of Northumberland. — An enemy to 

the King. //. IV., 2 pt. 

Anxiety for news, 405. Bringer of bad news, 406. 
Desperation conquers indecision, 158. Grief weak- 
ens, 261. Popular commotion, 83. Preparation 
needful, 442. Suspicion's ready tongue, 538. Sym- 
pathy, 541. Tattler cursed, 542. Usurpation, 570. 

Earl of Salisbury. R. II. 

A rainy sunset, 534. Despair resulting from delay, 
142. Misfortune foretold, 247. Sudden overthrow, 
419. 

Earl of War-wick. — Of the King's party. 

//. IV, 2 pt. 

Mistrust cowardly, 385. Murder traitorous, 396. 
New servants needed, 372. Rumor doubles, 480. 
Use of cast-off followers, 224. 

Earl of Warwick. — Of the Duke of 

York's party. H. VI, 3 pt. 

Arrogance harmless, 31. Blind revenge, 473. Brok- 
en alliance, 17. Cases altered by circumstances, 
19. Death takes no note of pomp, 141. Difficulty 
of decision, 146. Fall of greatness, 256. Half- 
hearted poor fighters, 267. Power of impious- 
ness, 300. Recognition of the atonement, 35. Rest 
indispensable, 469. Surrender of territory, 549. 
Suspicion well founded, 538. The past interprets 
the future, 240. The piercing power of the eye, 
201. Transformation of a friend into a foe, 235. 
True love, 348. 



Edgar. — Son to Gloucester. 



K.L. 



A broken heart, 271. A madman's advice, 364. A 
wronged brother's denunciation, 153. Affecting 
to be a demoniac, 153. Bad fortune a relief, 231. 
Compelled charity, 74. Heights make dizzy, 271. 
Lost reputation, 467. One idea a sign of insanity, 
315. Playing fool to sorrow, 515. Possessed by 
fiends, 436. Retribution just, 471. Vice punishes 
itself, 583. 

Edmund Mortimer. — Earl March. 

IT. VI, 1 pt. 

Cowardice abandons the field, 114. Equality in di- 
vision, 175. Eyes waxing dim, 202. Fear hasten- 
ing flight, 222. Ignorance of language, 336. In- 
firmities of age, 14. Inspiration needed for success, 
318. Politic silence, 495. Poor fighting for rebel- 
lion, 458. Power of a sweet tongue, 556. The ef- 
fect of discouragement, 166. The fighting of rebels 
a shadow, 218. 

Edmund of Langley. — Duke of York, 

and uncle to the King. R. II 

Crisis of misgovernment, 385. Indignant loyalty, 
362. Misery insulted, 383. Treachery, 560. 

Edward. — Earl of March, afterwards King 

Edward IV. H. VI, 3 pt. 

Inconsolable grief, 261. Portents, heavenly, 435. 
Uncertainty, 569. Villainy a necessity, 403. 

Eleanor. — Duchess of Gloster. 

H. VI, 2pt. 

Deserved punishment, 450. Shame independent of 
symbols, 492. Woman's ambition stronger than 
man's, 22. 

Elizabeth. — Queen of Edward IV. R. III. 

Dead children hover over us, 77. Extenuation of ar- 
rogance, 32. Grief profound, 260. Heart-break- 
ing sorrow, 513. Misfortunes foreseen, 228. Moth- 
er's right to see her children, 390. Pity invoked of 
stones, 430. Rebuke of brusqueness, 64. Re- 
morseless vengeance, 578. Ruin foreseen, 480. 
Simplicity, 496. Upbraidings, 571. 



Emilia. — Wife of Iago. 

Gentleness the duty of husbands, 
monster, 322. Rascals, 456. 



0. 

Jealousy a 
L.L. 



Ferdinand. — King of Navarre. 

A victim of self-conceit, 88. Loss of friends, 235. 
Posthumous fame, 207. Pretended accomplish- 
ments, 5. Reading, 457. Scholars' agreement, 484. 
Tears, 544. 



Flavius. — Steward to Timon. 



T. A. 



Creditors rapacious, 118. Disinterested friends a 
dream, 237. Empty generosity, 242 Flattery 
soon spent, 219. Mistakes concerning insolvency, 
317. Suspicion too late, 538. Vileness of false 
friends, 236. 



Fluellen. — A Welch officer. 



//. 



Birthplaces of great men, 48. Blindness of fortune, 
233. Oath, 412. Quarrelsomeness, 454. Self-con- 
ceit, 488. Silence on eve of battle, 495. Ugliness, 
568. 

Ford, Mr. Francis. — A gentleman dwell- 
ing at Windsor. M. W. 
Heaven controls love, 351. Jealousy a safeguard, 
322. Love improperly placed, 351. 

Friar Lawrence. — A Franciscan. R. J. 

A death-like sleep, 501. Care destroys sleep, 67. 
Death not to be mourned, 139. Early rising ridi- 
culed, 477. Fickleness in love, 216. Good in 



INDEX TO PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. 



Xlll 



everything, 249. Haste, slow, 269. Impetuosity 
in love fatal, 301. Lightness of a lover's step, 362. 
Morn, its beauty, 390. Over-violent love, 363. 
Physical signs of death, 142. 

Gertrude. — Queen of Denmark, and moth- 
er of Hamlet. H. 

Death the common lot, 142. Drowning of Ophelia, 
180. Gloom of countenance, 247. Guilt fearful, 
263. Patience recommended, 423. Well balanced 
madness, 364. 



Ghost of Hamlet's father. 



H. 



Murder of the King of Denmark, 395. Purgatory, 
450. Speech accusatory, 519. Stealthy poison, 
433. Unconcern, 569. Untimely death, 147. 

Goneril. — Eldest daughter of the King. 

K.L. 

A false charge of cowardice, 113. Old age abused, 
14. 

Gratiano. — Friend to Antonio and Bassa- 
nio. M. V 

Envy sharper than steel, 131. Excessive care, 67. 
Opinion, 416. Peevishness, 425. Pleasures of an- 
ticipation, 27. Prodigal, 446. Self-conceit, 88. 
Silence commended, 494. Silence not always wis- 
dom, 495. Small hypocrisy, 292. Superservice- 
ableness, 535. Transmigration, 558. 



Gremio. — A suitor to Bianca. 



T. S. 



Boasting of a great dower, 176. Female sweetness, 
540. Inexcusable irreverence, 322. Petrucio's 
mad marriage, 370. 

Griffith. — Gentleman usher to Queen Kath- 
arine. II VIII. 

Death of Wolsey, 141. Happiness of obscurity, 414. 
Virtues written in water, 368. 

Hamlet. — Son to the former, and nephew 
to the present King. H. 

Accountability in madness, 364. Acting instruc- 
tions, 11. A disturbed imagination, 297. A pict- 
ure of a friend, 235. Appropriate action, 7. A 
smiling villain, 583. Bitter revenge, 475. Bitter 
self-upbraidings, 466. Caution against self-decep- 
tion, 145. Coxcombs, 117. Dead forgotten, 134. 
Death, strict, 137. Description of adultery, 9. 
Destiny, divinity in, 159. Disapproval of hints, 
276. Discontent with everything, 166. Dust of 
the dead, 133. Emphatic grief, 259. Extravagant 
grief, 259. Fate irresistible, 209. Fear disclaim- 
ed, 212. Flattery not for the poor, 220. Fortitude 
exulted in, 230. Frailty of woman, 234. Guilt un- 
kenneled, 263. Heartlessness reproved, 8. Hidden 
shame, 491. Honesty remarkable, 278. Honor, 
argument for, 278. Indecorum, 305. Independ- 
ence, 305. Inimitable excellence, 195. Innocence, 
stoical, 313. Invincible determination, 159. Invo- 
cation of Denmark's ghost, 244. Language of 
ennui, 190. Madness limited, 365. Midnight ap- 
palling, 379. Mother, 390. Mother upbraided, 
466. Mysteries abundant, 400. Night, 409. No 
escape from calumny, 67. Old men described, 
375. Partial madness, 365. Petard hoisting its 
engineer, 428. Poor in thanes, 549. Power of act- 
ors over conscience, 94. Power of habit, 266. Pro- 
test against being a tool, 557. Qualities of true 
greatness, 257. Rank disregarded, 456. Retribu- 
tion, 471. Revenge swift, 475. Self-flattery a bar to 
repentance, 465. Silence invoked, 495. Smiling and 
villainy, 504. Soliloquy, 506. Soliloquy at Yorick's 
grave, 506. Sorrow passing show, 515. Sponges, 
human, 521. Stars, 523. Suicide prohibited, 533. 
Sycophancy, 540. Sycophants used, 541. Tears 
of hypocrisy, 545. Test of madness, 365. The 
perfection of man, 368. Thought gives character, 



551. Time out of joint, 553. Usurper, 573. Ven- 
geance, 579. Wealth, 599. Worms, emperors, 137. 
Wringing the heart, 271. Yesterdays, 623. 



Hector. — A son of Priam. 



T. C. 



Bragging provoked, 56. Compliments of heroes, 275. 
Doubt a beacon, 176. Fears of the reputed brave, 
214. High purposes, 452. Persistence in wrong 
an aggravation, 428. Pure lineage, 343. Revenge 
deaf, 474. Time a test, 553. 

Helena. — In love with Demetrius. M. N. 

Girls' friendship, 238. Instruction sought of a rival, 
478. Perfect union. 570. Pursuit, 452. Sport with 
ladies denounced, 522. Want of beauty deplored, 
44. 

Helena. — A gentlewoman, protected by 

the Countess. A. W. 

Cause and effect, 470. Contradictions of character, 
104. Fortune in our own hands, 232. Great 
changes in a short time, 72. Love admires fools, 
346. Lust playing with what it loathes, 364. Min- 
isters of omnipotence, 416. Remedies in ourselves 1 , 
462. Restoration of health, 271. Time s flight, 553. 
Unrequited love, 359. Varied epithets, 192. Weak 
things chosen of God, 372. Women cannot fight 
for love, 359. 

Henry Beaufort. — Great uncle to the 
King, Bishop of Winchester, and 
afterwards Cardinal. II. VI, 1 pt. 

Priestly arrogance, 32. Success from God, 529. 
Wife's influence, 603. 

Henry. — Earl of Richmond, a youth. 

//. V7.,3pt. 

Civil war, 594. Remorselessness, 464. Reproaches 
unanswered, 467. Sweetness of wearing a crown, 
122. Tears impossible, 544. Vengeance, 580. 
Will, 604. 

Henry. — Earl of Richmond, afterwards 
King Henry VII. R. III. 

Cruel tyranny, 567. Prayer, 440. Strategy, 525. 
Sunset, 534. Valor, 576. 

Henry. — Prince of Wales, eldest son to 

the King. H. IV, 1 pt. 

Brave ambition, 19. Courage respected, 108. Death 
a debt, 134. Deceptive appearances, 29. Frivolity 
a sign of death, 137. Pain of human glory, 247. 
Power grasped prematurely, 438 Pretensions 
tested, 442. Reformation obliterates, 460. Royst- 
erers careless of time, 480. Sick with joy, 493. 
Signs of death, 138. !Sins of youth exaggerated, 
624. Subterfuges of a braggart, 57. Terms of 
contempt, 101. Too numerous holidays, 277. 
Truth, 565. Unfelt wounds, 621. Weaknesses 
of greatness, 256. Youth's vices redeemed, 624. 

Henry Percy. — Surnamed Hotspur. 

H. IV 

A rebuke of foppery, 227. Bargaining, strictness in, 
40. Bold defiance, 149. Calling up spirits, 521. 
Curiosity, 125. Danger of accomplices, 4. Death 
chosen before defeat, 148. Flattery disowned, 219. 
Foolishness of noticing portents, 434. Half-heart- 
edness, 267. Honor easily attained, 279. Impa- 
tience in enterprise, 300. Insufferable bores, 55. 
Life too short for frivolity, 239. Love in war, 356. 
Mouth-filling oath, 412. No time for sickness, 493. 
Poetry excruciating, 432. Quarrels over division, 
175. Recklessness, 459. Sickness endangers en- 
terprise, 493. Success independent, 529. Swear- 
ing, 540. Thought, 550. Truth shames the devil, 
160. Unslumbering upbraidings, 466. Usurpa- 



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INDEX TO PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. 



Isabella. — Sister to Claudio. 



M. M. 



A cry for justice, 3*28. An appeal to conscience, 94. 
Angels weeping, 24. Arrogance of brief authority, 
36. Chastity more precious than life, 75. Coura- 
geous goodness, 230. Crime unlocked for, 120. 
Curative power of authority, 36. Devilish mercy, 

376. Heaven's judgment, 328. Hypocrisy foul 
within, 290. Hypocrisy in the great, 291. Hypoc- 
risy threatened with exposure, 293. Ignorance 
and power, 438. Impending madness, 365. Inde- 
cision, 305. Intentions not punishable, 320. In- 
tercessory prayers, 440. Invective on a cowardly 
brother, 131. Jests by great men, 325. Mercy, 

377. Mercy becoming, 375. Mercy, how inspired, 
376. Patience invoked, 422. Power, tyrannical 



tlon, 571, 572. "Woman's profanity, 446. Wounds j 
disprove treason, 621. 

Hermia. — Daughter to Egeus, in love with 
Lysander. M. N. 

Impossibility of believing some things, 46. Lovers' 
vows, 362. The incredible, 304. The true devo- 
tion of a lover, 162. Unexpected departure alarm- 
ing, 17. 

Hermione. — Queen to Leontes. W. T. 

Guest urged to tarry, 263. Power of kindness, 330. 
Praise, abundant, 439. Tearless grief, 261. Tongue- 
less praise, 439. Woman's honor defended, 612, 
613. 

Herbert de Burgh. — Chamberlain to the 

King. K. J. 

All-absorbing news, 405. Bad news, 405. Crimes 
excite the populace, 123. Evil purpose overcome, 
431. Innocence can stand any test, 313. Inno- 
cence defends itself, 313. Pity, 429. Special provi- 
dence, 449. Undying affection, 14. 

lachimo. — An Italian gentleman, and a 

friend to Philario. Cym. 

Base insinuation, 317. Discernment claimed, 163. 
Guilt enfeebles, 263. Paragon, 420. Perfect sculp- 
ture, 485. Perfection, human, 426. Sleep the ape 
of death, 503. Sluttery, 504. 

Iago. — Othello's ancient. O. 

Alarming anger, 24. Caution against jealousy, 322. 
Circumstantial evidence, 483. Conscience forbids 
murder, 393. Consummate hypocrisy, 2S9. Con- 
tent and poverty, 102. Credulity, 118. Good n .me 
precious, 400. Guilt speaks without a tongue, 265. 
Hate covered by hypocrisy, 28J. Hypocrisy stereo- 
typed, 293. Imagination destroys, 297. Insidious 
sin, 497. Insinuation destroys, 317. Jealousy and 
trifles, 324. Jealousy meditating revenge, 323. 
Kisses betray, 333. Lost reputation, 467. Love 
bewitching, 352. Patience, 423k Pleasure shortens 
time, 431. Poverty rich, 437. \Powev of the will, 
77. Preferment, 441. Pretended honesty, 278. 
Quarrels caused by drink, 179. Sinister service, 
491. Slander a thief, 499. Slave's right to thought, 
551. Sleep betrays secrets, 503. Sufficient tongue, 
556. Suicide a weakness, 530. Suicide, things 
better, 533. Suspicion hard to excite, 538. Syco- 
phancy, 540. Time's deliverance sure, 553. Volu- 
bility ,'590. Will, its power, 604. Women, 615. 

Imogen. — Daughter to Cymbeline l>y a 
former Queen. Cym. 

Circumstances mislead, 79. Impatient for death, 300. 
Isolation leads to conceit, 322. Kingly lust, 363. 
Locality nothing, 343. Love should be deaf, 350. 
Pity implored, 430. Respect not insured by high 
descent, 155. Slight sickness, 493. Suffering ex- 
treme, 530. Suicide, 531. Suspicion worse than 
death, 537. Suspicions worse than certainties, 539. 
Unparalleled longings, o44. Vows, 590. 



use of, 438. Redress not obtained of the devil, 460. 
Sense of death in apprehension, 142. Sin adopted, 
496. True mercy, 378. Truth, 565. Virtue dearer 
than life, 587. Virtue more than life, 587. Woman's 
frailty, 616. 

Jack Cade. — A rebel. //. VI, 2 pt. 

Arrogance of demagogues, 153. Extravagant prom- 
ises of demagogues, 153. Fitfulness of mobs, 386. 
Hatred of education, 183. Tragic end of a dema- 
gogue, 152. 

Jaques. — Son of Sir Roland do Bois. 

A. Y. 

All the world a stage, 523. Fruits of conversion, 
105. Improperly performed marriage, 370. Melan- 
choly, its verities, 374. Pride, 443. Quotations at 
command, 455. Rank opinions, 416. Sleeplessness 
an excuse, 503. The wounded laugh, 337. Wis- 
dom from a fool, 226. 

Joan la Pucelle. — Commonly called Joan 
of Arc. II. VI., 1 pt. 

A supernatural call, 326. Courage and prowess, 325. 
Discernment, 326. Fear accused, 212. Inspiration 
in dead heroes, 270. Long titles tedious, 547. Pity 
implored, 430. Vanishing of glory, 247. War de- 
plored, 595. 

John of Gaunt. — Duke of Lancaster, and 

uncle to the King. R. II. 

Absolute content, 102. Circumstances change opin- 
ions, 73. Disgrace of ancestry bemoaned, 50. En- 
gland's grandeur and disgrace, 188. Final appeal 
in quarrels, 454. Hope in old age, 282. Impetu- 
osity short lived, 301. Life not of man, 343. Mak- 
ing tin best of misery, 384. Necessity a teacher, 
403. Providence appealed to, 449. Success in- 
voked, 529. Watching makes men gaunt, 241. 

John Talbot. //. VI, 1 pt. 

Cowardice, invective on, 115. Fear defeats, 214. 
Heroic death, 137. Revenge threatened, 475. 
Shame of defeat, 148. Soldiers' stomachs, 505. 
Treatment of prisoners, 445. War's attendants, 
596. 



Julia. — Beloved of Porteus. 



T. G. 



Deceitful oaths, 413, Immaculate sincerity, 467. 
Love not to be impeded, 346. Refuge from slan- 
der, 499. Slanderers, 500. Sorrow destroys beauty, 
313. Sublime confidence, 91. 

Juliet. — Daughter to Capulet. R. J. 

Avowal of love desired, 352. Brand of shame, 491. 
Bringer of bad news hated, 406. Contradictions 
of character, 77. Deceitfulness of character, 104. 
Desperate alternatives, 18. Fickleness of fortune, 
232. Horrors of a living tomb, 556. Impatience 
for news, 299. Love beyond estimate, 358. Love 
from hate, 358. Love impatient, 300, Love infi- 
nite, 352. Love justifies disguise, 354. Love pas- 
sionate, 357. Love never weary, 358. Love quench- 
less, 335. Love way ward, 359. Love's opportuni- 
ty, 403. Moon symbol of inconstancy, 389. "No" 
means " yes," 410. Ominous parting, 421. Purity, 
451. Seclusion desired, 4S6. Shame driven away 
by honor, 279. Shrieks terrific, 492. Swift mes- 
sengers, 379. Tears, 544. Telling news merrily, 
408. Thought, love's herald, 551. Torn love letter, 
360. What 's in a name ? 401. 



Julius Caesar. 



J. C. 



Above a lie, 341. Braving danger, 129. Cowardice, 
115. Cowards, 116. Dreams of divine interpreta- 
tion, 178. Fatness admired, 210. Fawning fatal, 
211. Firmness, 218. Jealousy does not smile, 504. 
Leanness suspicious, 338. 



INDEX TO PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. 



XV 



Katharina. — The shrew, daughter to Bap- 
tist*, T. S. 

A shrew's purpose, 492. Chagrin caused by jealousy, 
323. Wife's relation to her husband, 602. Woman 
nt her worst, 612. Woman's perfect submission, 
027. Wooing in haste, 617. 

King Edward the Fourth. 

//. VI., 2 pt. R. III. 

Clouds not always storms, 81. Crown, cost of, 121. 
Greatness absorbs, 255. Hollow friends, 236. In- 
consistency, 304. Redemption, 460. Triumph,, 565. 
Zeal, 625. 

King Henry the Fourth. 77. IV., 1,2 pt. 

A father's anguish, 26. A gentle humorist, 287. A 
king's prayer, 440. Acknowledgment of God, 247. 
Ambition watchful, 476. Atonement an inspira- 
tion, 34. Children sometimes a punishment, 77. 
Clustered sorrow, 516. Criminal neglect, 404. 
Divinity of a*king, 331. Enemies strengthened by 
a child, 187. Excessive goodness, 250. Feigned 
sorrow, 516. Fickleness of fortune, 232. Forbear- 
ance uudermines respect, 228. Foreign quarrels, 
454. Foreknowledge a source of gloom, 229. For- 
getfuluess of sleep, 502. Hatred, alarm at, 270. 
Honor coveted, 279. Honor secured by victory, 
280. Hope a summer bird, 282, Immortality gives 
life its worth, 298. Impartiality rewarded, 298. 
Innocence defended, 313. Love of change danger- 
ous, 72. Music at death desired, 399. Passion de- 
stroys itself, 421. Peasant better than a king, 331. 
Personal responsibility, 469. Popular affection, 
13. Rebellion must be crushed, 458. Slander de- 
feated, 499. Slavery of gold, 249. Sleep denied, 
502. Son a cause of envy, 510. Soul our own, 517. 
Stratagem involving death, 525. Sympathy, 541. 
The binding power of forbearance, 227. The haste 
of heirs to inherit, 272. Time-server, 554. Trai- 
tors, 557. Usurpation, 572. War, civil, 594. Wild 
companions renounced, 85. 

King Henry the Fifth. 77. V. 

Advantages of no account in love, 346. Anger nat- 
ural, 25. Blanching power of fear, 213. Boast- 
ing, 52. Complete hypocrisy, 289. Contempt for 
France, 234. Cowards an encumbrance, 116. 
Enemies an outward conscience, 187. Equality 
inevitable, 192. Extreme despair, 157. Good in 
things evil, 193. Greatness earned, 255. Habitual 
invasion, 321. Infirmities of kings, 331. Irritation 
of bad neighbors, 404. Justification of bloodshed, 
51. Love's difficulties, 353. Pain quickens intel- 
lect, 419. Peace, silent, 424. Rebellion deplored, 
458. Sighs significant, 494. Spoliation, 521. Suc- 
cess or ruin, 159. Treachery, 562. Treachery un- 
masked, 561. Valor, 28. War, 596. 

King Henry the Sixth. 

II. F7.,l,2, 3pts. 

A good face, 202. Abjectncss of the dethroned, 160. 
Christian hope, 282. Oivil dissension, 169. Con- 
tentment a crown, 102. Disloyalty in old age, 168. 
God gives light in darkness, 14. Gratitude due to 
God, 254. Helplessness, 273. Inconstancy of com- 
mon men, 304. Influence of goodness, 250. In- 
jured innocence commiserated, 82. Innocence 
thrice armed, 314. Justice, 329 Love for the 
dead, 133. Marriage, heedless, 369. Mitigation of 
imprisonment, 302. Murderous tyranny, 567. 
Perplexity, 427. Power of tears, 546. Power of 
woman's speech, 520. Prophecy of greatness, 448. 
Punishment of imposture, 302. Pusillanimity, 452. 
Remorseless cruelty described, 123. Requiting 
kindness, 254. Safety of insignificancy, 315. Sub- 
mission conquers fortune, 231. Suspicion well 
founded, 539. Sympathizing tears, 546. Traitors 
rebuked, 558. Unhappiness of kings, 332. Un- 
helpful tears, 547. Unsuccessful dissembling, 169. 
Unsuspecting destroyed, 571. Virtuous heredity 
desired, 274. War, 593. War a relief, 595. War's 
uncertainty, 596. 



King Henry the Eighth. 77. VIII. 

A joyous christening, 78. Commendation of a noble 
wife, 601. Conscience an excuse, 93. Conscience 
sometimes an excuse, 93. Flattery rebuked, 220. 
Glory appropriated, 30. Great abilities aggravate 
wrong, 1. Loud-mouthed hypocrisy, 291. Rome 
abhorred, 479. 

King John. K. J. 

Blind rage, 421. Chagrin creates fever, 70. Cold 
comfort implored, 82. Cruelty an adjunct of de- 
spair, 157. Death an escape, 135- Fulfilled proph- 
ecy, 447. Great rage, 4-35. Guilt cowardly, 264. 
Haste required, 269 Hell within us, 272. Im- 
pending slaughter, 500. Opportunity a tempter, 
548. Opportunity an excuse, 416. Peace, 424. 
Power of artillery, 32. Retribution swift, 472. 
Sickness indifferent to news, 493. Spoliation 
urged, 521. Terror from within, 549. Usurpa- 
tion popish, 573. Vacillation, 574. War, 596. 

King of France. A. W. 

Age steals on, 14. Degeneracy of youth, 624. Dig- 
nified goodness, 250. Empirics not to be trusted, 
185. False distinctions, 173. Honors not heredi- 
tary, 280. Inconstancy confessed, 304. Lost time, 
553. Outliving usefulness, 571. Power of caste, 
69. Resemblance to father, 468. Warning against 
procrastination, 446. 

King Richard the Second. R. II. 

A plea for conciliation, 89. Abject surrender, 536. 
Authority bestowed by God, 36. Changes degrade 
the maker, 151. Death the supreme woe, 609. De- 
sertion in misery, 383. Earth made an ally, 183. 
Gloom, 246. Griefs all our own, 259. Happiness, 
282. Ingratitude in a brute, 309. Inspiration in a 
great name ,401. King the Lord's anointed, 331. 
Light a discloser, 343. Personal responsibility, 
469. Popularity, 433. Rage withstood, 456. Rag 
ing impetuosity, 301. Rebuke resented, 458. 
Sharing care, 67. Solitude thoughtful, 508. Sor- 
row not always seen in the face, 203. Sorrow 
written in tears, 545. Strict inpartiality, 298. Sur- 
render of authority painful, 37. Tears, 544. Tears 
suppressed, 546. Time wasted, 554. Unalterable 
despair, 158. Usurpation, 571. War, 595. 



Lady Macbeth. 



31. 



Abortive attempts alarming, 35. Affection defends 
its object, 13. Alarmed by knocking, 334. Asks 
to be unsexed, 123. Courage may be screwed up, 
108. Cowardice ridiculed, 113. Cowardly deser- 
tion, 221. Darkness invoked, 131. Dead but pict- 
ures, 142. Departure commanded, 154. Discon- 
tent leads to destruction, 166 Drunken hope, 282. 
Fear betrays itself, 212. Grateful service, 491. 
Husbands to be bought, 288. Infirmity of pur- 
pose, 451. Memory destroyed, 374. Milk of kind- 
ness, 330. Reading the face, 202. Secrets revealed 
in sleep, 509. Serpent under the flower, 289. Ser- 
pentine dissembling, 169. 

Lafeu. — An old Lord. A. W. 

A harmless traitor, 557. A nobly got scar, 483. Fort- 
une scratches the cowardly, 233. Soullessness, 517. 
Traveler, 559. Vagabond, 574. Woman's fickle- 
ness, 615. 

Launcelot Gobbo. — A clown, servant to 
Shylock. M. V. 

A hard master, 371. Beard, scanty, 42. Conflict 
with conscience, 94. Consequences of sin heredi- 
tary, 496. Population and poverty, 434. 

Launce. — A clownish servant to Porteus. 

T. G. 

Abundant tears. 546. Dog lacking tears, 544. Hy- 
perbole, 288. Suffering in a dog's stead, 175. 



XVI 



INDEX TO PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. 



Lear. — King of Britain. 



K.L. 



A daughter's ingratitude, 308. A father's curse, 125. 
Absolute justice, 329. Begging, abject, 2. Curse 
on ungrateful child, 76. Devotion in misfortune, 
161. Dissembling politician, 433. Filial ingrati- 
tude, 309. Filial love, 351. God-honored sacri- 
fices, 481. Greatness barked at by insignificance, 
315. Invocation to nature, 321. Lesser evils swal- 
lowed up, 194. Madness shunned, 365. Mental 
suffering, 380. Nature gives beyond need, 403. 
Noble anger, 25. Physic, 429. Protest against 
tears, 545. Revenge, 474. Silent devotion disin- 
herited, 162. Sinned against, 498. Sorrow re- 
buked, 516. Suffering and sympathy, 530. Un- 
kindness, 570. Vengeance, 5S0. War's attend- 
ants, 596. 

Leonatus Posthumus. — A gentleman of 

Britain, husband to Imogen. Cym. 

A complete rout, 480. Conscience embitters bond- 
age, 54. Death evades us, 139. Good servant, 490. 
Stain of illegitimacy, 297. The tide of battle turned 
by bravery, 60. Vengeance, 578. Women source 
of all evil, 614. 

Leonato. — Governor of Messina. M. A. 

A father's anguish, 26. Patience -wronged, 422. 
Proverbs patch grief, 449. Reparation for slan- 
der, 464. Tears of joy, 545. Toothache, 429. 
Toothache defies philosophy, 557. Vengeance, 
579. 

Leontes. — King of Sicilia. W. T. 

A temporizer, 548. Courtesy, excessive, 109. Heredi- 
tary likeness, 274. Heredity not always answer- 
able, 275. Inconsolable sorrow, 513. Jealousy 
wrong in everything, 324. Magic lawful, 365. 
Pity a weakness, 430. Piety darkens evil, 429. 
Regret, 461. Revolted wives, 372. Stupidity, 527. 
Suspicion fed, 538. The signs of calumny, 66. 
Triumph of the sculptor, 485. Vices, 5S3. Vic- 
tory twice glorious, 583. 



Lewis. — The Dauphin. 



K.J. 



Effect of strong reasons, 457. Ennui, kingly, 183. 
Manly tears, 545. Misleading contradictions, 104. 
Too copious tears, 546. 



Lewis. — The Dauphin. 



//. V. 



Extravagant praise of the horse, 284. Peace a time 
to prepare for war, 424. Self-love not Avorse than 
self-neglect, 488. Self-neglect, 404. 

Lord Chief Justice. — Of King's Bench. 

II. IV., 2pt. 

Death before submission, 528. Deception seen 
through, 145. Ill founded forebodings, 228. Re- 
spect for justice, 32J. Signs of age, 15. 



Lucio. — A fantastic. 



31. M. 



Doubts, traitoi-ous, 176. Reartlessness, 271. Impor- 
tunity enjoined, 301. Purity, 451. Sinless steal- 
ing, 521. Stoic, 524. Time bears fruit, 552. 
Tramps, 558. 

Macbeth. — A General of the King's army. 

31. 

A diseased mind, 379. A hated name, 400. Action 
needed, 8. Artificial boldness, 53. Banquo's 
ghost repelled, 245. Banquo's murder, 394. Bit- 
ter defiance, 150. Conscience, its torturing power, 

95. Courage, true, 109. Crime fruitless, 120. 
Crime hesitates, 276. Daring, extreme of, 130. 
Death the end, 136. Defiance of consequences, 

96. Despair maddened, 157. Effect of Banquo's 
ghost, 244. Fear disclaimed, 212. Fears cowardly, 
212. Ghosts avenge murder, 396. Great crimes, 
120. Horrible imaginings, 214. Ignorance safe, 



296, Indelible stains, 523. Lie told like truth, 
342. Life a sh.idow, 343. Life loatbed, 342. Love 
hard to restrain, 351. Meekness under injuries, 
373. Memory a register, 375. Mettle, 379. Mis- 
leading prognostications, 446. Murder will out, 
396. Night, 40 J. No remedy for the past, 421. 
Overreaching ambition, 21. Physic, 429. Pity, 
430. Procrastination, 445. Prophecy of great- 
ness, 448. Promise puzzling, 447. Punishment of 
crime, 119. Purpose should go with deed, 451. 
Remorse immediate, 4G3. Restraint impossible, 
470. Safety endangered by crime, 482. Scorpions 
of the mind, 484. Sear and yellow leaf of age, 15. 
Signs of defiance to be thrown out, 150. Similarity, 
496. Sleep a balm, 501 . Sleep murdered by crime, 
502. Soliloquy on the dasjger, 507. Soliloquy on 
the eve of murder, 507. Stabs a breach in nature, 
523. Suicide folly, 533. The ghost of Banquo, 
244. Time uninterrupted, 553. To-morrow, 555. 
Variety in men and dogs, 577. Visions appalling, 



Macduff. 



31. 



A patriot's despair, 158. Grief of patriots, 423. 
Murder a sacrilege, 394. Sleep death's counter- 
feit, 501. 



Malcolm. — Eldest son of Duncan. 



31. 



A becoming death, 135. Fallen angels still bright, 
24. Hatred of peace, 424. King-becoming graces, 
253. Leave-taking, 339. Revenge medicinal. 473. 
Reputed honesty, 278. Self-accusation, 6. Speech- 
less sorrow, 516. Stanchlessness of avarice, 37. 
Suicide, 532. Unfelt sorrow, 293. 

Marcus Andronicus. — Tribune of the 
People, and brother to Titus. 

Tit. And. 

Bitter and eternal revenge, 473. Concealed sorrow, 
511. Magistrates chosen by the people, 365. Re- 
union, 472. Sorrow demands sympathy, 512. Sor- 
row drowned in vengeance, 512. Tears befitting a 
boy, 543. Tongue lost, 555. Unquenchable rage, 
456. 

Margaret. — Widow of King Henry VI. 

R. III. 

A bitter taunt, 542. A cry for revenge, 474. Danger 
of high station, 523. End of prosperity, 449. Sor- 
row leads to bitterness, 514. 

Menenius Agrippa. — Friend of Coriola- 
nus. C. 

A great general's inflexibility, 308. An heroic name, 
400. Boyish impetuosity, 301. Destitute of mercy, 
376. Evil tidings, 552. Government difficult to 
overthrow, 252. Impotency of friends, 238. In- 
clination to professions hereditary, 273. Mutual 
dependence, 155. National ingratitude, 310. No- 
bility, true, 410. Opportunity, selection of, 417. 
Portrait of a humorist, 287. Pride condemned, 
443. Punishment of perfidy, 426. Romans not 
born in Rome, 479. Self-examination, 488. Speech 
of warriors rough, 520. Tyrant, 568. Unrestrained 
rage, 456. 

Mercutio. — Kinsman to the Prince, and 
friend to Borneo. R. J. 

Dew-dropping south, 517. Dreams but vain fantasy, 
178. Duty all-embracing, 182. Easily provoked 
quarrels, 454. Queen Mab's dream, 177. Suf- 
ficiency, 530. 

Nestor. — A Grecian Commander. T. C. 

Chivalry of age, 15. Courage affected by rage, 108. 
Feeding pride, 444. Indexes, 305. Imperial voice 
of opinion, 416. Self-will a growth, 489. Sport an 
index, 521. Unrestrained anger, 26. Valor, 575. 
Veteran, 582. 



INDEX TO PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. 



XV11 



Nym. IT. V. 

Cowards anxious for safety, 114. Hints, sinister, 17. 
King has infirmities, 332. Patience, 422. 



Octavius Caesar. — A Triumvir. 



A. C. 



A drifting character, 179. A man who is the ab- 
stract of all faults, 211. Continuance of friend- 
ship, 237. Death of a rival bemoaned, 478. Death 
of the great, 141. Honor due to greatness, 279. 
Ill-timed sports, 522. Magnanimous forgiveness, 
230. Olive, sign of peace, 415. Privations, 445. 
Public calamity, 66. Safety, 481. Sycophancy, 
541. 



Olivia. — A rich Countess. 



T. N. 



A fool's slander, 499. Beauty of scorn, 101. Dis- 
gust at persistence, 168. Reproof mocked, 467. 
Sad and civil servant, 490. Sad and merry mad- 
ness, 365. True friendship unselfish, 239. Un- 
sought love best, 359. Waste of time, 553. 

Ophelia. — Daughter of Polonius. II. 

Inconsistency, 303. Noble insanity, 315. Signs of 
insanity, 314. 

Othello. — A Moor, General of the Vene- 
tian forces. 0. 

A wonderful handkerchief, 268. Absolute content, 
102. Adroit insinuations, 317. Anguish of a be- 
trayed husband, 26. Beauty exciting pity, 430. 
Bitterness of remorse, 463. Bodiugs of remorse, 
463. Burning shame, 491. Candor, its rule, 67. 
Changeless vengeance, 72. Crocodile tears, 547. 
Discreetness of moderation, 387. Dishonor loathed, 
322. Feigned passion, 421. Frivolous suspicion, 
537. Ignorance has no sense of loss, 296. Loath- 
ing of a wife, 603. Love and duty, 347. Love 
changed by slander, 348. Marriage a curse, 371. 
Memory painful, 375. Occupation gone, 414. Per- 
fect happiness, 269. Precept contradicted by prac- 
tice, 441. Private quarrels monstrous, 454. Re- 
morse immediate, 463. Revenge insatiable, 475. 
Scorn dreaded, 4S4. Self-induced temptation, 548. 
Slander added to damnation, 70 Soldiers' slum- 
bers, 505. Spite defied, 521. Treatment of adul- 
tery, 9. Uncertainty, 569. War, 595. 

Parolles. — A follower of Bertram. A. W. 

Contempt for France, 234. Every braggart an ass, 
56. Military mistakes, 385. Premature marriage, 
371. Stay-at-homes, 524. The lowest depth of in- 
famy, 307. Troops unserviceable, 665. 

Ferdita.— Daughter to Leontes and Her- 

mione. W. T. 

Flowers of spring, 223, 522. Flowers of summer for 

aged, 223. Nature impartial, 420. Nature's art, 

253. Sun impartial, 496, 534. 

Pericles. — Prince of Tyre. P. 

A pleasant countenance, 106. A rough nativity, 401. 
Clustered sorrows, 516. Danger of knowing se- 
crets, 436. Death, 134. Defilement causeth loath- 
ing, 150. Joy gives sleep, 503. Melancholy in- 
curable, 373. Overwhelming joy, 327. Paternal 
instinct, 318. Patience, 422. Princely training, 
557. Self-tempter, 548. Sin a shame, 496. Sin 
propagates sin, 496. The sea rebuked, 524. Time 
recompenses, 553. Tyrants, 568. Wisdom of con- 
cealment, 87. 

Petrucio. — A gentleman of Verona, a suit- 
or to Katharina. T. S. 

A wise roughness, 480. Affected kindness, 330. 
Ancient henpeckery, 273. Appearances not to be 
trusted, 72. Bad taste in dress, 178. Honor not 
dependent on dress, 279. Katherine's dinner, 164. 



Original wooing, 617. Rage of the sea, 485. Shrew 
conquered best alone, 492. Tailor abused, 541. 
Wisdom of moderation, 387. Woman's tongue, 
556. 

Philip. — King of France. K. J. 

Admiration of abundant hair, 266. An evening 
worthy of a holy day, 193. All rights of God, 
476. Clustered misfortunes, 384. Ill-timed repe- 
titions, 465. Personnel hereditary, 273. Respon- 
sibility to God, 469. Sincerity assaulted, 467. 



Pistol. 



//. V. 



Credit, 117. Eating the leek, 539. Euphemism for 
theft, 550. Oaths straws, 414. Profit boasted of, 
539. Wordy retort, 470. 

Pistol. — A follower of Falstaff. 31. W. 

Adventurer's motto, 9. Hanging deplored, 268. 



Poet. — Parasite to Timon. 



T. A. 



Favorite of fortune, 232. Glory stained by recom- 
pense, 460. Ingratitude beyond words, 309. In- 
gratitude common, 308. Painting, praise of, 419. 
Spontaneity of poetry, 432. Sycophancy, 540, 541. 



Polonius. — Lord Chamberlain. 



II. 



A warning against deceit, 145. Advice on borrow- 
ing, 56. Advice to a 6on, 12. Baiting with false- 
hood, 206. Costly dress recommended, 178. Devil 
sugared o'er with flattery, 221. Fidelity to friends, 
217, 236. Persistence, 427. Slander's cunning, 
499. The soul of wit, 61. Universal genius, 8. 



Portia. — A rich heiress. 



31. V. 



A complete betrothal, 47. Advice easily given, 11. 
Bragging, 623. Circumstances give character, 79. 
Description of suitors, 533. Good deeds shine, 
250. Love all-absorbing, 347. Music desired at 
death, 399. Offer of marriage accepted, 369. Re- 
lation of mercy to justice, 377. Relentlessness, 54. 
Substitutes of no importance, 528. Surroundings 
give character, 536. Teaching, 543. Unalterable 
decrees, 147. 



Portia. — Wife to Brutus. 



J. C. 



A wife's right to secrets, 486. Constancy ever alert, 
98. Night, 409. Prudence shelters itself, 450. 

Prospero. — The rightful Duke of Milan. 

T. 

A faithful schoolmaster, 484. A monster, 388. Abuse 
of betrothal, 47. Disarming power of conscience, 
92. Final dissolution, 172. Groans, fearful, 262. 
Lie made truth, 341. Magic arts, 16. Manly beauty, 
44. Oaths melt, 413. Parasite, a, 420. Praise out- 
stripped, 439. Sad recollections best 6tifled, 459. 
Sea-sickness, 485. The torments enemies deserve, 
188. Undeserved forgiveness, 230. Value of a 
library, 341. Voice of conscience in everything, 
96. Voice of sorrow, 514. Witch's cruelty, 607. 



Proteus. 



T. G. 



Black men pearls, 404. Hope the lover's staff, 283. 
Love all-absorbing, 347. Love superseded, 358. 
Love-sick poetry, 431. Love's uncertainty, 359. 
Lover's devotion to a portrait, 436. Patience a 
nurse, 421. Power of music, 398. Remembrance 
of the absent, 3. Slander undermines love, 500. 
Subtile reasoning, 457. Time, source of good, 553. 
Time upright, 553. Treachery's excuse, 560. Un- 
availing supplication, 536. Unavailing tears, 546. 

Queen. — To King Richard. R. II. 

Base humility, 285. Dangers of eminence, 185. Di- 
versions no cure for woe, 174. False hope, 2S2. 
Forebodings of grief, 259. Sorrow, 511. Tidings, 
swift, 552. 



XV111 



INDEX TO PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. 



Queen. — Wife to Cymbeline. Cym. 

Bravery natural to some, 59. Commendation of per- 
severance, 427. Poison, 432. Poor shipping, 492. 
Rebuke kills the sensitive, 458. ytep-mother, 524. 

Queen Katharine. — Wife to King Henry, 

afterwards divorced. II. VIII. 

A true wife, 601. Abject misery, 381. An honest 
chronicler desired, 78. Bitterness of delay, 151. 
Care for dependents, 154. Faithful wife's appeal, 
28. Great visitors alarm, 255. Grievances, 262. 
Half-heartedness, 267. Oppression resented, 417. 
Protest against Latin, 336. Secrets despised, 487. 
Signs not to be trusted, 494. Slanderer cautioned, 
500. Tears as sparks of fire, 546. Unjust judges 
delied, 150. Unrighteous judge, 327. 

Queen Margaret. II. VI, 3 pt. 

A premeditated insult, 319. Accusing of hypocrisy, 
290. Ambition disappointed, 612. An impreca- 
tion, 302. Bitterness of a woman's rivalry, 478. 
Extravagant grief, 259. Fiery eyes, 201. Flight 
manly and wise, 222. Guilt's bravado, 263. Im- 
passioned sorrow, 511. Impatience a sign of sor 
row, 299. Incentives to a good cause, 303. King- 
ly cowardice rebuked, 114. Misery sits on the 
ground, 384. Motives in alliances, 17. Position 
gives importance, 436. Resources developed by 
extremity, 199. Similarity, 496. Sorrowful part- 
ing, 421. Suspicion deprecated, 537. Tearful hy- 
pocrisy, 288. Vindictiveness, 586. 

Richard. — Duke of Gloucester, brother to 
the King, and afterwards King Rich- 
ard III. R. III. 

A tell-tale conscience, 93. Advantage, a mistake to 
trust, 9. Ambition feigned, 286. Beauty of woman 
overwhelming, 45. Compensations of adversity, 
10. Contempt for adversaries, 100. Contempt of 
deformity, 151. Contemptuous assault on adversa- 
ries, 100. Crime, great, 119. Danger of delay, 152. 
Danger of pausing in conspiracy, 97. Darkness 
the friend of outrage, 131. Death, 137. Devil 
quotes scripture, 484. Eternal night, 40J. Frantic 
ravings, 199. Friendship requiring a pledge, 239. 
Gold a corrupter, 248. Heredity to be trusted, 
274. High birth, 48. Hope swift, 233. How to 
remove obstacles, 414. Hypocrisy boldly accuses, 
283. Imprecation on traitors, 557. Infamous woo- 
ing, 617. Insinuation, 316. Lying defence of blunt- 
ness, 63. Men ruled by women, 615. Misplaced 
confidence, 90. Modesty hates parade, 383. Moved 
to tears, 545. News, indefinite, 408. Oblivion, 
414. Portents of evil, 435. Presentiment, 442. Pro- 
posal to commit murder, 305. Self-confessed hy- 
pocrisy, 291. Shadows inspire terror, 549. Sneered- 
at conscience, 95. The accusing power of con- 
science, 95. To-morrow's uncertainty, 555. Un- 
scrupulous ambition, 21. Vice, the basest, 585. 
Villainy easily finds tools, 584. War, 595. Winter 
of discontent, 166. 

Richard Plantagenet. — Duke of York. 

II F/.,2pt. 

A bad woman, 610. Ambition disappointed, 165. 
Easy generosity, 242. Fleetness of thought, 551. 
Pain soon forgotten, 419. Peace, effeminate, 424. 
Protest against condition, 2. Shamelessness, 492. 
Soldiers of spirit, 505. Success and scars, 529. 
Success worshiped, 529. Successful treachery, 
562. Treachery, 564. Tyranny of power, 438. 
Vain straggle, 525. Vice, its end, 584. Victory 
not dependent on numbers, 583. Virtue in woman, 
587. Woes clustered, 610. Women not to rule, 
599. Youth to be dealt mildly with, 625. 

Romeo. — Son to Montague. R. J. 

A despised name, 400. A model apothecary, 31. A 

pure kiss, 332. Admiration of a lover, 361. An 



illuminated tomb, 555. Dancing with a burden, 
129. Daybreak, 132. Death preferred to banish- 
ment, 39. Gold worse than poison, 249. Identity , 
428. Love and madness, 351. Love o'erleaps bar- 
riers, 356. Love resisted, 357. Love shortens 
paths, 357. Love's contradictions, 353. Love's 
longings, 354. Love's shadows, 354. Marriage 
gives possession, 309. Poison speedy, 432. Sleep 
invoked, 502. Suicide, 530. The desperate dan- 
gerous, 158. Wild impatience, 300. 



Rosalind. — 
Duke. 



Daughter to the 



banished 
A. Y. 



A coarse hand, 267. Cowards swashing, 116. Dy- 
ing of love, 355. Love vehement, 359. Marriage 
changes, 370. Moonishness, 389. Offer should 
be taken, 415. Signs of love, 361. Time's move- 
ments, 553. Traveler, 559. Treachery not in- 
herited, 564. Trouble, 565. True sympathy, 541. 
Woman's tongue, 556. Woman's wit, 607. 

Rosencrantz. — Schoolfellow of Hamlet. 

II. 

Ambition a shadow's shadow, 21. Influence of a 
king's death, 366. Influence of the death of kings, 
140. Universal honesty, 278. 

Rosse. M. 

Animal instinct, 119. Darkness preternatural, 131. 
Fear a violent sea, 212. Sorrow greater than cause, 
515. 

Saturninus. — Son to the late Emperor of 
Rome, and afterwards declared Em- 
peror himself. Tit. And. 

Call to arms, 66. Envy seeks its object's death, 191. 
Gratitude, 254. Impassioned offer, 370. Petitions 
for justice, 428. Sorrow bends, 513. 

Shallow. — A country Justice. 

II. IV., 2pt. 

Bombastic use of titles, 554. Commendation of eu- 
phemisms, 192. Death and bargains mixed, 222. 
Hopeless demand, 144. Nature will out, 402. 

Shylock. — A Jew. M. V. 

A Jew's revenge, 472. An oath, 412. An unprofit- 
able forfeiture, 229. Antipathies unaccountable, 
27. Avarice stronger than affection, 37. Bond, 
Shylock's, 54. Drone, destructive, 180. Insult re- 
sented, 306. Life depends on means, 342. Music 
shut out, 399. Prudence enjoined, 450. Relent- 
lessness deaf, 461. Revenge watchful, 476. Sinister 
hospitality, 285. Social relations of the Jew, 325. 
Suspicion fed, 538. Thieves, 550. Threatening, 
551. Thrift, Jacob's, 551. Usurer, 573. Ventures, 
581. 

Sir John Falstaff. //. IV., 1, 2 pt. 

A humiliating story, 287. A love letter, 360. Bom- 
bastic exaggeration, 194. Borrowing an incurable 
habit, 56. Bragirart, 57. Cause of wit in others, 
600 Covetousn"ss,112. Deafness, 133. Describes 
himself. 583. Distractions of poverty, 437. Eu- 
phemisms commended, 192. Fascination of bad 
companions, 83. Honor hard to keep, 279. Honor 
not worth risks, 280. Infamy of braggarts, 57. In- 
fluence of bad companions, 85. Influence of ex- 
ample, 195. Language of abuse, 4. Lying uni- 
versal, 364. Melancholy, 373. Modest content- 
ment, 103 Money a good soldier, 388. Money has 
power, 388. Odd numbers, 411 . Plea for inaction, 
302. Pun defensive, 6. Reasons plenty, 457. Ref- 
ormation promised, 460. Repentance, 464. Re- 
pentance made impossible, 465. Restitution hate- 
ful, 470. Ridicule of diminutiveness, 163. Robbery 
a vocation, 479. School of tongues, 556. Security, 
an insult to ask it, 487. Shallow compliments, 



86. Stealing by proxy, 524. Tatterdemalions de- 
scribed, 542. The better part of valor, 166. Un- 
timely thefts, 550. Villainous smell, 504. Vigi- 
lance, 583. Witless companions, 84. Wrinkles, 
622. 

Tamora. — Queen of the Goths. Tit. And. 

A desolate solitude, 508. Boastful hypocrisy, 289. 
Cruelty pitiless, 122. Dissimulation aiding re- 
venge, 171. Forbearance a quality of greatness, 
227. Indelicate earnestness, 23. Mercy nobility's 
true badge, 377. On things below contempt, 101. 
Plausibility deceptive, 431. Revenge powerful, 
474. Smiles cover tyranny, 504. 



Thersites. — A 

Greek. 



deformed 



and scurrilous 
T. C. 



Expression of bitter contempt, 101. Expressions of 
contempt, 100. Grumbling caused by envy, 190. 
Men without brains powerless, 58. Opinion, 416. 
The faithless, 205. Various kinds of fools, 226. 
Wise ignorance, 296. 



Theseus. — Duke of Athens. 



M. N. 



A father as God, 209. A nun's life, 412. Confusion 
in argument, 31. Contradictions, 104. Coquetry, 
105. Hunting, 287. Matrimony desirable, 372. 
Melancholy for funerals, 373. Poet's power, 431 
Power of imagination, 297. Slowness of time, 300. 
Spartan hounds, 285. Tangled speech, 520. Vir- 
ginity, 587. 

Thomas Percy. — Earl of Worcester. 

//. IV. 

Courage, when needed, 108. Til-tidings, 552. Insin- 
cerity in forgiveness, 230. Oppression justifies re- 
bellion. 457. Patience exhausted, 422. Peril, 426. 
Safety sought in evasion, 192. Sickness miscon- 
ceived, 493. Suspicion full of eyes, 357. Usurpa- 
tion, 570. 



Timon. — An Athenian Noble. 



T.A. 



A satirical grace, 253. Bitter and undying hate, 270. 
Bitter resentment, 468. Bitterness of cynicism, 
127. Blind estimate of friends, 236. Curse on de 
ceit, 145. Desertion, 10. Embarrassment of debt, 
185. False friends rebuked, 236. Friends unre- 
liable, 237. Gold insures destruction, 248. Gold 
worshiped, 249. Honest servant, 499. Inciting 
honesty to hate, 277. Ingratitude hereditary, 274. 
Language of despair, 157. Mercenary hypocrites, 
293. Misanthropic bitterness, 49. Misanthropy, 
381. National calamities, 65 Nature bounteous, 
401. Painting, 420. Poverty destroys power, 437. 
Sensuality, 489. Society abhorred, 505. Tears 
weak, 544. The prayer of cynicism, 128. Theft 
universal, 550. Time-servers, 554. Transforma- 
tion, beastly, 558. True friendship needs not cere- 
mony, 69. True generosity, 242. Unreasonable- 
ness of dunning, 182. Want, 592. 

Titania. — Queen of the Fairies. M. N. 

Laying fairies under tribute, 204. Power of the 
moon, 389. Seasons, 485. Tenderness embracing, 
185. The ass that was loved, 34. The disasters 
accompanying floods, 222. Woman's devotion to 
a child, 162. 

Titus Andronicus. — A noble Roman. 

General against the Goths. Tit. And. 

Accumulated woes, 609. Aggravated grief, 258. 
Burial place not to be polluted, 65. "Death an 
eternal sleep, 135. Fathomless sorrow, 513. Hor- 
rible retribution, 471. Impatience at injustice, 
299. Loyalty honored in death, 362. Merciful- 
ness of banishment, 39. Misery beyond aggrava- 
tion, 382. National honors declined, 281. Nomina- 



tion, 411. Pious barbarity, 40. Plea for a harm- 
less fly, 223. Revenge's slaves, 474. Tears, a 
father's, 543. Tears honey dew, 544. Time a 
healer, 552. Tomb, consigning the brave to, 554. 
Unavailing tears, 546. Vengeance, 579. Vice over- 
reached by revenge, 585. Virtue outraged, 588. 

Titus Lartius. — Joined with Cominius in 
the command. C. 

Devotion, true and constant, 162. Fortune invoked, 
232. Soldier, true, 505. Undying hate, 270. 



Trolius. — A son of Priam. 



T. C. 



Bad news dangerous, 406 Caution differs from fear, 
69. Cowardice hare hearted, 114. Greatness be- 
yond estimate, 257. Love a source of pain, 345. 
Love tested, 359. Love's infatuation, 351. Love's 
infatuations, 353. Love's promises, 353. Mercy 
sometimes a vice, 378. Reason too abundant, 457. 

" Revenge a solace, 473. Self-originated temptation, 
548. Sigh disguised, 494 Sorrow mingled, 515. 
Thefts impoverishing, 550. Truth, 566 Venge- 
ance, 579. White and soft hand, 267. Woman s 
constancy, 100. Woman's insincerity, 316. 

Ulysses. — A Grecian Commander. T. C. 

Ambition insatiable, 20. Ambition must be watch- 
ful, 21. Betrayed by gait, 241. Bombast of Pa- 
troclus, 54. Breaking down distinctions, 173. Class 
distinctions, 173. Closet war, 594. Endowments 
shine by reflection, 186. Estimate of eloquence, 
184. Fear of scorn, 484. Fools invulnerable, 130. 
Giving that enriches, 246. Good deeds forgotten, 
414. Government watchful, 251. Imperfect imita- 
tion, 298. Incurable pride, 444. Ingratitude, its 
forgetf ulness, 310. Nature makes the world akin, 
420. Praises withheld, 440. Present achievements, 
7. Prudence, 450. Rude force not generalship, 
242. Satirist, 483- Seeded pride, 444. Spire, 520. 
Time, 553. Time changes all things, 552. True 
manliness, 368. Vigilance of competitors, 85. 
Wantonness, 593. Worst to be shown first, 621. 
Yielding to pride, 444. 



Valentine. 



T. G. 



A model youth, 623. A priceless woman, 611. A 
treacherous foe, 224. Absence mourned, 2. Direc- 
tions for wooing, 617. Foolish love, 349. Habit 
bred by use, 266. Love and wit, 359. Love zeal- 
ous, 353. Love's conquests, 352. Love's treasures, 
354. Love's twenty pairs of eyes, 358. Poverty's 
plea, 437. Repentance should appease, 465. Self- 
ishness its own law, 488. Travel, 559. 

Vincentio. — The Duke. M. N. 

A looker-on, 344. Conduct the exponent of charac- 
ter, 89. Death, 134. Devil entitled to honor, 436. 
Duty of a substitute. 528. Extreme of hypocrisy, 
288. Goodness the life of beauty, 250. Govern- 
ment understood, 251. Greatness envied, 255. Im- 
agined secrets, 487. Just retribution, 471. Life 
death's fool, 139. Madness and sense, 365. Magis- 
trates should be just, 366. Natural gifts a trust, 
246. No escape from calumny, 67. Permission 
equals command, 427. Popular applause not safe, 
30. Poverty amid riches, 476. Power develops 
character, 73. Preacher should be pure, 441. 
Proper order in punishment, 450. Scandal inevi- 
table, 483. Seclusion loved, 486. Slumbering pen- 
alties, 426. Superexcellence, 534. True repent- 
ance, 465. Unexecuted laws despised, 338. Virtue 
not to be hidden, 589. Woman's frailty, 61 \ 



Viola. — In love with the Duke. 



T. N. 



Beauty cruel, 43. Concealment consumes, 87. Con- 
sistency of character, 96. Disguise a wickedness, 
167. Fiery sunset, 534. Love concealed, 349. Love 
vehement, 362. Patience, 423. Perfect resigna- 
tion, 468. Playing the fool, 225. 



XX 



INDEX TO PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. 



Volumnia. — Mother to Coriolanus. 0. 

A plea for dissimulation, 170. All-absorbing anger, 
24. Blood stains show the hero, 51. Controlling 
anger, 25. Courage, 107. Humility, 285. Igno- 
rant rabble, 433. Patriotism, 423. Pride, a moth- 
er's, 443. Superlative character, 535. Vain boast- 
ing, 53. 

William Longwood. — Earl of Salisbury. 

K.J. 

Bearer of bad news hated, 405. Crime revolting, 119. 
Guilt scatters accusers, 265. Repentance leads 
to obedience, 465. Ridiculous redundancy, 460. 
Tears shed by villains, 545. Wasteful and ridicu- 
lous excess, 196. 



William Mareshall. — Earl of Pembroke. 

K.J. 

Atrocious murder, 392. Crime, retribution on, 119. 
Excesses increase a fault, 211. Extenuation ag- 
gravates, 198. Looks no proof of guilt, 344. Na- 
tional contentment, 103. Troublesome repetitions, 
465. 

Young Marcius. — Son of Coriolanus. C. 

A bitter rebuke of cowardice, 113. Bitter indigna- 
tion, 306. Concessions to rabble, 455. Cowards 
not to be trusted, 115. Exasperating indifference, 
305. Impetuosity hard to restrain, 301. Modesty, 
387. Perfect submission, 528. Safety assured, 482. 
Stubbornness, 525. The post of danger sought, 
59. Vox populi, 591. 



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